Wnating to learn Octamed help

[spihunter]

@hooligan,

I disagree :-o

If your learning from scratch you might as well learn the best version unless your only going to run it an a A500?

Soundstudio will run well even on an 020. Being able to load samples into fastram makes it worth it just for that!

[SamuraiCrow]

Hiddenevil wrote:
I joined the yahoo forum and also posted a thread..i dont see any guides on there tho  
 :-?

There should have been some links on the welcome email that would get you to Med Soundstudio and it's instruction manual.  If you didn't have email delivery activated when you joined, you can still look in the files area for "message.txt" which contains the welcome message.

[hooligan]

spihunter wrote:

If your learning from scratch you might as well learn the best version unless your only going to run it an a A500?

Well thats what I said, use the best version, which is version 4 :-)

[Wilse]

hooligan wrote:

spihunter wrote:

If your learning from scratch you might as well learn the best version unless your only going to run it an a A500?

Well thats what I said, use the best version, which is version 4 :-)

I prefer OSS. I started on V4 but OSS is a better programme in my opinion.

-EDIT-
Now that I think about it, I started on V3.

[spihunter]

@hooligan,

Just out of curiosity, what makes version 4 of Octamed better then Soundstudio?

[steve30]

I loaded a few things into OctaMED, and I am starting to see how it works. I could probably learn it all myself given enough time, but a guide would certainly be good. I'll have to have a look at the help files.

[klx300r]

I'm in the same boat & would really like a beginners guide for SoundStudio 1.03C too...awaiting for my A1200 with 030@50 to really get my hands dirty with it :-D ...loading all the instruments/samples into fastram is gonna be sooooo nice ;-)

[Wilse]

Tony Horgan wrote some tutorials for CU Amiga but I don't know if they're on line anywhere.

[Hiddenevil]

i had a look, it's Amiga format magazine 64 to 69 from what i've found out..Sadly i've not found any sites with those pages availible..

[spihunter]

The Tony Horgan stuff was mostly a review from what I remember?

It went over features of the program but never gave insight on how to use it.

I'm not sure I never had those issues though so I'm not sure.

On another note, I've started recording my own Octamed training videos tonight. Hopefully I'll have the first one up on YouTube soon.

The composite out on my A1200 gives a better signal then I remember if you use the right screenmode...

[Mike_Amiga]

I'll knock together a basic guide if i get up early enough tomorrow. Stupid new job robbing me of life currently. :roll:

[hooligan]

First of all composing tunes with V4 is several times quicker than on OSS as the UI is much simpler, logical and simply working. Secondly, because of the things mentioned it is also easier for beginner to learn. This of course the case only if the user wants to create 4ch/8ch-tunes with Paula. If the user is going to use MIDI then I'd advice to start on OSS aswell.

I remember I tried OSS several times when it came out, always returning to V4 as the "new look" was soooo confusing. It still is, I did a remake of Lost Patrol yesterday and was cursing the userinterface half the time ;-)

Grab it here: Lost Patrol remake

ps.Its been two years since I last touched my synth and OSS.. so please forgive me its crappiness

[Stevo]

Cute remix, though it's almost heresy to remix Lost Patrol. IMHO one of the greatest game songs around, yet amazingly simple.

[kidkoala]

nice remix, octamed? where are the samples from?
but have to agree that remakes of this enormous classic is almost blasphemy

[deddly]

Hiddenevil wrote:

i have octamed 3 and i would really like to know how to use the thing..

Hi, I learned by listening to a lot of other people's Mods and then going through it listening to one track at a time to see what they did and how they did it.

The Amiga is a wonderful tool for music, some people still use it in the music indistry.

[hooligan]

kidkoala wrote:
nice remix, octamed?

SoundStudio.

where are the samples from?

Yamaha CS1x

but have to agree that remakes of this enormous classic is almost blasphemy

Agree fully :-)

Its just that I happened to bump to a site called AmigaRemix and downloaded all 2.5gb of remixes from there. Sort of lifted up my interest to get back to tracking again after a long time of silence.