Amiga Music Sequencers + music: 1991-5

Here's a display of the main music software I used on the Commodore Amiga from 1991-5. The second piece of music was featured on the cover-disc of England's "Amiga Computing" magazine (Jan, 1991).

Check the video responses for my later MIDI music - second (8:20) response is in HIGH QUALITY (audio for the other is in GREAT stereo quality on MySpace).

For more details about this sort of thing (plus some Amiga MED-mods and 20 of my MIDI-files), check my old web-site:
http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~avanstar/musindx.html

And, MOD-lovers, here's a site with (PC) executables of 50 of my best MED-mods - 10 hours of (looped/cycling) music:
http://ozguitar.50megs.com/musical-graffiti.htm

Plus some Amiga MED MODs (i.e. my 'Art of MED' disc, which was a top 10 Public Domain disc in the UK in 1991):
http://amp.dascene.net/detail.php?detail=modules&view=164

My (new) virtual home:
http://www.myspace.com/starrex.

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[avs002]

AUTHOR's NOTE: SoundTracker, ProTracker, etc. all had one major failing (honestly, only 'real' musicians noticed)... a very limited choice of song tempos. A few b.p.m. here or there makes all the difference sometimes.

[avs002]

It must be time I tried Amiga PC emulation. I've got WinAUE (sp?) on disk somewhere.

[mishadeth]

@avs002 Are you sure about that? As I recall, there were two parameters for tempo: a single-bit speed parameter, and a two-bit tempo parameter. By combining the two you could achieve virtually any bpm.

[ToniKoo]

@avs002 Actually it was possible to alter the bpm with hex commands, even continously on each command line if you wanted. Different tempo's were possible to achieve with a little programming.

[numb1010]

@avs002 well, you could set bpm and beats per line couldn't you?

[Chewshabadoo]

@avs002 In Protracker you could go from 32bpm up to over 200bpm in 1bpm increments (or more if you 'dithered' the bpm on each line. Enough for most music I'd say.

[D6team]

@avs002

Actually it was possible to get any tempo, and even more ;) search such MODs like:

"Cos Niesamowitego" or "Black Queen" by Dreamer of Flying Cows - that's really hardcore ;)

[Superbatron]

Music X?

[jamesbooty]

@thesnake383 Don't some versions of Adobe Audition or Cool Edit read Amiga IFF files? I know there are floppy drivers for Windows that will allow you to read Amiga format disks. Between those two things there should be a way to digitally port Amiga samples into Windows.

[jamesbooty]

I used BPP on an A3000 in the early 90s. It's kind of funny that a "professional" suite had a sax for a mouse pointer, but it was a great MIDI sequencer, and this was the days before a strict adherence to a particular look and feel was expected.

[Yoberoggio]

@avs002 EPIC FAIL man. You can choose ANY bpm in Protracker's MODs, even you can modify the BPM at any time in any point of the song.

Maybe you don't know what is a real musician. :P

[nonseans]

@avs002 You can set bpm tempo freely in Protracker. 

[telbee]

@avs002 .o0( the F command allowed for bpm change with 1/50th second resolution..

[ZroDfects]

@avs002 ... Yeah WinAUE is awesome huh.... I got every single AMIGA game rom including S.E.U.C.K. hahaha remember that "Shoot 'em up construction kit' where you make your own games.... I am having a house built with a dedicated cinema room and WinAUE will be setup on a seperate PC I bought just for Emulation.. Can't wait to play Super Cars, Lotus 3, Turrican 2, Turbo and more....... AMIGA lives on in my home.

I download them now.. No more borrowing games from friends and using XCOPY :P