Heres a good Q: What do you like about KCS, and why did you choose it as
> your sequencing software?

    Well, to be truthful, it's the first program I learned, and it is so
comprehensive I've never needed to learn anything else..
It's also due to the fact that I've always been on a very tight budget for
gear, and consequently have been forced to wait for about 5 years after a
technology is released to be able to afford it. I wasn't able to purchase an
Atari until about 1990
when the price dropped. (I went from a 1040 St to a Mega 2 and then a Meg 4 and
finally a Stacy)  I chose the KCS because though in wasn't as sexy as Cubase it
cost a lot less and seemed more accessable to me as far as the interaction with
the program. I also have never been very fast at reading music from manuscript
and therefore found a numerical display of events in the edit screen to be more
useful than having tracks displayed as actual manuscript for editing, so
Notator was something I was never attracted to.. see, I never really leave
track mode... I'm using KCS like a giant multitrack for midi and then mirroring
those tracks to the PC for audio mixes.

    On a related note, I never went to the early Mac or PC for midi as they
weren't as rock solid as the Atari...
so I spent 12 years sequencing and demoing to 4 track in anticipation of
multi-track recording when I could afford to get a big machine...reading about
Thomas Dolbys HD recording rig in '93 I anticipated the price of HD recording
dropping within a few years and decided to wait for that. (As of Sept- Oct. of
last year I finally realized that goal)  So I saved a bunch of bux throughout
the '90's avoiding soon to be obsolete technologies like DAT recorders and
ADATs... all along happily sequencing in KCS woodshedding about 3 or 4 CD's
worth of sequences which I'm beginning to work through for release now. I know
I can get midi in and out of the PC I have now, but for only 16 channels and I
have to see at least 64 midi channels to work-I have Cakewalk in the PC but
I've yet to actually use it-the Stacy is still the band and Cool Edit Pro is
the multi-track recorder
at this point. I'm sure that will change as I implement the Mac into Chaotica-
it has Logic & Digital Performer on it and the possibility of using one program
for audio and midi together locked to the PC via LAN seems promising, but all
the sequences I'll be forging into audio rest in the Stacy now, so the next few
years of projects will emanate (Midiwise) from the Stacy,
and I'm hoping to lock the G4 to it and then the PC to the G4 so I can have the
Stacy running word clock (from the Mac
locked to it) to the lot...that will give me the ability to add more midi to
the Mac while leaving the Stacy driving everything it is now, with KCS as the
master sequencer in the room. I can still just drop audio into the PC to create
mixes, and that's what's paying the studio rent now as far as clients go, but
that's where I want to be in a year or two, having it all locked up in one
technical blender...

                                            Is that enough??


D.