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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: pakipak on July 16, 2006, 05:49:57 AM

Title: A500 as MIDI module
Post by: pakipak on July 16, 2006, 05:49:57 AM

Hi,

How can Paula chip be used as as a synth/sampler module controllable by a external MIDI sequencer?
Is there any software which can be used for this task?


A500
Fat Agnus 8375 (512KB or 1 MB, not quite sure. How can this be checked?)
Kickstart 1.3
TS MIDI interface

Title: Re: A500 as MIDI module
Post by: Karlos on July 16, 2006, 10:14:59 AM

You can configure octamed to play sounds in response to incoming midi note on events.

There's also a nice program called MidiIn that I stumbled across on aminet. This is a proper stand-alone MIDI based sample player. It's multitimbral, can handle something like 32  notes at once and plays back 16-bit samples with support for stereo pan, pitch bend and envelopes.  It uses AHI for output.
Alas all this comes at a price - you'd need one mean A500 (I suppose an 030/50Mhz might be sufficient) to run it.

I use it on my main A1200 (which has a 68040 and 256MB) and control it via soundstudio running on a more humble 1200D configuration.