Advanced Music Creator

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This is an excellent program. It does exactly what you need it to do, and unlike a normal tracker it's not necessary to keep copying and pasting patterns or columns. It makes a lot of interesting effects (such as vibrato, delays, strange pitch-bends and phasing) possible too. The initial learning curve is steep (mostly because you need to use hex, and to be able to convert binary values to hex to do things such as add noise to a particular instrument), but the software is powerful and the shortcut keys are very intuitive. I think it would be more useful to people with standard (unexpanded) CPC464, as music software for the 64k machine is much more limited than for the 6128.

The use of the common arpeggio effect used to simulate a chord when working with PSG and other soundchips is elegant when compared to doing the same inside a tracker (see the Infonote below).

The only downside to AMC is the fact that you're stuck with the 12 TET western music scale. However, a major advantage is that you can include the music you make with this program, inside your own programs.

If you keep a scientific calculator handy, it is much faster to use this program than to use a standard tracker.

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