If it helps this discussion at all I believe that Stockhausen, no less, runs
CLab Notator on an Atari on a rather long jungle number called Licht.

Jim Smitheram wrote:
I feel compelled to say that pro sequencers, such as cakewalk, are only as
'pro' as the one using it.  There are certainly rank amatuers out there
making the kind of primitive garbage you mention. . . midi has made a large
production base possible, but that has _nothing_ to do with quality except
in the many immature minds partaking of it.   As myself a pianist of two
degrees and 40 years experience, I can do, and have done,  quite a bit
better than "plastified classical or jazz arrangements or derive to some
tonal, 4/4 based techno stuff."   On the Roland JV1080 (alas stolen, but I
shall again aquire one this year) I was doing all sorts of music far beyond
'disco and tube,' which I also along with you despise.