Amiga Samplers : Budget dance music in 1990
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- An Amiga 500, Stereo Master and handful of $1 records from a 1990 Sunday market: Can we make a dance track on a budget home computer? Of course! Back when big-name dance tunes required big-budget-gear, a secondhand Amiga let you take the first steps to making a dance-floor banger.
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"im just playing around here" *makes absolute jammer*
bring the bass in!
I use Analog Fire are basic I recommend margenweb.com/vs/analog_fire/analog_fire.php?vi=am-2
Really nice video. I like it how you showed us how the late 80's and early 90's dance music was made. 👌
"Pretty cheesy house track there!"
That's the beauty and power of trackers for ya.
Tfw this guy is jamming and making legit bangers
he makes great tunes under the name of ctrix
@Bertram Ocasio lol random
Ravine your mixes defined my highschool days man, gonna check out your new stuff now
nice seeing you here :D
@@merumerutho Thank you, you just answered my question!
12 minutes in.. "Cheesy sounding house track"? Hell no, I love it! It's perfect to listen to while I'm running. I've cut it to a loop.
you obsessed
@@therealsteaklife70 🤣
ikr?! it slaps
Nothing wrong with enjoying a bit of cheese. I dig it too.
You should look into early house, breakbeat/rave/ techno etc. Way better stuff to hear from that history...literally thousands of tracks.
Damn you know what, that was a lot of work to make music back in the day! Massive respect to those electronic music pioneers!!
It's still just as much work when it comes to searching for and chopping samples. It's even more difficult when you cannot find the sound you're looking for
@@esmooth919 That's when you make it!
If that's cheesy house music, I guess I have cheesy music taste. That was fire
#tfw you realize how much 🔥 jungle was probably made on 8bit computers back in the day.
@@0v_x0 Amiga is 16bit
@@trashyraccoon2615 ya my bad. I was thinking of older Commodore sound chips, and the 12-bit rack samplers (e.g. Akai) that were popular for jungle beats at the time I guess, idk how I pulled 8-bit out of my ass. Good lookin out
@@0v_x0 Lol, it’s all good. Eh well, 8bit was pretty popular at the time. I’m friends with the dude in the video, he makes awesome shit
@@trashyraccoon2615 sweet, links? I use modern software for downtempo, but subscribe to a few old school sampler/tracker channels
“And we’ve run out out of memory” lol. Don’t miss any of that
Yeah but it stopped bloat. 4 tracks as well. If it was good you kept it otherwise it was out. Not 16 tracks of mediocrity.
@@wuxmedia Very true
i was just going to say that.... rofl. ah, good old Amiga days. fortunately, i was old enough to game, not old enough to know you could make music on it. 🤣.
Different days same problems. These days you run in the same issues if you try to add too many VSTs to your project. Not really a problem if you only use virtual instruments but when tracking real instruments it's a pain in the ass.
@@m4ssee I never run out of memory. Grab more maybe. Haha.
"You never forget the first time you saw an Amiga"..so true, i was 9, one of the best days of my life. ❤
I can't express how interesting this is. These days being able to program chart-topping beats on an average PC is a given but I've always wondered how things worked out back in the day. Also, these demo tracks sound like absolute bangers!
Back then PC's didn't have digital audio at all. Only the PC speaker, capable of beeps. Mac had digital audio since 84, but single channel. To play multiple channels and transpose pitches like Amiga could, the Mac had to use the CPU to do the work. The same ~8mhz 68000 chip that was in Amiga. But Amiga had the Paula chip, capable or playing back four channels of audio in hardware with no CPU load at all. So the CPU was left to do other things, running the UI, running the game that the music was used in, or later on with software mixing allowing more than four channels on Amiga. Octamed was a tracker allowing 8 channels for example. One thing I find interesting is because Paula is hardware, you'll notice in the video when he's triggering samples from the Amiga's keyboard, there is no perceptible latency. That was only possible later on PC with specific sound cards with their own playback hardware and their own ram, the Gravis UltraSound, the SoundBlaster AWE series and some others. Later it could all be done in software but latency was a big issue with software solutions until Steinberg invented and released the ASIO driver model.
I couldnt agree more! Ive been pouring over these videos and its amazing to learn about. Ive been composing with FL Studio for the past 3 years and I can see where they pulled from with these videos going over how it was done near the beginning! Ive been sharing these videos to everyone I know thats even remotely interested in music, I cannot get enough of this. And these tracks are FANTASTIC!
What do you mean, back then? There are tons of commercial hits out there made with FL Studio, Ableton and other producing software solutions. It doesn´t even cost you tons of money to get your hands on those products.
@@terenceskill9526 Did any of those softwares even exist in the 80-90´s? That's what we're talking about. Nowadays even a $500 laptop can run them.
@@darwiniandude Amiga could do 7 channels in TFMX format. 16 Channels and more depending on how good CPU you had in AMIGA.
It's ILLEGAL to make such jams and then not release them
This is called a "mash-up" song. But yeah, when it comes to make a song from samples of different songs, there would be hell to pay. Publishers sues, and pays the damage.
@@s.j.lattuf92 Mash-ups are mash-ups, they usually feature little editing. debuglive samples very tiny bits of the songs to create something completely different, I'm 100% sure no one would sue them
@@s.j.lattuf92 This type of thing falls under fair use. Also I think you misunderstood their point, they said NOT releasing these quality tracks is illegal (because they're really good) (it's a joke).
@@s.j.lattuf92 Sorry but this is literally how music is made and no one is suing anyone. These samples are tiny and edited beautifully.
@@drudigger the Warner Chappell does. Only if they sell their mash-up for money.
>"pretty cheesy"
> actually 1000x fire than most things released today
We need all tracks you made in this video released !
This is gold content !
Thank you
I joined the cause
❤
I joined the cause
I had an Amiga 500 and I remember discovering that most games contained audio samples. So I sat down for hours and copied them into categories onto separate floppy disks. octamed was the only music software I had
octamed wasnt bad.
of course cpying sample-disks or ST-xx was commonplace in the BBS scene in which i was in.
I still have the machines, sx64, atari ste, A500+, A1000, A4000 with vga and ethernet...,
Only the harddrive did not make it.
I love how happy this guy sounds. He’s really in his element. 😄
I know, right? I instantly had the "awesome guy who knows its stuff" vibe, from the first seconds of the video. =D
Check out his album A for Amiga on band camp. It’s fantastic.
Cheers @horatio. It's funny the amount of gear I've played with over the years, yet this computer still provides me the most fun when it comes to making tunes.
@@Vitaliuz Definitely
@@CTRIX64 Awesome video dude! Inspired me to get more creative with less tools! @19:06 is this a Microbrute? If so, could you share this lead patch? Thank you! keep it up :)
When you're 38, as I am, it sort of blows your mind that this was really only big for 4, 5 years at most. It was such a huge thing back then.
Thing is, it was from the MOD scene that you launched Trance, techno, and lead to club music and EDM of today. Those multi-button boxes are just tracking "hardware". In fact a lot of the rhythms, samples, and mods ended up in some of the "greatest" hits as it were. Folks were still sampling records and crunching mods, cutting custom records and then using them in live DJ mixes in the Underground Raves of the 90s. I should know. I cut samples and made some MODs that my brother would use for live work. So yeah. To me this is the sound of the ground-floor of all modern EDM/Electronica. The software used today has advanced but core concepts remain. The "iconic sound" was established by the old 8-bit limitations.
Of course there were commercial operations in play. Least we forget the ever amazing Miami Sound Machine. Hehe. Good times.
It's interesting how the basis for trance, a single melody line jumping between different parts, probably has its basis in just having a few channels to work with on trackers. Even so it's a great style, which would be enjoyable even if there never had been any channel limitations.
Yup! :D
It was a big thing for a bit longer than 5 years if you look outside of just the amiga. The tracker music scene pretty much lasted into the late 90's/early 2000's. Broadband is really what killed it imo.
@@lawine Yeah - that's in the text in the credits. Amiga sampler / 4ch scene was until around 1993 / 95, then OctaMED really took over, the Sound Blaster generation had Impulse Tracker and other formats which kept it going. Technically, tons of people (myself included) still use trackers like Renoise.
You're a killer! I'd love to hear a full arranged track of the tune at 14:20
This reminds me of being a small kid back in 91/92, and spending hours in my uncles room watching him cut together tracks.
His room was just floor to ceiling vinyls, tapes, and 8 tracks, and him in the corner with his Amiga, synths, and hi-fi system blowing the roof off the place.
It was quite the education 😂
Do you have access to any recordings he made? Would love to hear
@@bobsondugnutt5688 SAMEEE
Ahh, the good old days.
Can we listen to some stuff he did?
@@RimshotsandNamaste I don’t think I have any of his stuff, he emigrated to Canada in 98, and he passed away from cancer in 2019, so I don’t know how much of his stuff is still around. I’ll have to email his husband to see if he kept anything, but as far as I know, all his gear was donated to a community music charity, but any of his old recordings and mixes would be on cassette, so it’s anyone’s guess where they could be
Dude you have a pony tail. You are a legit source of music production information.
This is awesome 90s cheese. Man, that was the far west of informatics. We will never have another time as charming as the late 80s and early 90s were. I'm so happy to have been an Amiga user during my childhood.
I was using sampling back in 1985 on my Amiga 1000. In 1986, I got an adapter to make my own sound samples which I used to make of instrument sounds. The device came with software to play back the samples in real-time using a MIDI keyboard, and also included the ability to save them in the Amiga's industry standard IFF format.
My Amiga was used like an Ensoniq Mirage or Fairlight, in the mid 80s. I even had software that made the Amiga emulate the Mirage sampler and was compatible with disks made for it. I purchased 30 of them and used them in my bands. No other computer was even close to this ability in the mid 80s to run "soft synths". Later, the concept caught on with VST's, but the Amiga had that ability way back in 1985. The Atari ST''s sound chip by comparison was a huge step back from even the C-64, and actually the same chip used in the TI 99/4 produced back in 1979 or 80.
I was doing the same. It was great for the time and easy to use.
5:15 -- samples for 3 seconds, "And, we're out of memory."
I guess that was stereo 16 bit 44kHz (btw not sure if it can handle 44 kHz) so runs so quickly out of mem.
Regular samples were 8Khz mono 8 bits until ImpulseTracker
Yep, I had an Akai S-20 in the mid 90's which used a 1.44 MB "floppy" disk (the smaller one, not the actually floppy 5.5" kind) and it would hold a whole minute or so, haha
Even in the mid 90's I remember recording 10 seconds of a song off a CD and ran out of space :D It wasn't just the hard drive either, you'd run out of RAM fast.
and now you can have a 1tb drive no bigger than one of your finger nails !
Maybe memory was short at the time for a high samplerate stereo sampling BUT in thiat era the games/demos was equipped with amazing tunes. (C64 and) Amiga was the platform where those tunes really printed in and now 30+ years later people still able to remember to every note. Nowadays memory or sample rate isn’t a limit anymore and somehow i can’t remember the music of less than 3-5 yrs old “big” titles...
C64 and Amiga tunes are unbeatable.
"cheesy house track"
A million Streets of Rage fans begin to weep
I like cheese, specially cheddar
@Lemony Snickers I must be listening to a different psytrance coz i hear no cheese.
I like cheese
Saw the word rage and thought about how the prodigy sampled rage against the machine for fire starter
What a great comment, as a Streets of Rage fan, the soundtrack and the songs it ripped off got me into this genre. It's always nice to see other people see this connection too.
I just watched the history of the Amiga Commodore, "From Bedroom to Billionaires" and it amazes me that there were (are!) scenes like these, populated by highly passionate, talented people. That last mix is dope!
13:30 That sounds amazing, i love that. When the beat went from chaos to something more standard it was really nice
90s house arcane game music vibe
imagine, stumbeling on to this video, watching it, and realising you still have your "old" amiga 1200 carefully stocked in a room. running upstairs, unpacking it, and listening to the "crap" music you made yourself back in the early 90's....
i spent countless days fiddeling around with protracker, entering all them command to the notes....
ah nostalgia :D
been there,done that :)
what you did here as an example is actually sounds dope
this is crazy, love it too!
We're talking about cTrix here, the guy is awesome.
Want tune at 1:47!!
@@alienproberecordings Look online for "cTrix - Funky Beat" :)
@@MarchandendYves cheers!!
czcams.com/video/95u6l-yZGKo/video.html
How smart were people back then, like your self, to improvise and make their own sound collection. I did not know my Amiga could do this, so Awesome. Good on ya, and also loved the Coldcut , Lisa Stansfield music..back when music was amazing! I did the same thing on my humble C64.
This video is what CZcams was meant for IMO.
These days you have to dig around to come across gems like this.
All right, this was awesome. I've always wanted to try this on my A500 so it's really cool to see the process laid out like this. Thanks for putting this together, looks like a ton of fun!
No problems Clint! HMU if you need any software (I'm sure you are on the GoTek or HXC tip!) I'd recommend ProTracker 2.3d with it's built in sampling options. It's just about the right combination of capable-but-limiting and is some serious fun. OctaMED really needed an Amiga 1200 with accelerator card to get 8 channels - I think people sometimes forget this. ps. I'm looking at making a limited run of Amiga 500 mono samplers later this year... so maaaay be able to send one your way ;-)
Amiga forever ! :) I wonder what an Amiga 1200 would bring to it (more memory aside). ;-)
SIT ON MY FACE CLINT!!!!!!!
LGR SIT ON MY FACE CLINT!!!!
geeeetings, this is an LGR amiga thing...
aaaand we're outta memory. Omg, the nostalgia!
devjock could be a techno song
Time to look into getting more.
Sample that sentence and make a song :)
the real era of electronic music.Things were so much more romantic and creative back then.I love that journey much more than using a DAW today.
Rough times, the music production on the budget was very precarious back then, but it has its charm, and it looks nostalgic even to me who was born in 1990. To this day I still jamming to some oldskool UK Rave music that was probably done in this way, great video!
This Man is so passionate about what he does, it really warms up my cold, shallow heart
That "cheesy sounding house track" had me backspinning
The beat at 14:20 is ridiculously creative
it really sounds like the best track ive heard in a month
@Countach Control Yeah it would be great to see a finished track !!
Creative? No, not really. Cool? Yes.
12:04 Dude that sounds freaking beautiful! I would totally pay for a full version of that
Seconded
There's something similar to it on my channel which I released at Syntax 2021, the demoparty that ctrix (debuglive) runs. Called Cold Cut House 2 :)
I really believe now, all of the music I love from back in the day was made this way, and I didn't realise untill now, that the sound these systems produce and the craftsmanship of the producers sampling skills are as much a part of my love as the overall finished songs. There is a certain sound/groove which comes off these systems that I can't quite put my finger on that I love that I've never heard replicated in modern music productions/daw programs.
Edit... watching this agin 1 year later. Awsome video.
I wish that were true, but unfortunately it isn't. The samples and the hits came from professionals with extremely expensive, professional equipment. This interview with Drax Ltd II (the composer of legendary "Amphetamine") illustrates it quite well: czcams.com/video/S8hCQWI9WJ0/video.html
Plogue Chipsounds with ARIA Engine import iff from Amiga Soundtracker Sample Packs (ST-XX) in original IFF & PCM formats and others. mod.
He is making better songs on this than I do in Ableton. Witch craft.
Trackers just make awesome tunes, try Renoise for the modern day.
Don't forget SunVox
@@synthoelectro renoise is my first daw. pretty decent. just got into music so it'll take a bit before I make total bangers.
@@YlowX7 very cool, my first stab at making electronic music was Fast Tracker II, back in 98
Try limiting yourself in the beginning I just downloaded lots of vst plug-ins synths etc. And the more I got the worse my racks got. Even if there's an easier way by limiting you get more creative with the things you have and learn them way deeper. But never loose to wild with plug-ins on an experimantel day. And analog synths sound way better and have that hands on feeling and even got pretty cheap by now maybe try behringer for entry level. Maybe watch some videos bout old recording techniques they got pretty creative with the limits of their time even shaping whole genre's which would maybe never been born if they had everything at hand we have now. Anyway rock on :)
Dude you have some serious skills. I wish I saw this video in the 80's/90's...
Indeed!
His artist name is c trix. Check out his album A for Amiga on Band Camp. It’s killer.
@@DJBigDubs Doesn't sound like how he cuts up that Surface 7" around 14:14. Too bad he had to put in that DX lead again ( yep overused on the A is for Amiga album) But that part is bad ass! Get some synth filtered stabs in there and such. 12:14 before it gets a mess is also cool. I would press that on 12"
in the 80s? Lol, how?
@@Madrrrrrrrrrrr Yeah - the DX lead I'm on the fence about still! Thinking of making it straight up instrm groove disco.
Limitations bred creativity, nowadays there is no limit and it is quite overwhelming, It is kind of inspiring knowing that you only have 30 seconds of memory you can't waste it every bit of time was valuable real estate
This is awesome. I had ProTracker on my A600 as a kid, but never really managed to make anything resembling real music. I had a few floppies with mod tracks that I loved listening to though. Seeing all those commands scrolling by was pure magic!
This takes me back to 1993 when I was a 14 year old kid using FastTracker 2 with my SoundBlaster 16 to make music.
Pretty much the same as me, still got all my old tracker stuff.
i was off the amiga by 93, loved the clarity 16 bit sampler though. that was as far as i got with amiga hardware. then i went akai and atari st.
Making mods and XM files
hear hear.
@@zash721 33mhz 486sx and Gravis sound card. Ultrasound
I wish I had such a tutorial when I was a kid back then. It took me 5 years to painstakingly assemble all that knowledge that is now packed up in a 10mn video
but it was fun!
Around the time this was uploaded I was making a metal album with 90s dnb elements. I spent a lot of time researching how producers accomplished making their drum loops and breaks because I didn't have a sampler or MPC and was constructing the breaks bit by bit. I learned a lot of producers in the mid/late 90s were using the Amiga to assemble their music. They document themselves speeding up the sample and recording it and then slowing it down in the Amiga to save on memory! Something I didn't even have to consider when recording the EP. Recording it was difficult but this is like a whole other level of thinking about how music is created and assembled. How I didn't end up finding this video until now is beyond me, this would have been a massive help. Very interesting time in tech and music!
The infamous _loudness_ button 😂 what a time to be alive
As someone who basically grew up on tracker music, I would like to thank you very much. This melted my heart.
dude, this songs are actually fire
edit: PLEASE RELEASE THEM SOMEWHERE!!!!
please share these songs! they are awesome, thanks!
They are here. XD
Sample it!
This guy makes music on Spotify as cTrix
@@mister_mozzarella only the A For Amiga album is on Spotify, nothing else is. Funky Beat, Proto Mix, Thanks Roy and Miles Per Pattern can be found with a bit of Google searching, though.
I used to make hip hop tracks in my teens with Fast Tracker 2 on my PC. I learnt how to use it by playing tracks that I found in the CD that came with the video game magazine I used to buy. so much fun!
Lol. I actually soldered a few kits in 1990. Some older dudes that lived up the road got some kits out of the mail but had no clue how to assemble them. I used to have some really cool tools and they said hey can you put these together? I did. After my dog chased the neighborhood bully up the road and that occasion they told the bully to leave me alone. I remember a few years later they had me wiring their cars with 12” speakers and I got to wire up a 4 gauge wire to a car battery, no fuse lol. Jesh that was like 30 + years ago. Jesh time has flown by. I still have a GM with the 3.5 floppy drive converted to a cd rom kit. She still rocks !
so freaking dope
Gonna break the bank now, fuck my cracked version of fl20 and all the vst3 shit i got.
No sickick, you are dope
Hey, Lomaticc. 😉
I remember as a kid going to a music store with a friend of mine and recording a lot of synthesizer sounds to a cassette tape for this exact usage. The staff had no idea what we were doing and why. :D
haha yeh I did that too with my pals - wish I had kept some of our tracks, would bring back some great memories
@@i3lueveinYeah. It's amazing how you loose tracks! Incredibly, most of my MOD music survived except for a few tracks on 5.25" floppy. Everything from the point where I switched to AWE32 + SF is gone. As is anything I did on our family digital piano + hardware arranger. I've got a roof-high stack of cassettes but it's all recordings from the radio. I know I often recorded over my demos because in my mind I could always re-load the floppies and record them to tape again. Crazy hey
@@i3luevein Haha - I didn't quite have that confidence as a 10yo. But by the time I came back around to electronic music I had my MD recorder and certainly did some "I want to listen at home before I commit to buying this" recordings. I'm sure they guessed what I was doing :-P Especially when I dropped back in for a 16GB smartmedia card a few days later.
@@i3luevein yeah, kinda sad that i don´t have my early tapes anymore... i bet there´d be some songs that´d surprise me today :)
😈😎
Holy shit! Firstly.. Amazing tune/sample selection my friend . Those fist few tracks were all in my 7” collection as a young lad at school that thought he was cooler than the rest because he bought these tracks instead of kylie and Rick Ashley. Secondly… you’ve just shown me how guys in their bedrooms made the music that I would go on to listen to when I went raving in the early 90’s. And thirdly.. you are one of those guys that is capable of producing those sounds and your are extremely good at it! If you ever come and do a set in the uk then I will legit come and see you play. My advice to you is get you and your kit to Ibiza and show some of those plastic music masters how it was done back in the day! You’ll revolutionise what’s going on out there bro! Just frigging awesome! ❤
What you said about using some minutes with your guitar teacher drum machine and recording the sounds to a cassete... dude, what a boss. That was sound engenering and sonic gold mining at a young age! It just blows my mind away.
Also, thanks a ton for this video. Real quality material
12:03 ''BRING THE BASS IN!'' Hahaha wow amazing!
11:57 This song is a whole vibe right there!
I built a Amiga Sampler myself from this chip back then :) Worked like a charm 8 bits and 10kHz samplerate. Now even my Akai S6000 is one of my oldest and ancient gear pieces.
Having limited amount to work with. Means you have to be very creative.
If you go back to the 60's. They only had 4 tracks on quarter inch tape to work with. And what they came up with is pretty amazing.
The Beatles sargent pepper album was done on a 4 track recorder.
Those early Rave & house tune's had a certain charm about them. Love listening to them still.
12:03 "BRING THE BASS IN!" caught me totally off guard
@@stephenemmett9753 he was very much feeling that track lmao
thanks for ruining it
What bass sound is that? love it
@@arthurmartins5495 That's what you get for reading the comments before watching the video. Who does that?
Making electronic music back then was extremely difficult. That's why they wrote only hits. Hard work.
Never thought about it, you're right!
stuff being high effort to make dissuades anyone who isn't very passionate about their stuff
Nowadays the skill ceiling and skill floor have rocketed and shot down respectfully, so now just as anyone can write a dance hit there are guys dealing in advanced physics just to get mixes that tiniest bit cleaner
I think it has more to do with it being prior to electronic music branching into its infinite subgenres. There was a lot of overlap of genres, which led to music in House using elements from Techno, and Techno using elements from Jungle/Hardcore, and vice versa, you had more variety in a single genre. Now it's all dominated by the formulaic EDM that appeared in the mid 2000s by the likes of Guetta, Avicii, etc.
Alternatively perhaps there were loads of potential hits that went unmade due to the difficulty
I'm a Japanese composer.It was good to know the history of mod.It looks interesting to sampling.
I believe that some, if not all of the commercial output of the 90s dance band Altern-8 was made using Protracker on an Amiga. There may well be others.
I made so many tunes in Octamed. One of which made it to 12" white label and resulted in a copyright complaint. Job done, 90's style.
You could bake a pattern in Protracker into a sample, this made you able to use more instruments than 4 at once. Octamed was kind of a bad tracker from usability compared to Protracker, and realtime channel mixing was not really needed with pre-baking.
Nice!
@@vast634 Octamed later version (I think 6), you could resamaple and have 14bit playback and 8 tracks.
@@jimmyfandago3211 14bit? Did that use the output volume to increase the bitresolution? Technically there where only 4 8bit hardware channels and a master volume.
@@vast634 I dont know how they I did it in the software but it blow my mind back in the late 90s. Their was a diference in volume though and bit of lag when a song/track started. Track could be paned instead of hard left/right as well. I ran this on a 1200, a 500 would not do it. Check this out czcams.com/video/oDXHSFLl4zc/video.html
I hope you release some of these tracks you did. This was dope.
Mad that I watched this entire video on another channel before I realised I wasn't watching on the original channel.
Haha yeah, same.
It really is mad to think how far we have come in such a short amount of time, back then using loads of floppy disks and nowadays can make more advanced stuff on a mobile phone
I remember Guitar Slinger. My mate and I were amazed by the quality of that track. Such a good song.
This is what I call top quality content. Good job, enjoy every second of the video. An explosion of creativity and passion for music. Congratulations.
"Top quality" and "content" basically contradict, because "content" is filler garbage like TikToks. This here is a fully-blown documentary.
I am already the "VST music generation" of the mid-late 90s and can still remember well the first virtual synths, emulators and effects that you could create on your own PC. For example the ReBirth RB-338 , which emulates the synth TB-303 and the drum machines TR-808 and TR-909. That was really incredible. Still, I envy a bit the late 80s generation with the limited and therefore creative sampling possibilities. Somehow underrated this art of music production. Really very interesting.👍
Rebirth gave a really false confidence in what you could do with late 90s PCs and Macs. It was great for making tracks to export to another DAW but trying to run Rebirth, Pro Tools, basic mixing effects like EQ and Compression, a couples of delays or reverbs all at once on a system with 90s CPU power was very much working around the limitations and getting everything down to audio first. I was using Rebirth for Acid and beats, a tracker for strings, leads etc... and Pro Tools LE for mixing and arranging purely in audio to get around those limitations on the 300MHz G3 I had in 1998.
Thank you so much for your contribution and keeping the old gear and music history alive!
With a three finger salute, the amega will boot.
2 in the pink and one in the stink
you've solved a 27 year mystery for a 10 year old me. I've always wondered how to get sound into an Amiga.
My younger brother used to use ScreamTracker on the PC to make music. I never understood it, but I still collect MOD files!
@MorbidManMusic Formal Beach Wear. they didn't have Google back then... :p
Exactly, we just had barely a handful of people. Thankfully the people I knew, knew a lot more than what I did. But I never got to hang out with them much, I was only a 10 year old...
Great video. Fast tracker 2 on PC. Great memories. A lot of good music was made by using the trackers back in the days. 🎹😃
Cheesy ? No way, I’ve been all over my Italian house and Acid house tonight after having the Streets of Rage (MegaDrive) then watched someone make a Synth from the MegaDrive because of the DX7 chip lol, ended up listening to 80’s 90’s synths, then he pulled the Korg M1 out 🥰 and the rest of my night is history 🤟🤟🤟
Maybe one of the best CZcams vids I've seen in ages. I collected mods and sids back in the day, was never brave enough to actually try and make my own. This has inspired me to get the Amiga out and give it a go! Thanks!
Awesome! No Amiga likes to be left feeling sad in a cupboard. Hopefully the floppies still read - else, check out a GoTek :-)
"Knobs everywhere"? Now now, I'm sure they were very nice people when you got to know them :D
This video has some certified Rave House Bangers, holy moly!
I need urgently an EP with all those tunes.
I remember as a teen I used to mess about with my Amiga doing these kind of things for hours! Amiga's were way ahead of all computers back then. Pity what happened to Commodore, they could have taken the whole market.
Guitar slinger - That music track blew my mind back then. I never thought the Amiga could produce music of such high quality.
That wierd feeling of "Now that this technology is obsolete, let me see a tutorial on it..."
Great history lesson though...
I can't even say how I LOVE to see this! It's magic, absolutely amazing!!!
Oh man you brought back so many happy memories just having an MSX computer on display.
Also what you created on the Amiga with so many limitations sounds better than what I create on my current studio setup, your knowledge shows!
Thanks a bunch.
12:03 "bring da bass in!"
*Boogie gods enter computer*
18:55 Where the line "I'm old but not obsolete" really makes sense!
Damn.. Guitar Slinger... I can't believe I recognised that immediately!!! I was about 13 or so and Octomed was like magic. The hours I spent with the 8 track trickery ... Good times. And I had the Stereo Master... I waited weeks for it to be sticked in my local Computer store... When I had it I spent endless hours sampling everything... Great video!
These tracks from 13:00 to 16:00 are absolute fire. I need to hear these. Will they ever be released???
Have we heard anything?
leaving this here for updates
@@barrylmcdonald4176 how about 14:21?
@@GLXY23 It's called Disco Vibe 2 iirc
I'm almost crying with joy watching this video. also, you are an absolute talent, thank you
Man, you're a genius. I was such an idiot, back in the day I had literally all of this hardware/software sitting around. I had the tracker, the sampling card, an A500, big amounts of stereo equipment and a whole bunch of empty disks. As a 15 years old back then , I would have needed just this one little spark of an idea or inspiration to start a huge EDM DJ career. Unfortunately, there was no one around to show me how to get all this stuff to work together. Quite unfortunate.
Back in the 90's there was a huge local radio station in Munich called 89 Hit FM/ Radio 2day, playing all kinds of music you used here, I loved that station. This video brought back many nice memories to the 90's.
You blew it Zoli.
u got it or u fack it
never too late to get back into it!
(:
I live in Scotland and my first attempt at covering a tune was Off - Electrica Salsa. Loved that tune and did the cover version from memory! Also seem to remember a "Sound of The Rhine" various artist tracks of German techno styles. Do you know the full name of that album?
Most of us have some of these regrets dude. Don't dwell on it or it will eat you up.
This is literally amazing! The amiga was light years ahead of the competition in terms of sound back then. In fact, Commodore in general was.
This was one of the best videos I've seen in a long time
Super informational and full of bangers
As a fan of vintage hardware it is so amazing to see the actual process of making tracks in 1990! Thanks a lot for your effort!
I think there is some charm to those low fi samples that has place even today.
Your videos have incredible production values. I feel like I am watching an episode of Beyond 2000. I am sure you will remember that show ;)
Okay do you remember the show before that Towards 2000. I had just started primary school 😷
@@ianteddy I had just graduated from school(17 y.o) :)
What the heck is Beyond 2000?
@@mondox6481Beyond 2000 was a fantastic weekly popular science program in the 1980/90's!!! It showed new technologies and concepts for groundbraking technologies of the future. And the future was beyond the year 2000.
In times long before the Internet, programs like that were gems! Each episode was like 25min of bliss :)
@@amjan Thank you for the info! I will look it up now lol
I remember these days. The Amiga 800 was my fave. I still have all this stuff. The Starwars cartridge was my fave.
Just saw this on a channel called Singapore Radio brother .
I hope its you and they aren't stealing your content mate 🇦🇺👊😉
Used love sampling and making tracks in the old 90s PC era .
Absolutely mad vid , shoutout from Mid North Coast, NSW .
Wow! I had that Stereo Master sampler and had completely forgotten all about it. I remember there was a "Name that Tune" competition on the radio that played a music track in reverse. A friend and I recorded it and played through the Amiga to reverse the reversed track in order to cheat. Only problem was we still didn't know who the artist or track was when it was playing correctly 😂😂
Ha! I worked in radio in the early 00s and management had me put together a similar contest. I made sure to chop it up, reverse, and rearrange bits and pieces just so people couldn't do that! Even then, I kept having to make them harder. I suppose if it's someone's favorite tune perhaps there's a subconscious thing going on that triggers the response. That or luck. Some of them were barely intelligible, but we usually got a winner after a few hours.
"The infamous LOUDNESS button" hahahaha, so true!
It was all a mid-scooped downhill slide from there! But hey, it left room for the vocals (if you had any)
It's stuff like this that make me appreciate DAWs. I started on very old (and illegitimate) copies of stuff like Cakewalk, Fruity Loops, and Mixcraft. GarageBand too. I can only imagine the learning curve for old school trackers.
I want you to know that this video was amazing, and in the past, you helped me get into tracking! I thank you very much for helping inspire the next generation of tracker producers
I remember slowing down the tape with a little 4 track before sampling and playing at higher pitch afterwards.
Top quality, dude
I did the opposite.
@@mikemeengs4124
To get longer samples, sure, but crappier.
Let's be honest, no one at that time had the passion for samples artifacts, we just like them now because it's vintage :D
@@ChristianIce Since sampling time was short, speeding up the sample before sampling and then slowing down the sample for playback was a common technique. And yes, it added a lot of grit.
@@mikemeengs4124
Isn't that what I said?
@@ChristianIce You mentioned doing the opposite. For higher quality. Right?
So a great video! This is the story of all of us, condensed in 20 minutes... thanks!
I HAVE SEEN THIS VIDEO SO MANY TIMES I CANT STOP WATCHING ITTTTT WHY ARE OLD COMPUTERS SO INTERESTING TO MEEEEE
Wish I could just have all this sounds in a big sound pack with nice VSTs. Love this video! really cool to see how other fellow producers especially the OG's used to make their music.