Re: Really good Apple IIGS sound/music?

[Michael Kent <michael@syndicomm.remove.this.com>]

Mitchell Spector <mitch2gs@hotmail.com> wrote:

>    Typical Soundsmith songs were 4-voice MODs stripped of their 
> effects, so I'd agree here. The exception was anything composed
> specifically for the IIgs, anything from James Brookes is a perfect
> example: Digital Exodus X-Mas Demo '93

I don't think I've ever seen that one.  Is it on an ftp site somewhere?

>    Unfortunately too many people used synthLAB to playback GM/GS
> MIDI files, and the limited instrument patches and voices didn't cut it.

Yeah, there is a lot of bad MIDIsynth music out there.  The sequences
seemed to be fine, but they used instruments that didn't fit the song at
all.  It ended up sounding like elevator music, if you were lucky.

> I converted several dozen of my own sequences and released them,
> but done with care so they were far better than the average songs
> being released. The best example was when I created my own custom
> wavebanks, one with a Grand piano. I seem to remember creating 
> a Jazz.bank patch too, got some really nice sound out of synthLAB

Would you happen to remember the names of the songs you released?  I
certainly wouldn't mind hearing some quality MIDIsynth music.

Mike