Question Re: Sequencing & Sample Librraion/editing Software, Need assistance in moving to the Mac... Options

[pmboos]

Hi all,

I am a longtime Amiga user I have been using a Mac for over a year (oS 10.4 is my current version) on a G4 iMac. I am interested in moving the last important component over from Amiga to the Mac and that is music...

On the Amiga, I use two important software packages and I am interested in finding compatible software for these: Blue Ribbon Soundworks Bars & Pipes Pro and Dissidents MIDI Sample Wrench. A little about these as I am uncertain if people know anything about them.

Bars & Pipes Pro is a sequencing package that also has some really cool features: It can virtually add one channel to another, it can take an incoming chord and make it into a "strummed" guitar like chord, it can add a delay or echo entirely as MIDI data, and a whole host of other interesting and useful features too numerous to list here.

MIDI Sample Wrench is a sample editing and librarian package; most importantly it works with my Akai S612 samplers (I have 2).

So I interested in 1) finding recommendations for replacement packages - they need to hold parity to these packages and 2) finding a good, inexpensive MIDI interface for the Mac.

Thanks all for your help min advance!