OctaMed sound studio

[mrmoonlight]

The number of tracks you can use simultaneously depends on how fast your CPU is. Of course, what you can do is create something using a lowish mixing rate and when it's ready, render it to disk at CD quality (or better).
 
A basic 14MHz 020 with fast ram should be enough to use 8 channels at ~22kHz 14-bit stereo quite comfortably in realtime.
 
Whatever you do, though, don't turn on smoothing until you want to render to disk. The interpolation used is pretty slow and applied to each channel individually. When I accidentally tried it on a 16-channel tune on my 040, I had to hold both mouse buttons for a while to stop the playback.

 
 Hi and thankyou for your help,i am very grateful,oh and i already turned smoothing on and yes i see what you mean lol ,i still have a lot to learn,but what brilliant fun the Amiga is , i seem to spend more time on my Amiga than i do my windows 7 pc ,and i am hoping to go on the net shortly with easynet and the Amiga,and Franko says he will help me connect a dvd drive ,what a nice chap he is ,as all the kind folk on this forum are,anyways best wishes Brian

[minator]

Hi Matey,lucky you ,but i am begining to find more samples,and having loads of fun, so amazed at what my Amega 1200 can do ,i have the sound coming out of my creative decoder ddts-100 which can seperate the sound,or so they tell me,i have three speakers set up and another two that i am going to add shortly,and it is such a good sound ,and my friend who i had the Amiga off ,heard it and was stunned ,i did tell him he is not having it back lol,best wishes Brian

I used to play around with music on the Amiga, never made any mods though.
I play around with samples a lot, so much so that I eventually sold a couple of Audio apps.  They're both free now, you can get them here (scroll down the the Amiga section):

http://blachford.info/blachtech/index.html

Be warned though, if you get into sample processing it can take up hours and hours and hours...

I've recently got back into music and oddly enough I was also playing around with samples this weekend for the first time in a very, very long time!  Not on the Amiga though, I've been playing with a synth/sampler I got off ebay ...with 200 floppies of samples!

I'm also planning to start writing an app again but for the iPad this time, though it will be based in part on one of the Amiga apps.

[mrmoonlight]

I used to play around with music on the Amiga, never made any mods though.
I play around with samples a lot, so much so that I eventually sold a couple of Audio apps. They're both free now, you can get them here (scroll down the the Amiga section):
 
http://blachford.info/blachtech/index.html
 
Be warned though, if you get into sample processing it can take up hours and hours and hours...
 
I've recently got back into music and oddly enough I was also playing around with samples this weekend for the first time in a very, very long time! Not on the Amiga though, I've been playing with a synth/sampler I got off ebay ...with 200 floppies of samples!
 
I'm also planning to start writing an app again but for the iPad this time, though it will be based in part on one of the Amiga apps.

 
 
  Hi it looks like you have had fun ,but it is exciting playing with music,all the years i have been recording and have never lost the thrill ,and now the Amiga has opened up even more adventures ,and you are right it can take up hours, it is nice to hear from you and i will take a look at your link now my very best wishes Brian:)

[magnetic]

minator

Thanks for the links. I didnt know about this stuff. Very interested in the soft synth Aural Synthetica.. can it be trigerred by external midi? Also, does it do 303 type sounds? i'm waiting for my cf ide adaptor to come in to get my a1200 back up so i can try it.

[XDelusion]

WOW, I never heard about synth Aural Synthetica before...

And the source has been released for the 16-bit version of version 3 which was never completed... Hmmm. This might be something coders might want to take a look into in order to bring it up to date for Amiga, MorphOS, and maybe even AROS.

Aghh, BeOS softs too, woohooo!!! Well, I know what I'm doing tonight.

[magnetic]

xdelusion

Yes, it would make a nice plug in for Digibooster or something. Or even as a standalone app on next gen amiga type systems!

But what i'm realling wondering is which Octamed is best for my 030 1200? I want the built in synth and drums with sample ability, and hopefully external midi support. (e.g. controlling drum machines, keyboards, etc)

[hooligan]

xdelusion

Yes, it would make a nice plug in for Digibooster or something. Or even as a standalone app on next gen amiga type systems!

But what i'm realling wondering is which Octamed is best for my 030 1200? I want the built in synth and drums with sample ability, and hopefully external midi support. (e.g. controlling drum machines, keyboards, etc)

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.

[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?

[XDelusion]

xdelusion

Yes, it would make a nice plug in for Digibooster or something. Or even as a standalone app on next gen amiga type systems!

But what i'm realling wondering is which Octamed is best for my 030 1200? I want the built in synth and drums with sample ability, and hopefully external midi support. (e.g. controlling drum machines, keyboards, etc)

A lot of dudes use the older versions, and some of us use the latest version. You can group me with the latter.


As for Aural Synthetica. I load it up, and my screen scrambles, I can see half of it on the left, and half on the right.

I'm using one of AMiga Maniac's RGB adaptors which has S-Video out that I run through a S-video to VGA adaptor. I've never had a program do this before.

[magnetic]

Hooligan

Why do you prefer octamed4? Which one has the built in synth and drum machines?

[spihunter]

I've often wondered why people stuck with V4 as well. Soundstudio runs great even on old setups. The abilty to load samples in to fastram alone makes the later version worth it.

Maybe they just like the old layout?

Hooligan

Why do you prefer octamed4? Which one has the built in synth and drum machines?

[sperrett]

Have a look at the Total Irrelevance disks as well, they were by the MED users group.

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.

[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...

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Hi thankyou that helped a lot

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_stop

Dude, I think what he's trying to say is, use some periods in your sentences.  ;-)  In any case, good luck with OctaMed!

[sperrett]

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

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

[minator]

Any chance you could put the TI and MUG discs on-line somewhere?  I've never been able to find them anywhere.