26 Nov
2002
26 Nov
'02
8:45 p.m.
Gavin Stevens wrote:
One other suggestion would be to try the Atari
emulator XSteem. I
understand that the latest version of XSteem has MIDI support. Sadly, I
haven't had time to try it on my Linux box yet & have stuck with the
Windows version "Steem".
If you could get XSteem working, it would open up a whole universe of
generative apps that were originally written for Atari ST.
http://www.blimey.strayduck.com/index.htm
is the Steem site.
Yes, XSteem does indeed support MIDI. It works pretty well, too, though
the timing can be a bit unsteady. I've run the Atari version of M,
Tunesmith, and some other cool apps under XSteem, and I must say it's
impressive.
The CLOANTO Amiga environment for UAE is similarly promising. I've also
run some interesting "algorithmic composition" software under DOSemu
(RAVEL, Mbox, M/pc [though this is currently broken for me]). Russ
Kozerski's Drummer runs well under DOSemu but I've been unable to run
his more ambitious Sound Globs. But that's why I keep an ancient Pentium
machine alive and running MS-DOS... ;)
Best regards,
== Dave Phillips
The Book Of Linux Music & Sound at http://www.nostarch.com/lms.htm
The Linux Soundapps Site at http://linux-sound.org