Re: Really good Apple IIGS sound/music?

Polymorph

To: Alex Lee
Alex Lee wrote:
> On 2008-05-11 09:43:41 +1000, "Polymorph"
> <polymorph@a2central.com.remove-4fd-this> said:

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>
> Everyone's
>>
> quick to bash SoundSmith, aren't they? :-) Sesei's music was created in
> SoundSmith. As Mitch pointed out, all the FTA demos were created in
> SoundSmith using all 15 channels. It's just a shame most demo tracks for
> SoundSmith were MOD conversions with only 4 channels, but I still think
> SoundSmith was the best all round player. With Ian Schmidt's MegaTracker
> player, it only consumed 1% of the CPU on a stock standard IIGS for
> music playback.

I wasn't trying to bash Soundsmith, I was just saying that I've only
heard two really good Soundsmith songs (from within Soundsmith anyhow).
Mind you, the two songs I mentioned ("Axel F" and "Funky Town") are
*really* good, and certainly would be right up there in my picks as the
best music I've heard from the IIgs.

Its probably like you said, many of the Soundsmith songs are MOD
conversions, and they are definitely not in the same league as "Axel F"
and "Funky Town" - I don't know if these two were MOD conversions or
not, but they sound good to me. :-)

I was not aware that the music in Sensei was created in Soundsmith, but
if it was then it shows that the Soundsmith tool is definitely not the
limiting factor, because the Sensei music is great too.

There is also programming support for Soundsmith, as I've successfully
incorporated Soundsmith songs into Complete Pascal using a custom tool
set that I came across which I think was developed by one of the
talented French IIgs groups (I can't remember which one right now).

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Mike

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