*********************************** AM/FM ***********************************  Welcome to the MUSIC section of this issue's AM/FM! As usual, we start off with some general info about the music section. If you've read this before in previous AM/FM issues, just skip a couple of pages down. How to use the menu First, some general info about how things work around here. You pick a song from the menu - the song will load, decrunch and play. When the drive light goes out, and there's still no music, just hang in there for a little while longer, because the player program is now decrunching the song before it starts playing it. This can take some 2-10 seconds, depending on the size of the song, so just have little patience. Second, there's nothing really stopping you from running a song while another one is already playing, but I wouldn't recommend this, because the sound will be an awful mess. So before you choose another song to listen to, make sure you stop the one that's already playing, by pressing both mouse buttons simultaneously, anywhere on the screen will do fine. YOUR music on the next issue of AM/FM? The music brought to you through AM/FM will always be new, fresh, never earlier released material (except in very special cases). The composers are mainly the musicians working with AM/FM, showing off some of the newest techniques and a whole lot of creativity to create what we like to think of as some of the best Amiga-produced music around. In addition to our "regular" contributors, anyone who feels like having their music in the hottest music magazine around should send it to us - and if we think it's good enough, we will publish it in the next issue of AM/FM, and of course you will get your disk back with that issue on it. Having said that, keep in mind that the people who are running this magazine aren't millionaires, so please include return postage, or else we cannot guarantee that you will get your disk(s) back. If sufficient return postage is included, you will get everything you send to us sent back - and that's a PROMISE. So before you send anything to us, go to the post office and ask for international reply coupons, and include them in your letters. Ok, that was the general smalltalk, and now that it's out of the way, let's get into the music on this issue's AM/FM: *********************************** AM/FM ***********************************  "Sovereign Solemnity" For AM/FM by Anders Hamre / Decibel Desperados Technical data: Size: 65578 bytes Duration: 2:35 min. Speed: 112 BPM Samples taken from: Korg DW-6000, Minimoog, Roland FZ-1 and JX-1 +++ Yet another little contribution from Decibel Desperados for AM/FM. This time a synth-tune I've had lying around for quite a while, and I guess it had to be used for something, so here you are! Please feel free to study the module, as it contains some pretty good examples on how to achieve better note resolution in Protracker. It also shows that it's certainly possible to create synthetic sounds using Protracker as well, not only Sidmon, Future Composer, Etc. I'd prefer if noone ripped any of my samples; I had the job of designing and sampling them, so please show some respect for that, Ok? No offense! Enjoy! - Anders *********************************** AM/FM ***********************************  "Endtune" - by Wiggo Johansen This relatively small module is a pleasing change from the pop/disco mainstream in Amiga music - it's a medievil piece, mellow but still hmm "proud", in a way. The samples aren't the hottest around perhaps, but they fit the song, and they made the module small - and useable. Thanks for this one, Wiggo! [Ed] *********************************** AM/FM ***********************************  "Empty Spaces 2" - by Bjørn Lynne Yes, it's me :-) - I decided to include one of my own songs again, mostly because this one is so small that it doesn't take much disk-space, and those songs are the most useful ones when you're trying to make a magazine with a much stuff as possible on one disk! Well, this here song is a mellow piano-piece which uses one - 1 - sample, which is a piano sample. (Actually taken from AM/FM Sample Disk #5, Grand Piano). The song is called Empty Spaces 2 because, well I made another piano-only-piece some time ago, I called that one Empty Spaces, and I guess I just couldn't be bothered to think of a new name for this one. So: Empty Spaces 2. The first and original "Empty Spaces" was even smaller than this one in fact (in kilobytes, I mean) - maybe I'll put that on some time as well. For now - enjoy this quite short piece - look at it this way: At least it's a break from the usual disco stuff. *********************************** AM/FM ***********************************  "ChipChop 2" - by Rainer A. Nilsen This issue's default background tune is an enjoyable 5-song module by Rainer A. Nilsen from Norway. The songs will be played one after another without anyone having to do anything. Most of the samples were taken from an Ensoniq SD-1 synth. The guitar sample is from a CD. *********************************** AM/FM ***********************************