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Re: OctaMED Sound Studio Install Issues & Advice.
« Reply #14 from previous page: May 10, 2010, 08:56:27 AM »
Here's my latest work in progress. I intend to add in some of OctaMED's effects and what not in time as I re-learn those things I've forgotten.

Now how would I go about saving this into a 16-Bit wav on my Amiga?
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Re: OctaMED Sound Studio Install Issues & Advice.
« Reply #15 on: May 10, 2010, 10:49:49 AM »
Thankx again Karlos! Your a well spring of information.

Stop Instruction, that's another thing I used to know but forget. What command do I use for that again? :)
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Re: OctaMED Sound Studio Install Issues & Advice.
« Reply #16 on: May 11, 2010, 05:55:37 PM »
Well I managed to get the HELP to load finally, and sadly the STOP SONG command is not in the list. In fact a lot of times it tells me to refer to the owner's manual which I don't nor did I ever have. Other times it tells me that certain files of the HELP system can't be loaded.

As for the 0FFe command, that just makes my Amiga lock up and reboot.  Nice trick! :)
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Re: OctaMED Sound Studio Install Issues & Advice.
« Reply #17 on: May 11, 2010, 06:55:21 PM »
That it did. :)

So is that a bug, or a just a cruel joke the programmer threw in there?
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Re: OctaMED Sound Studio Install Issues & Advice.
« Reply #18 on: May 11, 2010, 07:45:50 PM »
That's how I typed it in, and yes it manages to crash my A1200 and WinUAE just the same.
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Re: OctaMED Sound Studio Install Issues & Advice.
« Reply #19 on: May 12, 2010, 07:08:26 AM »
Quote from: Karlos;557844
I can't reproduce this bug in E-UAE here. I am wondering if your executable is the same as mine.

Mine is exactly 256192 bytes (no embedded version string) and has the following md5 sum (would be handy if you can calculate yours for comparison) : dc33b9c7285bbc7c6dce7ed7f44678d3


246,692 bytes for me. Using "Icon Info" from Work Bench. I'm not quite sure how to do the md5 sum thing.

I put everything in 64 CH Mixing Mode, set it to 8 Channels under Mixing Settings, and now the command no longer crashes my Amiga, though my samples are all screwed up, play wrong, or don't play at all, but I will re-read everything you posted before as I believe you explained why this is and how to fix it.
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Re: OctaMED Sound Studio Install Issues & Advice.
« Reply #20 on: May 12, 2010, 07:54:20 AM »
Quote from: Karlos;556291
One final point to note. When you enable Mix mode, the note range for sample playback is increased by 2 octaves in the low register. That is to say, the pitch you'd get from C-3 in 4 channel mode is now 2 octaves lower. To get the same pitch, you need to use note C-5.

You'll encounter this problem if you load an old 4 channel mod and enable mix mode and try to play it. To correct it, you need to use the Edit -> Transpose option which opens the transpose window. You'd need to globally increase all notes by 2 octaves.


And here in lies the answer. Everything is starting to make more sense now, though I'm having issues still.

The tempo is all messed up when I put things into 64Ch Mode, which is easy to fix, though I did want to point it out.

As for this Transpose option. It looks like I have to select the Sample I want, then click source and then destination, then octave up twice in order to make it work. Sadly this seems to work for some samples, others still sound like crap.

None the less I'm on the right track and will have another stab at 16-bit samples here in a bit.

Oh, and why is it that OctaMED SS does not use standard BPM mesures, but instead has that strange tempo interface with the 3 lines? How would I ever sync this up to somthing that is running at say 200BPM, and how would I know the diff between 4 channel mode's timing and that of 64 Mix Mode?
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Re: OctaMED Sound Studio Install Issues & Advice.
« Reply #21 on: May 12, 2010, 05:13:02 PM »
Here is what I'm talking about.

See in Open Mod Plug Tracker (for Windows), you merely set your BPM, and that's that.

On the Amiga side you got BPM, but you also have TPL and LPB amongst other things.

I understand how to get it into BPM mode, but then I often times need to change TPL, and when I do that, it sometimes makes BPM about useless in that moving the BPM level has no effect accept within the 1-12 range, etc.

All I want to do is set the BPM to 200BPM to match the timing of the other programs I'm using.
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Re: OctaMED Sound Studio Install Issues & Advice.
« Reply #22 on: September 02, 2011, 10:37:25 PM »
Quote from: Karlos;657543
I'm a hobbyist musician. Investing in something more professional isn't really required.

Having said that, I've used "modern" packages before and whilst they are probably the bees knees for professional musicians, I found them a bit tiresome to use. There's something about the raw simplicity of the tracker that appeals to my developer side I guess.




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