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Bamu®
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Registered: May 2005
Posts: 1332 |
The worst music editors?
Which are the absolutely worst music editors for the c64?
(crappy or no interface, huge rastertime usage, stupid handling, ugly bugs, worse hardrestart ...and so on.) |
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Conrad
Registered: Nov 2006
Posts: 849 |
A less popular editor came with those Terminator 2 cartridges, called Ubik's music editor, written by Dave Korn (Ubik). I tried it years ago and was an absolute nightmare to use! |
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ChristopherJam
Registered: Aug 2004
Posts: 1409 |
Heh. I spent something like a year trying to track down a copy of Ubik's because the music was so cool. I was sorely disappointed when I got hold of it. Nightmare is truly the word! |
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Wisdom
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 90 |
Being a bit unfair to Voice Tracker above, I felt like I have to add a couple of things here:
Voice Tracker's UI was bad in the sense that it was a duration based editor. This statement of course comes from being used to tracker style editors after using duration based editors for a long time. In the beginning of my musical career though, I was more than grateful for Voice Tracker, or else I would have to spend another two years with Future Composer, before I finally switched to JCH's Editor.
The real good thing about Voice Tracker was that it was a self-contained tool with a built-in packer and relocator. Another good thing was that almost everything related to composing was on a single screen, unlike many other editors which had track and block editing in one or two screens and countless other screens for editing sounds etc.
Undoubtly, Dutch-USA Team was not thankful to Polonus, but I am one of those who are thankful to him for giving us an editor like that. I had composed more than 45 tunes with it, and I have officially released around 15 of them. So, thanks again.
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Stainless Steel
Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 966 |
I think it was a great piece of work by polonus.
I cant even start to imagine how much work it must have been to reverse engineer the music assembler routine and write a editor for it. Thumbs up!
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Eryk
Registered: Apr 2005
Posts: 10 |
I'd also like to express my gratitude to Polonus for creating Voice Tracker - I used it for more than six years and really should start to relearn it again.
Compared to other editors that I had, I found it the most accessable because it didn't drown you in features and frills.
Good work.
But I stray from the topic... |
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polonus
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Registered: Aug 2007
Posts: 9 |
Well.. I am so glad you found voicetracker so useful :) I did not expected it to get spread so well. Pity, I don't have any copy of next version of VTR called Music Mixer, rewritten. |
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tlr
Registered: Sep 2003
Posts: 1790 |
Twoflowers post seems to indicate he has Music Mixer somewhere. (or have you lost it?) |
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Trurl
Registered: Mar 2002
Posts: 61 |
I like Music Mixer's editor very much. The player is similar to Music-assembler's (ie. not very good and it's buggy too) but not the same. The note durations are confusing at first but I'm so used to it that I haven't bothered to learn a new editor though there are newer and better programs around. |
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tlr
Registered: Sep 2003
Posts: 1790 |
Nevermind, it was in HVMEC. Added here now: Music Mixer V6 |
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polonus
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Registered: Aug 2007
Posts: 9 |
Quote: I like Music Mixer's editor very much. The player is similar to Music-assembler's (ie. not very good and it's buggy too) but not the same. The note durations are confusing at first but I'm so used to it that I haven't bothered to learn a new editor though there are newer and better programs around.
err.... I suppose I had the idea of note duration -1. :D pity I did not put "equaliser" thing as it was available (as a gadget) in Voicetracker. Anyway, I spent a lot of time preparing pattern edit behaviours to make them 'smart'. with this I wanted to learn how to use Turbo Ass; previous projects were hand-coded in various monitors (including VTR). |
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