Greetings

[Oliver]

Hi folks,

Thought I may as well introduce myself since I've ended up making a couple of posts recently.  I was a member here a long time ago, but forgot my login, since I often just browsed around without posting.

I have used Amigas for music for many years now.  Started on my friend's 500, then 3000, then got a 2000, then a 1200 (with Cobra 030/16M, which I still use).  These days, I mostly just use Music-X 2, and the odd game now and then.

I love the usability of Music-X.  I find quite intuitive.  Although I have various powerful sequencers on my PC, their interfaces are crap, and they are just slow to compose with.  Now I use a couple of PC's running as slaves to my miggy, and a bunch of hardware synths/processors.  Or rather, I would if I actually had enough time to do so.

Does anyone else here use Music-X?

I'm a soon to graduate electronic engineering student, and over the years have also used Mac, Sun, various 'nix systems, SGI, C=64, Microbee, Cyber, ....  As an engineer, I love efficient design, and that's the Amiga all over.  I appreciate its elegance (my old 1200 can still do basic disc operations faster than my 1.8GHz PC).

See you round the forum,

Oli

[blobrana]

Welcome aboard the soul train!

Good to hear that Music-X is still being used...(hehe, i wanted something with a bit `more`, so i use octamed)...

See you on the forums...

[amigadave]

Hey Oli, welcome to the friendliest Amiga site on the Web!

Your comment about efficient design being what the Amiga is all about really rings true for me too.  It caught my eye, as my company name is "Efficient by Design".  Actually more than one company as I am adding another branch (video production, weddings, events, training, etc.) to my Construction Consulting, Building Design, CAD services.

If I can just get my favorite CAD program ported to AOS4, I could probably get rid of Windows in my home and office completely.

Again, welcome and I'll be looking for your Amiga music knowledge on the forums in the future.

[jozzy]

hi oli, i'm new here, and freshly back on the amiga scene. god its been a while, good to see people keeping up with the music. i used to use octamed and soon as i'm up and running i'll post my mods up on my site. till then, see you on the forums....

[SamuraiCrow]

Hello Oli.

[harima_kun]

Hey cool another old skool Octameder, well welcome guys I am new here too but I have been writing music on the Amiga up to about 2002 then I swichted to Mac and Renoise, not quite the same I know but it does the job, you can check out my amiga mp3s if you like at:  www.fuzzbuzzproductions.com

[Oliver]

Hi people,

Thanks for the replies.  Actually, I also felt this is the friendliest Amiga forum around.  I've looked at others, but not bothered to join, due to the frequent, and silly arguments, and criticisms.  Why bother???  Anyway, I like this place.

I've used Octamed.  Had some really good sessions with taht actually.  The latest version was pretty cool.  One friend used to do high energy techno with it.  He did a really excellent job with almost no hardware at all.  However, I find trackers limiting.  I also use AXS (an excellent (IMHO) DOS soft synth.  It has an inbuilt tracker, but it's limited in the rhythmic timing available, so it's no use for complex scores.  So, I slave it to Music-X.  I tried Bars & Pipes too, but it doesn't feel as intuitive to me.  Lot's of people still use it though.

Really nice to hear form you all.

Cheers,

Oli

[Plus4]

I have not actually found any BAD Amiga Forums - have I been looking in the wrong places??

[Managarm]

Neither have I actually, which in one way is kind of odd. When I got a PC with Windows '95 I had various problems and looked at a few forums; they were full of members abusing each other for lack of knowledge/differing opinions/choice of avatar, it was quite intimidating. Console forums I saw were a bit that way too.