bloodline wrote:
Jah, OctaMED SoundStudio is wicked. You'll be makin' choons 'till ya ears bleed!!!!
In other words, I use it and find it a dream for music on the Amiga. It can be a bit of a pain with MIDI, but you'll figure it out.
Soudstudio isn't so great, at least if working with huge modules and 16 bit samples.
- With 16 bit samples the volume can be set ONLY to 4-5 values; these values are not fixed, but they depend from the track volume, so that you have to find out by yourself for each samples what these values are. Also, because of this it's NOT possible to make decent volume slides, and if you find that a sample would sound right with a volume between two values, you have to directly boost or reduce the sample.
- When using large samples, saving is painfully slow on a 030/50: you'll have to wait 2-3 minutes to save a 4 megs or bigger module. The loading routine is strangely faster.
- When saving a module as an aiff file, the volume is low even if the volume slider in the mixing windows is set to maximum.
I've seen that there's a patching system available for Octamed, it uses assembly programs instead of arexx and it can perform actions many times faster than Arexx. Maybe it could be used to (at least partially) fix these issues.
Anyway, Digibooster Pro looks much nicer, pity that the same last version that was released some years ago is now twice as expensive.
Varthall
