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From: C503719@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU (Baird McIntosh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: MED 3.0 thoughts
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Date: 20 Mar 91 06:18:16 GMT
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          cseaman@sequent.UUCP (Chris "The Bartman" Seaman) said:
>[responding to comments on MED's poor appearance and Topi, the pointer-guy]
>
>I think you must be seriously disturbed. :-)  Actually, I find MED much
>'better looking' than Protracker or StarTrekker.  And I get a kick out of
>the 'dancing pointer'.
>

     Here, here!  So far I've only seen StarTrekker (the version on ab20), and
besides the PAL screen, the program interface was disorganized.  I like the
way MED has 10 separate 'menu panels' for different types of functions as well
as 5 separate 'big panels' (i.e. vertical edit, horizontal edit, synth sounds,
sample editor, and sample list).  Finally, the jumping pointer is cute and
shows that Teijo has a sense of humor.  Lighten up, people!  :-)

>I haven't had a chance to play with the synthsounds yet, but the demo
>provided was quite nice.  And the sample editor, while it may be no threat
>to AudioMaster (II or III), is still quite useful.  Much more so than the
>one in StarTrekker (at least to me).

The sampler doesn't digitize or monitor Perfect Sound 3.0 hardware--of course.
Otherwise, the editting features look cool and better than Perfect Sound 3.1
in some ways.  (Is this saying a lot?  ;-)

>On another topic, I tried loading some Tracker modules into MED 3.00 last
>night, and, to my great surprise, the Tracker compatibility has
>significantly improved.  I did have a problem with mod.klisje_paa_klisje.
>During blocks 3-5, there is extensive use of Portamento.  Unfortunately,
>it didn't appear to be working correctly.  I ended up changing all of the
>Portamento commands to the 'Change Pitch' command (FFD).  This corrected
>the problem (or at least made it much less noticable), but I would like to
>know if anyone else has had problems with Portamento.  What basically
>happened is that, midway through the block, it lost almost all of the
>volume from the instrument being 'slid'.
>
>Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

The ReadMe I got with klisje_paa_klisje mentioned a bug in MED's portamento
command (number 3, is it?) and I have noticed that MED plays the song wrong
compared to ModuleMaster 1.7's playing of the song.  Apparently, MED is
supposed to Portamento with the last used data-values if the data-values of
the current note's Portamento are zeros.  Instead, it uses 00 as the data for
the Portamento.  This affects the sound of the song.

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