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    I use Performer 1.0.. the new track looping and multiple tempos
    and time signatures make the upgrade well worth it !
    
    saving mah pennies,
    
    karl

Cost of upgrade kit for registered Performer users:

$95.00 includes the complete $395.00 software and documentation package

>> I forgot to mention the 5% sales tax for Mass. residents, so it is $99.75
>> for the upgrade. I'm not sure if the $395.00 retail includes the sales tax.
>> Best bet would be to contact Mark of the Unicorn (see note .0)

    Is Performer 1.2 the 'current version', that is, before 2.0 came
    out?
     
    Is 1.2 'buggy' or just missing some important features?
    
    

>< Note 1072.3 by FGVAXZ::LAING "Pipe Dreamer * Jim Laing * 261-2194" >
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>    Is Performer 1.2 the 'current version', that is, before 2.0 came
>    out?
>     
>    Is 1.2 'buggy' or just missing some important features?
    
1.2 is the latest that I know about. I just sent off my $95.00 for the latest
update. 1.2 seems to work fine, but was missing things like tempo and meter
changes. Mark of the Unicorn seems to be stalling, so they may not ship 2.0
and may ship 2.1 instead. I think I remember reading that somewhere in the
flyer they sent me. I'll keep you posted.    

Dave

I just received Performer 2.2 in the mail. It came with a new manual that
is twice as thick as the previous one. I haven't had a chance to use it
yet, except to install it on my hard disk, call it up, load a saved
sequence, and play it. The recorder controls are much smaller. There is a
new window for tempo and meter.
 There is a very disconcerting looking logo screen. It looks like something
went wrong with the program load or graphics routine. I'm going to call them
about it.  More review info in about a week.

Dave

    Anybody got version 3 yet?  I've got a brochure, but they say they
    don't have a demo version.  :(   ("Vision" has a demo, as does MTP)

Here is what the Performer Version 3 brochure says.  I don't know which of
these things are not in earlier versions.

	Graphic event editing windows
	Drawing and reshaping of continuous data and tempo curves
	Event list editing windows
	MIDI playback from both editing windows
	Editing commands snip, splice, shift, merge, retrograde,
		repeat, reverse, scale time.
	Region editing: transpose, quantize, change velocity/duration,
		split notes.
	Input, edit, and view filters.
	Editing by event, region, and sequence.
	Editable conductor track.
	Programmable tempo changes.
	Multiple meters within a sequence.
	Real-time tempo control.  (Includes "tap-tempo" input)
	Counter window displays current location in SMPTE frames, real
		time, and measures.
	Cue sheet style features for film/video production.  (they
		are referring to the marker list.)
	Unlimited notes, tracks, and sequences within available memory.
	Independant track looping.
	Multiple and nested loops within a track.
	Quantize has sensitivity, strength, and offset parameters.
	SYSEX recording, playback, and editing (in hex)
	Reads and writes MIDI files
	Compatibility with MotUs Professional Composer notation program.
	Metronome click through internal speaker or MIDI
	Customizable 'new' files.
	Multiple and custom key signatures
	MIDI Monitor window indicates incoming MIDI data
	32 MIDI channels
	Real-time and step-time recording
	Accurate to 1/480th of a quarter note
	Full SMPTE sync capability

System requirements are 1 meg memory with 2 800KB floppy drives, or a
hard disk.  System 6.0.2 or later.

The window style is a little strange looking.  MTP is very Mac-standard
looking.  Vision uses multiple fonts in its dialog boxes instead of just
'chicago', and its big square icon buttons.  But Performer goes wild, with
mini-pulldown menus on many of the window title bars, and triangular
window-close icons.  (Unless these pictures in the brochure are just
artist conceptions.  I notice that exactly the same screens appear in
the magazine ads.)

Some little things that I think are neat:

   1)	The time ruler across the top of the pianoroll display can show
	any combination of real time, measures/beats/ticks, or SMPTE time.

   2)	The continuous data graphic display can show up to 12 kinds of
	data at once.  Vision shows only one at a time.

   3)	The pitch and time coordinates of the pianoroll can zoom
	independently from each other.

   4)	The "tap-tempo" input lets you "conduct" the conductor track
	using any key, controller pedal, or drum pad.

Vision has some more powerful manipulation functions, like taking note
pitches from one track, note-on times from a second track, and note
durations from either one of the two, and generating a new track from the
results.

One of mt latest magazines says:

available for Macintosh and *Atari ST*

Chad

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Does Performer run on anything but a Mac???

John

    Some issues and questions on Performer.. running 3.5, ready to upgrade
    to 3.61....
    
o	Sliders - I know how to generate them and they work real time.
	I can use the mouse but also know how to set up incoming data
	from the KX88, which has 4 s/w assignable physical sliders, 
	and how to remap those to Performer's sliders, CC7, for 
        multiple 'instruments'.  Fun !

	But while *recording* one or more sliders, the data is merged into 
	the original track, making it hard to replace, rerecord or edit 
	the volume info generated.  Do I have to create an empty track
	(assigned to the same cable/MIDI channel as the instrument it's
	meant to control), and assign the slider output to THAT one, for
	each 'instrument' ?

o	Chunks. 

	I know, when synced to tape, how to assign a SMPTE chunk start 
	time.  I have a large, single track sequence, a long piano solo 
	actually, that I want to break up in chunks to work with, and 
	then pull it all together using Chunks in the Song Window.  Any 
	wisdom here ?  Probably no sync-to-SMPTE required for this one.

o	Instrument names and patch changes.  There was a 1000PX template
	included, I understand how to 'load' the templates in.  Think I
	edited one once.  But the patch changes in the template are off
	by one.  For example, if I press a patch change '1' on the KX88,
	it's seen by Performer as '0'.  That's fine as long as I keep it 
	straight in my head, but it renders use of the instrument templates
	useless, as the existing ones naively assume '1' means '1', not '0'.  
	Also I'd like to set up a Proteus 2 template and use that, but the 
	Proteus actually has a patch, some string sample, assigned to '0' 
	already!  Hard to see how I'll access that one remotely without 
        reassigning it to another patch# inside the Proteus...

thanks. karl