Amigo VST Walkthrough: The Retro 8-Bit Sampler
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- čas přidán 11. 06. 2024
- I've been jamming with Amigo Sampler for about a week now and have been absolutly loving it! By far my favourite VST in the last few years. 😊
It's affordable, fun, the UI is fantasticly simple and most importantly it sounds great. 🚀
Here is my breakdown going over all the the main features. ✌️
⭐️ Buy it here - www.potenzadsp.com/amigo/
Check out my new 90's Style, Aquatic Jungle sample pack which is now up on my website! 💎
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⭐️ Patreon - / groovining
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Space Invaders Intro: (00:00)
Amigo Intro: (00:46)
Sample Mode: (01:02)
Slice Mode: (01:17)
Chord Mode: (02:03)
Poly Glides: (02:27)
Bass Mono Glides: (02:56)
Pino-Pong Loops: (03:06)
Reverse FX: (03:38)
Sexy Animation: (03:53)
Timestretch vs Akai S1000: (03:58)
Phase: (04:14)
Sample Rate: (04:54)
Interpolation: (05:21)
My Review: (06:16)
Outro Track: (06:45) - Hudba
Who needs friends when you've got an Amigo? 😅
Amigo - friend program
With this VST I am never alone!
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best 10 pounds I ever spent, I was having a bad day, bought the thing and ended up making 3 tracks in the same day
Sheesh!
Does it come w the breaks?
@@jn1346 no, its just a sampler
This VST has really blown up in certain circles, good to see.
Yea i'm happy for it too. Cool to have a plugin centered this type of music. Great UI & tons of fun ✌️😊🚀
"amigo is so hot right now"
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I remember dreaming about a 16bit sampler when i had an Amiga back in the days… Funny to see that people now buy plugins to go back in time! I wish i had never sold my Amiga 😢
Yea for sure! Everything got a little too clean/robotic and now people want all that old school grit & degradation in the sound. Sad you sold your Amiga 😢. Hope Amigo can be a new friend to help you through the loss 😊
these intro and outro tracks are amazing
Cheers kykunt! They were fun to make ✌️🚀😊
I made my first music with different trackers on my Amiga500, back then. It is so nice to have this back in the box today. This plugin sounds absolutely awesome!
Cool to hear mate. Some pretty amazing music came out of the early days or trackers/amigas. Plug-in is great for a step back in time 🚀 😊
bigup the groovin man 💕 that pad at 3:24 tho sheesh!
Cheers guys! ❤ Super happy to see the reaction Amigo's been getting. Such a dope plugin - great work from everyone involved. 🚀
me and my bro just downloaded the plugin yesterday, good shit stek.
Great walkthrough, I’m loving this vst, the timestretch is mental. Worth every penny of the 13 bucks
Yea I agree. Great plug-in. The time stretch is spot on! ✌️🚀
been waiting for this
Big ups Dario! :) I had to really with the 8-bit style, so fun! I snuck somehting in at 6:24 & 6:35 I was particluarily proud of 😊
I've honestly been loving the plugins to massive congrats to you guys! ✌🚀
Been using this plugin the last few days, it's so much fun and so easy to use!
Yea its wicked - UI is killer. Glad people are enjoying it as much as me! ✌️😊
Sounds great in Renoise if you want something fun and crunchy, works great in Reaper for my go to sampler. Timestretch is really cool - like having an akaizer you can automate. Goes from clean-ish and warm to ultra crunchy. For 12 bucks or w/e totally worth it.
I agree with this 100%. Its great value for £10 for sure ✌️😊🚀
I have this now and it is absolute dope, stunning. Well done Potenza and well done for the concise video (rare on YT these days)
Thanks Quiet Forge. Yea its fantastic. Great little plugin - cheers about the vid :) ✌️🚀😊
Insanely good video! Fast yet easy to understand. Props to you my man 👍
Cheers mate - thanks for the comment. It's a fun plugin 😊✌️
Mate, so cool what you showcase about this amazing vst in these 7 minutes. Just got my copy yesterday, but this is just unbelievable... 🔥🔥 🔥
Cheers Dennis! :) Was such a fun video to make. I love the theme - might do everything in 8-bit from now! Amigo is amazing - glad you've gotten into it also. Hope your well mate ✌️😊🚀
Of all the plugins I bought for the last year (and probably longer), this is by far the one I'm most excited about. It just drags me to it. The intuitiveity of the UI, the feeling, the sound. Makes me want to use all the expensive plugins and hardware I have, sample them and drop them into amigo. It sounds so gorgeous and the workflow just clicks with me. I think for the last project I haven't used a single track without it ^^. So good
You just described the way renoise makes me feel.
I agree! I mean the UI is just amazing to work with. It's so simple and easy to navigate - actually makes a huge difference compared to other similar plugins. I've been loving using it for the last week or so ✌️🚀😊
I ❤️ Renoise still of course :)
❤ what a great review, the intro blew me straight away! I already bought the amigo before but man…. Subbed! 🎉
Cheers dubnightstudio! Welcome to the channel ❤️ Glad you enjoyed the vid and Amigo - it's great ✌️🚀😊
Unbelievably dope. THANK YOU PotenzaDSP!!!!!
For sure. They did a great job 👏
lovely. been using this thing a ton and love every bit of it. Nice break chops in your example!
I’m the same Shane! Been moving this plug-in. Breaks always sound great layered like that but it can be quite tricky to get them working together :) 🚀
Fantastic plugin. Hours of fun. Thanks for the tips. worth every penny🔥
I agree! Great plugin - lots of fun 😊✌️🚀
Best review of that plugin so far. Now, i need it! jajaj
Thanks santi! Yes get it :) ✌️🚀😊
Great review and great production value in the vid itself.
Cheers atdfilms, glad you enjoyed! Had such a fun theme to play with 8-bit pixel art style :) ✌️🚀😊
This is a total no-brainer! Thanks for sharing the groove!
Cheers Troy! Yea it's wicked - amazing UI - heaps of fun to be had! ✌️🚀😊
End track was banging
Cheers dude! Glad you enjoyed that tune - I was quite proud of my little star wars animation at the end there 😊
Wow! Brilliant stuff
Cheers Kenny. Glad you enjoyed the vid mate ✌️
I actually like to see them allow 24bit 48/96khz samples. Just a just nice sampler to use. Not just for retro.
that would be a great feature
what a nice tutorial.....well done.....thank you.
Glad you enjoyed - thanks for the comment :) ✌️🚀
Wikkid video, this is a game changer for oldskool sampler and amiga lot!! Purchased and will give it a try tomorrow!
For ease of use & being able to combine the Amiga sound with morden workflows its a a non brainer for £10! 😊✌️🚀
Nice! Thanks for this!
no worreies! Thanks for the comment - glad you enjoyed ✌️😊🚀
@@groovining Yeah man- you've got some of the best vibes in town.
Cheers bro! Were getting there. Lots more to come this year :) 🚀
hell yea glad you got a copy!!!!
Yea ghal3on! How could I not :) Been loving it. Great UI - tons of fun. Can't go wrong really. ✌️🚀😊
Sick tune at the end. !!
Cheers mate. Glad you enjoyed the vid and track. Amigo is wicked :) 🚀
I wish they would add additional algorithms for the different samplers
They had some great success so far so I'm sure they're already planning some updates ✌️😊🚀
Tons of useful features packed into a single plugin, there's no excuse to not make some tunes.
I agree - perfect creative box to work out of - heaps of fun too! ✌️🚀😊
@@groovining I bought it for the chord memory, I've always wanted to do the one finger chords like they did back in the day. I was really pleased with the results but at the same time I have to be honest and I can't say I care much about the sample rate hard limitation but this is the first version and I hope they keep updating it.
I'm sure they will with the success they've had already. ✌️🚀
yeah this sampler is sooo freaking good
Yea its a banger! ✌️🚀😊
Thanks !
marvellous !
Cheers mate :) ✌️
The drums at 5:10 sound dope!
It’s quite an obscure break that but sounds good crunched up for sure! 😊
Outro track is pure dark 🔥
Cheers Paul! I enjoyed that little Star wars animation also :) ✌️🚀
Nice intro !!! 👾
The production value is real
Levelling up my game ✌️🚀😊
i havent gotten around to buying ableton yet, still using the trial version but im buying this sampler right now. Looks amazing
It's better than ableton :)
Background music @ 6:17 reeks of Oliver Lomax 😂 Well done mate
Haha you caught me :) Cheers Phil ✌️🚀😊
🧙♂ I'm a jungle wizard & I support this plugin
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Oh god... this is absolutely amazing... guess I'm going to buy another plugin 😑
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It’s 13$!! Skip lunch
8 days a week I love love love you & it's not nough to show I care 😄💥❤
Haha appreciate you too Freshness! It's a banger of a plugin right ✌️🚀😊
Sick AF G ✨🥁🚀@@groovining
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Pretty dope for hip hop as well.
Yea it great for hip-hop for sure. Give a bit of sp1200 vibes :)
life changing 🤣
Renoise - much of my channel is focused of this DAW. It's an old school style tracker - czcams.com/video/vaaf1x_-xfc/video.html 😊✌️🚀
Love this plugin. Only like 15 bucks or something too. Great video
Yea it’s great value for £10. Love this plug-in 😘 xx
Yo that break!
Funky drummer + Bukem breaks combined and processed ✌️🚀😊
trippy intro
Runway AI but lots of after effects tricks :) 😊✌️🚀
Sold and at £10 a no brainer. Damn. 😯
Yea £10 is nothing these days for a plug-in this fun! 😊
great tool
Yea it’s wicked 😊
cool
Could you tell me where is the 1st screen labelled Drum Breaks is linked to? Is it part of the app or another program in Amiga?
what device are you using to map the break 1 and break 2 phase and then have them both on another knob??? thats so dope in ableton it wont let you control them independently once you map them to a macro!!! about 4:53 in
In Renoise it the Inst. automation devices. They respond to different instruments so you can combine multiple of them into one Doofer (Macro device).
One way to do this in ableton would be to map each to a midi controller individually. then map them both to another midi CC on the controller. 😊✌️🚀
Im a BoomBap producer and this might just replace Serato Sample for me. Thanks for the breakdown. About to check it out!
Serato Sample is amazing also. I think there is a place for both in your workflows. Amigo for Drums is wicked. Serato for sample chops 😊✌️🚀
@@groovining yeah man this definitely adds that grittiness to drums that we all know and love. Amazing
I like 'aliasing'.
I agree actually. I quite like it too! Not too much though. Just a smidge 😊 🚀
hi,what was that tracker u used? and how to connect it to this plugin? is just midi ccs you are somehow sendig via it?
I use Renoise. To use the Plugin you just load it as a VST software instrument and send midi to that instrument.
Saw that plug a couple days ago, it seems awesome! But it won't work without sample :)
Where do you find most of your "gem" samples, personally?
the fun in sampling is finding your own :) vinyls, radio, youtube, spotify where ever !
Honestly - CZcams. It's incredible, you just gotta start digging around. 💎✌️😊
The internet archive has a bunch of classic 90s sample CDs in wav format. Stuff like Zero G Jungle Warfare, Blu Mar Ten etc.
I'd be curious to see your opinions on Beepbox/Ultrabox.
I’ll check this out for sure! Just away for a few days :)
Mannnn the first beats I ever made were on a Tracker Program 😂
I think it was called RTtracker maybe? Anyways that program in windows kicked off a lifelong obsession for me. Looking back I had no clue at the time where it would take me
Yea it’s crazy how it all begins like that. Some shitty free/lite version of a daw when your 15 and then years later your still cracking away at it. I love trackers - specifically Renoise these days is the best. 🚀
@@groovining absolutely. great video man. subbed
Thanks mate - welcome to the channel :) 😊✌️🚀
Question…… how do you have 2 (or 3 for that matter) amigo samplers working on 1 track in renoise and have the samplers working in mono with each-other. Trying to figure out how drum hits from one amigo sampler can cut off my other drum hits in another amigo sampler 🤔🫣
Just program them on one lane in Renoise with gate on. The lanes are monophonic in Renoise.
@@groovining new to renoise 😞. How I turn gate on a track? 🫤
@@emuthaslice Gate in Amigo. Program on one track in Renoise
@@groovining agh 🫠. Got you 🫡
I really hope Machine Girl is aware of this, the music they could make with this could be phenomenal
Yea it would fit with their sound perfectly! 😊✌️🚀
Bought this 2 hours ago ...Anyone want to buy some old hardware samplers?
i guess now the prices will drop hard😅
I love my hardware samplers ❤️ but this could well have an impact on people thinking about going the Amiga -Octamed/protester route. For £10 and none of the hassle it’s great. 😊 🚀
what is that modern tracker program hes using please let me know!!!!
Renoise
Renoise is the best! 🚀
Could you do a video about plug-in automation in Renoise in the effect command column?
Yea for sure. I know a few people have been asking about this. Am back next week so will get on it then :)
In the meantime I’ve watched a Renoise tutorial and will have a play around, be interesting to see a deeper dive on how you used it with Amigo
It actually works great with Amigo - will see what i can rustle up 😊✌️🚀
How do loops sync to rest of Ableton project?
In samplers like this you need to pitch the loops to work at your project tempo manually. Like a DJ would :)
Are there any features that you don't get from just stock Renoise?
Akai timestretch, sample start/end modulation. Sample rate reduction, true 8 bit. There is a lot of cross over and Renoise is better for most things with all the tracker FX but Amigo still has value for sure 😊 🚀
Great video Groovin g windows defender didn’t like it but right mouse click keep anyway extract to desktop then go to which version ie Mac /win extract to common file vst folder then worked ,It didn’t like the vst desktop folder renoise wouldn’t see it but worked in the program files (notx86)common files Big up for the video and to the makers
Thanks. Hope this helps some people with the same problems :)
@@groovining Nice one brother respect
I'm having massive trouble getting amigo to work on MPC beats, anyone have any ideas???
I haven't used MPC beats much but it should work just the same as any other VST. Does MPC beats let you load software instruments or just FX?
can you please do a tutorial on how to install it? Ableton is not reading it somehow :(
You've got to make sure you drag VST3 in VST3 or VST to VST. seems to be the problem most people are having :)
dude, how do you edit videos like this, i am just watching it like "how"
Photoshop, Midjourney Ai, Premier Pro, After Effects and of course a year at hogwarts 🪄 :) ✌️😊🚀
Sensibly priced too. Hopefully they sell a bunch.
for this afordable price it's a nobrainer.
I agree £10 is amazing value for what you get. The timestretch alone is so close to the original ✌️🚀😊
hi whats the old school tracker you are using ? Thanks
Renoise - my channel is largely built around this DAW. It's the best modern day tracker ✌️😊🚀
Thanks for getting back to me , I mostly use a hardware sequencer but this looks right up my street . Thank you
I have a Digitakt/Digitone & have used Polyend Tracker in the past. The sequencer in Renoise is a beast by comparison and super creative with all the Tracker FX, Step Automation etc. It also interfaces really well with hardware through midi/midi mapping/ midi macro's controls etc. ✌️
Just got this🔥🔥🔥
It's wicked - great for breaks ✌️🚀😊
Do you find this vst helpful if you already have renoise?
I like being able to modulate start & end points, I like the sound/sample rate/bit depth colouring. I love the timestretch/phase tools.
It’s also so simple the UI is fun to work with. I will use this in combo with Renoise for sure 👌
Bought this wicked bargain a few days back. Am I right it thinking you can't stretch a loop to the actual DAW tempo?
you do it the old school way :) using pitch and finetune by ear u match the sample to DAW tempo
@@stekker1 cool, thanks for this amazing vst.
@@stekker1 you could time stretch all the loops you want to use beforehand to the same BPM. Then bounce each loop to a WAV and put them into Amigo.
@@forestsunset9617 ofcourse that works too :)
Do you have the right settings on Decimort 2?
I spent quite a considerable amount of time A Vs B between Decimort 2 and Amigo.
I would give it a go yourself. Decimort 2 without doubt introduces more distortion for a similar amount of filtering. I still love Decimort 2 but it’s interesting how clean Amigo sounds. :)
@@groovining I would if there was a demo version.
I wonder what pre and post filters the Amiga and Amigo use. When recreating the sound of other old samplers, I often have to change Decimort's filters to match the sound.
@@Lotuz-mk1xv yea it’s interesting for sure. Amigo is using linear interpolation which is nothing special really. The main thing is that the sample rate is not real-time as it’s so CPU intensive. In Decimort it is. The Devs of Amigo think this may be why is so clean.
I could match the filtering very closely to Amigo but Decimort 2 always added more noise and distortion to the signal for a similar amount of filtering.
Where can i get the samples?
Jungle jungle blu mar ten free sample pack is a great place to start :)
Yo, what program in that on the left at 6:45?
Renoise :) My channel is largely based on making music in that program. It's a old-school style Tracker :)
@@grooviningAha! I have tried Renoise though but my first impression was that there was too much going on. It was too overwhelming for me so I stopped. The way it's displayed here, looks nice though.
@@iShredStreetsIt’s great. It is overwhelming AT FIRST, but I think any DAW is. Once you dive in and accept it for what it is, it rocks hard.
@@ArtersaThanks for the input! I used Fasttracker about 20 years ago. I also have to be honest that I didn't have the patience the time I started up Renoise. Then yesterday I found this VST. Then later I booted up MilkyTracker to see some of my old tracks and I got inspired again. Time to get into Renoise.
Renoise is epic - learning curve is a little tricky for lots of people but if you've already used trackers I'm sure you'll pick it up super fast. I made this series for people getting into the program - czcams.com/video/Qwfnvs5pIcM/video.html
can somebody please help me add this to my plugins in FL... i never had a problem adding ant vst to FL until this one. i have over 20
it's a vst3 u need to install in the vst3 system folder, read the .pdf manual included it tells u exactly how to install
@@stekker1 ithanks i got it already i wa putting it in the wrong folder lol
I need this on Koala!
Yes! 😊
This is crazy, it’s almost as good as the stock sampler in any DAW
It has a cool colouring with the sample rate/interpolation. The timestretch is pretty unique + phase. It also has an great Ui so for £10 it does provide something valuable for a lot of us.
i like this...but i stand by octamed
Yea fair enough. In direct sound comparisons there is still a fair amount of difference. This is just a handy tool, for ease of use and price :) ✌️
All I got was a dead zip and pdf - and contacting them was a waste of time - they don't answer emails.
They’re probably mad busy. I would try again - everything is legit. Most people are very happy with the plug-in
@@groovining I've tried the download link on their site and the link in the email they sent me - both returned dead zips - I even changed my PayPal password thinking it might be a scam.
But you seem sincere so I'll take yourself advice and dig out the email.
Thanks
No worries - I'm helping them with beta's etc so definitly not a scam :). Have you sorted this yet?
@@groovining not yet - been busy - try later today. Thanks.
Still a dead zip and no reply to their own email link.
I should be informing PayPal at this point.
I'd rather use Renoise Redux
Love this plugin but….. the Amiga was 16bit not 8bit!!!
I think it's because programs like Octamed used 8 bit audio internally when you wern't sending midi to samplers & synths etc. 😊✌️🚀
@@groovining Aha! Thanks for the intel 👍🏻
I live in America so i cant buy this because I don’t have any pounds 😔
I'm sure you can buy this from any country in the world. They've just moved to a better online store/website so I would give it another go or get in contact with the owners. ✌️