Maybe the whole rural thing was more of the reason I was never aware of the C64 demo scene...
I digress, but I never had the time to really delve into music making on the Amiga. I toyed with Bars and Pipes a little w/my external MIDI gear, but that was it. That was a serious bebop phase for me and I was pretty hostile to electronic music at that time
Thanks for pointing out that other thread, ral-clan. I'm starting to understand a little better.
You're welcome. I felt much the same as you...although I was into synths in the 1980s, by the time 1990 rolled around I was deep into traditional Celtic music (rather than Bebop) and actively avoided electronic music and synths, etc.
Because of this I missed out on the full potential of trackers and chipsounds, which I only came to appreciate (re-appreciate) once the Amiga was a retro-computer. I sort of feel I didn't take full advantage of the potential offered by a simple Amiga 500 and a tracker in the late 1980s and early 1990s (I thought I needed expensive external sound modules, multitrack decks and keyboards and things I couldn't afford at the time). I had the "...if only I had the (insert latest and greatest piece of gear or Amiga expansion here) I could *finally* make professional sounding music..." syndrome, instead exploring the potential of what I had on my desktop.
In my own defense, this was before the days of the web when you could help from other Amiga users, so the first time I opened a tracker (without the benefit of a user manual) it looked like an intimidating machine language hexadecimal editor of some sort. I left trackers alone for many years because of that.
I'm still seriously into traditional Celtic music, but now can appreciate both genres (and many others) and I don't mind combining sounds from the two.
I discovered the wonderful Bars & Pipes rather late (1997-ish) but I really love it and still use it all the time (it works great under emulation) for MIDI work.
By the way...your animations and great. What software you use to make them???
