HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jc@crosfield.co.uk (jerry cullingford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: A proposal for an Amiga midi card
Date: 2 Oct 92 11:13:42 GMT
Organization: Crosfield Electronics, Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom.

If you're having multiple independant outputs, it's probably easier
just to let the sequencer address them independantly; These days it doesn't
take many synth modules to go over 16 channels :-( :-)

On the other hand, if your board had more outputs than the sequencer could
handle, splitting things might make sense - but I don't think it's usually a
CPU load problem, so a smart driver might make more sense than a onboard
CPU.  (After all, your sequencer program has to send the data out in the first
place, and routing it to different outputs shouldn't add much processing..)



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From: cyberman@exucom.com (Stephen R. Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Mod format anyone
Date: 4 Oct 92 03:08:55 GMT
Organization: ExuCom MultiMedia Inc.

Pardon my ignornace but I use to have information on the MOD format
Would anyone here be kind enough to email me with it?

To here or 
Cyberman@toz.buffalo.ny.us

Thank you.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: rcormac@eniac.cs.oberlin.edu (Cormac (Xbattle -rcormac) Russell)
Subject: MOD player for IRIS Indigo
Organization: Oberlin College Computer Science
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 20:07:41 GMT
X-Posted-From: eniac.cs.oberlin.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

Ok, I was wondering if anybody knew of a MOD player for the IRIS
Indigo... I want to be able to preview MODs in the lab before I
download them to my Amiga at home... (2400 baud 94 byte kermit
sucks...)
--
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                      rcormac@occs.cs.oberlin.edu           
Vote Libertarian in 92! Marrou/Lord!




Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: jkempnic@gucis.cit.gu.edu.au (Jason Kempnich)
Subject: Re: AudioMaster4 vs. DSS?
Organization: Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 11:17:45 GMT

music@moravian.edu (Steve Heller) writes:

>Can anyone give me an idea how AudioMaster4 compares with GVP's DSS or
>AudioMaster3? I have both the latter ones and like features of each
>and am wondering how much more (if anything) AM4 has to offer. Thanks!

I have AudioEngineer1 and 2.  I don't know about DSS, but you should be able
to get a cheap upgrade for AudioMaster4. (AudioEngineer to AudioEngineer2
cost me Aus$30, around US$22.)
                                                                           
AudioMaster 4 is *EXACTLY* the same as AudioEngineer2 (and AM3 is the same 
as AE1).  The difference between the earlier and current versions are (from
memory):                                                                   
                                                                           
Real pitch change, not just changing the speed of the sample.              
Real-time pitch change, on in-coming data from a digitizer (yes, you       
        can change the pitch and hear the result *straight away*!)
Real-time waveform zoom in/out.
Time (length) change of a sample, without changing the pitch (make a 3 second
	sample last 4 seconds, for example, without slowing the speed of the
	sample down).
A host of other little "nift" feature I can't think of right now ;-)

As far as I know, AudioEngineer2 Plus (comes with top-of-the-range GSoft
sampler) is the best software and hardware for 8-bit audio on the market.
I did a *hell* of a lot of research into digitizers and softeware (digitizers
for sound quality, and software for features/power) and AudioEngineer II Plus
is the best. 

AudioMaster appears to be almost half a year behind AudioEngineer.  I don't
know what the situation is with RAMScan Software and Aegis.  Its wierd.
If anyone wants the address of RAMScan for more details, mail me and I'll
forward it to you (they should be able to tell you the answers you need to know
(like where to buy it!).


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: cpage@esk.compserv.utas.edu.au (Christopher John Page)
Subject: Octamed
Organization: /etc/organisation
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 05:21:02 GMT

Has anyone been able to assemble ProPlayer.s from Octamed Pro 3 or ModPlayer.s
from Med 3.21 to run under vblank interrupts, using A68k or Devpac 2?
It appears that the author has written the source to run from CIAB interrupts
only, even though there is a flag near the start of the code to control it.
From: cm182s182@pdrome.UUCP (Clayton Miner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: AudioMaster4 vs. DSS?
Date: 1 Oct 92 02:32:54 GMT
Organization: The PowerDrome BBS [(716)825-3614 Excelsior]
X-BBS-Software: EXCELSIOR! v0.960

Comparing AudioMaster IV to AudioMaster III, one thing that stands out is that 
AMIV is faster in doing things like echoing and you can turn off that damn 
BEEP!  Also, and this is a real nice touch, AMIV displays a slider that 'fills 
up' as the task you are working on is being completed.  I have found that that 
one feature alone is worht a lot to me.  There are some other things like the 
ability to patch AMIV to run entirely in CHIP freeing up the maximum possible 
FAST for samples and the ability to save files in what they call 'compressed' 
format which reduces the amount of storage space needed.  Note this 
compression save system really works best with large samples.  I looked at DSS 
and thought that it was very pretty and I would not mind having a copy, but 
between the two, I am far more comfortable worknig with the AudioMaster series 
(I have been woth it since the originnal AudioMaster release) so my view is a 
bit biased.
 
Skeksis
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 16:29:04 EDT
From: Blaise Tarr <BGT101@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: Techno mod spc-hal1.dms uploader...please read.
 <1992Oct1.181841.12687@netcom.com>

In article <1992Oct1.181841.12687@netcom.com>, jonin@netcom.com (Daniel Joseph
Oak) says:
>
>also - in the relevence of 300+k mods - go for it. come one people -
>512k chip is obsurd.  upgrade to 2meg or at least 1meg. :)  it's been out
>for a long time now, and we have to constantly go forward!

Unfortunately, there is no easy way to upgrade A500's to 1meg of chip RAM.
Buying the fatter Agnus is not enough, you also have to cut a trace on the
motherboard, and solder two traces together.  This is something most users
would not dare try.

       ///  Blaise Tarr
      ///
  \\\///    BGT101@psuvm.psu.edu     "Typically, the subject being copied
   \XX/     tarr@cs.psu.edu           is terminated."   -CSM 101
Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.audio:3490 comp.sys.amiga.applications:7443
From: fihsu@athena.mit.edu (Hsu I-wei)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio,comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: PD Music program w/staff, notes, etc.?
Date: 29 Sep 92 06:23:29 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Hi, is there a PD music composing program which uses bars/staff notation?
Something like Music Construction Set, but anything simple will do as long
as it can imitate four voice piano!

Thanks,
-Francis
From: ccsw@bristol.ac.uk (EthaStorm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: Techno mod spc-hal1.dms uploader...please read.
Date: 1 Oct 92 07:43:45 GMT
Organization: University of Bristol, England

In article <Eric_H_Gieseke.0dca@fcircus.sat.tx.us> Eric_H_Gieseke@fcircus.sat.tx.us (Eric H Gieseke) writes:
>
>You mentioned interest in TEchno MODS...I'm an Amiga MOD Music cook,and
>right now I comleted my 7th TEchno MOD with MED3.22....They're pretty big
>(most over 300k) and use Very HI-FI samples..Just wondering if anybody
>though I had a future in the MOD Arena....:)
>Lates! Side
>          Winder...
>                        * Amiga...my musical Chainsaw.
>
>*SideWinder the Camel Jockey Extrordinaire*
>-- 
>Eric_H_Gieseke@fcircus.sat.tx.us


You thought of using MED's wonderful feature of writing ST/NT style mods? Try
it, and use ProTracker to verify that your MOD plays right.

Be careful though. There was a mass debate about the size of MOD's a while
back, cos U4ia was in the 270K+ region.

IMHO, go ahead. Sod the whiners, and submit it as a MED/MOD!!!

Good luck,

   EthaStorm  *8)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: akerman@qucis.queensu.ca (Richard Akerman)
Subject: Workbench sounds
X-Disclaimer: All opinions expressed herein were sent to me telepathically
              by Elvis from Mars.
Reply-To: akerman@qucis.queensu.ca (Richard Akerman)
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Queens Univ., Kingston, Ontario, Can.
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 18:19:36 GMT

Are there any good FTP sites to get beep/gong/clank type sounds to use with
the Workbench (Arq+Upd)?
From: bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: A proposal for an Amiga midi card
Date: 4 Oct 92 01:52:32 GMT
Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia

alanb@sdl.mdcbbs.com (Alan Braggins) writes:
>bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au said:
>
>>......
>>         Where am I leading? How about a Midi card for Amigas which
>> has an on-board processor for functions like mapping particular midi
>> chanels to particular midi OUT ports (devices set for chanels 1-4
>> don't need to know about messages on chanels 5-16), real time
>> remapping of one type of message to another type (pitch bend to
>> volume), etc.
>
> Knowing nothing about the card, and not much about Zorro, I don't know,
> but I suspect that this is much less necessary on the Amiga than the
> PC (under DOS or Windows) because of the better multi-tasking. The market
> for a dedicated processor would be small, so that card would be expensive
> compared with just getting a faster Amiga (assuming your current one can't
> handle everything you want to do).

        The origional problem which gave me the idea about a midi processor
card is that I've been experiencing timimg problems which I believe are
caused by the midi devices having to process every midi message to locate
the messages each individual device needs to respond to. My effects
processor doesn't respond to note or pitchbend messages, but it gets
them anyway. What I want is a way to control which messages get sent out
a particular midi OUT port. That way, I can isolate the midi devices to
seperate ports and send each device only the messages it needs to know
about. I do not see buying several little message filter boxes and putting
them between the Amiga and the midi devices as an "elegent" solution.

        An intermediate solution could be to use a normal (Amiga) multi-port
serial card, with midi interfaces on several ports, and get the midi software
running on the Amiga to use several ports at the same time (in theory it's
possible. serial.device supports multiple ports), controlling which messages
go to which serial ports. If you simply echo every message to every port,
you end up in the position you're trying to avoid in the first place. I
don't know of any current midi software which will support this sort of
message control.

        I see a midi message processor card as a way to extend and expand
the funtionality of a midi setup without having to make extensive
additions to the midi software running on the Amiga, and an internal card
would satisfy my reservations about power, extra cabling, physical
location, etc. As for the cost of such a card. If it costs over $250 to
make (using off the shelf components), then I'll be amazed. What's $250
compared to the cost of accellerating or upgrading an Amiga.

           Bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au  OR  bull@monu1.cc.monash.oz
                    DOD# 251  '84 VF 750   Closet Ducatisto
             Disclaimer. If you love your llama, let it lambada.
From: wdao@aludra.usc.edu (Walter Dao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: FTP adress wanted
Date: 27 Sep 1992 21:30:46 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu


I have lost the adress of one of the FTP sites that have one of the more
complete net available MODs files. 
It was something that had like  .....brad.uk or something like that ...


thanks for any reply
	

						Walt
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: music@moravian.edu (Steve Heller)
Subject: AudioMaster4 vs. DSS?
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 20:15:13 EDT

Can anyone give me an idea how AudioMaster4 compares with GVP's DSS or
AudioMaster3? I have both the latter ones and like features of each
and am wondering how much more (if anything) AM4 has to offer. Thanks!

music@moravian.edu
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From: cm182s182@pdrome.UUCP (Clayton Miner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: AudioMaster4 vs. DSS?
Date: 1 Oct 92 10:39:22 GMT
Organization: The PowerDrome BBS [(716)825-3614 Excelsior]
X-BBS-Software: EXCELSIOR! v0.960

I too purchased one of the Audio Engineer samplers and I have been very 
satisfied with it!  The amount of shielding on the casing makes it a lot 
easier to position the digiizer closer to the computer with having to wory 
about excessive interferance from the monitor which *was* a big problem with 
the Aegis Sound Master that I had borrowed until the Audio Engineer arrived.
 
Skeksis
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: dgc3@ellis.uchicago.edu (milovan djilas)
Subject: OmniPlay 1.10 announcement
Summary: available for FTP
Reply-To: dgc3@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Parts of the University of Chicago
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 19:43:39 GMT

Since Dan's asked that announcements to c.s.a.announce be held off for
a while, I'm posting this here.

TITLE
	OmniPlay - A multi-format sound player for AmigaDOS

VERSION
	1.10, 26 Sept 1992

DESCRIPTION
	OmniPlay plays samples sounds from a variety of sound file
	formats, including IFF (8svx and aiff), WAV, VOC, .au, .snd,
	and 8-bit raw (signed, unsigned, u-law).  In addition,
	PowerPacked sounds can be played if you have v34+ of
	powerpacker.library installed.

	OmniPlay determines the type of sound it's dealing with
	automagically,  so the minimum command is "oplay somesound".
	This works on *any* file, although raw files might sound
	better if you specify a rate.

	Options control rate, volume, output audio channel, wait-time
	between sounds, process priority, printing of sound properties
	(such as IFF NAME, AUTH, etc.), and more.  Options are
	sequenced, not pre-scanned, so two files can have different
	option sets.

REQUIREMENTS
	A sampled sound file.  If you wish to PowerPack sounds, you
	should have powerpacker.library (not included) in your libs:
	directory.

CHANGES
	(since v0.98)
	- fixed playroutine bug that caused sounds with large buffers
	  to be prematurely terminated
	- "-o" option allows full loading of sounds before playback
	  begins
	- "-a" allows amplification by integral values so sounds
	  sampled at low gain can be heard

AUTHOR
	David Champion, dgc3@midway.uchicago.edu

AVAILABILITY
        wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4):
                /systems/amiga/incoming/audio/oplay110.lha
                /systems/amiga/audio/sampleplayers/oplay110.lha

        amiga.physik.unizh.ch (130.60.80.80) and other Aminet sites:
		new/oplay110.lha
		music/oplay110.lha

	(For amiga.physik.unizh.ch, the aminet directory is
	 /amiga; for others, try /aminet if you don't know)

DISTRIBUTABILITY
	The program "oplay" is public domain.  The source code is
	free.  See documentation for legal details.
-- 
dgc3@midway.uchicago.edu

This is an automatic mailing, so please disregard
it if there is other contradictory mail.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: rock@lakes.trenton.sc.us (Rockerboy)
Subject: Re: Octamed
Organization: Lakes Public Access
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 02:38:26 GMT

cpage@esk.compserv.utas.edu.au (Christopher John Page) writes:

> Has anyone been able to assemble ProPlayer.s from Octamed Pro 3 or ModPlayer.
> from Med 3.21 to run under vblank interrupts, using A68k or Devpac 2?
> It appears that the author has written the source to run from CIAB interrupts
> only, even though there is a flag near the start of the code to control it.
> 

I have also had the same problem, and it doesn't appear that anyone here 
knows, nor do they seem to have the answer in programmer.  (Unless they 
were ignoring me!)  ;)
From: mani@raunvis.hi.is (M'ani Thorsteinsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Wanted: TFMX ripper, please!
Date: 4 Oct 92 00:38:53 GMT
Distribution: comp


  Does anyone on the net know if there is a TFMX ripper available?  If
so, could you please tell me where to get it - some ftp site or other?
Any help would be much appreciated.  Thanks,
                                         Mani
From: dave@dogbox.acme.gen.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: ...Whatever happened to...?
Date: 4 Oct 92 01:09:21 GMT
Organization: The Dawghaus BBS, Palmerston North, New Zealand (+64 6 357 9245)

Paul_Trauth@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US (Paul Trauth) writes:

> --A sudden thought. There were a few GREAT musicians who sort of came from
> the C64 to the Amiga. Most have dropped out of sight.

> Chris Huelsbeck wrote TFMX i believe; i think he had something to do with
> it... he worked on the Amy music for Monkey Island, too. Presume he's still
> active and i'm not seeing the games his stuff's in.
 
Well, Chris has released a CD Called "Shades", and is published by Factor 
Five.  It is a brill Cd, with some nice tracks, including Re-Mixs of the 
"R-Type" and "Turrican" tracks.  A most professional production.
I also understand that he is working on another album to be released 
soon.

                                                        :)ave


David Dustin             Dave@dogbox.acme.gen.nz            Rendezvous BBS
30 Richmond Ave              Dave@acme.gen.nz        AMIGA & Jarre Support
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio,comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: c164-as@po.berkeley.edu (Chuck Woo)
Subject: Re: PD Music program w/staff, notes, etc.?
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 22:42:07 GMT

In article <1992Sep29.101907.2961@bristol.ac.uk> ccsw@bristol.ac.uk (EthaStorm) writes:
>In article <1992Sep29.062329.25622@athena.mit.edu> fihsu@athena.mit.edu (Hsu I-wei) writes:
>>Hi, is there a PD music composing program which uses bars/staff notation?
>
>Without wanting to start a war, I know that OctaMed does bars/stave notation.

the pd version of OctaMED (1.1b?) doesn't do standard notation.  no war
intended  :)

---------------------------------------------///
Chuck Woo      wchucky@ocf.berkeley.edu     ///
(bubba buh boo dee do buh boo dee do..) \\\///
-----------------------------------------\XX/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: gxmagee@unix1.tcd.ie (Gregory Xavier Magee)
Subject: MIDI/MOD File Converter
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 16:28:45 GMT

I am currently using the sequencer Music-X to record the music for a
new computer game. The problem is that I need some way of converting
the Music-X file to a file that can be read by a tracker such as
Protracker or OctaMed.
	There is a utility that comes with Music-X that allows me to
convert Music-X files to MIDI files. So what I'm looking for is some
sort of utility that converts MIDI files to MOD files. 
	I have a deadline coming up so I would appreciate a speedy
reply to this query 

Thanks in advance

Greg.

(gxmagee@unix1.tcd.ie)
From: jkempnic@gucis.cit.gu.edu.au (Jason Kempnich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: AudioMaster4 vs. DSS?
Date: 6 Oct 92 02:58:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: gucis.1992Oct6.025804.21307
Organization: Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.

music@moravian.edu (Steve Heller) writes:

>I called 3 major mailorder houses in the US and asked about this unit
>but no one had ever heard of it. Who carries it?

The address of the people who make/own it, is:

RamScan Software Pty Ltd
PO Box 267,
Avondale Heights
Melbourne 3034
AUSTRALIA.

Its worth around $350 - $400 Australian, but I say its worth the money as it is
IMHO the best 8-bit gear you can get for features and sound quality.

SO write to them if you want to find out dealer information.


-- 
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Jason Kempnich.                         |      but I was mistaken."
EMAIL: jkempnic@gucis.cit.gu.edu.au     |                        - Unknown.
       jkempnic@nyx.cs.du.edu           |
From: Eric_H_Gieseke@fcircus.sat.tx.us (Eric H Gieseke)
Subject: SideWinder TEchnoMods
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
X-NewsSoftware: BBX-UMB 0.25a beta (Oct 03 1992)
Date: 4 Oct 92 02:18:51 CDT
Organization: The Flying Circus BBS, San Antonio, TX


OK 3 of my Techno Med MODs have been released on wuarchive.wustl.edu
directory:    /systems/amiga/incoming/mods/other
Liverman.lha
X-EPTion.lha
Jack.lha             These are 3 out of 7 TEchno and 32 DAnc/HIpHop MED
                     MODs i am releasing...Enjoy.
Lates!S.W.    Ps sorry If I post this announcement more than once...


*SideWinder the Camel Jockey Extrordinaire*
-- 
Eric_H_Gieseke@fcircus.sat.tx.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: wunner@nova.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de (Guenter Wunner)
Subject: Convert MODs to other sound formats?
Organization: TAT (Theoretical Astrophysics Tuebingen), U. of Tuebingen, FRG
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 12:14:57 GMT


Hi!
I was wondering if there was a program with which I can convert MOD
files to one of these formats:
AIFF	 (Audio Interchange File Format)
AIFC	 (AIFF Compressed)
SUN/NEXT (Sun/NeXT .AU or .SND compatible)
WAVE	 (MS RIFF WAVE Format)
Has anyone heard of such a converter?
Many thanx in advance!
Bye,
	Lukas.

        *** Lukas Wunner, Hustadtring 143, 4630 Bochum, West-Germany ***
      *** lukas@trillian.tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de / lukas@134.147.160.21 ***
    *** "To err is human, but to really fuck things up takes a computer" ***
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 00:31:02 EDT
From: Blaise Tarr <BGT101@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: MIDI/MOD File Converter

In article <gxmagee.717697725@unix1.tcd.ie>, gxmagee@unix1.tcd.ie (Gregory
Xavier Magee) says:
>
>I am currently using the sequencer Music-X to record the music for a
>new computer game. The problem is that I need some way of converting
>the Music-X file to a file that can be read by a tracker such as
>Protracker or OctaMed.
>        There is a utility that comes with Music-X that allows me to
>convert Music-X files to MIDI files. So what I'm looking for is some
>sort of utility that converts MIDI files to MOD files.

I've never used Music-X, but if it has an option to save as a SMUS file,
then you can use a program called smus2mod (witten by me :-), to convert
your piece to a MOD.

       ///  Blaise Tarr
      ///
  \\\///    BGT101@psuvm.psu.edu     "Typically, the subject being copied
   \XX/     tarr@cs.psu.edu           is terminated."   -CSM 101
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