ShadowHarl wrote:
(...) i read that Aaron Funk uses octaMED to do his breakcore tracks, (...)
Wow, now this is good music. Did'nt knew this guy. I just listened to the tracks previews on the HPage of his one-man band, "
venetiansnares" ; Very good music, I like the sounds, the progressions, the ideas, the energy, wow. Though I'm more into songs, right now, than into pure techno music, I like my stompin" jungle fix :banana: sometimes.
Thank you very much for the information, ShadowHarl.
I made a lot of music w/ Octamed back in the days (mostly hardcore techno, lending to industrial noisy punk) and what got me started was the AF tutorial mentioned elsewhere in this thread. It was no big deal, however, just a quick :
Load a sample from the coverdisk
Make a pattern
Open the PatternList,
Copy the pattern 4 times
Edit notes values to make verses & a chorus
Edit some simple volumes, fades
Save it
:rtfm:
I remember vividly that one KEY info, that I really needed to be at home in the program, was how to manage the patterns in the PatternList (at this time I did'nt knew a *word* in english and I thought that "append" meant something negative like "remove"). :crazy: I was hooked, that was enough to put me on rails. Then I openend and looked w/ great strutiny (is that a word ? I think so) at the innards of *all* the modules I could put my pointer on, and discovered wonders. BTW, I now remember : There *was* a Manual in fact, a huge amigaGuide file that I tried to print on my matrix printer, but stopped at the request of my family, the upstairs neighbour, and the nearby airport, complaining about the noise.
After that I was flying, and making music w/ Octamed, occupied the best part of the two following years. Those were the days, although quite a fuzzy zone of my souvenirs :afro:
There is a song that we made one night in a pro studio where a friend was working, we recorded (on the end of a big customers tape, he never knew, I guess :roll:) a song using TWO A500, hooked via MIDI interfaces in both, syncin *two* 'med sessions with an old Midi ClockBox, after two hours trying to figure out how to do that (clock syncing) into Octamed.
This was, by the way, the day that we started looking seriously towards other HW platforms (at the time 12 bit samplers like the Ensoniq EPS, and the Akai SXXXX, and stupid Pro24, then later Cubase, on stupid Ataris, never got my sound engineers buddies to consider Bars&Pipes, that I got from an AF coverdisk), other than for joking about it) and yes, those are deeply nested parentheses::crazy:) because such a setup (picture the 2 A500s (and their STUPID external MIDI!!!)& the BIG ClockBox) was becoming silly.
The guy with which I made the music salvaged some floppies, I must encode them sometime soon so the world know how much horrid noise can come out of an Amiga 500.
