First of all i would like to explain that i am out of my brain and not at work.
It is St. Patricks day tomorrow and i will be drinking  even more tomorrow.

Right:

Music is not a specific chord set.  It is not a specific sound and neither is
it a specific bass line or drum sequence.
Music is what you find pleasing to YOUR ears.
It is nothing more.
Some people like thrash metal some people like classical opera.
But it is a rare occurrance when you find someone who likes both.

In reply to the guy who had been waiting for a chance to say sopmething about
the music at ab20 recently,   no matter what you write, you write what you
like to hear.  Its that simple,  i don’t claim to be an A1 musician and don’t
beleive that i am.  But there are people out in the big wide world who do like
what i write.  And thats upto them.

So what if i don’t spend 20 hours on 1 piece of music.
You aren’t paying for it, so why should i work my butt off for it??
This is not a flame nor an attack on you.  This is just stating the BL
EEDIN’ OBVIUOS…  
Yes people like Tip, mantronix, 4-mat, moby are damned good and I look up to
them.  But ‘I’ don’t have any keyboard facilities or anything posh like that.
I am a poor man with an amiga A500 1.2 , 1 meg of ram and an external disk driv

Nothing special really, but when you look at what i have, its not bad.
If i could waste money on a Korg or a Yamaha i would.
But i have better things to do, like eat!!!!

I am getting totally wound up the more i think about your statement of Tip
etc..are the best….yes we bloody well know they are.  And they have the money
to continue to be the best.
But what about the new people, why shut them out because they are learning???

Your attitude really upsets me.  I will spend the time of day with anyone that
wants to ask me anything about what i do.  Because i am not afraid about other
people taking over the market of good music.

But why leave it to the people who have done it for 3 years???
There are people out there that have just started and need encouragement.
And i will give them all they need if i can.

I love music and always will.  But i will not sit and watch as a group of
people take control of it all.  

a quote from one of my latest tunes:

"open your ears and listen….listen with all your might!!"

(hard-to-the-core.lzh) at ab20.larc.nasa.gov  incoming/amiga/NoiseTracker/U4IA

There is more to life than the best.
The best will die with the changing scene.
Don’t give up on the hopes and beliefs of people.
They are the wave of the future.

My friend

U4ia…..nissed as a pewt and feeeling very upset about people slamming new
         composers and what they do.  

p.s.  If you like what you do..  Do it anyway..  Its your life my friend

I am having trouble connecting my self amplified speaker to the A3000 audio
port. Since the self-amplified speakers I have does not have volume control,
i was wondering if there is any way I could control the volume using the
A3000 either via a program or AmiDos command???

Any comments??? Suggestions???

Thanks.

Max.

–
Max Chan | 517c…@gw.wmich.edu | Western Michigan University
         |                      | Kalamazoo Michigan
         |                      | USA

>In reply to the guy who had been waiting for a chance to say sopmething about
>the music at ab20 recently,   no matter what you write, you write what you
>ke to hear.  Its that simple,  i don’t claim to be an A1 musician and don’t
>believe that i am. But there are people out in the big wide world who do like
>what i write.  And thats upto them.
>So what if i don’t spend 20 hours on 1 piece of music.
>You aren’t paying for it, so why should i work my butt off for it??
>This is not a flame nor an attack on you.  This is just stating the BL
>EEDIN’ OBVIUOS…  

Fine!  You ask for a comment and must expect someone to say ‘Wow!  U4IA’s
mods are ravin’ or you flame them..  I respect someone who sticks by their
musical integrity regardless of what others think of it.  I don’t respect
someone who can’t accept some criticism [esp. if they ask for it..]..

So what I’m not paying for it!  That’s irrelevant!  However, what if AMOS
demos and bad Oktalyzer music disks appeared constantly in the DEMOS
directory at ab20?  Before you really flame me, no, I’m not comparing
the two as I’ve looked at a few Trackers that I missed which are very good,
I just wish that more people spent less time sampling and more time
composing..  But that’s my opinion and as long as you have a following, fine!

>Yes people like Tip, mantronix, 4-mat, moby are damned good and I look up to
>them.  But ‘I’ don’t have any keyboard facilities or anything posh like that.
>I am a poor man with an amiga A500 1.2, 1 meg of ram and an external disk
>drive.
>Nothing special really, but when you look at what i have, its not bad.
>If i could waste money on a Korg or a Yamaha i would.
>But i have better things to do, like eat!!!!

I read somewhere that 4-mat doesn’t own a synth…  Or at least when he was
doing demo music since after doing Leander, he could probably afford a nice
setup now.

>I am getting totally wound up the more i think about your statement of Tip
>etc.are the best…yes we bloody well know they are.  And they have the money
>to continue to be the best.
>But what about the new people, why shut them out because they are learning???
>Your attitude really upsets me. I will spend the time of day with anyone that
>wants to ask me anything about what i am doing.

Well then, guy, you shouldn’t have asked for criticism.  I never said anything
like ‘your music sucks’ or anything near to that.  I just stated that I
have heard tunes from ab20 which sound like the musician cranked them out with
little concern for making them interesting.  Cute little 8 pattern discotunes
with 400k worth of samples is a complete waste of space on ab20 in MY OPINION.
Someone elses opinion may be different.

>Because i am not afraid about other people taking over the market of good
>music.

Well, I’m not either, because if someone took over the market of good music,
it would still be good music.  d:^)  If you mean the commercial music market,
I don’t see anything ‘good’ about it.  There certainly isn’t any music
integrity there which is why I prefer not to watch MTV or listen to Dance
music.  But again, that is my opinion.

>But why leave it to the people who have done it for 3 years???
>There are people out there that have just started and need encouragement.
>And i will give them all they need if i can.

Hmmmm..  I don’t think it takes 3 years of mod composing nor a decent
music background to put together an interesting mod.  Just alot of
experimentation.  I like several mods which are simple musically
but the musician experimented enough with instruments to make the
mod sound interesting.  For instance, Knulla-Kuk by Moby [from Substance] or
You are Forever by Fillipetto [from one of the demos on Demos Of The World
#52, Demo #1 by Vega, I believe].  Both use samples pretty much ripped out of
the legendary Klisje mod by Walkman…

>I love music and always will.  But i will not sit and watch as a group of
>people take control of it all.  

hmmmm…  Aren’t we a bit paranoid?  

>a quote from one of my latest tunes:

>"open your ears and listen….listen with all your might!!"

Don’t think for a fucking minute that I am closed-minded!  Good music is good
music and I listen to just about everything I can from Mahavishnu to
Metallica.  I love music and has been an interest since childhood although I
admit I have a very short attention span when it comes to disco remixes…  
But, that goes pretty much the same way with other people when it comes to
avante garde jazz or polka…  I stated a criticism; take it or leave it.  

>There is more to life than the best.
>The best will die with the changing scene.
>Don’t give up on the hopes and beliefs of people.
>They are the wave of the future.

Interesting and I agree that there is much more to life than trying to outdo
other people.  However, it doesn’t seem logical to give up on improving
yourselves or looking on the ‘best’ as example.  I feel living is learning
and I think outward criticism is healthy, don’t you?  After all, worse things
can happen to music [ i.e. censorship... ] and by posting this, I don’t think
I’m stopping anyone from downloading U4ia mods.

>My friend
>U4ia…..nissed as a pewt and feeeling very upset about people slamming new
>         composers and what they do.  

Shit!  I think you might be drinking too many beers!  I wasn’t slamming
anyone except simply commenting on spending longer than 20 minutes on a MOD
before uploading it to ab20 in a nutshell.  

>p.s.  If you like what you do..  Do it anyway..  Its your life my friend

Sure it is!  And all too important.

Paul Steffen
aka. STratoHACKster
TPPI – Amiga/ST coders

The songs in this demo are probably the best songs I’ve heard on the Amiga.
(Big plug here) Unfortunately, I don’t have the equipment to ‘capture’ this
fine music to listen to while I’m multitasking. ("Rip" has such negative
connotations)

Is there some kind soul in netland that could do this and post them to some
popular FTP sites? I’d be very greatful.

Thank you much.
  __        ,  
 (_/_ /     /)) _    _  _   _  "As you grow up and leave the playground where
 _/(//)/)  / / (-’(/(-’/ ‘ ‘-,  you kissed your prince and found your frog,
(/""""""""""""""(_/""""""""""   remember the jester who showed you tears…
jmmey…@cup.portal.com           … a script for tears"- Marillion, 1983

I was wondering if anyone has ripped the Warhead title music.
It’s probably against copyright laws,but has anyone done it?

–
Mika Valiviita  (valiv…@cc.helsinki.fi) The University of Helsinki
         I’ll be back!    Why?    I just will!    Why?

From article <1992Mar17.102739.11…@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>, by h…@hanauma.jpl.nasa.gov (Howard Chu):

> In article <1992Mar10.174907.28…@cadreor.cadre.com> j…@cadre.com writes:
> Recently I was looking at a Yamaha PSR 5xx something, it seemed to have a
> bunch of nice bells and whistles.

The Yamaha PSR 400 and PSR 500 models were just recently introduced around
Christmastime (I can’t remember EXACTLY when they were first released, but
I do know they had a hard time keeping stock up to meet demand  Both the
PSR 400 and the PSR 500 are probably the only synths on the market that
offer a velocity-sensitive 61 key keyboard in the $300-$500 U.S. price range.  
If you’re looking for a SYNTH, meaning that you can edit the waveforms that
the keyboard produces, you will have to go higher up in the PSR line, but
as far as the features/cost ratio goes, the PSR series at the moment is one
of the best in it’s price range.

The PSR 500 is just a PSR 400 with more memory and a DSP to produce
reverberation effects.  Here’s a list of features:

        * 61 keys
        * Velocity sensitive (they call it ‘Touch Response’)
        * 100 voices + 101 styles
                Uses AWM (Advanced Wave Memory) to produce voices.  It has
                a damn good piano patch and some of the string patches aren’t
                too bad either
        * 28 note poly
        * Stereo (ability to pan through 14 spots in the stereo field)
        * Pitch Bend/Transpose/Tuning/Tempo/Keyboard Split
        * Page Memory System
                Multi Track Song Memory
                Voice Memory
                Custom Accompaniment
                Drum Pad
        * MIDI (works better with MIDI than equivalent CASIOs)

I would recommend this as a good starter’s keyboard, unless you HAVE to
have programmability and the factory patches just won’t do.  You can pick
up a PSR 400 for about $300 U.S. and a PSR 500 for about $375 U.S. here
in mILLwaukee.  I have no affiliation with Yamaha, just a satisfied
customer  For me, the big attraction to the PSR 500 is the velocity
sensitive keyboard and the reasonably good piano patch, plus I can use
it with my sequencer through MIDI…

I think this is a great tracker, but I have been having terrible problems
with _saving_ mods.  At least half the time, the program simply locks up
and refuses to do anything else when I try to save my work, and this is
_unacceptable_!  Anyone else had this prob, and does anyone know of a fix
for it?  (Please, spare me the "Use Protracker" fix, ok?  I want to use
MED for certain reasons…)

"Sometimes what you say is going to fly right in the faces of the
powerful people who really run this world, but you don’t care…you know
it’s your place to challenge authority…"

                                          Rockerboy

Hi there,

Could anyone tell me how to ripp off music using noiseripper30?

Domino

 Is anyone out there using Med with a synth?
 also, has anyone ever sent any of their music to a record
 company (sent a demo tape).

randall glass
rgl…@pcs.cnc.edu

To "m…@alpine.lakesys.com":  I’m receiving your messages, but all replies
bounce.  Neither my local site nor "uunet.uu.net" know about the site
named "alpine.lakesys.com".  Please give me some kind of alternate path,
or the name of the system that feeds alpine.lakesys.com or somesuch.

                                Bryan Ford

bryan.f…@m.cc.utah.edu