All musicians in Up Rough dislikes, and refuse to work with octamed as they think it's GUI is weird
and uncomfortable.
I agree! The problem with Octamed is that on a
standard 640x512 screen there's no space to
keep all the most used windows opened, and
opening them everytime from the menu is
frustating and not practical. The ONLY reason
I use it sometimes is because it's the only
free 16 bit tracker available on Amiga... but not
for long
But maybe the most important thing is to keep
all the keyboard shortcuts exactly the same as
in the old PT versions. I have heard tracker musicians scream many bad words in a row when using for example digibooster or octamed.
Yep... protracker has been so much famous that its
a standard on its own.
That leads me t o another thing. Many Protracker
boys do not like Digibooster because it doesnt work exactly like Protracker..
For me, the main attracting point of Protracker is
that is has been always free. It's a great thing that
the new version continues this trend. Thanks Ruben!
The only really successful tracker on the Amiga
since Protracker must be THX/AHX.
Abyss have directly copied many things from PT,
like some of the shortcuts, the inline help text that was a copy from the PT 1.x versions, the vertical
copper bars...
The dream scenario would be to have one skinable
GUI and one MUI/Reaction GUI. Possible?
This would mean that 2/3 of the work would have to be redone, and I don't know if Ruben would have time to do so. But this doesn't mean that someone coudn't do a Protracker 2 clone
Varthall
