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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: 20 Nov 89 15:58:34 GMT
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In article <4468@nigel.udel.EDU> C503719@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Baird McIntosh) writes:
>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
>...............
>has been of no help to me.  This is not a flame, but your post seemed to be.

   I'm sorry, you just touched off a sensitive spot in me.  See, a long time
   ago, I was a budding musician (now, I am sort of a musician).  One Christmas
   , my parents bought some C64 music composition software for our C64...the
   name escapes me at the moment, but it was the really hyped one that came
   in 3 different packages that each did something different.  Well, I tried,
   and tried and tried and......tried to use it to do something musical, to
   make some nice sounds, etc.....all met with miserable failure.  These were
   in the days before the Amiga, or even CD's had been released.  Well, soon
   in some of the Compute! magazines, there were some articles describing the
   Amiga and what it would do....from the first description, I was hooked...see
   I had also tried to do some painting with some C64 paint software and got
   so frustrated when I tried to color over a specific spot with one color and
   had the entire vicinity painted that color instead of the line that I was
   trying to paint.  When I heard of the palette that the Amiga would support
   and the musical capabilities it would have, I set my heart on getting one
   as soon as possible.  When I actually went by and heard a demo of the
   Miami Vice theme on the Amiga they had there, I knew that *THIS* is what
   I had been looking for, only in vain, alas, for the C64 to be doing.

   Well, since then I've thoroughly enjoyed the sophistication of the
   Amiga as compared to the C64.  Now, I will admit, I did like their
   selection of songs created on the C64....they were really well done
   for the technology available....but imagine Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's
   Desiring" done on the Amiga with a digitized choir, real string sounds,
   real whatever else sounds, etc.  to make it like the real thing.  Isn't
   that a lot more appealing?  Like I said before, it would be really nice
   to have the *SONGS* done on the C64 all redone and jazzed up for the 
   Amiga, but at least to me, it would be unacceptable to have the same
   *SOUNDS* as the C64 (calculator trying to be Mozart).  This is just
   one opinion, though.  

   Again, I'm sorry for the harsh tone, but it touched on a lot of  
   frustration felt in dealing with the limited capabilities of the 
   C64 in my past.  
   ---Prem Subrahmanyam