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From: C503719@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU (Baird McIntosh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Quality
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Date: 11 Oct 90 22:09:32 GMT
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In Message-ID: <1990Oct11.164358.20406@warwick.ac.uk>
          esucv@warwick.ac.uk (Blitter) said:
>[...]
>   Also, while the sound on the Amiga is technically superior to the 64's,
>most of the music tends to use the same old Soundtracker voices, hence giving
>a 'samey' feel to the music. The 64 had some great composers working on it
>(Rob Hubbard, Martin Galway), where are they now???

I have to agree with you on the 64-Amiga sound comparison.  The Amiga is
definitely able to mimic anything produced on a 3-voice 64, but the software
and programmers are not doing it.  Soundtracker, Noisetracker, et al are fine
Amiga sample sequencers, but they don't do any synthesis.  Sonix creates its
own custom Analog synth instruments, and these are good, but you still don't
see a lot of 'on-the-go' sound changes in Amiga scores (such as crescendos,
decrescendos, tempo changes, ...)  While Amiga songs are usually sample-laden,
they are often not very interesting musically.  I got out of the C64 games
arena in 87-88, but some interesting/good music I recall includes: the music
for Ocean's RAMBO, classical pieces in Gyruss and Trolls & Tribulations, and
Seven Cities of Gold's title music.  I had a SidPlayer version of the M.U.L.E.
theme song as well.  Yes, the C64 really did sound good... and programmers
really could push it to the limits.

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