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From: s117986@lehtori.tut.fi (Salmij{rvi Janne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: protrackerV1.1
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.132645.6320@cc.tut.fi>
Date: 19 Mar 91 13:26:45 GMT
References: <910319.003141.CST.C503719@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU>
Sender: s117986@cc.tut.fi (Janne Salmij{rvi)
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From article <910319.003141.CST.C503719@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU>, by C503719@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU (Baird McIntosh):
> 
> 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?

Absolutely the most usable (and if it even is the best looking one then great),
and this at the moment happens to be PT1.1b. (I write music with PT/NT/ST
combination, mainly on PT and NT but sometimes on ST)

> 
> 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.

You got 1 megChip or 512kb chip ? on my 1 meg A500 (512kb chip) I even run
add21k before running PT/NT. I tend to make songs that eat lotsa mem, and 
I want to keep several samples in mem to listen which of them sounds best for
that song. And when PLST eats 80 kbytes of mem too (although it goes to 'fast'
mem), I really want to have lotsa FREE mem... 
 
> 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!
That's bad... but why did they make 2 different TVstandards in the first place?
	(PAL should've been the one and only) ;)
> 2.  It crashed on me... seemed buggy.
Crashes sometimes on me too...
> 3.  It didn't have a file requestor---very bad.
Which version ? (my version has a nice file requester, just like in PixMate)
> 4.  Poor organization compared to MED, but I'm used to MED.
Poor ? I think MED is the poor one, but as you said, I'm used to xT ;)
> I'll have to check out Protracker when it reaches ab20.
Do that.. It sure is great
> 
> | Baird McIntosh | c503719@umcvmb.missouri.edu <-or-> c503719@umcvmb.bitnet |
> |        "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."             |
> |        "Let's go!"              LEMMINGS             "Oh no!"             |

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					Janne Salmij{rvi
					s117986@cc.tut.fi