Don Cox wrote:

> in the case of the Amiga, there is a big sequencer program
> ("Bars and Pipes") which is available free ...

Well, indeed, "Bars and Pipes" is free, yet it isn't fulfilling all
my wishes, such as special filtering or drag-and-drop of a complete
line to another.  (Or did I just not yet find out how to do so?!?)

As you mentioned, one will need a MIDI-Interface, but these are quite
good and cheap.  I've got one with 2 OUT, 1 THRU and 1 IN.

Be aware that you will need at least a 2 MB-machine, so those old
A500 Amigas mostly will lack the power and space and speed.  Try to
find an A1200; at best with a Turbo-Card Blizzard 1230IV and add some
more RAM.  You will love the computer (and you also can do Internet
with it!!! ;-)).

(Sure, you may also try to get an A4000, but that's not right the
cheap way.  You may do so, if you want to kick your MS-DOS-box into
the trash. ;-))

I don't know why it has to be triggered by foot, and also I'm not sure
if this really is possible with "Bars and Pipes", but you can trigger
it by any key of your keyboard (configurable) that you wish to use to
do so.  Clocking comes with it, of course.

greetings by(e) Amiga-InK  Ingmar Krause

ERlanger drehORGEL-Trio, Familie KRause, erorgelt@erlangen.franken.de

 [ Normally the sequencer uses its internal MIDI clock when recording
 [ MIDI wireline data to a MIDI file.  Most sequencers can alterna-
 [ tively accept an external MIDI clock signal, so that the music may
 [ be synchronized with some other master clock, such as SMPTE.  Andy
 [ Taylor wants to generate clock pulses with a foot pedal, at 12 or 24
 [ pulses per beat, just as J. Lawrence Cook did with the QRS step-
 [ recording piano.   -- Robbie