Sunday Jam #49 : Steamdrunk again (Amiga)

video upload by MIDI IN

"A couple of weeks ago I set out to use it to make a track from some sounds I recorded [see this post]. I finished that in Logic Pro because of time but have now finished the Amiga (Octamed) version.
Here is the original .med file:
https://peacockmedia.software/misc/st...

As mentioned in the video, it was saved by Octamed 4 and can be opened for editing in that application. Any music player on an Amiga or emulator should play it. There are tools that will play this format on modern computers. VLC can usually play .sid and .mod but sadly doesn't play this one properly on my Mac. I found foobar2000 did render it properly with the openMTP plugin."

Sunday Jam #47 : Steamdrunk

video upload by MIDI IN

"With apologies to my friend Robin of ‪@8_Bit‬ show and tell for stealing his presentation style. If you're interested in 8-bit Commodore computers, check out his channel. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Robin!

The Amiga fits into the 16-bit era, the A1200 I'm showing here is arguably 32-bit. This is an interesting era where we couldn't store entire music tracks but could build tracks from short sound samples. This is what I wanted to do today. Due to time constraints and refamiliarisation with the software, my track is a work-in-progress, but I did finish it somewhat using modern tools and that's what you'll see today."

Amiga Music Mouse with dual Akemie Castles

ALM TV

"Using Laurie Spiegel‘s amazing 'Music Mouse' program on a Commodore Amiga 2000 computer to sequence dual Akemie Castles for 4 FM voices.

'Music Mouse turns your computer into a musical instrument, played by pushing the music around in real time with the computers mouse while accessinging the realtime control options from the computer keyboard'

Music Mouse was written in the mid 1980s by composer and computer music pioneer Laurie Spiegel for the Apple Mac. It was also soon ported to both the Atari St and Amiga computers. The Amiga version is our favourite due to its use of color and ability to also play samples as well as produce MIDI.

Via a simple Amiga MIDI interface, 4 voices of MIDI data are processed by dual ALM mmMidis to sequence each of the two voice of two Akemie Castles. Some delay processing then added via an Ursa Major SST-282."

Open Amiga Sampler - NEW Amiga hardware announcement!

Echolevel

"Introducing the Open Amiga Sampler - an affordable, open-source, 8-bit/mono, parallel port sampler for the Commodore Amiga featuring stereo mixdown and an input preamp with physical gain control.

Schematics, documentation, parts list and custom PCB files are available at: http://github.com/echolevel/open-amig...

By mnstrmnch and syphus/Up Rough

Music: syphus/Up Rough"

This one is in via @deejayiwan

via github

"What are Amiga samplers?

Over the course of the Commodore Amiga's active lifespan, a great many samplers (also known variously as sampler carts/cartridges, sound cards, audio digitisers, audio interfaces, etc) were manufactured to exploit audio capabilities that were unmatched by any other home computer of its time. In 1989 an Amiga 500 with a cheap 8bit parallel-port sampler gave you the means to produce professional sounding music in your bedroom for a few hundred pounds - about the same as it cost to hire a recording studio for a few days. Acid house and techno were exploding; hardcore, jungle and drum'n'bass were just around the corner. Even if your sample-based Amiga music wasn't quite professional sounding by the standards of audiophiles and hi-fi enthusiasts and the old-fashioned music industry, it was probably good enough for underground clubs and illegal raves! Countless dance, bass and electronic music superstars got their start with an Amiga and a cheap sampler.

Some samplers back then cost a lot of money and offered advanced features or higher quality than the rest, although there was (and still is) a fundamental limit to the sound quality it's possible to squeeze out of an Amiga. This project is a clone of the typical low-budget sampler design that flooded the market in the late 1980s and early 1990s. They're often referred to as 'carts', but they're actually not cartridges: they're usually small 25-pin parallel port dongles whose circuit boards and connectors are housed in the type of plastic shell that systems like the C64 and the VIC-20 used as cartridge housings. But some manufacturers called them cartridges, and we've been calling them carts for decades, so we'll stick with that. Some live in separate boxes attached by a parallel extension cable to the Amiga's printer port, and some connect to both parallel and serial ports, or even to a joystick port, as a hacky but clever way of getting up to 16bit resolution. Interesting stuff, but out of this project's scope for now!

The common features of these cheap sampler carts were:

8bit sample resolution
Stereo or mono
Typical maximum sampling rate of ~55Khz in mono (~37Khz for stereo)
Usually claimed to feature impressive SNR, anti-aliasing filters, and special ~90Khz frequency modes (sometimes these claims were even true!)
The feature set of the Open Amiga Sampler is:

8bit sample resolution
Mono
Typical maximum sampling rate of ~52Khz
Input amplifier with variable gain"

See github for more.

Model:Samples does Amiga Tracker Music - Crystal Hammer

Published on May 1, 2019 tubesockor

"Recreating the classic Commodore Amiga tracker song 'Crystal Hammer' - on an Elektron Model:Samples. The song was originally written by Karsten Obarski back in 1987.

The first section is a background story about Amiga and trackers in general, as well as the process on how this recreation was done.

All the sounds were converted from the original ST-01 files, and the song data was manually input on the Model:Samples, only using four out of the six available channels (all for the sake of authenticity)

At 3:25, the music starts.

This was made possible thanks to the new firmware update 1.02A, which allows samples to be parameter locked."

Amiga - The Music Studio - Original Song - PRETTY COOL

Published on Mar 4, 2017 peahix

"Here's an old song I rescued off a floppy from 1987 or so. An original piece of music I made for Activision's The Music Studio for the Amiga, back when I was in high school. It's being played on WinUAE here, but the sound is pretty authentic! The video is a slightly flickery/glitchy due to the compression of the codec I used, but whatever."

An MPC Before the MPC? DYNAMIC DRUMS by New Wave Software for the Amiga

Amiga Demo - DYNAMIC DRUMS by New Wave Software Published on Mar 2, 2017 peahix

Thought this was interesting. It's a video demo for DYNAMIC DRUMS by New Wave Software for the Amiga. Notice anything familiar? The UI is a standard MPC style drum grid. Only thing is, according to this site, and the copyright date on the back of the box, this software came out in 1987. You can see the date in the image below. The first MPC to be released from Akai? The MPC-60 in 1988. This software predates it. Wasn't the MPC-60 supposed to be revolutionary for introducing the grid-based pad layout? Does anyone know of any earlier hardware or software that used this format? I'm sure there will be something I forgot and totally overlooked, but I'm drawing a blank at the moment. A funny side note: If this is the first time the classic grid-based drum pad layout came out, then virtual predated actual in this case.

Video description:
"Back in the late 80s I used to use this obscure drum machine program on my Amiga called Dynamic Drums (later Dynamic Studio). I noticed that hardly anyone else used this thing or remembers it, so I thought I'd make a little video of it playing its factory demo songs via WinUAE. I always liked the lo-fi punchiness of the built-in drum samples, and I used them on alot of tracks back in the day, usually synced to my Ensoniq ESQ-1. There's a glitch in the video which causes the screen to go black a few times, but I couldn't be bothered to go back and redo it so sorry about about that."

Pics of the box, description and discs for DYNAMIC DRUMS via Amiga Future.

Update via gwenhwyfaer in the comments: "The Boss DR220(A or E) had its pads in a grid layout in 1986. It may well not have been the first."

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Synth Tracks on the Amiga by Peahix

Published on Feb 22, 2017 peahix

Two playlists, one featuring the Amiga Aegis Sonix synth above, and one featuring the Amiga Deluxe Music Construction Set below. Don't miss the first track and it's description below. It's pretty funny - some musique concrete for you. Many of you might recognize the name Peahix from one, his Optigan.com endeavors, and two some of his many videos and covers posted here on MATRIXSYNTH.

1. Amiga - Aegis Sonix - CARS - Gary Numan

"Here's a rendition of CARS by Gary Numan that I made on my Amiga around about 1987 or so."

2. Amiga - Aegis Sonix - BREAKER

"I don't know who created this track for Sonix on the Amiga, but I always liked it as a teenager, so I figured I'd share it here for posterity."

3. Amiga - Aegis Sonix - Little

"I don't know who created this track for Sonix on the Amiga, but I always liked it as a teenager, so I figured I'd share it here for posterity."



Published on Feb 22, 2017 peahix

1. 1987 Amiga Deluxe Music Construction Set - Music for Bloom County Contest

"Here's something I dug up today that I haven't thought of in years and figured was loooong gone. In 1987, Bloom County had a contest where you could submit your own original song for Billy & The Boingers, the band in the comic strip. Well, this is what I came up with on my Amiga. A couple of the sounds had gone missing, so I had to replace them with other sounds, but, well, I don't think that matters very much. Needless to say, I didn't win the contest."

2. Amiga Deluxe Music Construction Set - Fugue in D Minor

"This is an original fugue in D minor more or less in the style of JS Bach that I wrote on my Amiga when I was a teenager, around 1987. I wrote this before I'd had any formal music theory training, so I'm sure the counterpoint and voice leading is all wrong wrong wrong, but oh well, it sounded authentic enough to me back then."

Invisible, Inc. Fan Music Video & Ableton Live Tutorial

Published on Mar 22, 2016 Jacques Mongrel

A new track via MATRIXSYNTH Member, Jacques Mongrel aka Pinwale Sounds.

"Fan Music Video of Invisible, Inc. with original music made in Ableton Live featuring the Amiga 909 Drum Rack by Legowelt. After the music video, an Ableton Live Production Tutorial goes into detail of how the track was created.

Content:
00:00 'Deep Packet Excursion' Music Video
05:28 Ableton Live Production Tutorial

Credits:
Music written and produced by Jacques Mongrel

Invisible, Inc is a game made by Klei Entertainment https://www.kleientertainment.com/gam..."

Robert Engstrand - C64/Amiga/Moog Jamming

Published on Oct 23, 2015 Robert Engstrand

The Other Guys Synthia

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via this auction

"This is a New Old Stock Program we're clearing out of The Electronic Music Box warehouse. If you got an old Amiga Computer, you now have a use for it!!

The Other Guys Synthia

A state of the art music tool that creates didgital IFF instruments for use with nearly all music programs. You can modify existing IFF Instruments. You can use Synthia on digitzed samples to add reverb, wow and other effects.

Synthia Features:

Additive Syntheseis - traditional mehtod which can create almost any type of instrument
Plucked String Synthesis- simultates plucked strings including the pluck.
Interpolative Synthesis - a method which introduces the natural imperfections found in instruments such as brass, woodwinds, etc
Percussion - build your own drum set, build any drum you want
Subtractive Synthesis - a simple method of creating instruments
Special Effects - Includes filtering, amplification, phasing, waveshaping, amplitude modulation, reverb and more
IFF Music Player - powerful and compact. Now you can play those songs that needed a memory expansion board before. Up to 32 tracks and 32 IFF Instruments. Supports chords, ties, etc.
Runs any Amiga with 512 K

Lots more cool stuff at The Electronic Music Box"

Europe In 8 Bits - Chiptunes Meet Circuit Bending

Europe In 8 Bits - Opening Titles from Device on Vimeo.

Opening titles for Europe In 8 Bits documentary.
Direction, Design, Animation & Music: Device

EUROPE IN 8 BITS is a documentary directed by Javier Polo that explores the world of chip music, a new musical trend that is growing exponentially throughout Europe. The stars of this musical movement reveal to us how to reuse old videogames hardware like Nintendo’s GameBoy, NES, Atari ST, Amiga and the Commodore 64 to turn them into a tool capable of creating a new sound, a modern tempo and an innovative musical style. This is a new way of interpreting music performed by a great many artists who show their skills in turning these “limited” machines designed for leisure in the 80’s into surprising musical instruments and graphical tools. It will leave nobody indifferent.

www.europein8bits.com
Update: new link: https://streamingmoviesright.com/us/movie/europe-in-8-bits/
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I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead by Tom J Carpenter of Analogue Solutions

"A cover I did in the early 90s using an Amiga 500 running KCS Dr. T. All the synths playing live. They are all analogue!! I cant remember which synths I used. Mostly Roland."

Kompositkrut Save My Ass Amiga 500 Music

Published on Apr 10, 2013

"The amiga is out of picture but it's what you hear ^^"

ProTracker - Aigimza soft

Published on Mar 19, 2013

Be sure to listen to this one in stereo.

"Moster sized amiga MOD 99 Kb Aigimza soft by me, kompositkrut."

Amiga - Living on the edge / Kompositkrut

Published on Mar 14, 2013 Aizerowe·36 videos

"Living on the edge 37kb played on my Amiga 500. Vide-output via composite/VGA scaler to an IBM LCD :)"

Monotribe Modification

YouTube Published on May 2, 2012 by ccdm9

"Added midi to the monotribe. It's super simple as long as you have some schematic reading skills and a bit of soldering experience."

monotribes on eBay
MIDITRIBEs on eBay

Update: The tracker is OctaMED for the commodore amiga computer.

Akai x700 12bit Sampler and Amiga 1200

YouTube Published on Apr 30, 2012 by TheCircuitSymphony

"A quick look at my Akai X700 sampling setup. Using the Amiga 1200computer for SDS MIDI dump. Only the Atari and Amiga could do this as far as I know. X700 was non SDS.... After months of trying to fix my 2.8" quick disk drive I decided to find an alternative to the huge 64k each side disks.........."

Amiga 1200 Video Modification

YouTube Uploaded by ccdm9 on Apr 4, 2012

"Rather ghetto rigged, but it looks better than my current travel screen.............."

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Amigacore Remix)

YouTube Uploaded by ccdm9 on Oct 28, 2011

"I think this video explains how much of a brony I am..............

Video made using a camera, Obsolete Computer and Software, and a little editing"

YouTube labels have Amiga.