[comp.sys.amiga.audio] Protracker

chuckt@theborg.mlb.fl.us (Chuck Teschke) (03/02/91)

I just got ProTracker V1.1 in yesterday and it's great!  i liked v1.0 when
i got it but it didnt work with my harddrive so i had to to trash it
This version is excellent. it works great with hardrives.
it has a lot of configurable stuff. many bugs are fixed. I can finally
set up a presetlist with all the samples on my HD.
it has an improved sample editor (though i cant sample with my perfect
sound cause it has a digital gain)  the greatest thing is that you can switch
between Vblank and CIA timing.  so now i can run it in PAL mode and see
the entire screen, and using CIA timing i can adjust a tempo
setting and play songs that were written in pal or ntsc at the correct
seed! They took out the MIDI stuff except for MIDI input from a keyboard
(which is all you need) It even has a setting for slowing it down if your
running with an accelerator. it is supposed to run under 2.0 but i had
a problem with it, but that might have been  because of mach III.
oh yah, they fixed the bug that lets you click on workbench icons
in the background which was in all other trackers i have tried.
(i sometimes would have ran several programs in the background while
composing a tune!)
plus it has a lot more features to numerous to count!!!

In my opinion it is the best!

Chuck Teschke
                chuckt@theborg.mlb.fl.us

mattij@tuura.UUCP (Matti Joutkoski) (03/06/91)

chuckt@theborg.mlb.fl.us (Chuck Teschke) writes:

>I just got ProTracker V1.1 in yesterday and it's great!  i liked v1.0 when

Best you can get...

>This version is excellent. it works great with hardrives.
>it has a lot of configurable stuff. many bugs are fixed. I can finally
>set up a presetlist with all the samples on my HD.

Yap, one real nice feature is dos-escape. Jus press the key between ESC
and TAB, you don't have to run newshell, because PT runs itself like
backgrouond process.

>it has an improved sample editor (though i cant sample with my perfect
>sound cause it has a digital gain)  the greatest thing is that you can switch

It is AudioMaster clone, it is not a editor. It is inbuilt Audiomaster! 8-)

>between Vblank and CIA timing.  so now i can run it in PAL mode and see
>the entire screen, and using CIA timing i can adjust a tempo
>setting and play songs that were written in pal or ntsc at the correct

It is very useful when you are entrying music data from keyboard, you don't
have to be worry about the tempo. You can change it to which you like it.

>seed! They took out the MIDI stuff except for MIDI input from a keyboard
>(which is all you need) It even has a setting for slowing it down if your

We should have more this kind of programmers doing perfect softwares.

>running with an accelerator. it is supposed to run under 2.0 but i had
>a problem with it, but that might have been  because of mach III.

Try to change DMA-option from the setup-screen. It helped on my friends
Amiga 3000. It works now perfectry under WB 2.0.

>(i sometimes would have ran several programs in the background while
>composing a tune!)
>plus it has a lot more features to numerous to count!!!

>In my opinion it is the best!

It is the Best program ever done on any computer. It is orgasm!

>Chuck Teschke
>                chuckt@theborg.mlb.fl.us
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bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper) (03/07/91)

Indeed, this tracker is the best out there...  

but how do I get it to run in NTSC mode so I can *use* the sample editor?

Am I gonna need PALboot?

Thanks tons,
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