Animbrushes and fill modes in Brilliance 2.0. Converted to animated GIF in Cloanto Personal Paint 7.1.
Opcode and a Macintosh SE
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Today while fighting off a cold I thought it would be great to see if I could get Opcode's Galaxy running on my Macintosh SE to use its Editor/Librarian with my Roland XP-50.
First, I tried running the OMS 2.3.8 installer while booted to System 6.0.8.
Nope. I'll have to boot to my System 7.1 disk and try it there.
Oops. Of course, the Macintosh SE has a 68000 processor, and OMS 2.3.8 requires a 68020. Oh well. But... what's this... a copy of Opcode's legendary Vision MIDI sequencer, version 1.0.2? Maybe it will work... let's reboot to System 6.0.8 again.
Double-click...
...and it launches. Blank song. This show's off Vision's keyboard (i.e. computer keyboard) sequence-triggering capability, which was also present in Dr. T's KCS (Keyboard-Controlled Sequencer) but wasn't present as a first-class feature in a mainstream sequencer again until Ableton's Live. (I don't count Logic's Touch Tracks or Bars'n'Pipes Pro here, nor Max, as using keyboard-triggered sequences requires construction in each.)
Let's open a demo song...
We've got a sequence editor, note editor, drum editor... oh, the vision we have into our musical data... let's check the about window for more info regarding this amazing program.
Lovely. 1989.
shish kabobs
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Bars and Pipes with Command Performance
Just a note to myself that when I use the Command Performance tool in Bars and Pipes to talk to another Amiga program via ARexx, I need to make sure the "ARexx Port" in the tool is entirely capitalized. Otherwise, it will silently fail to communicate with the target.
In my screenshot, Command Performance will tell Sample Wrench to play the sample in the 'default editor' (the last editor window I clicked on), which is editor 0, with no transposing.
Also worth mentioning is one process for doing ARexx debugging: run a Rexx script which opens its own ARexx port and responds to commands. An example is given at abime.net. Also make sure to run TCO, the ARexx console output utility. When done, you can close that console using TCC.