3. About the mysterious Mosez guy.

You may have noticed that an awfull lot of Symphonie Modules have been roaming the Aminet lately. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a whole bunch of Symphonie mods showed up in the 'mods/techn' directory all by a guy who calls himself 'MoSeZ'. Now, "who is this guy" and "are his modules any good?" Maybe even "What the hell is Symphonie?" Well, to start with Symphonie... Symphonie is a tracker program for the Amiga machines. It's not just a tracker program, NO! It's FAR better than 'Octamed' and leaves the other available trackers miles, no millions of miles behind. "Why?" I hear you think. Symply because you DON'T need anything but an Amiga with at least OS 3.0 and a turboboard. Indeed, NO soundcard required (it would enhance things ofcourse). "Yeah, but what does this proggie do then?" Once you have fullfilled these requirements you can just startup the program and have TWO-HUNDRED-AND-FIFTY-SIX (256!) soundchannels at your disposal. The quality, the mixingrate of the channels (in Hertz), depends only on your CPU power. The program has a pseudo 14bit sound output on a standard amiga, which sounds FAR better than any tracker around, even with 8bit sapmles. You can also use 16bit samples, naturally (WAV/MAUD/Maesto supported). This uses much memory and a huge amound of FastRAM would be nice (we work here with 16 megs!). If you want to do a CD with this program, no problem, just render your modules to a file, put them on a big hard drive, make an image of it with good CD-R software, write it to a CD-R and you have an audio CD! Okay, enuf publicity, now the MoSeZ guy. Well, 'bout a year ago, he was still fiddling around on ProTracker 3.15 by the Cryptoburners. He had been nagging alot about the limitation of those F#CK*NG four channels and the bad sound quality. Then we stumbled onto Symphonie (I can't remember how). It was an uneditable demoversion so, I wrote the author, Patrick Meng, in Switzerland and he sent us a shareware version. MoSeZ started finding out how this complex looking proggie worked and in no time he had made his first 16 channel module 'Rollercoaster'. The next ones were all in 32 channel mode and most of them are really stunning. A lot of friends who heard it nearly went into a coma, well 8), when they heard such a sound coming out of an AMIGA (some of them were, and still are, peetzee freaks y'know). But anyway it went well untill we recently bought the full version of SymphoniePro. From that day on it became better and better. We started bying sample CD's (DaCapo & MakinMusik) and well, it kept improving untill 'River at dawn in the summer.' was released. This is THE best MoSeZ module around (before this 'Ambient' was). Now we have plans of releasing a CD. (We'll still put 8bit versions of the songs on the net though). And euhm... If you're as amazed as Patrick (the author of Symphonie) was about my brother's composing abilities... He did do four years of basics in music (notes & stuff) and another eight years of piano; he plays bass guitar, accoustic guitar, semi-accoustic blues guitar, lead guitar, piano, used to play synthesiser and he plays in a band called 'Daddy-Long-Legs' (now watch out, there seems to be another band with this name, it's a belgian MoSeZ plays in). Well, that's about all there is to say 'bout him. I'll give you a list of all his modules he made: * Old, never really released, ProTracker stuff: - 1Pattern - Planet-E - A New Galaxy - Power - All Systems - Pwoing - Another World - Q-bic - Birth - Rave Explosion City - Black Rain - Requiem - Black Sun - Rock The House - Chasing Cops - Shades Of Darkness - Deep Forest - Soggy Cornflakes - Down Under The Sea - Spacey - Fearies - Star Trek - Futurebeats - Subsonic Vibes - Gate of Thunderdome - Superunknown - Handrem - Tecno Jive - Hemisphere - The Dark Half - Illumination - The Fog - Jive - The Piano - Late - The Piano-Fat Remix - Mega-Rave - Tim's Tune - Mellow - Twilight - Orbital - Underground - Orion We'll release these soon on the Aminet, so watch out! * The Symphonie modules, simply the best on the net: - Ambient - Heartbeat - Antarctica. - Lightyear - Cataract - Mystique Melody - Close Your Eyes - River At Dawn In The Summer - Corona - Rollercoaster - Dreams - Space - Eclipse - Stratosphere - Flowing Rivers - Third Day - Flying - We Can Fly Alot of new modules are on the way so, watch out for them in the 'mods/techn' dir!