OctaMED

OctaMED grew out of MED (Music EDitor), which Teijo Kinnunen released in 1989. The Amiga's Paula chip has four channels; OctaMED mixed them in pairs in software to reach eight — hence "Octa". The price was lower fidelity, but for many composers eight voices were worth the grit.

The program grew into a full music suite with MIDI support, notation and, in the later Sound Studio versions, an arbitrary channel count. Where ProTracker ruled the demoscene, OctaMED became the home studio for those who wanted more parts than the hardware really offered.