SPECTACULAR Soft Synths of the Commodore Amiga
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- Опубліковано 21 тра 2023
- A delve into obscure software instruments on the Commodore Amiga. Here I look into both realtime & non-realtime varieties, covering a staggering array of synthesis types!
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These sound pretty amazing, especially the early ones. How eye-opening.
Fascinating. I missed the whole Amiga experience, moving from Commodore 64 in the 80s directly to a 386 PC in the 90s and it was a long time before MIDI came back into my life.
As a 16 year old in 1986, I remember my A500 being able to play dist guitar samples. Totally blew me away back then. Me and my mate Peter Wallis would swap disks from public domain 17 bit software. Mainly fancy text set to very urgent sounding music. Loved my Amiga.
Bars and Pipes!!! That was my happy place 😊 Texture by Roger Powell made my brain hurt but I wish there was a version for windows. And Music Mouse by Laurie Spiegel was my moment of Zen.
Do I get it? I almost would get it. But I may not want to get it. See for me it was clear: The Amiga was for the gamers and the video people. If you wanted to be a musician - at least in Europe, Atari ST was the way to go. Cause it had Midi built in, a monochrome monitor SM124 with higher resolution and software producers like C-Lab and Steinberg. So didn't have to have some "cheesy" plugins but simply plugged in your "professional" synthesizers (supposed to be there but usually had to be still saved for and bought later on) and make "real" music. Not "just" for computer games... Kiddin, great video about some impressions I always wanted to learn about back then. But I didn't have an Amiga. Now I get it.
really great, comprehensive overview of amiga audio. i can feel your passion for this, and really enjoyed it.
I remember seeing adverts for Aegis Sonix and for the plethora of sound samplers that were available for the Amiga. They were some of the main reasons I wanted an Amiga so badly... I was still using a C64 at the time. So I saved and saved and got my first Amiga 500 around 1988. Loved the wide range of incredible audio software that was available, but also got drawn in by Dpaint and ended up becoming a graphic artist instead of musician... still dabbled with music for many years on the Amiga moving up to an Amiga 1200 and an Amiga 4000. The after 20 years without access to my Amigas, I splurged and picked up an Amiga 1000 earlier this year. Also have a Raspberry Pi 400 for when I want to emulate more powerful Amiga's, but there's nothing like using the original hardware.
The Archimedes has 8 channels of 8-bit audio in hardware with independent pan controls. It suffers from never being mainstream enough to accumulate as much software as the Amiga but there are a few trackers and audio editors.
This was a blast from the past! I tried so many of these programs back in the nineties, creating all sorts of weird and wonderful sounds, but with absolutely no musical knowledge, it never went anywhere. Thanks for finely crafting this video together; both the nostalgia trip AND seeing all that software/hardware being used by someone who knows what they're doing made it well worth a watch.
Super cool! Never knew the Paula could do AM and FM in hardware, and it's fascinating seeing how many complex softsynths were released relatively early into the Amiga's lifespan.
The Commodore Amiga 1000, plus Noisetracker, then OctaMed is where I began my musical production journey back in 1990.
"in a pwm manner"
I enjoy your narrative pace as well as the general presentation of the project.
Excellent video! The Amiga was such a forward-looking machine and it's incredible just how much of the modern computing experience was already available on the platform all the way back then.
I loved all these programs growing up. It was so amazing each program doing something so new.
I never knew soft-synths were around that long, I thought the only options back then were hardware ones... Fascinating stuff
Excellent video! Back in the days I mainly used samples in protracker and Octamed and only later in life found out about some of the software featured in your video. Another fav of mine was the technosound turbo II sound editor in which you could real time effect the input or render the effects into the waveform. Amazing power from the amiga 500. I still have an Amiga 2000 pimped with a gotek drive and am going to investigate "Sonic Arranger" as that one looks interesting! Thanks :)
Brilliant doco mate. I was just reminiscing about Aegis Sonix and here you are showing it’s amazing potential! 🙏
Amazing info and beautifully presented- thank you so much!