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|27.02.2003 17:06      |
|gwEm                  |
|gwem@preromanbritain.com|
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Tonight I will be DJing 2 of my Atari STs at 'Jaguar Shoes', Kingsland Road,
London. Please come along if you are in town as you will surely hear YM Rockerz 
tunes over a phatt PA.

I will be using 2x1040STFMs with a Vestax DJ mixer. The connection is via some
custom leads I made.

The software I will use is PlaySID-ST (Abyss and Tao, this program is genius!),
JAM (thanks again Cream), ProTracker (for amiga_style heavy metal) and MusicMon2 
(just for my trax).

Amazing that with a plain vanilla ST, play back of musics from the 3 major music 
platforms is possible.

I have been practising hard and if you wanna know what I have to say about
STjing just send me an email... But mainly I wish that JAM and PlaySID had stop 
and restart facility ;-> (actually I'm used to it now and can anticipate when 
the songs will finish loading and start playing). 

I have noticed that YM chip tunes need no EQ adjustment, but 8bit sample 
playback through the YM lacks bass. Also the YM makes a very loud signal, but it 
looks very quiet on level meters, so its hard to get volume levels right 
straightaway.

Personally I can't wait to hear how mono 12kHz sample playback sounds over a big 
PA.

Big up the DHS MOD archive, Fading Twilight, Exotica and the SND archive for 
tunes, I spent so long searching through them. I have noticed that the quality 
of the compositions for Atari ST easily beats the C64 scene. I wasted so much 
time on HighVoltageSidCollection listening to bad SIDs. Finding good Atari files 
was easy! I had trouble deciding what to leave out.

Still searching for MegaSTs....

gwEm