Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!t22918 From: t22918@ursa.calvin.edu (Matt Ranney) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio Subject: Re: MED 3.0 thoughts (was: MED 3.0 on ab20!) Message-ID: Date: 17 Mar 91 02:04:45 GMT References: <1991Mar16.122237.29902@cc.tut.fi> Sender: news@engin.umich.edu (CAEN Netnews) Organization: The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Lines: 36 s117986@lehtori.tut.fi (Salmij{rvi Janne) writes: >And yes it multitasks quite well, but but... Do I need a multitasking editor ? Maybe YOU don't need one, but I do. >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 ? Well, that's my setup too (unfortunately), and I still couldn't live without a tasking editor. In fact, most of the time, I don't even edit in MED, I use it to play songs while running JRComm. There aren't any decent player programs out there (yet) that play songs at the right speed, and don't eat up all kinds of processor time, so I just use MED. Just hack the JRC screen to 2 colors and you've got all kinds of memory left. Say you download something, well you can just pop right out and lz x it without disturbing everything else. And even when I do write music, I still like to have JRComm open all the time, in case I need to call somewhere really quick. I'm probably starting to sound like a .advocate here, but it's how I feel: If I've got this great operating system that multitasks, there is no reason to have to shut it off to use some music editor that isn't going to need all the CPU time anyway. That's stupid. >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. I've never seen PT1.1, so I can't really make a judgement on it. In fact, MED 2.0 was the first *tracker type editor that I've ever seen, and I've never bothered with anything else. -- Matt Ranney mranney@wybbs.mi.org t22918@ursa.calvin.edu mranney@mole.ai.mit.edu (or any other FSF machine)