Model:Samples does Amiga Tracker Music - Crystal Hammer
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- Опубліковано 1 лип 2024
- 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)
This was made possible thanks to the new firmware update 1.02A, which allows samples to be parameter locked.
0:00 Intro
0:10 Background on Commodore Amiga
0:50 Karsten Obarski and The Ultimate Soundtracker
1:13 Trackers in general
1:28 ST-xx sound disks
1:45 Crystal Hammer
2:07 Converting and transferring ST-01 to Model:Samples
2:49 Manually programming Crystal Hammer
3:25 Live performance
#elektron #modelsamples #amiga
You make the world a better place with this kind of content! Thank you!
Oh, thanks! :)
This is a really cool concept for a video!
just realized, it's the same color as machines of that era
Yes, even though most of them have yellowed quite a bit since then :)
@@tubesockor this one will become yellowish over time too...
I don't know why but this hyped me a lot.
Great! :)
oh shit!
I think I'll take that as a positive comment, so - thanks :)
Loved this soundtrack :P
A classic one!
Amazing!
I think this video really proves how underrated this little box is :3
Yeah, it can do quite a lot of things for its size and price!
Just got one. It’s excellent
I'm really happy I got one of these! I do want to get a polyend tracker tho as well xD
@@sheepkillindog what do you think of it now? Is it still in rotation?
Good work!
WoW
This is nothing less than absolutely brilliant and amazingly astounding!!!!! Way ta go!!! Excellent work!!! Keep it up man!!! Astonishing!
Hehe, glad you liked it!
If The Cure were a disco group, this is what it would sound like.
Haha, not sure about that but hey why not :)
You know what, I can kind of see it, especially The Cure's more playful, less post rock stuff.
the first thing that came to my mind was Low-Life era New Order though
It has the high low disco bass they used on “a walk”. Some parts of the melody even seem the same too. Good ear there mate!
That’s incredibly astute. In a perfect world Robert Smith would randomly stumble upon this thread and throw some lyrics out.
Really nice!
This is song is a great part of my childhood :)
Thanks! Same here :)
fantastic WELL DONE!!
oooh those good old amiga days i had so much fun with the amiga 500+ AND 1200 octamed is where it all started for me trying to make some tunes
and the demoscene was great with cool graphics and music those days where golden
Thanks a lot! Yes, sweet memories from these golden days :) I have a few other tracker songs on my channels that I made back in the days - quite recently filmed from the good old unit I had on the attic...
Never heard it back in the day so it's a new song to me... WOW! Love it and I just heard it for the first time today, had to play it again!
Thanks! Agree, it is a great tune - and only four tracks/voices used!
Absolutely brilliant! Thanks for posting this video. Greetings from Toronto, Canada.
Thanks a lot, Wizetek!
This was dope bro. Nice one.
Thanks, Daniyal!
Superb work ! Congrats !!
Thank you!
Congratulations man, this is amazing ! Bravooo.
Thanks! Happy you liked it!
4:11 Hahaha that was awesome. Good job on the track, it really brightened my day!
Hehe, thanks! The finger dancers are always happy to bring some joy :)
Dude, this sounds perfect. Well done!~
Thanks a lot!
Just goes to show you the amount of talent and work that went into these songs back in the day. This was really well done! I wish devices like this had the ability to consolidate tracks automatically. Would make the process of creation in this style much easier.
Thanks! Yes, having limitations forces people to go the extra mile :) A ”compress/merge-down-with-sample-locks”-feature would be nice, but one part of the puzzle/fun is to actually see where you have free slots and come up with things that fit.
tubesockor indeed. That was definitely easier when you're using a tracker because you can see the gaps across the tracks. Also, just picked up my Model:Samples tonight! I'll let you know when I've ported Space Debris over 😁
Cool!
Dude this is so cool!! Thank you very much for sharing. I like that your version has a few unique quirks to it as well. Really clever stuff.
Thanks! It was fun to make!
@@tubesockor I really love the stuff towards the end where you are experimenting! Would absolutely love to hear you do your own take/version of crystal hammer sometime. Keep up the good work!
Yep, things like that was not possible on the old Amiga :) We’ll see what kind of stuff will appear in the future!
This is fantastic! Been waiting for someone to do something like this.
Great that you liked it - thanks!
tubesockor it's unreal what these machines are capable of. Showing people how trackers worked, then how those concepts can be applied here, is very cool.
It was fun as well! And only four channels, so two of them are taking a break here :)
Very impressive! Thanks for sharing. I love your PO videos. Peace \/.
Thanks a lot, happy you like them!
Wow, great idea, thanks for sharing
Great that you liked it!
love it! this is marvellous :D
Great; thanks!
What an awesome track!!
Thanks!
Haha, this is great! ST-01: & ST-02
Lovely that you liked it, thanks! Yes, ST-01 and 02 is firmly placed in many peoples audio memory, mine included :)
Fantastic!!!
Thanks!
Okay, yes. This made my heart happy.
Made me happy to hear that! :)
This was fantastic! You surely have a Polyend Tracker by now, right? This would surely have been much easier. Thank you for this!
Thanks! I have tried the Polyend Tracker as well and liked it, but it kind of was a bit almost ”too good” with all the channels, reverb send etc. I like to either have constrained limitations - or go full DAW with all that is available.
Makes me smile
Perfect :)
Fantastic! :-D
Thanks!
I had the 500+ and 2binbags full of X copied discs happy days
A great computer! Yup, mine are also still around. Possibly some of the X copied discs are no longer readable I'm afraid...
When the Amiga flatlines, jumpstart it with a Crystal Hammer.
Yep, just do it :)
Nice! Also thx to Obarski!
Thanks! Yes, fully agree - has anyone seen him around? :)
Klara italo disco-vibbar. Great job!
Tackar, Jonas!
Well done!! Jättefint jobbat - vilka minnen. Tack! /linus
Tackar! Ja, när jag hörde låten häromdagen så blev minnena så starka att jag helt enkelt var tvungen att göra detta :)
❤️🦑
WOW! nice
Yay!
Go, Amiga, Goooooo!
Yay!
OMG. I need to try this! Cool idea. Now sample some sid tunes 🤪
Oh, doing SID tunes with a sample based instrument is a different ball game :)
Great, I remember it quiet differently ;-) (I mean pattern sequence) but excellent job!
I'm pretty sure the pattern sequence is the correct one - well, at least that was the intention :) And thanks!
@@tubesockor Could be my old memory haha. I really enjoy this video! Reminds me my love A500+
Nice! Brings back memories! Is there no way of linking patterns into a song or do you manually have to activate them?
Thanks! It doesn't have a song mode per se, but you can chain patterns in one chain. So I could have done that here, but it was more fun to change them actively :)
LOL, 'CBM' did you grab that on your way out of Commodore? This thing is so much better than an 808
There are more Commodore hints on it, can you find them? :)
ST-01 4 LIFE
Yay!
good ! nice sound . ARIGATO🦕
Thanks!
Super fun! Care to share those samples you prepared? I would love to play with them!
Yes, it was fun to make it! I don’t think I saved the samples though, but it is pretty easy to do - just follow the instructions and the exact parameters written.
Impressive work! Could you do the same with a Digitakt or Analog Rytm MkII sample engine?
Thanks! The sound engine in the Cycles is very different from a sample dito, so the exact same thing can’t be done. But of course, a version with something similar - or even more complex could be done.
Always wanted to do the same, i think digitakt or model sample are hardware protrackers 👍
Agreed! I have an Octatrack and have always thought of it as a tracker in a box haha.
I’ll try the same with the synthstrom deluge. I will try with the Hybris theme...
Yes, it is a very tracker-like experience! With live controls :)
My thought was that Crystal Castles must have been hugely influenced by this kind of music.
Yes, I think tracker music is a common base for many electronic musicians of today!
@@tubesockor Former FT2 (and sometimes current - Renoise) tracker here - can confirm. (;
how did you convert those samples. sounds great!
Thanks! The instructions for converting is actually right there - just watch closely from about 2:09 to 2:25 :)
Great! I have the m:s! Love your video! Could you share the samples?
Thanks! Sure, DM me on twitter and we'll arrange it!
Would love these samples also! Are they wav files? Wouldn't mind throwing a few $ your way. 🙌🏻🙌🏻☑️☑️👾👾🎹🎹💾💾
C S, Yep they are WAVs! No problems to send them to you - DM me on Twitter and we fix it!
I had crystal hammer with the red sector cracktro (which ironically used another Obarski tune, amegas) and when I got my A500 in 1988 was so impressed from the quality of the music, almost a record level for me!
This machine look funny, and reproduction is excellent, just that the 8bit to 16 bit conversion of samples lost a bit of the crispness of paula
Yes, back then there weren’t many tracker musicians so Obarski's material was much of what was available :) Got my own A500 back in 87 and I also remember Amegas as one of the classic tunes.
I only naively converted the raw samples and let the M:S do the rest of the work so the interpolation/pitch shifting is quite different. Thereby no aliasing and fixed filter effects of Paula :)
@@tubesockor earlier tracker music might be more suitable due to the lack of effects like volume, pitch and other ones
Yup! Even though a lot of them can be emulated on the Elektron sequencer with parameter locks, some can’t - like quick chord arps etc.
Hi, can i have the sysex of this pearl ? I've got all Amiga disk on my Model Sampler.
Ah, sorry - I don’t have it stored in the device anymore and don’t always save everything... Might have a backup somewhere though, will see if I can find it.
Wood desk, plant, scattered unconnected items and one piece of flare, device framed in the safe zone. 1up.
Yup, perfectly according to the book :) But hey, they are not unconnected! 3.5” disks with Protracker 1.1B and some ST-0x samples, fits right in I would say. And the flair, I leave it as an exercise for now :)
@@tubesockor I like the scattered studio look myself, the "lived in" look. Makes you wonder, does everyone have healthy plants:)
My studio space was actually a bit too ”lived in” to be able to film... The plant is just a basil plant I found in the kitchen, so wasn’t healthy for so long :)
Could the Amiga accept MIDI input?
Sure, with a MIDI-interface connected it becomes a powerful sequencer.
how do I use the script tho
If you have a mac or a linux computer, make sure to install ”sox” and then just pause the video and copy the script as showed :) Let me know if you need help with it.
@@tubesockor I'm on Win 🥺🥺
@croay Shouldn’t be hard. Check the screen at 2:21 and I’m sure there is a very similar way in Windows batch file / powershell etc. I don’t have a Win computer anymore so can’t help I’ afraid. But ChatGPT should do it :)
Using the tech of today, we have recreated tge results of a 35 year old computer and tracker software! 😅
Hehe, I thought you made a miscalculation first but it is surely true :)
For what it's worth, the transfer app will convert to 16-bit 48k automatically.
Yes, but not 8-bit raw files or 8SVX as far as I know :)
@@tubesockor excellent work!
Thanks, Todd!
Those stickers lol 😂 dff0a2 audio channel 0 ctl. And bfe001 as the cia control mouse click/fire button when you btst bit 6
Hehe, glad someone noticed! :) And they are positioned somewhat meaningful too! DFF0A2 (audio ch0 location) at "Sample start" and BFE001 (bit 1 disables filter) at "Cutoff".
@@tubesockor And I literally am just programming Amiga assembly for a week. I was in the “band camp” in the late 80s early 90s I ran PC and ST 🤫 but now I do admit that the Amiga was/is better even without the standard midi interface 😁
@@CallousCoder Oh yes, it totally killed them all :)
@@tubesockor Aaah nice! It was about the low pass filter being switchable. The book said it was introduced to filter out some of the aliasing. Now aliasing as I said in another video I did about Covix DACs is the sound of the 80s. So when I will implement my ptplayer I’m sure to switch but 1 off 🤣
Nice, somebody doing other things with it than play those boring preset "muzak" elevator techno tracks.
Thanks!
I think this thing is just gimmicky junk.