"SynthSong" - MED v.3.00 song and player-program
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      This song comes from my "Art of MED" disk, and was composed to show the
  sorts of extremes that sequenced songs can go to in terms of overall-length
  and diversity of musical-themes - while still maintaining a reasonable size
  on disk. By using this song as a yard-stick (as it uses the maximum number
  and size of blocks that MED can presently handle), people should be able to
  get a better idea of the limits of this program within a more restrictive
  framework.

      As something of a musical-milestone - at almost 65 minutes in duration,
  this is possibly the longest musical-work ever to appear on the Amiga - I'd
  encourage readers/listeners to find their own uses for the piece (as with
  all MED-songs, it multitasks quite well with other Workbench, CLI-driven or
  programmed projects).

      MED automatically compresses the size of its "song+samples" files when
  saving them, so that the on-disk size of "Synth" is around 63k - MEDPlayer
  (whose icon has been removed from this drawer) takes-up another 18k. Once
  loaded into memory, the song and player-program proceed to take-up a total
  of around 200k - songs composed in other formats e.g. SoundTracker must be
  compressed (and de-compressed) by some separate method.

      The "Synth" song is activated by double-clicking its icon - this then
  activates the MEDPlayer, which has its own play-functions:

  - "Play" plays the song from the beginning (though any song which activates
    the player-program starts automatically);
  - "Stop" pauses the song at the particular stage that it is up to;
  - "Cont" continues a song that has been paused at a particular stage;
  - The "MIDI" button should not be pressed while a non-MIDI song is being
    played, as this intereferes with the playing-routine.

      I've left the "Synth" song "as-is" (i.e. not presented it in any other
  type of format), so that it can be put to other use if necessary - such as
  being activated by other player-programs e.g. "Mod Pro", or saved in other
  formats - though it should be noted that the song is far too large to save
  as a "SoundTracker" module.

      If any interested readers would like to request or share information
  about MED, Amiga music-composition, or any other work, they can contact me
  care of the following address:

                              Alex Van Starrex
                              4 Westward Street
                              KAREELA N.S.W. 2232
                              AUSTRALIA

      Happy listening!