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- Subject: Re: AMIGA TECHNO
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.163003.25109@telerama.pgh.pa.us>
- From: raver909@telerama.pgh.pa.us (Rave Crusader)
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:30:03 GMT
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- John Hartnup (hartnupj@cs.aston.ac.uk) wrote:
- : Ok let's face it MIDI is great. An Amiga restricts you to 8 note polyphony, 8 voice
- : multitimbrality. Not really to hot. You're also restricted to samples only.
- : MIDI can control a number of different sound sources : drum m/c, analogue synth,
- : sampler (which could be an Amiga!). MIDI sequencers generally have much higher
- : resolution than a Tracker player, and support all kinds of weird and wonderful effects.
- : MIDI supports effects processors : not much use with the single audio out of the Amiga
- : (as you will always want to effect one instrument and not another).
- : All in all, yes, you CAN get good results using just an Amiga, but it will always be
- : second best. MIDI is much easier (particularly if you can afford Cubase) but sadly
- : more expensive.
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- : ________________________________________________________________
- : |And if you're so very entertaining, | JOhn. |
- : |Why are you on your own tonight ? | hartnupj@uk.ac.aston.cs |
- : |____________________________________|_________________________|
- Thank you! Thats all I can say! Thank you John. You said everything I was
- trying to communicate to them.
- Amiga is fine for expirmenting with stuff to get a taste of production but
- a well equipped MIDI studio is far supperior. And if you have a
- workstation type sampler with a built in Sequencer (like my EPS) then you
- really don't need Cubase for live gigs. Cubase
- is good however in editing.
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- Let the bass kick...
-