Hi Everione. Amiga Music

[anakirob]

The following programs all run fine on an unexpanded A1200 without running patches such as AHI.

There are a million (or damn near to it) progs which make mod. files. All of them are much the same! But ProTracker is the favorite. If you are new to trackers, this is a good program to learn as most other trackers use the same commands and layout.

OctaMED has some useful features. The Synthsounds can be fun, but making new sounds can be a little tricky. Hybrid sounds allow you to do some complex envelopes. And the Hold/Decay can be excellent for 303 type sweeps when used with the sample offset command. JUST DON'T USE 8-ch MODE! it sucks.

Musicline Editor has a powerful and versatile wavetable synth. But it can be quite processor intensive. I use it to make samples for use in other trackers (it's quite a useful tool when used with with AoN/Chorus)

Art of Noise (AoN/Chorus) is my personal favorite. But if you cannot read german it can be quite confusing. It too has a handy wavetable synth. And the FM-generator is awesome! It is especially useful for programmers.

AHX is great if you want that oldschool SID sound. For a unique sound, render the AHX.waves file to disk and mess with it in a sample editor.

Visit aminet or eXotica to find these Apps.
Hope this information helps someone in some way.

[anakirob]

First a question. Is there a program which will allow me to edit PSID (c64 tracker) files on the amiga. I have been intrigued by a program called SIDM.O.N. which makes my a1200 crash!

Now...

I love using my amiga for sound generation and composition because I can enter my notes in REAL-TIME from the QWERTY keyboard. I have not found a PC program which is as responsive as ProTracker or OctaMED 4ch. I understand that this is due to fundamental limitations with the standards set by IBM back when dinosaurs roamed the earth.

Also, I notice that MOD. files just don't sound as cool on a PC as they do on an amiga. The amiga has some nice fat bass!

If you have an accellerator or sound card (or both) then DigiBooster, Symphonie and OctaMED soundstudio are usable. Otherwise you will probably be frustrated with their incredible SLOWNESS! But really, if you want that proffesional sound then you may as well be using PC or MAC.

for 303 type sounds then you would be wanting:

303tracker (or it's earlier incarnation 303emu) does one of the most accurate 303 emulations of any I've heard on any platform. But I think you would be needing some fast-ram to run that one!
or...
The latest version of Kocmu runs nicely in the background, as it does not use the audio channels itself. It uses minimal CPU, and it also includes some C source for the 303 emulation routine it uses. Handy if you want to learn how to synthesize your own sounds (as I have been doing). I seem to recall seeing a REAL-TIME version of this program for 060 Amigas, but have never used it myself.

Both these programs can be found on Aminet. Indeed, you could do far worse than to trawl the aminet for software if you are looking to do ANYTHING on the good old Amiga.

[anakirob]

have you tried using these progs you mentioned on UAE? Do they sound OK with ordinary PC sound cards?

Do the sound OK? If by "OK" you mean "not bad" then yes, if you mean "like a bona fide Amiga" then sadly no, an emulated amiga just does not have the same punch as a real one.

When mastering tracks composed on an amiga I find I get much better results recording from my amiga onto minidisc (via a nifty little behringer PA) than I do rendering my mods as WAV from windows or AIFF from my Amiga.

Oh, check out the recent uploads on Aminet for some of my tracks (or search for "WAR_" in the MODS/MPG directory).