i saw no topic here so i thought maybe to get the ball rolling by sharing my story with "Good old Amiga 1200" and octamed v5

on that moment i was at high school and still studying, and maybe the most funny and unforgettable story that was that during my examens i did not study, oh no i made songs

most funny was that those songs were in that moment the best ones i made from that whole year and that on that moment we always had visit.

the atmosphere was that of a nice friends gathering, and me composing the first songs of my life on the amiga became very quickly a kind of "habitual sight". the bleeps and bips of the first very primitive sounds i had that were given with the coverdisk of the CU Amiga magazine...

oh yes nowadays this scene never did fade and it even has given me a third place on a local artist contest with 120 artists... though then it was already more evolved to drawing my own sounds and using a small 8 bit sampler...

i know one thing

that Amiga was in one word AMAZING, and what came out of it for only having 8 bit sound was and still is AMAZING...

oh yes it has been tons of fun and also i have made tons of songs that time too

at the end right before the HD crashed i had some 190 songs on it

and i still got on a tape my very first song and very first discover of Octamed on the 24th of october 1994, a day i will never ever forget

yes you can bet i dare to play that very primitive song once and a while

today on my PC i compose still songs using med V1.4

and you bet: still in the same atmosphere with friends in the house and fré composing his song...

throughout the years me sitting behing his screen with the columns scrolling up while i am composing block after block after block became a fixed concept rather then just a guy doing his hobby

I got Octamed on the front of Amiga Format or something. I didnt even look at it until my mate worked it out and put together a tune without having any musical experience at all.

I'm a guitarist but I've been using Med constantly ever since.

scope it out

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Likewise my Amiga 1200 Octamed is a favourite of mine using it with a DSS8+ I hoped to make the connection between a real-time musical oscilloscope/ frequency graph file format and and 3D graphical information to create stunning displays of colour and sound. Interplays of notation based on octaves of colour.
12 note cycles of seven spectral tones etc, but couldn't get any help from qualified Blitz2 Amos programmers
Know I would seriously like to study PC Visual Basic or C++ along these lines and maybe make up a package to create improvisations and improvements to Media Player Visualisations.

Wheres that V2 wish list again, Ray?

No true wishlist for V2, but George is open to ideas, go to:
http://medsupport.1.forumer.com/index.php?showtopic=137
and post your ideas there, he will reply if neccessary.

Ray

The first time I used OctaMED was on version 4 using an amiga 500, and I actually bought a megalosound sampler for it. I went to my mates house and asked him for protracker, he goes, not got that, but this is better and he gave me the disc off a cover of a mag, think it was Amiga Format (can't remember it was that long ago), I loaded in the program and thought, god I can't work this, then I loaded in a few mods and experimented and then realised what I could do with it :-) (thanks to the demo mods, I learned alot of stuff from them).

Daz

I can remeber using MED on the Amiga before it was called OctaMED, guess that shows my age!

I still use OctaMED SoundStudio V 1.03c on my Amiga today (A1200, Power Tower, 32mb RAM, 68030, etc...).

It's funny I am a guitarist/songwriter and have quite a bit of high tec recording gear, but still find OctaMED an excellent tool.

I have only recently purchased MED 1.7 for PC and I am looking forward to getting to grips with it.


Zero

Not as old as me I bet

As for the original MED, boy, that brings back happy memories of Teijo,
me and later, Ed Wiles

Ray

Yes, we let ourselves get well and truly screwed with those Amiga mag coverdisk editions, but that was before we knew better.

Ray

Heh...was that a subtle "whoops" I hear coming from you, Ray?

Hi,

Perhaps it wasn't such a good financially, but to get MED (as was - I still remember the jumping mouse pointer!) out to the general Amiga public, it certainly did the job.

I'd never have heard about MED otherwise, and certainly wouldn't have purchased it and still be using it now if it wasn't for the AF coverdisk...

- Ali

A very loud one

Believe it or not, in a round about way, one of the main reasons I'm still in
debt today is because of that cock-up

I do agree that it made it quite famous, won quite a few Amiga mag awards
to boot, shame it didn't come with a better financial reward though

Wow! when you mentioned the names it seems like yesturday!

Brings back memories, of my old Amiga 500...



Zero

I think I had the very first Med years ago; I'd been using the Games Music Creator (anyone remember that? I seem to remember that it was created by Andreas Tadic, who went on to code for Team 17) and didn't get on with Soundtracker, Noisetracker or any of the numerous clones.

For some reason Med, even in that early incarnation, stood out.

Then I got the obligatory coverdisk editions (Octamed Pro 3 and 4 were both coverdisks, as I recall). Version 4 was my favourite - it'd be great if the new V2 could be skinnable to resemble it!

If anybody would like any old Amiga mods? I have tons of them. If you can remember a name or mod title? I'll have a look and see if I have it.