Recommended Amiga 500 music software

[Ben3000]

I've recently been lucky enough to aquire an Amiga 500 through freecycle. I originally wanted to run OctaMED on it, but after doing a bit of research I've been lead to believe that the 500 simply isn't up to it.

I was wondering if anyone could recommend me some music creation software that's known to run on the 500. I'm not specifically looking for a tracker, just something I can use as a tool to squeeze some nice tones out of Paula. I've seen a dodgy Youtube video that suggests Music-X might be what I'm looking for?

Thanks in advance!

[Ben3000]

Thanks for steering me away from Music-X! You might  saved me a lot of time finding that out the hard way.

Sorry, I should of said I've got WB 1.2. Is that going to limit my compatibility with OctaMED v4? Also I have got something plugged in the trap door. I *think* it's RAM (it's not labelled in any way) but not sure how much. MusicLineEditor sounds interesting.

Does OctaMED have a built-in sampler or does it just work with pre-recorded samples off a disk?

Thanks,
N00b

[Ben3000]

You will need a sampler harware device to use with OctaMED, to make your own samples... Otherwise just download samples from Internet or your PC/Mac/etc

This is my other problem.. Getting software/samples onto the machine. I'm very happy to sample via an audio input onto the 500 forever more, but I have no way of getting the software from my Mac/PC onto the right format of floppy for the Amiga to run. From what I've read I'm starting to wish I'd just bought an A600 (for the internal HDD trick).

If OctaMED v4 will work with WB 1.2 on my 500, is someone willing to copy and mail me a disk of it? For a price obviously I have quite a few Amiga disks that came with the machine that I can send to copy the software onto if need be.

[Ben3000]

I'd include a copy of crossdos (or whatever it was called) too so he can then move data to/from the Amiga himself using DOS formatted floppies

Oh yes please! 4000 Amiga points to that man! It would stop me nagging the forum every time I wanted a new bit of software.

[Ben3000]

A CD-ROM would be a nice, but if I'm gonna spend any money I might as well just get a 600 for about the same price which would make everything a lot easier.

I have thought about the nullmodem route, but am I right in thinking I need a PC with a serial or parallel port on it to get it to work? Neither of which I have.

Enabling it to read MSDOS floppies sounds like it suits my needs. Hopefully someone can sort me out with crossdos or similar..?