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Re: Is there a Midi PC file music player for Amiga?
« on: May 16, 2010, 12:35:08 AM »
I know "back in the day", I used Deluxe Music Construction Set to play midi files on the Amiga.  Not sure how it would handle more complex files, but I seem to remember enjoying it at the time.

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Re: Is there a Midi PC file music player for Amiga?
« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2010, 04:09:46 AM »
Quote from: Amiga_Nut;558753
I don't have anything other than stock CPU machines,
Deluxe Music Construction Set ran on stock Amiga's...
FWIW..

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Re: Is there a Midi PC file music player for Amiga?
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2010, 06:19:27 PM »
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Deluxe Music Construction Set is a Sequencer, that can read and write MIDI files to a certain extent.
It is not a General MIDI player.

That's weird, because I didn't have any midi OUT devices, but I swear I remember it playing files???

You sure it doesn't have some default way of playing MIDI files?  I know I heard it playing music..

I'll have to dig it up and try it again????  :confused::confused::confused:

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Re: Is there a Midi PC file music player for Amiga?
« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2010, 07:19:23 PM »
Quote from: Matt_H;558869
Deluxe Music (speaking from experience with version 2, never used the original) has 2 ways to do MIDI. The first is "real" MIDI, with a hardware box, and I think it works through CAMD. The second is to just load in a MIDI file and reassign its instruments to IFF/8SVX samples. ...

OK, that makes sense...  I know I used it to play MIDI files, but the memory was a bit rusty beyond that...  ;-)  I still think I'll fire it up to see, since it's sparked my interest now...

Funny, I remember I wrote my one and only song on that software.  It took about a week, and it was kind of techno sounding...  It wasn't great, but I was happy with it...

Then I played it for my roommate, who said, "Isn't that the Dr. Who theme?"

To which I said..  "Damnit!!  It IS the Dr. Who theme," basically..
Such was the end to my music career.  :lol::lol::lol:

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