OctaMed sound studio

[nicholas]

many will no doubt be against, but i'd boldly and proudly say v4.

Just notice, there is a bug in omed v4 when using midi-instruments and samples on the same track, you will hear a high pitch squeeking noice if you don't use note-off.

fff iirc?

[nicholas]

Anyone got any links to 8bit DnB/Breakbeat/House sample packs?

I don't fancy converting decades of 16 and 24 bit samples unless I really have to.

[nicholas]

No need, really. OctaMED SS will happily load 16-bit samples, though there are some restrictions on their playback compared to 8-bit ones.

Me no likes SS, Octamed Pro V4 is much nicer.

[nicholas]

I guess we'll have to differ on that one. I've nothing against older versions of OctaMED, but for me V6 and subsequently SS represented a shift from the "regular" tracker to a proper application. When I went RTG, seeing my first 32-channel mixmode track (and more importantly being able to edit it) in a 1600x1200 display was a revelation.

That's what Logic and Ableton are for!

[nicholas]

No, they're for girls. OctaMED SS is a proper tracker, but designed for grown-ups.

No such thing as a "proper" tracker, they are all just kids toys.

[nicholas]

It's like a brand new "Red -vs- Blue war only this time it's the Octamed V4 extremist -vs- the Octamed SS revolutionary's!!!!

I've always hated the tracker paradigm, but recently enjoyed playing with Renoise so thought I'd check out Octamed and Sound Studio again.

V4 seems the lesser of two evils as it doesn't try to be something it's not: Cubase/Notator.

[nicholas]

OctaMED SS doesn't try to be anything other than OctaMED 6 with more channels to play with and some internal support for 3rd party sound cards. It's not remotely like Cubase/Notator, not sure where you got that from :-?

Well it tries to be a pro-audio sequencer rather than just a tracker.

[nicholas]

I think the Octamed 4 users are just being ridiculous. I just looked at some screen shots of version 4 and it almost looks the same! The buttons are layed out more even is SS to make them easier to find!

They look nothing like each other to me.

[nicholas]

It all comes down to aesthetics.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

[nicholas]

Ok, I'm moving on here.. everyone here has long decided what their going to use so no longer need going on about this.

I don't "use" either. lol

[nicholas]

Are you just going on to get Karlos all fired up?.

lol

Nah, I just think that if I was forced to use one or the other of them, I'd choose v4 as it's looks prettier and is simpler.

[nicholas]

I thought about doing this before. You could just use the composite out straight to a video camera. Picture wouldn't be the greatest but it would work. Then add voice over and text.

WinUAE might be a solution.

[nicholas]

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

Even with the Maestrix redirecting the audio through AHI?

Might be worth speaking to Toni Wilen about it to see if it's fixable or not.

[nicholas]

Nicholas, did you ever try to get this running under MorphOS? I understand it possible (and that it can run under AOS4), but I have found this necessary software patches.

It's on my (very long) todo list.

[nicholas]

This is actually quite good, I bought a copy in 1999... And used that same PC MED v1.0 until I moved to Macs and foun myself use real Amigas for tracking again. Though a simple tip,  in Logic Pro, a bit crusher and a carefully set EQ will give a very convincing approximate 8bit sample sound.

Side note, I do plan to release a "PaulaAudio" AudioUnit for the Mac, that will crush to 8bits, EQ and introduce the quantisation errors (that Karlos and I worked out a few years ago) to any audio stream... Watch this space

Consider me your first customer!