Recommended Amiga 500 music software

[Ben3000]

A CD-ROM would be a nice, but if I'm gonna spend any money I might as well just get a 600 for about the same price which would make everything a lot easier.

I have thought about the nullmodem route, but am I right in thinking I need a PC with a serial or parallel port on it to get it to work? Neither of which I have.

Enabling it to read MSDOS floppies sounds like it suits my needs. Hopefully someone can sort me out with crossdos or similar..?

[nscaleworld]

Yes but you'll need a cd-rom drive and interface for that...

All Amiga computer users should already have one.  I personally would not use an Amiga computer without a ZIP drive and a CD-Rom drive.

[paul1981]

I've recently been lucky enough to aquire an Amiga 500 through freecycle. I originally wanted to run OctaMED on it, but after doing a bit of research I've been lead to believe that the 500 simply isn't up to it.

I was wondering if anyone could recommend me some music creation software that's known to run on the 500. I'm not specifically looking for a tracker, just something I can use as a tool to squeeze some nice tones out of Paula. I've seen a dodgy Youtube video that suggests Music-X might be what I'm looking for?

Thanks in advance!

A 1.2/1.3 based Amiga is more difficult to get stuff working on simply because the majority of software in use requires 2.0. Your A500 is up to it yes, but things would be easier with an A600.

There is this ADF transfer kit on ebay, which you may be interested in:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AMIGA-PC-READY-TO-GO-ADF-TRANSFER-KIT-EASIEST-FASTEST-CHEAPEST-WAY-TO-DO-IT-/120968578852?pt=UK_VintageComputing_RL&hash=item1c2a4a0724

You'd need a pc with a compatible parallel port though, so you may want to seek advise about this before buying.

If you got this working though, you could easily write sound sample disks and Protracker/Octamed and any games you want etc all from your pc (if you have one that is).
If you had an A600 though and an internal hard drive, you could store all your samples on hard disk, and you'd never use a floppy again. You wouldn't need floppys because you could use a CF pcmcia card adapter (amigakit sell them, and plenty on ebay as well) for all your transfers from your laptop to your A600.

[som99]

For your average person (myself included), dos-2-dos/crossdos is by far the easier method for moving individual files.  Sure, they may then want to investigate adf's, file compression or alternative methods (null modem etc) but none of these are as simple as just inserting a floppy.

Agree, tho im giving other options, using amiga explorer (you can get it free) then it's as simple as connect  the cable start amiga explorer, insert a floppy in the Amiga then select an ADF and swoosh it's on floppy.

So it's quite simple and a great way for non HD equiped Amigas