Hi Everione. Amiga Music

[Oliver]

Anakirob mentioned a few I haven't tried.

I was sequencing on Music-X 2 for several years.  It's a midi sequencer with some simple sample editing and playback as well.  The features are nothing special, but I liked the interface, as it was very intuitive for me.

Bars & Pipes seems to be the most popular midi sequencer for Amiga.  I believe there is still a Yahoo group/forum dedicated to Bars & Pipes.  I believe the complete program is available for free download now, and there may even be some modules/expansions being developed by some users (I read about this some time ago, but can't remember the details).

There was a nice sounding software 303 emulator which I tried years ago.  It was using 8 bit sound, and had an inherently gritty and raw character (I think even more so than the h/w 303).  However, it was only a sample generator, and not a real time synth, so I didn't use it much.  Also can't remeber exactly what it was called.

I've never used Amigas as a sound source much, so can't comment on hardware.

Do you own a miggy now, or are you just testing the waters?  What music are you working on?

[Oliver]

I believe 303emu is the program I was talking about before.  It really does have a nice raw sound.

I have used AXS with MSDOS, playing notes from QWERTY keyboard, and would have to agree that it can suffer from slow response.  I think the midi latency on PCs is generally fine though (depending on how much software load there is, and the interface hardware).

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

Haven't tried any c64 tracker editing, but will try the sid box from midibox.org this year.  It's an interesting project.  Anyway, I never liked using trackers very much.

[Oliver]

nisios wrote:
... He told me then that hes girlfriend father had a computer shop with tons of amiga equipment in the warehouse. I managed to meet the guy in the warehouse and it was full of boxed amiga 1200, 1200hd, 600, monitors midi keybords memory and everithing you can imagine....

Hmm, seems he would rather let that hardware gather dust.  Seems a crying shame to have a lot of new (unused) hardware just sitting around, wasted.  Maybe you should offer to sell it all on ebay for him, and take a healthy commission.

As for making music with an A600, yes you can.  It will not be as pleasant an experience as using a thoroughly expanded machine, but it certainly can achieve a lot of the retro style sounds which miggies have been famed for.  If you're doing midi sequencing, I found slower machines had some difficulty drawing scrolling events smoothly, but this doesn't really effect the music much.  It just means you can't easily watch the midi events scroll as you listen.  I can't remember my amigas having latency problems or dropping events.  You will most likely be using 8 bit sound, up to four channels (IIRC), which is probably what miggies have been best known for.

Have fun, and let us know when you finish some music.  Would be glad to hear it.

-Oli