ST Format


Dynamite Music Demo

Categories: Review: Software
Publisher: Caledonia Pd
Machine: Atari ST

 
Published in ST Format #39

Dynamite Music Demo

Got nothing worthwhile to do? Well, why not lounge about earwigging this handful of sampled tracker tunes? The Dynamite Music Demo uses the STE's mighty DMA sound chip to replay the samples at a reasonable 25MHz and claims to be eight channel.

It's in stereo, too - gasp! - and you can fiddle with the volume, treble, bass and tempo. Well, it should keep you amused for two minutes.

Unfortunately, all this is rather spoilt by the pretty terrible quality of the music itself and no amount of technical wizardry can compensate for that. Dynamite? An indoor firework, more like. The STE has heaps of potential in the sound department - shame this didn't really manage to make the most of it.