Labels:text | screenshot | font | display OCR: AM/FM AM/FM Issue #5 Editorial by Bjorn A. Lynne Welcome yet another time to another fine issue of AM/FM, us musicians' very own little baby. What would we do without AM/FM? Hard question - I guess we'd waste our time on something else! Seriously though, and AM/FM is starting to get more serious as the issues pass by, AM/FM is definately here to stay - I think we've proved that by releasing 5 great issues within a year. There really is enough interest and enough material available for a PD music- magazine on disk. I must admit, I had my doubts as to whether AM/FM would still be going strong after a year, and I also must admit, there have been times when I didn't feel I got enough support from other people and I had to do almost everything myself, but behold, all ye sceptics - here's issue number 5, another great feast upon music, music news, music tutorials, music tips, music utilities, music talk, music reviews... This issue of AM/FM I guess could be called somewhat of a "Utility Special", as the number of utilities is almost twice the "normal". Because there are so many utilities this time, there wasn't room for a whole lot of music. Even though we pack everything with powerpacker, there's still a limit to how much you can cram onto a disk! So, I'm sorry about the lack of music this time - and I promise to make it up to you in the next issue. Things have turned out a little different than I first planned when I started AM/FM. I was thinking of making AM/FM into something that a whole big bunch of musicians created together, with me as the one who tied it all together. It hasn't quite turned out that way - the support I've had from other musicians has been somewhat disappointing, and AM/FM has more or less turned into my private little baby, using only a wee bit of input from others here and there. Having said that, Having said that, I feel I must send special thanks to just a couple of guys who have supported me and AM/FM a lot - Teijo Kinnunen and Anders Hamre have both been of great help - thanks! Anyway, things are moving along and I'm happy to announce that your favourite AM/FM editor (me) does no longer lose more money than he gains on AM/FM. Since I started the magazine, the expenses have been bigger than the income just until recently much thanks to 17bit Software who've really helped get AM/FM moving in England. So now it's moving in the right direction. contributors Conc If things continue going well, we might be able to start paying for material, and who knows, maybe we can start paying programmers to make PD software especially for AM/FM. software especially for AM/FM. However, since I've done this for almost a year now, and paid for everything myself, AM/FM "owes" me some money, so until I get back to zero, I'll just keep the incoming money for myself. But as I said - programmers, look out, because there's a chance to make some *cash* if you write software especially for AM/FM! For some strange reason though, it seems that England is the only country where there are anyone who are interested in distributing AM/FM. In this issue, we print an article where we urge PD distributors in other countries than England to become AM/FM distributors - so let's see if that gets things on the move. [Flame on] Reading through the latest issue of "Keyboard Player", one cannot avoid noticing the fact that a lot of new music software is appearing. For the PC, Mac and Atari, that is. It's a sad fact, but still a fact, that the Amiga is being left behind when it comes to music software. The development of Music-X has been stopped, KCS is nice but lacks the features that really helps selling the product, I've tried Bars & Pipes Pro and I couldn't see what was so "Pro" about it... it... Personally, I think Commodore is responsible for the Amiga being left behind among the more serious musicians. It was generally agreed a long time ago that it was a major mistake of Commodore not to equip the Amiga with a built-in MIDI interface. If it had a built-in MIDI interface, it would never have have been left behind by the Atari, as the case is today. Everyone I know agreed on that. But now, in 1991 and 1992, we still see Commodore shipping new models of the Amiga, and STILL with no built-in MIDI interface! It's nothing short of a catastrophe for the Amiga music software industry that the A3000 and the A500 Plus still didn't have a MIDI interface - it almost looks as though Commodore don't want anybody to use the Amiga for anything professional! Grrr...! [Flame off] Nevertheless - we still have AM/FM! Have a great time! Ed. AM/FM
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