@Vegas If you don't mind explaining a bit, perhaps with a few pics, how you got your A600 and C64 running together with MIDI and MSSIAH, I'd be eager to learn.
Sure, no problem! Lets take the Mmsiah Sequencer:
- Connect Mmsiah cartridge to "Midi Out" of the Amiga Midi Interface
- Boot up Mmsiah, load Sequencer, load in your instruments:
AUDIO -> INSTRUMENTS
- open Midi Mode window:
FUNCTIONS -> MIDI MODE (midisetup1.jpg)
Here you can select Midi channels for each instrument (1). Choose 1, 2, 3 for example. Then select START (2). The sceen will turn black, Mmsiah is in Midi Mode now.
- Now open Octamed.
- Open INSTRUMENT PROPERTIES window (midisetup2.jpg)
- Select an empty intrument.
- Set Midi channel referring to the Mmsiah (3). For example, choose 1 if you want this intrument to play the Mmsiah instrument which you have set to midi channel 1 before.
- Don´t forget to set the intruments volume! (4) Otherwise you wont hear anything (it took me ages to find out about that...).
- Select the next empty intrument and repeat this procedure.
- Last thing you have to do is to activate Octamed Midi:
Top Menu: MIDI -> MIDI ACTIVE
And thats pretty much it!
Some additional stuff:
- For some reason the notes wont stop, you have to do it manually by pressing SPACE on the Amiga, respectively add the command to your track.
- It can be an advantage not to play the notes/send Midi CC directly, because the c64 sometimes is too slow. Instead just Midi - sync Octamed to the Mmsiah. In Monosynth/Bassline/Drummer you can also trigger and sync patterns via midi.
Hope this is some help for you. Lets hear some sweet crispy 8bit stuff soon!
