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From: C503719@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU (Baird McIntosh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: protrackerV1.1
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Date: 19 Mar 91 06:31:41 GMT
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          chuckt@theborg.mlb.fl.us (Chuck Teschke) said:
>OK, For those who were interested in Protracker V1.1 I finally have found
>someone to put it up on ab20.   it should be showing up soon.
>
>
>I agree with janne, Protracker is the best tracker, med just has a bad
>interface. I will do all my stuff with protracker and then load it into
>MED to add any midi tracks if i need to.   And what all can you do with
>multitasking with med?  can i get 1700cps while composing a song??
>
>Just my opinion though, some people might like med's features...

I use multitasking.  Is there some reason that a program such as MED should
not multitask?  I.e. is there any benefit in using a *tracker program that
doesn't multitask?  Believe it or not, bugginess and non-multitasking are
two big "No-No's" to a lot of people.

Without getting into any particular "net-composer's" artistic ability, I
think that the features and ease-of-use of MED more than make up for any
shortcomings in the program's appearance (which I like anyway) and I
just wonder how many people really write music with these programs.  Do
we want the most usable program or the best looking one?

In my specific case, I like to run MED and Handshake simultaneously on my
1-meg machine, and I have 100-200K of "breathing space" left over.   This
is not directed at you, Chuck, in particular.  But I tried out the
StarTrekker program on ab20, and it had several BAD points:

1.  It uses a PAL screen on my NTSC Amiga---I can't see the whole screen!
2.  It crashed on me... seemed buggy.
3.  It didn't have a file requestor---very bad.
4.  Poor organization compared to MED, but I'm used to MED.

I'll have to check out Protracker when it reaches ab20.

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