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From: prem@geomag.fsu.edu (Prem Subrahmanyam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Music on Amiga is not the same
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Date: 17 Nov 89 15:37:57 GMT
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In article <4295@nigel.udel.EDU> C503719@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Baird McIntosh) writes:
>of C64 music and C64 game music?  Also, does anyone know of games for the
>Amiga that have a more simplistic music to them---preferably sounding like the
>C64 game music.  You know, a SID chip emulator on the Amiga that would play
>any song arranged for Compute's SIDPlayer would be incredibly cool!  Dreams...

   Geez, wouldn't it be nice if they made CD's that sounded like tapes?  (with
   all the hiss and fuzz and stuff).  That's about what you seem to be asking.
   The SID was what was done with music on personal computers until something
   like what was put in the Amiga came out.  I personally HATED the sound of
   the SID....almost sounded like an electronic calculator trying to expand
   it's musical repertoire or something like that.  I was elated when I heard
   what they were doing with the Amiga (pre-release hype).  I had always wanted
   something that sounded _REAL_ instead of like a SID (FAKE).  Of course, when
   I actually heard the Amiga going at it, I was absolutely thrilled--finally,
   something that sounded like music.  Recently, I arranged my own version of
   "Chariots of Fire" in Sonix....with the Amiga, I could create a nifty cool
   sounding base line, add a really nice electronic piano sound, and intersperse
   digitized trumpets between the piano.....all I wish is that I had one more
   voice so that I could add a drum line....of course if I had a MIDI drum   
   machine, then I could cook....but, that's truly dreaming while in college.
   I guess the extra voices (expand them to 8, why don't you, C<) could go
   on my 3000 wish list. 

   Please, though, no "Simply Isn't Doing it" chips or emulators...it's like
   1,000,000 steps backwards.  Yes, do all the songs, but do them with really
   killer sounds instead of the calculator sound of the SID.
   ---Prem Subrahmanyam

   p.s.  Don't you guys wish that the Amiga had a voice emulator that sounded
   like a Speak&Spell :->