Re: MED, OctaMED, Protracker

["Charles T. Turley" <cturley@wco.com>]

Nathan, FYI - NTGS v2.0 - a complete rewrite as GS/OS is a MODfile Music
Editor.  The only such MODfile Music Editor for the IIGS, that can make 
a MODfile (Protracker 4 track Music Editor) from scratch, convert either 
type of NT music file or module - including SoundSmith music and samples 
to a MODfile and save them for use on the IIGS or any other computer 
platform.  

Both I and Dave Swanson spent over two years, with the assistance of Tim 
Meekins, Tony Morales and many others, developing Noise Tracker, 
updating, improving, redesigning and enhancing it with multiple format 
conversion abilities, full editor abilities, a search/find and replace 
function for all effects it uses, memory allocation selection and so on, 
etc.  

We even managed to develop it to support nearly all of the special sound 
effects that the standard Protracker MODfiles used and allowed the NTGS 
v2.0 to save them as type 2 NTGS modules for play and use with the 
program on the IIGS.  

We did virtually everthing that could be done over the course of the two 
years with updates and rewrite, to make it the most useful multi-format
Music editor available to date for the IIGS.  The only thing it didn't 
yet have was support for import/convert/export/save to the MIDI format.

IMHO - You don't know what the IIGS music user needs.  You don't even 
know what anybody needs - if it doesn't suit your fancy and your own 
personal needs and convictions.  I know of several other very impressive 
music programs for the IIGS that have been under skillful development 
for over two years now.  So I'm certainly not alone with my desires to
show off the IIGS for all its music and sound abilities.

Thanks to you and your biased, narrow-minded, know-it-all IIGS comments 
and attitudes, I now intend to see to it that NTGS is updated to the 
point that it can handle 8 tracks; MED, OctaMED and full MIDI 
input/format/support also, in all aspects.

And, I won't rest until it becomes a working and near perfect reality. 
As usual I'll make certain it's also released as FREEWARE!  Yes, I'm 
fully aware it's public domain.  I released it as such in 1994.  So if 
anybody cares to take a shot at it before I do, then PLEASE go for it!

Even Ian Schmidt told me that NTGS v2.0 was a great rewrite and a fine 
program that little more could be done with or need to be done with - to 
make it the best and most versitle multi-platform and multi-format Music 
Editor ever conceived for the IIGS.

You do your thing and let everybody else do there thing!  OK?  No more 
of your 'I know what's best for the IIGS - I know what's right and your 
WRONG crap' rants, raves and postings - PLEASE!  I'm sick of them and it 
looks like a lot of other newgroup subscribers are also sick and tired 
of them.

Cheers!
Tom