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- * Welcome to Lunatic Asylum's MELTDOWN by TKW in December 1993! *
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- * Another fine Music Power production *
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- Note to DMP users: due to DMP playing back the samples a little faster than it
- should (at least with a GUS & in its current 2.75 version, I don't know if it's
- the same with other cards), set the tempo manually to 168 at the beginning
- of the module playback (press 3 times the } key..). Original tempo is 165,
- and meltdown plays well "as is" at 165 with ZZplay or PT4GUS, although ZZplay
- occasionally misses a note. Modplayers on the PC don't like the EDx delay
- commands, I don't know why. Only PT4GUS plays them perfectly, and plays
- meltdown without losing notes and at the right speed!
- Metal 0.19 WON'T play it properly (wrong tempo).
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- Well, I hadn't made any mod since Power of American Natives. And one day, I
- heard this tune and I immediately knew I HAD to do it in a module!!
- A little problem however: I had sold my A1200, bought a PC and a GUS. I tried
- all the trackers that I could download through FTP, and I was very
- disappointed: they all still lack the powerful features and the productivity
- that Protracker 3.10 allows on the amiga. The first problem is that none of
- them allows to sample from within the tracker. Good sampling/editing (where
- are the loops?) programs run under Windows, that means "Work in the tracker,
- go to Windows to sample, save your sample, exit the sampling program, go back
- to the tracker, load the sample you just made", etc...
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- My answer to this is simply: no. Perhaps people who never used PT on the amiga
- find this way of working "normal", but I can't work like this and lose a lot
- of time switching between programs, etc... I know two friends that already
- have a PC and bought a 1200 almost only for Protracker!!! But one computer is
- enough at home for me.
- I'm really looking forward to the future of PT4GUS, hoping it will have good
- sampling and editing functions built-in!!
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- So what did I do: I borrowed a friend's A1200, and hopefully, I had kept my
- DSS-8 'cause the friend who bought me the 1200 was not really involved in
- sampling or making mods.
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- And here it is: 4.30 minutes of good, fresh, french-made techno!!
- If you like it, please do two things:
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- - Tell oliver@math.uni-muenster.de you'd like meltdown to appear in the
- modcharts, and if it has appeared, vote for it.
- - Send me a note telling you enjoy this module: tblanchot@vnet.ibm.com
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- Greetings go to Otto Chrons (yeah, finally DMP works with the GUS!),
- Jayeson Lee, Sylvain Marchand, Francois Dion, Oliver Bellmann, Erwan,
- and all those who sent me mail for the previous module (Power of American).
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- HAPPY X-MAS, and see you soon for more music!!!...
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- Thierry, December 12th 1993.
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