HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jbrown@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Justin William Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: Oktamods
Date: 11 Dec 1992 23:02:18 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization
NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu

In article <1992Dec10.091923.5261@cs.ruu.nl> cgschot@cs.ruu.nl (Gerco Schot) writes:
>
>OKTAMODS. What the h*ll is this? I cannot play them with the software I've
>got. What in wuarchive are normal MOD-files (.mod)? And if the other music
>files can be played on a PC with COVOX, what programs are used to do that?

I've never heard of an IBM modplayer that plays 8-voice mods.  Heck, even
if there were such a thing, the quality would be 5-bit (uuugh!) through
a normal SoundBasher.  I'm sure a new 16-bit card would fix that, but
who wants to pay for music what you could buy 5 Amigas with? :)

-Maruku of (\/)ega(/\)atts
jbrown@gnu.ai.mit.edu
Marc Brown
From: gruel@midiline.la.ca.us (Nick Salvatico)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Binaries
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 06:33:46 PST
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Organization: MIDILine BBS - Altadena, CA - (818) 797-3285

From: petter@pnilsen.adsp.sub.org (Petter Nilsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
 
> Please keep these large binaries off this group, not all of us is
> interested in modules downloaded with UUCP...
 
 By the same token, not all of us are uninterested in these.  I, for
one, like getting a MOD from time to time here.  I also don't have
any ftp access, only news -- others are also in the same boat.
 
 Instead of requesting that they cease, why not just skip them?  Not
so hard.  I think there have been a total of 3 within the last 3-4
months, certainly not a major undertaking to pass by them.
 
 On the other hand, if such binaries are 'officially' not supposed
to be sent here (however infrequently) then that is another matter.
 
    o   .
 o .  o   o
   o .   .
  __:__:_
 ( gruel )
  \_____/

-----
gruel@midiline.la.ca.us (Nick Salvatico) 
MIDILine BBS (midiline.la.ca.us) - Altadena CA - (818)797-3285
From: zant0001@student.tc.umn.edu (Eric Zanto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: Xmas MODs
Keywords: xmas, mod
Date: 20 Dec 92 18:30:32 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota

In article <wunner.724870263@nova> wunner@nova.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de (Guenter Wunner) writes:
>
>There's a Christmas MOD on wuarchive.wustl.edu in /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS
>called jbells.zip. It is very short but it's better than nothing. Has
>anyone else got more of that type? I'm collecting them in a jar 8-).
>Also, is it possible to convert the SMUS Xmas songs to MOD format?
>Cheerio,
>	Lukas.

Yep.  Get xmasmix.lha from wuarchive, in the mods area.  I forget what the
exact path is, but it's there somewhere in the mods directory!

Eric

PS It's also on many other sites; search Archie or something.
From: henigma@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: SmartPlay - Don't waste your Time On This One!!
Date: 16 Dec 92 23:42:16 -0400
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada







     To ease the tension I have reviewed it, smartplay... SUCKS!!!  
It cannot play a lot of formats and needs 2.0 kick to work!  
     Contrary to belief it cannot play mods over 400+ K.

     So, save yourself some time and stick to good players like Multiplayer and
ProPlayer -both found at amiga.physik.unizh.ch.

           SEEEEEEEEEEEYAAAAAAAAAA LATER       

                                                     Tony TAGE
From: d2ser@dtek.chalmers.se (Svante Eriksson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: Pinball Dreams and Pinball Fantasies ST-Modules? Needed...
Date: 20 Dec 92 00:36:14 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden

Twin-Peaks@fbi.amigans.gen.nz (Dale Cooper) writes:

>I was listening to a game called "Pinball Fantasies" in K-mart today and
>there are some, excuse me, DAMN fine modules in that game.  Does anyone
>know where I could get ahold of the actual modules or anyone who's been
>sneeky enough to rip them with there clever little rippers?  Please please.

hacke15 list xh0:modules/pinball lformat "%-30n %d %l" | sort in: out:
Beat Box                       23-Nov-92 93400
Billion Dollar Gameshow        23-Nov-92 139224
Ignition                       23-Nov-92 132572
Nightmare                      23-Nov-92 86180
Party Land                     23-Nov-92 130004
Pinball Dreams Intro           23-Nov-92 176928
Pinball Fantasies Intro        23-Nov-92 181308
Pinball Fantasies Intro II     23-Nov-92 42056
Speed Devils                   23-Nov-92 141436
Steel Wheel                    23-Nov-92 85996
Stones'n'Bones                 23-Nov-92 142372

  Mon, Hex and Mnemo's excellent converter routine is quite enough.

>               Dale Cooper --- Twin-Peaks@FBI.amigans.gen.nz

...ser
--
     ///     Svante Eriksson -- Chalmers University of Technology
    ///    Internet: d2ser@dtek.chalmers.se   FidoNet: 2:203/123.42
\\\/// "I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call
 \XX/  it a weasel!" -- Edmund, Duke of Edinburgh, aka the Black Adder
From: gruel@midiline.la.ca.us (Nick Salvatico)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Huge MODs
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 06:35:38 PST
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Organization: MIDILine BBS - Altadena, CA - (818) 797-3285

From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Subject: Re: SmartPlay - Don't waste your Time On This One!!
 
> In any case, most of the huge MODs I've seen are exactly the type
> of massively sampled trash that people have been complaining about
> here. You can hear what those are worth just by using play590 to
> play the entire file as a single sample... :)
 
 Sick isn't it?  After having collected MODs for a while, and after
having started out thinking that a larger MOD was likely to be
better (through some form of twisted logic), I've since found that
the largest MODs are most often impressive ONLY in their size.  I can
only think of a few MODs weighing in at ~350K+ that are not only NOT
just batches of sampled beats, but also damn good tunes in their own
rights.  I'm thinking of Beyond Music (432K), Face Another Day
(449K), and Space Debris (347K)...I'm sure there are others, but
percentage wise they'll be extremely few.
 
> The module "hitmen" is a perfect example of this. 612KB, and it
> sounds fine played as a single sample.
 
 That kind of tripe is only a MOD by virtue of format.  Feh.
 
    o   .
 o .  o   o
   o .   .
  __:__:_
 ( gruel )
  \_____/

-----
gruel@midiline.la.ca.us (Nick Salvatico) 
MIDILine BBS (midiline.la.ca.us) - Altadena CA - (818)797-3285
From: m_krok@tron.gun.de (Matthias Krok)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: special moduleplayer (was: How to play r
Organization: TRON Public Mailbox, Neurath, Germany
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 13:36:00 +0100

Hello !

A few days ago, somebody talked about a program which have the same sense as
smartplay (to play long modules on machines with too less chipram) but it
loads a few samples in chipram, und change them with samples in fastram if
they`re unused...

what`s about this program ? What`s it`s name, and where can I find it ???

--            _________                       ____            ____
Matthias Krok         / Voice: +49-211-276453    / No problem    /
H.-Biesenbachstr. 23 / UUCP: m_krok@tron.gun.de / is too big it /   _
W-4000 Duesseldorf  / Z-Netz: M_KROK@TRON.ZER  / can`t be run  / _ //
United Germany ____/ FIDO: 2:242/21.111 ______/ away from. ___/  \X/

-- THE ANSWER V2.03
From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: Any Classical Mods w/CLASSICAL instruments?
Date: 15 Dec 92 10:22:55 GMT
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Organization: Commodore Germany

In article <Mark_Rippa.19ep@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US> Mark_Rippa@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US (Mark Rippa) writes:
 >In a message dated Fri 11 Dec 92 19:44, Zant0001@student.tc.umn.edu (eric Z
 >wrote:
 >
 > ZZ> well done piano composition was recently released in a Tristar-Red
 > ZZ> Sector
 > ZZ> demo entitled "Wicked Sensation" and with some work managed to rip
 > ZZ> it.  It
 > ZZ> has a piano samples in SIX different places, so it sounds very
 >
 >This is an superb piano composition. 

I have to back that, too. This was one of the nicest Amiga music pieces
I've heard for a long time. Good work! (And I play a little piano myself.)

-- 
Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to \\  Only my personal opinions...
Commodore Frankfurt, Germany  \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk
Wer's nicht kann, soll's bleiben klopfen oder Steine lassen!
From: crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: Gekko Forest! Sketch, where are you?
Date: 14 Dec 92 11:57:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: glia.crystal.724334247
Organization: University of Washington

In <1992Dec14.085138.20985@bristol.ac.uk> ccjy@bristol.ac.uk (APATHY=) writes:

>In article <crystal.724021068@glia> crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal) writes:
>>
>>I tried to leave mail to sketch@128.153.48.3 but it was returned. :<
>>
>>I wanted to praise him on the intro portion of Gekko Forest Remix One.mod
>>and was hoping that he would do more like it since there seems to be a   
>>movement on about these nice soft, easy listening kinds of mods.
>>
>>Does anyone know where he can be reached?
>>
>>Thanks!
>>Crystal
>>  ;>


>Sketch usually hangs out on a TinyMud somewhere.
>The mud is called TinyTim i think.
>I can't remember the number though.
>Sorry.

>My friend

>U4ia...say hi to him when you find him. =8*)

I found him - or rather, he found me, thanks to my post...
Thanks, U4ia!  
    
Crystal
  ;>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: wunner@nova.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de (Guenter Wunner)
Subject: Re: Oktamods
Organization: TAT (Theoretical Astrophysics Tuebingen), U. of Tuebingen, FRG
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 15:56:42 GMT


While we're at it: I am also looking for 8-voice players (Oktalyzer,
OktaMED, etc.) for SparcStations, Indigos, MS-DOS and Atari STs. I
haven't found any till now. If anyone could send me infos about the
format of these MODs, I would be most grateful. Many many thanx in
advance for any response!
	Lukas.

           *** "Fer sell cheep:  IBM spel chekker.  Wurks grate." ***
        *** Lukas Wunner, Hustadtring 143, 4630 Bochum, West-Germany ***
      *** lukas@trillian.tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de / lukas@134.147.160.21 ***
From: bc2y+@andrew.cmu.edu (Brian T Cheek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: List Price One-Stop Music Shop
Date: 14 Dec 92 05:53:01 GMT
Organization: Misc. student, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

The price for One Stop Music Shop (The E-Mu Proteus on a card) is $649
List.  I can't remember if that's US or Canadian.  I'd assume US.

I've personally seen Protei for $649 street price for one of their
models (I don't believe the External Protei come in a General MIDI
configuration, though.)

The models I've seen so far are the 1, 1+ 1/XR, 1+/XR, and another one
too.  (Some Protei come with 8 megabytes of ROM rather than 4).

-Brian :)
From: D.J.Miller@newcastle.ac.uk (Dave Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Heavy guitar samples for ProTracker???
Date: 14 Dec 92 11:22:44 GMT
Organization: Computing Laboratory, U of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK NE1 7RU.


Greetings 

  does anyone know where I can get hold of some meaty (and very heavey) disttorted electric guitar samples for ProTracker??

I'm looking for sounds of the Slayer variety and the standard ones released on ST-04 are just TOO weak :)

thanks in advance

dave.


Dave Miller                             d.j.miller@newcastle.ac.uk
University of Newcastle upon Tyne       home voice: +44 91 266 1330
ENGLAND
NE1 7RU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: m92mmy@tdb.uu.se (Mattias Myrberg)
Subject: Re: Looking for MODs with quality
Organization: Dept. of Scientific Computing, Uppsala Univ.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 20:03:28 GMT

In article 4730 Ian Schmidt writes:
>In article <saarelai.724323464@messi.uku.fi> saarelai@messi.uku.fi (Jussi Saarelainen) writes:
>>I'm looking for House/Techno/Ambient(?)/Reggae(?)/Jazz(?)/Funk(?) MODs.
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> What MODs -aren't- house/techno/dance/EuroDisco? :)


Sad but true  :(

/Mattias

________
Mattias Myrberg

m92mmy@bellatrix.tdb.uu.se
From: bc2y+@andrew.cmu.edu (Brian T Cheek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: Studio 16
Date: 16 Dec 92 11:44:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.8f=uAhq00iV1M4Is9B
Distribution: comp
Organization: Misc. student, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Timothy Lee Bechard writes:
>Does anyone have any information on Studio 16 by sunrise industries?

Note that the AD1012 board and AD516 board use the Studio 16 software,
so my mini-review posted in this sig applies.  FYI, the spelling of
their company name is Sunrize.

-Brian :)
Have a great holidays.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: SmartPlay - Don't waste your Time On This One!!
From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Date: 20 Dec 92 11:59:40 PST
Organization: TAP

Quoted from <1992Dec16.234216.9646@ac.dal.ca> by henigma@ac.dal.ca:

>      Contrary to belief it cannot play mods over 400+ K.

    It played rhythm.is.a.dancer ok for me. The key thing is that it
    will not play MODs where the _samples_ add up to more CHIP RAM
    than you have available. Which is slightly better than any other
    player I've seen, which won't play MODs where the whole file is
    larger than the CHIP RAM you have available.

    In any case, most of the huge MODs I've seen are exactly the type
    of massively sampled trash that people have been complaining about
    here. You can hear what those are worth just by using play590 to
    play the entire file as a single sample... :)

    The module "hitmen" is a perfect example of this. 612KB, and it
    sounds fine played as a single sample.

>                                                      Tony TAGE
--
*** John Bickers, TAP.                   jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz ***
***    "Radioactivity - It's in the air, for you and me" - Kraftwerk    ***
From: Twin-Peaks@fbi.amigans.gen.nz (Dale Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Who made this mod?
Date: 20 Dec 92 17:16:54 PST
Distribution: world
Organization: Federal Bureau of Investigation (Twin Peaks)

I just got the full _BIG_ version of Mod.Rhythm_Is_A_Dancer and boy is it choice!  I personally hate Techno-house-rubbish with ALL sampled stuff, but this module is one exception.  I liked it alot.  The real purpose for this message is, Does anyone know who created Mod.Space_Debris?  I just got that too and I like-like-like it!

BTW:  Is it true that Rapheal Gesqua (AudioMonster) is quitting the music making business?  I heard some rumours.

--
 Amiga500 (DCTV, HP550C, 28mHz 68040, 2400bps, WB2.04, 7MB RAM, 105MB HD)
    running Windows 3.1+ as a BACKGROUND TASK faster than a 25mHz 486!
 (pinch of salt required)  ** QUOTE OF THE DAY ** (pinch of salt required)
Reporter: "Sir, how do you justify producing a FALSE multi-tasking windows
              environment and calling it TRUE multi-tasking?"
   Designer: "Well most PC users don't even know what multi-tasking is!"
From: gruel@midiline.la.ca.us (Nick Salvatico)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Who made this mod?
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 06:38:25 PST
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Organization: MIDILine BBS - Altadena, CA - (818) 797-3285

From: Twin-Peaks@fbi.amigans.gen.nz (Dale Cooper)
Subject: Who made this mod?
 
> The real purpose for this message is, Does anyone know who created
> Mod.Space_Debris?  I just got that too and I like-like-like it!
 
 According to my records, it was Captain of Image who also did
another exceptional piece entitled Beyond Music.  I'd also love
to know of ANY other MODs he's done if anyone here has that info.
 
 And since we're on the subject...does anyone know of other MODs
by Jogeir Liljedahl?  He may have an alias but I don't know it.  I
have the Face Another Day MOD and would be very happy to find other
songs by him.  Maybe he's got an Internet address?
 
> BTW:  Is it true that Rapheal Gesqua (AudioMonster) is quitting the
> music making business?  I heard some rumours.
 
 Within the body of one of the MODs in the newly released game
Flashback he says that he's quitting the scene due to having to
do serious studying, so it looks like we'll soon be losing another
excellent musician from the MOD scene.
 
    o   .
 o .  o   o
   o .   .
  __:__:_
 ( gruel )
  \_____/

-----
gruel@midiline.la.ca.us (Nick Salvatico) 
MIDILine BBS (midiline.la.ca.us) - Altadena CA - (818)797-3285
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: m92mmy@tdb.uu.se (Mattias Myrberg)
Subject: Re: Mods from Jesper Kyd..
Organization: Dept. of Scientific Computing, Uppsala Univ.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 13:58:47 GMT

In article 4696 Justin William Brown writes:

>In article <1992Dec12.103201.11407@tdb.uu.se> m92mmy@tdb.uu.se (Mattias Myrberg) writes:
>>
>>I had no problem ripping the intro-tune of "Global Trash",  I managed to
>>hunt down the end-music too. Just load multiripper and use the "read sector" function.
>>However, the main-part places it self at a not so good place,
>>it trashes memory used by AmigaOS when dechrunched, causing a guru,

>That's the one I'm talking about :).  IMHO, the loadtune (25K? Something
>like that) isn't worth ripping (but I did anyways :).  And I didn't
>think anyone would want a weird jazz piece (end part).

>-Maruku of (\/)ega(/\)atts
>jbrown@gnu.ai.mit.edu
>Marc Brown

No of course not,  all 3 tunes are crap IMHO. ;)

But you know -when it's a rainy day, and there's no work to be done
and you've got no fun at all, then it's a bit of a challenge to
rip every f***ing tune you hear.


/Mattias

_______			  _________
Mattias Myrberg       Uppsala Univ.

m92mmy@bellatrix.tdb.uu.se
From: zant0001@student.tc.umn.edu (Eric Zanto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: Who made this mod?
Date: 20 Dec 92 18:27:35 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Organization: University of Minnesota

In article <q753VB6w165w@midiline.la.ca.us> gruel@midiline.la.ca.us (Nick Salvatico) writes:

>> BTW:  Is it true that Rapheal Gesqua (AudioMonster) is quitting the
>> music making business?  I heard some rumours.
> 
> Within the body of one of the MODs in the newly released game
>Flashback he says that he's quitting the scene due to having to
>do serious studying, so it looks like we'll soon be losing another
>excellent musician from the MOD scene.

One of my favorites by him is Nebulos, from the Silents "Ice" demo.
Any other exceptional ones by Audiomonster?

Eric
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: jonin@netcom.com (Daniel Joseph Oak)
Subject: The One-Stop Music Shop by Blue Ribbon
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 09:01:13 GMT

Howdy,
 
I was glancing through the jan '93 issure of Amiga World, and I found an
add for The One-Stop Music Shop on page 57, from Blue Ribbon Soundwords
ltd.  It claims 16bit and 32 voice 'reconstruction' in real time.
 
The ad further states:
  Now Amiga audio can rival Amiga Video!  Introducing One-Stop Music Shop,
the porfessional multi-voiced soundcard for the state-of-the-art results.
  Featuring the award-winning E-Mu Proteus Sound Engine, the OSMS includes
hundres of 16-bit linear CD-quality digital samples, professionally compiled from vast libraries of sound.
  Just plug it in. No extra cables required.  Write video soundtracks, 
original music and more!  the OSMS even includes special editing software, 
so you can desine your own instruments from scratch!  And to keep your 
serial port free and double your own instruments from scratch!  To keep your
serial prot free, while doubling the number of available MIDI channels, we've 
provided an additional MIDI interface right on the card!
   Because the OSMS conforms to the General MIDI specification, you've got
instant compatibility with thousands of songfiles.  So forget the Amiga's
8-bit sound producing hardware!  Use the OSMS in SuperJAM! and 
bars&pipes Pro for incredible audio output.  Or reorganize it's 
instruments and sound effects with the PatchMeister.
 
(I basically quoted the ad compleatly) :)
 
My question is - is this a true 16bit sampler - where you can make your
own samples? or is this some rom-based sample thing like the Proteus is?
 Seems to me a waste to throw this puppy in my amiga if it cant sample.
 I guess thier gunning for the ibm soundblaster type card. :)
 
 

-- 
Evil Geniuses /   /\ ___   ___    o ___    /o @netcom.com 37.16N 121.58W 200ft.
For A \ oo / /   / // _ \ / / \ /\ / / \  / __o   --- Squidly Diddly Says ---
Better \--/ /___/ // |/ // /  // // /  / / (oO)  "A penny saved is ridiculous"
Tommorow\/ / \___/ \___/ \/  / \/ \/  / /  /||\
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: zant0001@student.tc.umn.edu (Eric Zanto)
Subject: Re: Wanted: Soft Acousitc Mods & Classical Mods
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 23:15:54 GMT

In article <2080@vall.dsv.su.se> matt-dah@dsv.su.se (Mattias Dahlberg) writes:
>Jeremy A Moskowitz (jeremym@ravel.udel.edu) wrote:
>
>: I'm looking for a couppla good acoustic mods, to maybe play in
>: the background whil'st I'mm talking to my girlfriend or somthing.
>

Be watching for 'Boesendorfer P.S.S.' by Romeo Knight/TRSI.  From the new
"Wicked Sensation" Demo.  Try wuarchive/incoming in a day or so.  It's a
fantastic piano composition!  Very nice samples of piano.

Eric
From: gruel@midiline.la.ca.us (Nick Salvatico)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Kerry Emerson MOD (Twilight Dreams)
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 02:26:09 PST
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Organization: MIDILine BBS - Altadena, CA - (818) 797-3285

Howdy Kerry...shortly after I listened to the mod you posted here (I'm 
assuming you mean Twilight Dreams as I haven't seen another in here by 
you) I posted you privately, but got no response.  (I was away for a 
while and if you answered, my host might have purged it after a certain 
period, but I don't think it does that...anyway...).

Following is the letter I sent you.  Okay, so now it's public, but what 
they hey?
-------------------
To: batman@amigans.gen.nz
 
Hiya Kerry...
 
I noticed you were seeking opinions on the Twilight Dreams module you 
sent to the c.s.a.audio newsgroup. Well, I grabbed it and had a listen, 
and here is my (admittedly unprofessional) capsule critique:
 
 Basically I thought it was pretty good.  A bit above average, but 
nothing extraordinary.  I did, however, appreciate the Enigma/Shadow of 
the Beast type mixture though. :)  I do prefer this slower, new-agey type 
style.  The only negatives I can think of (I'm listening to it at the 
moment, by the way)...the flute gets a bit whiney at points (the 
occasional echo/background accompaniment was nice), and overall the song 
was a bit repetitive.
 
 Bear in mind, though, that it is much easier to pick nits than to praise 
things.  Just for your own interest, if I were to scale this MOD, I'd 
give it about a 6.5-7.0 (woul'da been higher if you had a cleaner 
landing!). :)
 
 Lessee...ummm...I don't have much in the way of credentials to be 
spouting criticism, but I have a collection of MODs approaching 2000, so 
I do have some "experience" I guess.  Everyone's tastes are different, 
though, so don't take any of this too seriously.
 
 If you have more personal MODs in a similar style (or any for that 
matter), you can feel free to bloat 'em up with uuencoding and send 'em 
my way, I'd be more than happy to criticize...errr...offer more opinions. 
:)
 
    o   .
 o .  o   o
   o .   .
  __:__:_
 ( gruel )
  \_____/
-----------------------------------------------
I hope my level of subtlety was acceptable. :)  My opinions are always as 
honest as I can manage.

(pretend quoted signature is here too)

-----
gruel@midiline.la.ca.us (Nick Salvatico) 
MIDILine BBS (midiline.la.ca.us) - Altadena CA - (818)797-3285