Making_Music_on_the_Amiga.pdf

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omprenensive guide to

understanding music on the Amiga

by Christian Spanik, Thomas Tai, & Holger Hahn

Abacu

A Data Becker Book

Making Music

on the Amiga

Christian Spanik

Thomas Tai, Holger Hahn

A Data Becker Book

published by

Abacui

First Printing

Printed in U.S.A.

5370 52nd Street SE

Grand Rapids, MI 49512

Merowingerstrasse 30

4000 Duesseldorf, West Germany

Editors

Louise Benzer, Jim Olsson, Gene Traas,

Robbin Markley

This book is copyrighted. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a

retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic,

mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written

permission of Abacus Software or Data Becker, GmbH.

Every effort has been made to ensure complete and accurate information

concerning the material presented in this book. However, Abacus Software can

neither guarantee nor be held legally responsible for any mistakes in printing or

faulty instructions contained in this book. The authors always appreciate

receiving notice of any errors or misprints.

AmigaBASIC and MS-DOS are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft

Corporation. Amiga 500, Amiga 1000, Amiga 2000 and Amiga are trademarks or

registered trademarks of Commodore-Amiga Inc. IBM is a registered trademark of

International Business Machines Corporation. GFA BASIC is a trademark or

registered trademark of GFA Systemtechnik. Sonix and Audio Master II are

trademarks or registered trademarks of Aegis Development Inc. Dynamic Drums is

a trademark or registered trademark of New Wave Software. Deluxe Music

Construction Set is a trademark or registered trademark of Electronic Arts, Inc.

Master Tracks Pro is a trademark or registered trademark of Passport Systems.

This book contains trade names and trademarks of many companies and products.

Any mention of these names or trademarks in this book are not intended to either

convey endorsement or other associations with this book.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Spanik, Christian, 1963-

Making music on the Amiga / Christian Spanik, Thomas Tai, Holger

Hahn.

p. cm.

"A Data Becker book."

Includes index.

ISBN 1-55755-094-8

1. Amiga (Computer)—Programming. 2. Computer composition.

I. Tai, Thomas, 1966- . II. Hahn, Holger, 1960- . in. Title

MT723.S6 1990

781.3•44165—dc20

90-14431

CIP

Foreword

Many Amiga users bought their Amigas to create great graphics, fine

videoand goodsound. Abacus has publishedbooks about the firsttwo

subjects, andnowproudlyreleasesthisbookonmusic andtheAmiga.

We'vecovered much ground in Amiga music production in thisbook.

Youll find information here about basic sound generation, wave

shapes,analoganddigitalsound,andmuchmore.

Youll also find overviews of some of the finest music software ever

developed for the Amiga, from public domain, shareware and

commercialsources. Ifwefeltthatsomedocumentationwaslackingon

a software product, we did our best to give you some tutorial

information tohelpyougetstartedin someofthesesoftwaretools.

In addition to existing softwareproducts, youll alsolearnalittle about

writing yourown Amigamusic code.

Forthoseofyou whoarehandy with asoldering iron, youllalso finda

number of schematics for Amiga music projects, such as MIDI

interfacesandsounddigitizers.

Enjoy!

Christian Spanik

Thomas Tai

HolgerHahn

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