AM/FM presents: The MED tutorial for beginners!

MED,  by  Teijo  Kinnunen, has proven to be a very powerful program to create
music  with  (read this issue's article about MED v3.10!).  But it's big - it
has  a lot of functions, some of which are perhaps a bit hard to get the hang
of  for the inexperienced lurking talents out there.  Well, if you are one of
those who really would love to start composing, but you just can't handle the
new state-of-the-art music packages because they're just too darn complicated
- despair no more - AM/FM comes to your rescue!

Starting  from  next  issue,  we will publish a series of articles taking you
through  MED,  step by step, slowly, so everyone can follow it.  Hopefully we
can  help  some  talents  to get started!  And if we should move too fast for
you,  or  perhaps  write something a bit unclear, you will be very welcome to
write  to  us  and ask about specific problems with MED or any other tracker,
and  we  promise  to try to help you the best we can.  And if WE can't answer
you,  we'll  put your question forward to Mr.  Kinnunen himself!  That should
do the trick.

As mentioned, part 1 will be in the next issue of AM/FM.  So in the meantime,
why  don't  you  just  load it up and have a look around.  Don't be afraid to
play  around  with  all  the  functions  - you can't do much harm, other than
perhaps to your neighbours' beauty-sleep.

Here's  the  schedule for the tutorial - make sure you get all the parts (for
example by subscribing to AM/FM).

Part 1 :     The editor. Editing patterns and putting patterns together to
             form a song. AM/FM Issue #2.

Part 2 :     Samples. Create your own sampled instruments and manipulate
             them to fit your song. AM/FM Issue #3.

Part 3 :     The synthesizer. How to make Synthetic and Hybrid
             instruments. AM/FM Issue #4.

Part 4 :     MIDI instruments. How to use MED to play your synthesizer(s).
             AM/FM Issue #5.

Part 5 :     The effect commands. How to "produce" your music by
             manipulating each note with the many effect commands that MED
             offer. These commands are the secret behind that
             "professional" sound! AM/FM issue #6.

Part 5 :     Some more advanced techniques and some music theory. AM/FM
             Issue #7.



                   So hang in there! See you in AM/FM #2!