OctaMED

What an excellent program this is. Of course, there are many many
programs available in the PD which can create tracker modules, and
they're all as good as each other. So why would anyone want to
create another Tracker program? They wouldn't. So RBF Software
went ahead and programmed their own File Format, known as MED (appearing
on Peecee soon) and then a program which could create MED modules!

That was a good Idea. And after MED 1,2,3 OctaMED 1,2,3,4,5 and 6
we are now at the stage where they have had to rename it again
(OctaMED Soundstudio). And damn good it is too!

It lets you edit music modules using the familiar (to tracker
programs) method whereby you move a small bar up and down the screen
which shows your location on each section of music. You can then
insert a musical note at the place where the bar is and move 
down and do it again untiil you have filled up the section and
then you can create another section and arrange them into a sequence.

You have various windown on the screen. In the main window, you
have the section of music comprising of 64 lines which you can put 
notes on. They look like this:

01: --- 000000 | --- 000000 | --- 000000 | --- 000000
02: --- 000000 | --- 000000 | --- 000000 | --- 000000

And when you put a note down, depending on what note and which octave
it is in, this appears:

01: C#3 100000 | --- 000000   etc.

That signifies a C sharp in Octave 3 using instrument 1. It is
pretty east to enter the music aswell. You just use the Amiga's
keyboard as though it were a musical keyboard using the following keys
for musical notes:

Q  2  W  3  E  R  5  T  6  Y  7  U  I

C  C# D  D# E  F  F# G  G# A  A# B  C

All very clever.  You can also put things in those rows of 0's 
in the section of music (called a block) which control things like
note echo, and volume and speed and such

01: C-2 100C44 | --- 000000

Would mean that C would be played at volume 44. Anyway, enough of the
tutorial. The score:

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