Seeing the way some of the Amiga members have gone with using OctaMED SoundStudio
and a Yamaha XG sound card, i'm starting to see the potensial of going the
same way, too

I have found my call The music i make on my AmigaOne with OctaMED SoundStudio
somehow, will be based on Yamaha XG

This is mostly in the planning stage i have, but i have been thinking long
about it, and this is the way i want to go...

My music genre will mostly be Soul, R&B, Modern instrumental Jazz, some
Ambicient and Ballad. I don't have the voice of a singer, so if some at a
little later date happens to find my music composition very interesting,
then it should be possible to contact me, and we could agree on something..

But bear in mind, this is still on the planning stage

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@Helgis

I used to have the DB50XG card internally fitted to my 1200D (with a proper tap on the _RESET line from the trapdoor slot).

That got replaced with one of these.

I find SoundStudio and XG fit together very nicely indeed. Provided you dont mind messing with sysex messages occasionally, you have full control over your instrument.

As for singing, I don't write lyrical music. At best I'll use a few samples

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@Karlos

Oh, thank you for the information Also, i think i would search for the
MU1000 MIDI-box. I have an A1G4XE, but through E-UAE, i can use OctaMED
SoundStudio I agree that OctaMED SoundStudio and XG are an unbeatable
combination

@Helgis

Unbeatable by any other 15-year-old system, beatable by any system with a new soundcard, midi ports and a hardware synth.

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@AMiGR

True, so true, but still Yamaha XG MIDI is undoubtly the best

It has the most realistic sound that the world has never heard before

But on the Amiga, that combination becomes unbeatable

@AMiGR

What we actually need for OS4/MOS is a decent soft synth, preferably midi triggered without too much latency. Is anybody working on something of this nature?

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@Karlos

I believe there was a Yamaha XG MIDI Soft Synth program available for the PC
that was working very well. Would be great to see that on the OS4 on A1, too

@Helgis

Yamaha-XG doesn't establish "realistic sound" per se. What XG does is to provide an enhancement over the GM set, establishing a minum combination of about 480 voices (compared to GM's 128), several drum kits and an effects transport bus (digital filters, reverb, chorus, variation, insert and eq). This is a substantial baseline functionality improvement over GM.

Typically yamaha instruments sound good because the AWM2 technology (which is a combination of wavetable and filter) they use for their reproduction is very nice, but that predates XG itself. There are many other types of hardware that offer just as nice a sound. There are also better synthesis techniques. If you like how AWM2 sounds, you'll die if you hear the Virtual Accoustic voices on the rack. Think of the sonic equivalent of raytracing and that is how they work (physically modelling real instrument properties).

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@Karlos

Yes, you're of course right. I guess that's why a mixture of XG and
todays' sample technology makes it very interesting

But i love music been made with Yamaha XG

@Helgis

Quote:

Helgis wrote: @Karlos I believe there was a Yamaha XG MIDI Soft Synth program available for the PC that was working very well. Would be great to see that on the OS4 on A1, too

That isn't quite what I had in mind, to be honest. I was imagining something more like FM7 ot VST, where you actually have a simulation of a synthesizer, rather than trying to reproduce real instrument sounds

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@Karlos

A more powerful SoftSynth in other words. I see

I do agree with you, however

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@All

I'm also thinking of trying to help Michael Jackson lifting up his music
career again Who knows? Any help is a good one, right?

@Helgis

You might advise him to steer clear of minors for a start then

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@Helgis

Unbeatable ? My ESI Juli@ with midi and my new Virus TI Polar
will beat your stuff in horselength. Yours 64 tones poly with
mine 80 :p
And 2x16 reverb/delay effects (like having 16x2 single).
However i dont know much about the synthesizer your buying
and i do techno/trance so i cant say much but as you say
unbeatable i just had to react.

And as you ask for software synths i can say hdrec has one
called sweeper. And some others are in work. But for all this we
need JIT for os4 or simply a win machine with UAE and JIT enabled.
As pc's are fast and many users do use UAE this is i nice program.
Would be nice to see how fast it will be under os4 with jit.

And Helgis, sure you are our new micheal jackson. You can do an
theme tune for os4 too :) That would be nice. A acidjazzy tune

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@Kicko

You are right, as you know much about music yourself

I like the thought of being the new Michael Jackson

I surely could learn him new tricks -) It's like training an old dog
new tricks, you know

It wouldn't be that bad

It wouldn't surprise me that buying the ESI Juli@ MIDI-soundcard and
connect a Yamaha XG tool, wouldn't be stupid at all It would be
quite a good idea, really

@Helgis

You're lucky that none of my sound-engineer friends post here.

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@AMiGR

Yes, indeed

@All

I'm getting the TerraTec Aureon 7.1 Space soundcard in November. I'm convinced
that this produces the best audio quality of all the soundcards that were
tested in the summary DaveAE posted a while back..

I'll also search for the small MIDI-box Yamaha MU1000XG, i think the name was

When OS4 Final is ready, things will become easier

@Helgis

The new Michael Jackson?
.....................................................So you want to be a Pedo?

Joking!

When are we gona hear some of your tunes then Michael?

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@Curty

I knew you're joking with me. Most likely after Christmas, to be
realistic, but i might be able to surprise you

Yes, i might be the "new" Michael Jackson

At least i'm not making songs titles saying "Won't Have Kids On My Bed Anymore"