OctaMED

[Stephen Coates]

Has anyone here used OctaMED before?

I downloaded OctaMED soundstudio the other day and ran it in WinUAE. Do the older versions of WinUAE (i.e. the ones with the old prefs editor) have issues with sound? It didn't really seem to be able to keep up with OctaMED, however one of the newer versions seemed fine.

I loaded up a few MOD files which I got off the OctaMED site and I am begining to get an idea of how it works, but there's still alot of playing to do with it. I also could do with looking though all the help files and reading some guides for it.

[Zetr0]

@Stephen Coates

helo there, indeedy I do still use Octamed, even on the PC, i have MedSS, another great tracker to use is Mod Plug tracker do a google for that well worth it

I always have issues with WinUAE and sounds, it stalls or stutters, and or becomes totally un responsive (and this is on a Barton 3200), but on my 060 its sublime

I found Octamed Sound Studio, is my favourite, and will load 99% of other Mod types. I did find the best way to learn features in OSS was to review other mods or works that you liked, look at the commands used and try to implement them in your own work

[Buleste]

A friend of mine used to use OSS all the time and used to take his A1200 to gigs and perform with it on stage. Unfortunatly he's gone the way of most musicains and uses a PC instead. Don't know what software he uses now.

[Harrison]

I used to play around with OctaMED a bit on the Amiga. But not being that musically minded I always tended to load up existing songs and play around with them, rather than trying to compose my own songs.

It is a great sound tracker though.

I've used CuBase more as I used to have that on the ST, and then had to use it a lot at university when we were studying audio integration into computer multimedia.

If you want to get into making music on your Amiga Steve I would highly recommend you get hold of a cheap midi keyboard and some of the midi software for the Amiga. The later versions of OctaMED have MIDI support built in so you could get much more from the program with a supporting keyboard. Or there is are others such as Bars and Pipes.

[Sharingan]

I've dabbled a bit with OctaMED back in the day, but always preferred ProTracker for playback and minor experimentation. I'm about as musically talented as the average brick, but then, dance music isn't very hard to make.

[Graham Humphrey]

Dance music is also about as fun to listen to as the average brick