Hi all!
I have Amiga 500 which has 1mb of ram. I'm using OctaMED 4 Pro, but 8 channel play mode sounds just terrible noise instead of music... Should I get more ram?
I heard that the 8 channel mode should also work on A500.
Thanks.
Forget octamed & 8 channel on a500. Even any amiga with paula. (sound custom chip you now) The situation is better AFAIK if you use octamed soundstudio, because you can use paula 14Bit, if you have AHI (OS 3.1, which requires v39 rom) but not expect much. Theoretycally 4ch 8bit@28KHz degraded to half on 8ch.
If you have soundcard (which you need a tons of accelerator and other thing on an a500) the situation is different. Best amiga classic config for music: a1200+turbocard+mediator+sblive.
On an a500... In the 90' i have not so much money, so i tried a lot of things to break the 4ch barrier of a500 in music. Options:
Get a turbocard. Ebay have hordes of them. Even replacing the cpu to 68010 (exactly the same pinout of the 68000 cpu) and adding extra fast ram accelerator brings you a double processing speed. If you have a late a500, then you can solder extra rams to your motherboard (with expert), so if you have 512chip+512 slow ram, then you get total continously 1,5mb chipram.
Anyway on a500 the best 8ch performance is digibooster. In the 90' my a500 has 1,5mb chipram and 4mb fastram with 68010. Digibooster can play 6ch with that, without a noticable sound degrading. With my current a500 (68030 cpu) 8ch is ok.
Also try musicline . It is different from tracker, but unique. Its like nowadays vst plugins in the 90's.
