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From: C503719@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Baird McIntosh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Music on Amiga is not the same
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Date: 20 Nov 89 00:20:57 GMT
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In article <whatever it was>, c503719@umcvmb.missouri.edu (me, myself, I) said:
>
> [ stuff about how I liked a lot of old C64 music done with the SID Editor
>   and some of the theme music that was put into C64 games.]

Then, in article <374@geomag.fsu.edu>, prem@geomag.fsu.edu (Prem Subrahmanyam)
writes:
>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.

You obviously have no respect for the past!  :-)

>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'm sorry you don't appreciate the sounds of the C64.  However, I must say
that my original post was not meant to get negative feedback.  It's fine if
you *hated* the C64's music/sound features; I am really only interested in
the opinions of people who *liked* the C64's sound and music.  Obviously the
fact that you *don't* like that old sound has no bearing on my opinion (Gee,
now that you mention it, those C64 songs really are poop!  :-) and your post
has been of no help to me.  This is not a flame, but your post seemed to be.

>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

Oh, you're too kind...maybe you mean it would be about 100^100000000 steps
backwards.  Jeesh, hyperbole at it's worst.

I actually got a response from *Harry Bratt* who was a co-author of Compute's
SID Editor/Player programs.  He said that he and Craig Chamberlain had
considered doing an Amiga sound-card of some kind, but they wanted to make
it something special and they just didn't have the time to do it.

The sad truth is that Sonix scores get really old unless you have a source of
new and exciting digitally sampled instruments or a digitizer yourself.  But
opinions do vary; I was really looking for a more positive response (which is
all I have gotten in the few mail replies I have received).

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