| [Web] New Digibooster Professional homepage is online | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 11-Jan-2004 18:08 GMT by Andreas Magerl | 36 comments
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Now is it so far. After a longer duration the new official homepage of DBPro is finally online. There you can find in future all informations, downloads, goodies ... around the Program. We would like to refer also again to the forum, where Useres can place their questions.
A new demoversion of Digibooster Professional will be soon availble for AmigaOS and MorphOS.
DBPro is a so called tracker program. It´s possible to produce your own music by using samples.
http://www.digiboosterpro.de
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| Posted by Neko on 12-Jan-2004 18:47 GMT | In reply to Comment 16 (spot):
Because DigiBooster is the best one available, the alternatives are, for
MorphOS .. uhh.. the new version Protracker. Which is even WORSE :)
I am actually quite into music production, and my Dad and brother are in
bands (I mean ones that produce albums etc..).
My brother used to love OctaMED (before Soundstudio), but he always hated the
interface. Way too complicated just to lay down some quick guitar riffs etc.
The newer one with floaty windows was better, in his opinion, but it didn't
change the actual channel layout problems.
Basically what he did was use my Aura sampler to record straight from his
guitar amp - play OctaMed stuff beside it to lay down the tracks. When he
liked what he heard, he actually sampled it and put it in the effects he wanted
via the sampler software (no need for peddles when the software will do
flanging, reverb, etc.) and then lay it into the tracks.
Repeat for bass, rhythm, and acoustic guitar.
The only thing he liked OctaMED for was the ability to do drum stuff - because
it was so ordered and contrived that it was easy to lay down a drum track that
wasn't out of time ;)
Watch the iLife movie, and you'll see Sheryl Crow do exactly the same thing.
This is why I think Apple aren't very innovative, my brother beat Sheryl to it
by about 8 years.
As it stands, he's using CuBase to do the work, now.
http://www.arbitermt.co.uk/steinberg/products/cubasesl_images/screenshot2_project.jpg
As for my Dad - well, he has a catalogue of songs going back years, and he's
also an accomplished clarinet player, so he is quite enamoured by applications
like Sebalius that do real musical notation.
http://www.sibelius.com/products/sibelius/features/look_and_feel.html
You're basically talking real musical notation for people who can read music.
GarageBand is basically for musicians who can't read music ;)
But with a couple of tweaks, couldn't you quite easily turn GarageBand's
horizontal display into simple musical notation? See.. the flexibility is
there!
If screen estate is your qualm, and you don't like the horizontal bars, realise
that on a 1280x1024 screen you could fit a something like 12 channels there
without appreciable loss of information. Shrink the channels further (do away
with GarageBand's useless waveform display.. just show note, time, instrument
picture) and you can expand further.
Given that we read horizontally, adding channels as displayed vertically means
we are restricted by how much information we can squeeze in - you still need a
horizontal "note, time, instrument" record even if it's (66 G-5 1000) which
probably restricts it to the same number on the same sized screen (we're
worrying about readability of text here)
And you lose the flexibility of different, more musical-notation-friendly
layouts. All of GarageBand, CuBase and Sebelius take advantage of solutions
and intuitiveness that ProTracker-style layouts simply do not afford.
=Neko= |
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