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From: C503719@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU (Baird McIntosh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: Protracker vs Med debate
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Date: 12 Apr 91 10:49:44 GMT
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In Message-ID: <1149@tuura.UUCP> mattij@tuura.UUCP (Matti Joutkoski) said:
>aaron@stat.tamu.edu (Aaron Hightower) writes:
>
>
>>Just a reminder, I am not arguing, but I don't see much wrong with MED;
>>the reason I am posting this, however, is not to defend software, but to
>>share something I found about motivational factors.
>
>I see a lot. It is UGLY, it doesn't look like a professional SW should to.
>
>But is there REALY any musicians, who are using this MED? I haven't seen.

   Well, I doubt that Depeche Mode or Vangelis or The Boston Symphony or
The Art of Noise use MED, but what do you mean by 'musician'?  I use MED.
Several people that post here use MED.  Are we musicians?   Who's to say?

   I REALLY use MED because MED is very easy to use, very organized, very
multitaskable, and very NTSC-compatible.  Perhaps Protracker et al look
better on a PAL screen?  To me, there is too much stuff on the screen at
once, and it's poorly arranged.  It seems like you Protracker advocates would
have me purchase a new set of chips for my Amiga and/or move to Europe just
to use a poorly multitasking, poorly organized music editor that only supports
the PAL television standard.

   MED's looks aren't as important as its *PROFESSIONAL FUNCTIONALITY*.  I
wonder if this hate of MED is some deep-rooted prejudice of a program that
is not directly 'derived' from Soundtracker?

   MED supports WB 2.0, uses standard front/back gadgets, is quite bug-free,
and is just plainly more useful.  None of these programs use the Intuition
menu-bar with pulldown menus, but oh well--they aren't perfect.

[I also like Sonix and its analog synth instruments.  Sonix is commercial,
of course.]

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