End of the road for OctaMED :(

[hooligan]

I never liked octamed much, I went straight from protracker to screamtracker to fastracker II.
 
Milkytracker is a great fast tracker clone, and what I use today because i can use it on windows, linux or AMIGA.
 
Hope his health improves however. Octamed was pretty great when it was introduced, and innovative.
 
The problem for them I guess is all the windows competition, there are hundreds of trackers, softsynths and music production progs now.
 
Steven

Huh.. Protracker, Screamtracker, Fasttracker, Milkytracker.. now that has been a long, rocky and painfull road :-)

OctaMED wiped the floors with all of these back in the time. Especially V4 was a real joy to use, although it had a couple bugs when using MIDI and samples.

Check out Renoise (http://www.renoise.com) .. purr... purr... purr...

[hooligan]

Yes I use renoise, but I find for most thinks milky is cool. besides, you can load any xm into renoise...
 
Generally I start stuff in milky and finish in renoise.
 
I just didn't like staying 8 bit at the time, screamtracker was 8 bit but then I forgot... impulse tracker was in the middle and 16 bit cheap...
 
Then moved to ft2/milky...
 
Steven

Its quite surprising that trackers havent disappeared after all these years, even now many are under development. Maybe its the ease of use or the fact its a cheap(or even for free) way to produce music thats kept trackerism going. I was very delighted to come back to trackering after a few years silence and find out trackerscene had even improved while I was away