OctaMed sound studio

[TheGoose]

Hi i am very pleased i managed to load guitar,piano, drums, and base ,and play a bit of a tune, and the Amiga sounds really good ,i have the settings on fast ram, which is good,not sure how many tracks i can use , thankyou again

Great. Sounds like you are getting there. I just came into a load of 8bit samples from a friend who had a couple of CD collections, wish I could share it easy.

[TheGoose]

I use Soundstudio. In fact, that is the reason for reviving my A1200. I wanted some mods that I did. If you really want to hear some quality music mods, look for the Mug Presents disk by Ben Thomas. The guy was a genius! Sadly, he was killed in a car crash not long after he did this disk. A sad loss to the music world! I was the Articles Editor for the T.I and M.U.G. disks shortly before it disappeared! I have been looking throug those disks recently. I have been enjoying using my Amiga so much, I am in the process of putting in a CD/DVD R-W and a 4 gb CF HD card. I have also talked Another T.I. editor to revisit his Amiga. Rudi Samborski.

Hmm, sparked my interest.

@spihunter - ok one other thing you could bring over / copy is that mod anthology thing you have for Sun...

[TheGoose]

Here's a link to some of my mods I posted up on Soundclick.

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=1148969

How did you do 'haunted house' ? Is that just a regular sax sample?

I like the mods, not the usual stuff. Do you use midi at all or all punched in?

[TheGoose]

Can you trigger OctaMED (or even MED) via MIDI?

OctaMED - Yes, made for it, has a slave mode even. MED I think not, does not have any midi I recall.

[TheGoose]

From Airplane:

Male announcer: The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone.
Female announcer: The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone.
Male announcer: [later] The red zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the white zone.
Female announcer: No, the white zone is for loading of passengers and there is no stopping in a RED zone.
Male announcer: The red zone has always been for loading and unloading of passengers. There's never stopping in a white zone.
Female announcer: Don't you tell me which zone is for loading, and which zone is for stopping!
Male announcer: Listen Betty, don't start up with your white zone shit again.

Which for me depicts almost 99.9 % of "conversations" that take place on the interwebs

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OSS works pretty good with 16bit samples, provided you have a Tocatta. I've been playing a few guitar chords into it...

But there is some limit I read and now I'm not sure, like only 1 16bit sample can playback at a time, but you can have as many as want? We really nee to get a f-ing manual up on the interwebs some where...

[TheGoose]

well Octamed 4 has the synth built in and SS does not... also menu layouts are very diff from my readings of Octa 4 tutorials..

Wrong, it's a cool syth you can turn into a mini track, like onion skinning a square wave into a sine wave and back again, it's very cool.

[TheGoose]

Thanks, that sounds worth a go. I wish we could do a series on how-to use Octamed SS, making videos, we would need contributors....

"Octamed around the world"...

As an aside, if you like synthsounds and trackers, do give MusicLineEditor a go. It's not quite protracker style, but it can make some very nice sounds.

It basically uses very short waveforms (not quite chip tune, but close) which can be fed through various effects (phase, filter, etc) and is capable of some quite remarkable sounds on a basic 020+ class amiga.

It will also do 8 channels, but you need a faster CPU then.

[TheGoose]

I think both those will work for demo purposes, UAE sound may skip but doesn't matter for tutorial video...

Also, I'm using a USB video capture with composite and s-video, has the audio captured as well. You just keep a very simple layout in OSS...

I know I would benefit from seeing how other do what they do... Making them would be fun!

[TheGoose]

Actually, OctaMED SS is a bit of an Achilles heel for UAE. No amount of fiddling around with UAE's settings can get rid of the lag between pressing a key and hearing the sound; something no genuine amiga suffers from.

Of course, when it comes to basic playback of a completed track, it (understandably) performs very well, particularly on many-channel modules.

That's true of anything that's supposed be, or be like an Amiga for me. If your invention can't play four 8bit samples simultaneously with out skipping or sounding bad, you FAILED!