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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: mrmoonlight on February 03, 2013, 11:36:14 AM
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Hi i fancy doing a bit of music on my Amiga 600 ,where do i buy or get OctaMED from ? i have seen OctaMED mod but not sure exactly what i need ,,Brian.
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Hi i fancy doing a bit of music on my Amiga 600 ,where do i buy or get OctaMED from ? i have seen OctaMED mod but not sure exactly what i need ,,Brian.
http://aminet.net/package/mus/edit/OctamedSS1.03c
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http://www.classicamiga.com/content/view/4606/176/
It's now freeware.
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http://aminet.net/package/mus/edit/OctamedSS1.03c
Thanks very much ,downloaded it and its excellent ,got to try and sort the sound out now ,its always been good through one speaker and not as loud through the other,best wishes Brian.
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http://www.classicamiga.com/content/view/4606/176/
It's now freeware.
Thanks very much ,it is excellent ,ive always had a bit of a problem with the sound being loader in one speaker ,any clue to what might be wrong ,im hoping its just a chip, Brian.
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Some kind of hardware problem. Donno more than that. I honestly haven't heard of that specific problem before.....
It sounds similar to a problem I had where the stereo I had my miggy plugged into developed a hardware problem on certain inputs where the sound was really low or off. So I had to plug my Amiga into some different inputs on the back of my stereo and then all was well.
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If you are using the stock A600 then you will be limited to 4 channels.
But if you upgrade your A600 with an accellerator then you can do 64 channels like the rest of us. :)
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If you are using the stock A600 then you will be limited to 4 channels.
But if you upgrade your A600 with an accellerator then you can do 64 channels like the rest of us. :)
LOL Dont tempt me ,an accellerator ,now that sounds interesting ,but im not sure it will cure the lack of volume coming through one of the speakers,infact its more than half the volume if not less ,so i think i have a problem,thanks any way,Brian
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Why are you guys telling him to use OctaMED SS 1.03c on an Amiga 600 (68000cpu)?
I've always been told it's a hog on a machine of this low spec, and one would be better off getting OctaMED 4.0 for a 68000 machine.
They are virtually similar in functionality when working with 4 tracks. SoundStudio gives you superior mixing, panning and 16-bit sample use, but if he's got an A600 then 16-bit is out of the question anyway.
By the way, OctaMED 4 is also public domain - having been released by the author and distributed on some Amiga magazine cover disks.
http://amr.rumpigs.net/cu_amiga_coverdisks/cu_1994_05_d080.zip
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Thanks very much ,it is excellent ,ive always had a bit of a problem with the sound being loader in one speaker ,any clue to what might be wrong ,im hoping its just a chip, Brian.
Balance control on the speakers themselves?
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Why are you guys telling him to use OctaMED SS 1.03c on an Amiga 600 (68000cpu)?
I've always been told it's a hog on a machine of this low spec, and one would be better off getting OctaMED 4.0 for a 68000 machine.
They are virtually similar in functionality when working with 4 tracks. SoundStudio gives you superior mixing, panning and 16-bit sample use, but if he's got an A600 then 16-bit is out of the question anyway.
By the way, OctaMED 4 is also public domain - having been released by the other and distributed on some Amiga magazine cover disks.
http://amr.rumpigs.net/cu_amiga_coverdisks/cu_1994_05_d080.zip
Something he may want to consider, though I also started using OctaMED S.S. on a stock A500 with 4 or 6Mb of RAM total and was still able to run the program well, though of course some of the more advanced features that OctaMED 4 don't have anyhow, were not available.
When I later upgraded to more powerful machine, I was then able to more fully explore the software.
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Balance control on the speakers themselves?
Swap the audio connections for Left/Right and see if the other speaker gets quieter. If so, it's a problem on the Amiga side. If not, it's a problem in the monitor (or external speakers).
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Swap the audio connections for Left/Right and see if the other speaker gets quieter. If so, it's a problem on the Amiga side. If not, it's a problem in the monitor (or external speakers).
Hi and thanks ,i have tried that ,and what i did find is that the bad side worked in both the outputs on the Amiga with no or very little loss of volume ,only when both were plugged in did one side go down ,i cant say it struggles with any anything it has to do ,ive just installed extra memory and its very quick ,i wonder if theres enough power coming from the psu ,thanks again,Brian
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Balance control on the speakers themselves?
Hi and thanks for the reply ,theres no way of balancing them on my amp ,but as the bad side is good when the other plug isnt inserted ,so i may need a little more psu power ,not sure ,Brian
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Hi and thanks ,i have tried that ,and what i did find is that the bad side worked in both the outputs on the Amiga with no or very little loss of volume ,only when both were plugged in did one side go down ,i cant say it struggles with any anything it has to do ,ive just installed extra memory and its very quick ,i wonder if theres enough power coming from the psu ,thanks again,Brian
Try another set of audio cables. Sounds like there *might* be a short between the L and R sides.
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Hi and thanks for the reply ,theres no way of balancing them on my amp ,but as the bad side is good when the other plug isnt inserted ,so i may need a little more psu power ,not sure ,Brian
I had the exact same problem with a 4000, it was down to failing capacitors. I would imagine that your 600 is due a change. Sorry :(
If you don't want to tackle it yourself, Amigakit offer a service for Audio repair and cap replacement.
http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=53&products_id=1021
http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=53&products_id=932
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I had the exact same problem with a 4000, it was down to failing capacitors. I would imagine that your 600 is due a change. Sorry :(
If you don't want to tackle it yourself, Amigakit offer a service for Audio repair and cap replacement.
http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=53&products_id=1021
http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=53&products_id=932
Hi and thank you ,you may be right ,i may have a go myself as i can solder quite well ,but there again it seems quite cheap to have it done by Amigakit,its not urgent but i would like it done thanks again,Brian.
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Balance control on the speakers themselves?
This actualy is a very good way of sorting it in the short turn,so ive changed the amp for one with balance control and it is awesome ,ive loaded some midi tunes in to octamed that other Amiga members have wrote and they sound brilliant ,what exactly do i need to imput some simple tunes ?because i sure would like to join the musical Amiga Band,lol best wishes Brian.:elvis:
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...,what exactly do i need to imput some simple tunes ?because i sure would like to join the musical Amiga Band,lol best wishes Brian.:elvis:
The beauty of OctaMED is that you really need nothing other than the Amiga to make tunes.
If you had a parallel port sampler you could sample your own sounds, but there are lots of already sampled free sounds on Aminet and elsewhere - enough to last you a long time.
You only need the Amiga's keyboard to enter notes and sound playback is through the Paula.
If you want to get more advanced you can use a MIDI interface, controller (piano style) MIDI keyboard, and external MIDI sound modules. But there's no real need for this.
Actually, I wish I had known the potential of Trackers back in the 1980s / 90s. Instead (there being no online Amiga community to ask back then) I tried to figure it out all myself and I ended up spending a lot of money on the above mentioned MIDI equipment and Dr. T's KCS sequencer. I didn't realise that trackers let one do everything right "out of the box" with just a bare Amiga. I mean, I had seen a tracker back then, but it just looked like a jibberish sort of hex-editor to me. Nowadays, you can find all sorts of help, scanned manuals, and tutorials online.
Not to say what I purchased for my Amiga went to waste, but I was always looking for the next bit of gear to get more sounds, etc. when I could have been writing songs the day after I brought my Amiga home if I'd understood more about trackers.