...,what exactly do i need to imput some simple tunes ?because i sure would like to join the musical Amiga Band,lol best wishes Brian.:elvis:
The beauty of OctaMED is that you really need nothing other than the Amiga to make tunes.
If you had a parallel port sampler you could sample your own sounds, but there are lots of already sampled free sounds on Aminet and elsewhere - enough to last you a long time.
You only need the Amiga's keyboard to enter notes and sound playback is through the Paula.
If you want to get more advanced you can use a MIDI interface, controller (piano style) MIDI keyboard, and external MIDI sound modules. But there's no real need for this.
Actually, I wish I had known the potential of Trackers back in the 1980s / 90s. Instead (there being no online Amiga community to ask back then) I tried to figure it out all myself and I ended up spending a lot of money on the above mentioned MIDI equipment and Dr. T's KCS sequencer. I didn't realise that trackers let one do everything right "out of the box" with just a bare Amiga. I mean, I had seen a tracker back then, but it just looked like a jibberish sort of hex-editor to me. Nowadays, you can find all sorts of help, scanned manuals, and tutorials online.
Not to say what I purchased for my Amiga went to waste, but I was always looking for the next bit of gear to get more sounds, etc. when I could have been writing songs the day after I brought my Amiga home if I'd understood more about trackers.