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- "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!
-