Kukulkan wrote:It looks nice, is well done and surely it is a good thing to make this with PureBasic. But what are the benefits of your shareware to some freeware like
http://www.madtracker.org/ ?
I would have thought it would be obvious what the differences are.
This is a fun tool or "toy" to play with, but can also be used to create high quality, retro-sounds (and music too, if you know what you are doing). It is a stand-alone instrument, just like how people might buy a "keyboard" synthesizer for their kid for Christmas at a department store. Only it has more advanced features.
Madtracker on the other hand, is first and foremost, a
Tracker. The core program used to plug-in and control instruments and manage them, produce notations (create and arrange patterns into songs), place FX and other such things that are actually involved with making music. Easy Moog just happens to use a Tracker-based pattern assembly system to allow you to create songs (nothing new, lots of independent programs use Trackers, Step-Patterns, or other methods to do the same thing).
It's like trying to compare an Instrument like reFX Slayer2, or SID, or Native Instruments' FM8, Kontakt, Reaktor, or other such similar VsT's to an actual Softsynth Workstation like Orion, Fruity Loops, or Sonar.
Two vastly different things. The fact Madtracker comes pre-packaged with a lot of other independent freeware content (Samples, VST's, Effects, whatever) is irrelevant and is not really a fair comparison at all. The only downside to Easy Moog is that as it has been presented, it does not appear to be a VSTi or other compatible plugin format, which would make it near to impossible plug in to and use with the programs I mentioned (Orion, Fruity Loops, Sonar, and of course Mad Tracker). You could create unique sounds and save them (to .WAV file I would hope) and then use a sampler in your Softsynth to play them, but that really isn't integration.
It would still be a useful tool, or a neat toy for someone to play with.
