source file: m1455.txt Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 14:10:36 -0500 Subject: Re: Patent Alert - Microsoft owns computer composition? From: "Benjamin Tubb" On Fri, 19 Jun 1998 18:34:18 +0000, Gary Morrison wrote: > Thanks for the background there; I was not aware of that. Indeed I have an Amiga, and have all the programs I mentioned (except "PatchMeister"), and can expecially "vouch" for Todor Fay's programming "genious" in his "progression" from "SoundScape", "Bars&Pipes Pro", to the "SuperJAM!"/"Melody Maestro"/"AudioTracks" Pro algorhythmic "paradigms". I hope someday "Bar&Pipes Pro" may be converted to the PC platform , which is _still_ superior, IMHO, to most PC/Mac sequencers. (As indeed is Dr. T's "KCS Level II" with PVG/MPE modules and "Open Mode" programability.) > Still, I think it's fair to say that the concern here is not the inventor (Tudor Fay), but the consignee (Microsoft). You might also consider the SSEYO "Koan Pro" 'engine' to have similar capabilities/competition in direct contrast to Microsoft's "Music Producer". I hope to get a copy of their patent to fully read. ------------- Benjamin Tubb brtubb@cybertron.com http://home.cybertron.com/~brtubb/theory.html