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From: s117986@lehtori.tut.fi (Salmij{rvi Janne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: MED 3.0 thoughts (was: MED 3.0 on ab20!)
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Date: 16 Mar 91 12:22:37 GMT
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Sender: s117986@cc.tut.fi (Janne Salmij{rvi)
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From article <t22918.669072860@ursa>, by t22918@ursa.calvin.edu (Matt Ranney):
> At long last!  MED 3.0 has been uploaded to ab20.larc.nasa.gov by some
> very cool person.  This version looks very, very good.  I haven't had
> time to really play around with everything yet, but it includes: built
> in sampler/editor, built in synth sound editor, and better handling of
> NoiseTracker songs.  If you plan on doing any music writing on the
> Amiga, *THIS* is the program for you.  Try this before you dick around
> with any of those other non-multitasking monsters.
> --
> Matt Ranney                mranney@wybbs.mi.org           		
> t22918@ursa.calvin.edu     mranney@mole.ai.mit.edu (or any other FSF machine)
	Here is what I think of this long awaited editor:
I got it last thursday and I've been examining it since then. First thing that
struck me when I loaded it was the outlook... It was still the same ugly screen
except the new menubar. And there was this annoying guy still left to jump (or
not to jump) to the pointer (sorry Topi but I think your bitmappersonality
is pretty annoying). Although I have to say that the way it looked didn't hide
the amount of options there... (when I start creating/composing noise with any
editor, the outlook affects the result. I just can't make good tunes with lousy
looking editor, when with neat editor it is much more easier. There is this 
psycholical(?) thing you know) 
	Anyway I just ignored the outlook and went deeper inside...
Midi was there (as in 2.13), nice. Although it is quite unnecessary for 
anything else than just editing, it's no sequencer you have to admit.
And sample-editor is great and synthsounds, wow! It includes almost the best
syntheticsounds on amiga (I think SidMonII sounds better but I just saw a 
glimpse of it). 'Programminglanguage' for them sounds great and it is great
when I tested it. With it you can create a sound that you wished, almost ;)
And yes it multitasks quite well, but but... Do I need a multitasking editor ?
Nope (at least not yet), with one Meg (and only 512 kbs of it Chipmem) it isn't
very wise to use mem for something else when composing. Besides I'd like to 
hear what do you all who run after multitasking editors run with those ?
Nowadays when the editors have sampler and sample-editors they have everything
you need when making music in themselves. 
And the editing is quite easy too. But it is in every program nowadays...
	So here is the conclusion:
		+ Synthsounds
		+ MIDI
		+ Lotsa commands and options
		- Outlook
		
	Hmm... Now I can't leave this thing out ;) 
What does MED3.0 possibly offer you need that is not in Protracker1.1b ?
(except then a 'possibly-bug-free' program, PT1.1b still has some bugs left)
And what is wrong with PT's multitasking ? I think it works as well as MED.

	Since I haven't still found NT2.1 I use PT1.1b (med offers nothing
except synthsounds that are worth using which are not in PT, and when I want
to use synthsounds I use Futurecomposer or something like that)

-- 
					Janne Salmij{rvi
					s117986@cc.tut.fi