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Re: OctaMed sound studio
« Reply #59 on: March 21, 2011, 08:04:49 PM »
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I couldnt find E-Z FM either. I even have a phone number for the company (usa) which is of course no good. Maybe somebody can hack the demo with a hex editor to remove the protection??
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Re: OctaMed sound studio
« Reply #60 on: March 21, 2011, 08:06:30 PM »
where is the demo?
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Re: OctaMed sound studio
« Reply #61 on: March 21, 2011, 08:09:01 PM »
thought you said you had it with no save feature?
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Re: OctaMed sound studio
« Reply #62 on: March 21, 2011, 10:35:15 PM »
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Re: OctaMed sound studio
« Reply #63 on: March 21, 2011, 10:55:49 PM »
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V4 seems the lesser of two evils as it doesn't try to be something it's not: Cubase/Notator.


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 :-?
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Re: OctaMed sound studio
« Reply #64 on: March 21, 2011, 11:27:14 PM »
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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 :-?


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!
 

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Re: OctaMed sound studio
« Reply #65 on: March 21, 2011, 11:41:59 PM »
well Octamed 4 has the synth built in and SS does not... also menu layouts are very diff from my readings of Octa 4 tutorials..
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Re: OctaMed sound studio
« Reply #66 on: March 21, 2011, 11:59:16 PM »
What ever FM Synth software I got on Aminet would not save. So no I had not found EZ FM yet, but will try your link.

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Try this:

http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/amiga/fish/901-1000/ff956/
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Re: OctaMed sound studio
« Reply #67 on: March 21, 2011, 11:59:20 PM »
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well Octamed 4 has the synth built in and SS does not...


Yes it does. You just pick an instrument slot, then in the main control window, set the instrument type to "synthetic" then click the "edit..." button and the synth editor opens up and you can carry on as before.

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also menu layouts are very diff from my readings of Octa 4 tutorials..


This is true. The whole user interface is quite different, but having used v6 before SS, this was not an issue.
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Re: OctaMed sound studio
« Reply #68 on: March 22, 2011, 12:07:25 AM »
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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.


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Re: OctaMed sound studio
« Reply #69 on: March 22, 2011, 12:07:58 AM »
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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.
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Re: OctaMed sound studio
« Reply #70 on: March 22, 2011, 12:22:37 AM »
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Well it tries to be a pro-audio sequencer rather than just a tracker.


I can see nothing whatsoever in common with what you have there *shrug*

I've used it since it was just MED. Octamed SS's interface is a natural evolution from v4:

If you look at v4, it's an oldskool tracker interface (which is fine, I grew up with it).

http://xmp.sourceforge.net/gallery/octamed-4.00.png

If you look at v5.04, you'll see that it's almost the same except that it's been reworked in GadTools. That has resulted in a lot of repositioning of the controls, but fundamentally it's the same:

http://donbuche.com/sites/all/imatges_web/octamed5.jpg

OctaMED 6 simply took this to it's logical conclusion, separating related sets of controls and putting them into their own windows that can be repositioned on the screen to wherever the user wishes.

OctaMED SS GUI did not change from v6, except to add a few new windows pertinent to it's new mix-mode playback.

The notation editor that appeared in OctaMED was (IIRC) removed by the time SS came out since nobody used it and nobody missed it. It remains, and always was, a tracker. Just because it destroyed the 4 channel limit and shrugged off all the limitations of it's old 5-8 channel modes didn't change the way you create music with it.
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Re: OctaMed sound studio
« Reply #71 on: March 22, 2011, 12:28:39 AM »
It all comes down to aesthetics.

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Re: OctaMed sound studio
« Reply #72 on: March 22, 2011, 12:36:43 AM »
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However, if you just want multitimbral sample playback over MIDI on your amiga, then MIDIIn is the tool for you.


Can you lock it to 4 channels only (no mixing?).  I want the original non-mixed sound.
 

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Re: OctaMed sound studio
« Reply #73 on: March 22, 2011, 12:40:53 AM »
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Re: OctaMed sound studio
« Reply #74 from previous page: March 22, 2011, 12:42:29 AM »
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well Octamed 4 has the synth built in and SS does not... also menu layouts are very diff from my readings of Octa 4 tutorials..


Wrong, it's a cool syth you can turn into a mini track, like onion skinning a square wave into a sine wave and back again, it's very cool.
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