New to AMIGA sound

[XDelusion]

First and foremost. What sort of samples do you plan to use with OctaMED?

Short small ones or large long ones? 8-bit or 16-bit.

[XDelusion]

You'll have to spare some serious time finding both A600 and ACA630 accelerator since those stuff are badly wanted. A bog standard A500 is way more common to find and perhaps a better choice since newly developed ACA520 accelerator is coming up for Christmass ! Just to note it will also have same if not better mass storage solution right on board alongside a fair chunk of RAM, perhaps fitting your MIDI ideas. Otherwise, go for 1200 which has much shorter and cheaper upgrade path.

Hardly...

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And PAL 600's are a dime a dozen.

I second the 1200 idea though, unless he wants to restrict space used, in which case the A600 wins all around.