> From: Jonathan Bristow [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >:Persona sell SAM Sequencer 3. It's a very good buy. >: >:Unfortunately, it's a little slow.. :( Especially when you're trying to >:actually edit notes. Then again, what do you expect on a 6MHz machine??? > >I don't understand the link!, the Commodore 64 (Eeek!, can i mention it >here?) had great MIDI software for it, yet only ran at a daunting 1Mhtz, so >how can one possibly say that 6 Mhz is not enough?
OK.. Perhaps my meaning got lost in my typing. The actual sequencing part of the sequencer is absolutely fine. It's great and quite easy to use. It has a substantial amount of features that you find in modern PC sequencers (OK, /old/ modern PC sequencers). Except when you graphically edit the notes. It seems to take forever and the cut/paste is a bit "iffy". Then again, I was quite used to the instant point/click/select/drag of Cakewalk, etc, before I even touched SAM Seq... I know it's bad, but I was comparing the SAM's MIDI sequencer to that of a PC. >I have even written (Although not completed) A midi Sequencer for the Oric! Cool.. You've done better than me. :) >Another Question, is this right that portions of the RAM are constrained by >speed of access? Close. It's the memory being blocked by the screen-encoding hardware to draw the screen on yer telly; it stops the CPU accessing the memory at the same time. I beleive all internal RAM on the SAM is effected by this. Effectively, it averages the CPU speed to be about 5.1MHz (as I think someone mentioned on here in the past) - unless you turn off the screen in one of the registers. justin.
