which is best for music Atari or Amiga

[rdolores]

Can't say anything about the Atari since I never had one.  But I had tons of fun with my Amiga's going back to the mid-eighties.  I pretty much used Deluxe Music on my Amiga for all my compositions and added MIDI-capability with an ECE MIDI interface and Casio CZ-101 synth, and mixed them with an old Radio Shack mixer fed into a Sharp receiver and outputted to my BOSE speakers.

I'd like to eventually output some of that stuff on to modern media so I can upload them to Youtube like this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orF17hcQwOc

Hi I already own a really good Amiga 1200 and a nice little Amiga 600 ,but I am very tempted to buy a Atari st  just for the devil of it and was wondering if any one uses one now and could say  which is best for music Atari or Amiga,,best wishes Brian.

[rdolores]

Hi yes when I need to raise the volume on a certain instrument I do not see any where in the music Deluxe 2 software to increase it just for that channel ,in yet it has to be there surly ,lol  and is that software synthesizers or hardware synthesizers I need to be collecting lol

DeluxeMusic 2 does have volume control for individual staffs.  Look for "ff" button on the Tool Window (It's below the eraser).  It ranges from fff (loudest) to ppp (softest).  It affects both the Amiga channels as well as the MIDI channels (if you use them).

I, myself, have a Casio CZ-101 synth, which I have had since the late 1980's.  I got it in order to add another 4 channels to the 4 built-in to the Amiga for a grand total of 8 channels.  I mixed the Amiga and Casio channels with a Radio Shack mixer before outputting them to my amplifier.  Had a nice mix of Amiga Sampled sounds and the warm Synth sounds of the Casio.  Composed quite a lot of tunes with this setup:  Deluxe Music, ECE MIDI, Amiga 2000, Casio CZ-101, Sharp Receiver/Amp, Radio Shack mixer and a CZ Librarian/Bank Loader called CZAR.  Never could figure out the Trackers though one day I hope to (OctaMED Sound Studio).  Would also like to learn Bar's N Pipes as well.

[rdolores]

Commodore John - that MS20 track you did was very good.  

I own several Korg Monotrons and just purchased a Korg Volca Keys - so I've been watching their analogue synth revival.

I also own a Juno-106, Alpha Juno-1, Yamaha DX100 and TX81z.

Also like to buy old 1980s home/toy keyboards whenever I can pick them up for a few bucks at thrift stores (the interesting ones before Casio etc. switched to stock PCM sounds for home keyboards).

Love the real hardware synth thing.

Casio CZ-101's are pretty cheap nowadays (about $100.00 US).  Also, they were multi-timbral although they only had 4-voices.  The higher end models CZ-5000, CZ-1 had 8-voices, but they are pricier.