A500 and MIDI

26 June 2006, 01:39

Hi,
I am new to this forum and I would like to use my Amiga A500 to create some music. It is a weird A500 because it was shipped with a Rev 8a motherboard and it has 1MB RAM, Fat Agnus 8375 and Kickstart 1.3. Which MIDI applications are the most suitable for this machine? I have read about Startrekker v1.3 and Noisetracker v2.0 (which is based in Soundtracker v2.3). The computer has a TS MIDI interface attached to the serial port for MIDI communication.

Smiley · 26 June 2006, 11:24

Is that usrname suitable or.....

Photon · 26 June 2006, 12:37

Bars'n'Pipes, d00d.

Unless of course you want to work with the Amiga's sounds and not your synthesizer's. Noisetracker has limited MIDI support IIRC. No 'Note Off', just reads keypresses basically. Was a long time ago.

28 June 2006, 16:56

Yes, I´d like to use Paula´s sounds controlled by MIDI which means using the Amiga as a MIDI module to be controlled by an external sequencer.

A500
Fat Agnus 8375
1 MB RAM
Kickstart 1.3
TS MIDI interface

Psycreator[mds] · 29 June 2006, 00:43

I would not recomend to run Bars N Pipes over a plain A500 without any extensions, it will eat up your memory like hell only for it's heavy GUI. Even if it would work you would still need some memory for those samples, no chance. On Aminet there are a few stand alone tools wich could do the job, without the need of much memory. ProjectMIDI perhabs.. and some other tools. You only have to connect your PC Midi Out to your Amiga Midi in, and then you can control it with such tools. Than you got your minimal Amiga 8bit Sampler like Soundmodule

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26 June 2006, 01:39	#1
pakipaki Posts: n/a	A500 and MIDI Hi, I am new to this forum and I would like to use my Amiga A500 to create some music. It is a weird A500 because it was shipped with a Rev 8a motherboard and it has 1MB RAM, Fat Agnus 8375 and Kickstart 1.3. Which MIDI applications are the most suitable for this machine? I have read about Startrekker v1.3 and Noisetracker v2.0 (which is based in Soundtracker v2.3). The computer has a TS MIDI interface attached to the serial port for MIDI communication.

28 June 2006, 16:56	#4
pakipaki Posts: n/a	Paula and MIDI Yes, I´d like to use Paula´s sounds controlled by MIDI which means using the Amiga as a MIDI module to be controlled by an external sequencer. A500 Fat Agnus 8375 1 MB RAM Kickstart 1.3 TS MIDI interface

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26 June 2006, 11:24	#2
Smiley Amiga-less! Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: UK Posts: 1,350	Is that usrname suitable or.....

26 June 2006, 12:37	#3
Photon Moderator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Eksjö / Sweden Posts: 5,604	Bars'n'Pipes, d00d. Unless of course you want to work with the Amiga's sounds and not your synthesizer's. Noisetracker has limited MIDI support IIRC. No 'Note Off', just reads keypresses basically. Was a long time ago.

29 June 2006, 00:43	#5
Psycreator[mds] Amiga Musician Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Warstein/Germany Age: 44 Posts: 18	I would not recomend to run Bars N Pipes over a plain A500 without any extensions, it will eat up your memory like hell only for it's heavy GUI. Even if it would work you would still need some memory for those samples, no chance. On Aminet there are a few stand alone tools wich could do the job, without the need of much memory. ProjectMIDI perhabs.. and some other tools. You only have to connect your PC Midi Out to your Amiga Midi in, and then you can control it with such tools. Than you got your minimal Amiga 8bit Sampler like Soundmodule )

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