Except 1.44 megabytes is a strange marketing figure which assumes a megabyte is neither 10^6 bytes (decimal) nor 2^20 bytes (binary, now known as a mebibyte). It's a weird mix of the two. A "computer" megabyte is 1024*1024 = 1,048,576 bytes and a "human" megabyte is 1000*1000 = 1,000,000 bytes. A megabyte as used on floppies is 1000*1024 = 1,024,000 bytes. To be precise, a 1.44 meg floppy is: 80 tracks * 2 drive heads * 18 sectors per track * 512 bytes per track = exactly 1,474,560 bytes or 1,440 KiB.
I had no clue you were SO well versed with DAW's and just music making stuff! To be honest, I struggled a teensy bit following you on some of the more specific concepts you showed in Trax, but this was a deeper dive into early '90s music making than I expected, in all the right ways! Now I'm in the mood for learning more about DAW's myself, dangit! xD
Also, fun fact - CANYON.MID and PASSPORT.MID were actually written by people at Passport Designs, Inc., the company behind the provided software! I wonder what the originally intended synth was for the tracks...
Does that mean he was typing looking at a green screen and then made the animation from green screen at an angle to fullscreen in post production? Unnecessarily ambitious!
@@stanstaniboy7655 It appears to me to be a video capture feed of the computer screen being transitioned into the frame from the center outward. I'm not a professional, I just slowed it down and made my best analysis. Pretty freaking cool looking though. Kudos!
People were complaining over at Reddit about it, with LGR responding to the subject here: www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/jizyib/these_ebay_prices_are_insane/gabgoio/?context=3
As an aspiring musician I would love to see more videos focused on retro music gear! More MIDI devices, hardware synths, sequencers/tracker software, all of it! Also, we need to see that synth setup!
Hey Clint- thanks for making this and letting me start my Friday with a smile. Loved your mix too, I hope you incorporate more of your own music into future videos.
@@TylerComptonShow The rest of the songs included with the Passport software shown in the video also came with the Windows MultiMedia Pack that was bundled with some OEM systems. CANYON.MID was also a product of the artists at Passport Designs.
Much like the flawless transition at 12:34, that intro was one of the best I've seen on any UA-cam video, let alone one dedicated to a detailed description of something delightfully digital.
Using hardware costing a fraction of the hardware Depeche Mode used. For a long time I wondered why the UMI sequencer Vince Clark was a big fan off wasn't more popular. More recently I found out that it cost more than the BBC computer you needed to run it.
My first pc was from the early 90's bought by parents we use to play dos games. Later we got a gateway and I had unreal tournament on it and I fell in love with pc games. Your video's make me feel nostalgic in such a good way. My mom loved playing sims and I had fun with roller coaster tycoon.
GREAT VIDEO - got me all in the fired up for the 80s. I ran, jump and dived into Spotify, and found an 80s TV/Film Soundtrack playlist with over 12 hours of 80s luscious blissful nostalgic overload music! :D
I love these old MIDI device reviews. This is the perfect sweet spot between your usual early-90s nostalgia and for MIDI and synthesizers of the time. Two great tastes that taste great together. I wouldn’t mind seeing you review old Akai MPC60 like DJ Shadow used.
Blast from the past. I HAD one of these, along with TRAX, which was my first sequencer. I had a Mac LC III in those days, a massive upgrade from my previous Mac Plus. This module had some pretty cool sounding drums. Boy did I love that setup. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Honestly, I think I'd just build my own. You can get MIDI boards online (from what I've seen, any wave table board should work), an audio amp, power supply, some extra caps for reduced noise, the connectors & controls, and just stick them all together with whatever case you like.
I really enjoyed this video! I never grew up with these '90s things, but it's always fun to look back to the past with retro tech, especially music tech. Thanks for sharing - lovely tune :)
Music in SimCity is awesome !!! 12:34 pm - beautiful transition from monitor to full screen. You can be proud of your track! It remains to agree with David on its implementation in PlanetX4 =))) Thank you!
I friggin love all the MIDI content. The sounds just take me back to my youth where this was basically how everything sounded. Even if I know as much about this stuff as an earthworm, I love seeing and hearing it. Please keep covering it!
I enjoy your videos on MIDI. Learning alot. I heard alot about MIDI hardware/softwate but never interested me much. As an engineer I was fascinated and learning AutoCad, PSpice and HP Rocky Mountain Basic.
"frequently modulated day" nice one. I have an fb01 looking right at it now sitting on my desk. It was a gift from my college music professor. Its a cool little synth and its great for punchy basses.
great stuff ! in these days I bought the YAMAHA DB-50 XG, Daughter Card, still having fun with it. Over a decade ago I fulfilled my lingering for he YAMAHA CS 1x (and AN 1x) Control Synthesizers.
Yeah his video got released just a day ago, and I was a bit sad for him because he said that no one appreciates quality content but veiws misleading clickbait toxic kids channel
Thank you for your awesome videos! Best content on UA-cam. And the song in the end sounds great! There were several moments when I wanted to pause the video and press the like button, but I've already done so in the first minutes. :)
Now that you mentioned the MU80, it can also do Roland GS in the TG300B mode. Further more, when it receives a GS rest SysEx it goes in TG300B mode. Great vid! Can’t wait for the FM synth in some other “frequency modulated day” ;)
Clint, you deserve all the good things, man! This is such a great video. I've been watching for 11+ years man, and I just wanna say bro: don't you ever change.
The games sounded good even though they weren’t composed for that Yamaha interface. Since I never owned a MIDI module back then and by the time I had a sound card with wavetable on it, the CDROM era already took off. So my ear doesn’t know how non-FM games were “supposed” to sound. I remember reading about MIDI modules back in the 90’s and always wanted to hear how they sounded. You sir have helped out in helping me hear the authentic sound. Thank you!
Can't wait to see a video on the FB-01. I LOVE mine because it sounds like every mid 80's arcade game in a box. It's like I hooked my midi keyboard directly into a Gauntlet machine. I know the sound chips are almost identical, and there's something about that lo-fi FM synthesis.
Great content as always. The layout on these older PC based MIDI programs reminds me of the sequencer on the Roland MV samplers. Complex and a bit tedious, but very powerful.
"LGR: 1.44M" is a subscriber count I've been waiting to see for a while, finally reached it!
Each of us subscribers could be a byte on a floppy disk.
@@Chillalil or a hz on a good monitor ;)
Except 1.44 megabytes is a strange marketing figure which assumes a megabyte is neither 10^6 bytes (decimal) nor 2^20 bytes (binary, now known as a mebibyte). It's a weird mix of the two. A "computer" megabyte is 1024*1024 = 1,048,576 bytes and a "human" megabyte is 1000*1000 = 1,000,000 bytes. A megabyte as used on floppies is 1000*1024 = 1,024,000 bytes.
To be precise, a 1.44 meg floppy is: 80 tracks * 2 drive heads * 18 sectors per track * 512 bytes per track = exactly 1,474,560 bytes or 1,440 KiB.
@@grootsChannel 1.44 MHz would be a bit more than a "good" monitor.
@@CptJistuce haha i meant just 144hz
LGR Synths when? We'd all love to see your main synth setup!
Come on Clint. Show us yer synths!
third this !
Yes please!
oooooh so that's what he meant by show us his organ...
Or just MIDI Mountain 2: Electric Blues-galloo.
Wow love that "on the fly" you sprung on us at the end. That was fantastic
indeed, id love to remix that! can we have the mid file clint please? 😊
cmon clint, make a rmx contest! 😊
That packaging design is the single most early 90s thing I have ever seen
Honestly I'd love to see a brand brave enough these days to make packaging so... loud XD
It just needs a pair of sunglasses.
better than the minimalist crap of today.
2000s graphics card boxes uses to be pretty nuts.
@@zanite8650 It’s not complete until they add a kid skateboarding on a rocket.
I love MIDI goodness from LGR!
28:55 DJ LGR in the house!
DJ pendejo!
DJ Lazy
@@Blurredman what's wrong with you...?
@@boden_staendig Or is that DJ Lay-Z?
@@AndrewAMartin Oh yeah! Ha ha!
That's a pretty cool transition you did there at 12:34!
@@patrickglaser1560 Dooo do do do do do do do do dodo do... do do do do!
TWELVE!
Really cool! Very retro like you used to see in old television shows about PC's.
Came here to say that same thing. Super smooth and natural.
I had no clue you were SO well versed with DAW's and just music making stuff! To be honest, I struggled a teensy bit following you on some of the more specific concepts you showed in Trax, but this was a deeper dive into early '90s music making than I expected, in all the right ways! Now I'm in the mood for learning more about DAW's myself, dangit! xD
You must be new.
@@wellfuckyoumr you must be smart
At first I thought "Hello! Music!" was just LGR's greeting for this video.
Same, lol. Either that or a play on "Hello, Nurse!" from Animaniacs
And I said it in Clint's voice too.
Oh hai music
@@jaythomas3180 I did not hit her! I did not.
I remember using this during electronic music class!!!!
You WHAT!? I am so jealous oh my gosh that has been my lifelong dream.
Lol I call bullshit
During what now
@@appalachianexploration5714 why
Also, fun fact - CANYON.MID and PASSPORT.MID were actually written by people at Passport Designs, Inc., the company behind the provided software! I wonder what the originally intended synth was for the tracks...
They always seem to sound best on Roland Soundcanvas based synths.
Is no one talking about the 12:34 transition!?
That was CLEAN.
Does that mean he was typing looking at a green screen and then made the animation from green screen at an angle to fullscreen in post production? Unnecessarily ambitious!
@@stanstaniboy7655 It appears to me to be a video capture feed of the computer screen being transitioned into the frame from the center outward. I'm not a professional, I just slowed it down and made my best analysis.
Pretty freaking cool looking though. Kudos!
yea like how he do daaaaaaaaaaaaaat
Love how he called out EBay sellers who are going to be quick to up the price after this video.
or maybe he called out the dudes that want everything they see on retro UA-cam.
@@BlaBla-pf8mf xactly
Clint knows the market too well.
People were complaining over at Reddit about it, with LGR responding to the subject here: www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/jizyib/these_ebay_prices_are_insane/gabgoio/?context=3
MT-32 used to go for 50-60 before it became famous on multiple UA-cam channels
As an aspiring musician I would love to see more videos focused on retro music gear! More MIDI devices, hardware synths, sequencers/tracker software, all of it!
Also, we need to see that synth setup!
Such wonderful sound of that midi unit!
When that screen zoom kicked in I went : "Oh, yes!"
It’s December my friends, Christmas Clint is near. Happiness and joyfulness with LGR cheer. 🎄💾🎁
I can't wait for Christmas Clint. Best time of the year.
Clintmas? 😆
@@cs188creations Ha I love it.
Hey Clint- thanks for making this and letting me start my Friday with a smile. Loved your mix too, I hope you incorporate more of your own music into future videos.
Sounds awesome. Little me from the '90s would love this.
The souds are still just as good 30 years later.
If the MIDI software is titled "PASSPORT", that means you're required to play PASSPORT.MID on it.
I know, right? Such a missed opportunity. I was holding out for it.
Apparently passport.mid isn't included in Windows 3.1 😢
Jokes on MIDI! I got a Multi-Pass!
@@TylerComptonShow The rest of the songs included with the Passport software shown in the video also came with the Windows MultiMedia Pack that was bundled with some OEM systems. CANYON.MID was also a product of the artists at Passport Designs.
This. I was extremely disappointed at such a perfectly good wasted opportunity.
Man i could spend hours playing around with that and listening to the samples. Must have been a lot of fun making this video.
"At least until unscrupulous eBayers jack up the Buy It Now prices after this video goes live"
I'm crying laughing that killed me
That intro was great!
Uhh. That song you put together was fire. ("On the Fly") 28:58.
Needs more LGR MIDI Tracks please!
I remixed it! link in the comments
Much like the flawless transition at 12:34, that intro was one of the best I've seen on any UA-cam video, let alone one dedicated to a detailed description of something delightfully digital.
You made an 1983 B-side Depeche Mode track!
LOL Nailed it... this is very "Nothing To Fear", and I need a copy of that .mid
@@DOSdaze haha exactly! Even “christmas Island” and “the great outdoors”
Using hardware costing a fraction of the hardware Depeche Mode used. For a long time I wondered why the UMI sequencer Vince Clark was a big fan off wasn't more popular. More recently I found out that it cost more than the BBC computer you needed to run it.
There must be at least some musical talent behind this early Depeche Mode hear-alike!
I want him to upload that somewhere
Your subtitles are spectacular.
Holy hell dude, you are incredibly talented. More MIDI stuff!
"chuckles at dubiously made statement" holy shit your subtitles are god tier LGR lol
Thanks for reminding me I still "need" to buy a midi synthesizer for DOS.
My first pc was from the early 90's bought by parents we use to play dos games. Later we got a gateway and I had unreal tournament on it and I fell in love with pc games. Your video's make me feel nostalgic in such a good way. My mom loved playing sims and I had fun with roller coaster tycoon.
LGR lowkey advertising his mixtape lol
GREAT VIDEO - got me all in the fired up for the 80s. I ran, jump and dived into Spotify, and found an 80s TV/Film Soundtrack playlist with over 12 hours of 80s luscious blissful nostalgic overload music! :D
Hell yeah, early to an LGR video without using notifications
same. automatic came up..
I love these old MIDI device reviews. This is the perfect sweet spot between your usual early-90s nostalgia and for MIDI and synthesizers of the time. Two great tastes that taste great together. I wouldn’t mind seeing you review old Akai MPC60 like DJ Shadow used.
That intro music was so late '80s early '90s!
I love it when MIDI tunes sound slightly echoey. Amazing work on this video and in depth analysis, before there was fruity loops. Top notch mate.
the basic distortion guitar sound on this is the same as the gm one on my yamaha tyros. Thank god for the revoice option.
Oh boy I love your music hardware/software videos!!
I've always thought that CANYON.MID sounds like it could be the theme for a local newscast.
Doesn’t it?! I used it as the intro to a news cast style video for a high school Spanish class (mid ‘00s) project.
Blast from the past. I HAD one of these, along with TRAX, which was my first sequencer. I had a Mac LC III in those days, a massive upgrade from my previous Mac Plus. This module had some pretty cool sounding drums. Boy did I love that setup. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
And now I'm curious what LGR's Synthwave artist name would be...
My dumb brain wants to say "Woodgrain" would be involved somehow; Woodgrain Vintage or Lazy Woodgrain or something XD
@@UNSCPILOT "Woodgrain Socks"
Just... Woodgrain
The simplicity
@@ndm13 WOODGRAIN
Woodgrain Applique
I've seen a few people mention the 12:34 transition in the comments, but has nobody acknowledged that brilliant intro? Pure style and class.
I must be having a MIDI-life crisis because I want to get my hands on one of these...
There's a similar software for Windows called MIDITracker. You can even compose just with your computer keyboard.
Honestly I'd love a modern midi interface with that bank of LEDs on the front running in time to the music, it would be so satisfying.
On the bright side at least you arent hankering for an Electone
Got your pun there,lol
Honestly, I think I'd just build my own. You can get MIDI boards online (from what I've seen, any wave table board should work), an audio amp, power supply, some extra caps for reduced noise, the connectors & controls, and just stick them all together with whatever case you like.
Excellent as always! - Looking forward to the next oddware
Holy crow, I forgot how good the original XCOM score was! :O
Also dannggg Clint! That was a sweet tune at the end! Also, god I love the sounds coming from all this old tech. It’s soooo good. And so nostalgic.
Ok, I never noticed this, but the X-Com: UFO Defense opening music sounds so damned anime!
Duuuuude!! I could watch videos of you messing about with 90s MIDI equipment for hours!
I love me some weird MIDI tunes and modules and such.
8:30 I didn’t know that X-Com’s intro music was good until now. Great..
The entire X-Com soundtrack has always been great.
@@MikaelMarius Yeah .. That’s right. I mean, Instruments.
I really enjoyed this video! I never grew up with these '90s things, but it's always fun to look back to the past with retro tech, especially music tech. Thanks for sharing - lovely tune :)
First video for December and not Christmas clone yet? I miss him… ;__;
The LGR mix was cool!
never heard canyon with so much clear depth that gives me goosebumps
You know you've made it when ebay sellers change their prices after you post a video.
Music in SimCity is awesome !!!
12:34 pm - beautiful transition from monitor to full screen.
You can be proud of your track! It remains to agree with David on its implementation in PlanetX4 =)))
Thank you!
that's a really good tune you crated there! I've been humming it in my head now!
I friggin love all the MIDI content. The sounds just take me back to my youth where this was basically how everything sounded. Even if I know as much about this stuff as an earthworm, I love seeing and hearing it. Please keep covering it!
Was expecting Phil Collins at 0:01 but I wasn't disappointed
Was expecting Rick roll
I just can’t get over how good the transition was at 12:34
Great editing work
10:52 sounds like space quest 3: christmas special
I enjoy your videos on MIDI. Learning alot. I heard alot about MIDI hardware/softwate but never interested me much. As an engineer I was fascinated and learning AutoCad, PSpice and HP Rocky Mountain Basic.
Thanks you lgr for the subtitles I hate that youtube wants to take them away.
30:44 the attention to detail throwing in those "half-beat" hi-hats lol. I love it!
I simply LOVE Tyrian OST 😍
nice tune at the end!! very impressed by the midi capabilities of this device also
9:10 DOOM not only run on anything, it also sounds good on everything
Look at the sega genesis or Atari Jaguar soundtrack
Sega 32X
@@Ash0512 good ol' diarrhea doom
Except the AWE32/64.
Respect for people that used to make music this way. Great video!
Omg all the MIDI that my life has been missing, yes plz
I think you meant “missing”
@@JasonZakrajsek Indeed. Autocarrot has foiled me once again.
i hed yes clue you were math
cool track you composed/mixed there, I love it, good job!!!
"Joel, what's a MIDI?"
10:17
It's what you mix with clorians to make a jedi.
"frequently modulated day" nice one.
I have an fb01 looking right at it now sitting on my desk. It was a gift from my college music professor. Its a cool little synth and its great for punchy basses.
I was totally expecting to be rick rolled with that intro and I don't know why
great stuff ! in these days I bought the YAMAHA DB-50 XG, Daughter Card, still having fun with it. Over a decade ago I fulfilled my lingering for he YAMAHA CS 1x (and AN 1x) Control Synthesizers.
Man it’s so cool to know Dunkey watches LGR. I never thought he’d be the type
Another dunk fan :D
Yeah his video got released just a day ago, and I was a bit sad for him because he said that no one appreciates quality content but veiws misleading clickbait toxic kids channel
He watches LGR? Nice
@@MrMG43 yeah he mentions him on his newest vid.
Never thought a late 20's early 30's man who's grown up playing games, and still does, would have an interest in LGR?
I love the mix you created.
29:47 - Totally Trent Reznor!
That was my thought too, the opening for 'Only'.
Awesome package and also love seeing Tyrian on the screen!
The 5th Grade school band be like: 10:18
Great video and the song you made was pretty good too. I love the look of those speakers and I love the sound coming out of this setup
Hey LGR how about offering a MP3 download of your track, I want to add it to my jukebox in Two Point Hospital.
That track at the end was impressive, nice work!
Your song was a banger. Felt like some NIN in there.
Awesome job LGR. Loved all the recent MIDI stuff you have been doing.
That intro gave me vibes of Phil Collins' drum solo from In The Air Tonight.
Thank you for your awesome videos! Best content on UA-cam. And the song in the end sounds great!
There were several moments when I wanted to pause the video and press the like button, but I've already done so in the first minutes. :)
All I could think of when I saw "Hello! Music!" in the title was "Hello, Nurse!" from Animaniacs
We are Aaaanimaaniacs!
With some brand new MIDI tracks!
Now that you mentioned the MU80, it can also do Roland GS in the TG300B mode. Further more, when it receives a GS rest SysEx it goes in TG300B mode. Great vid! Can’t wait for the FM synth in some other “frequency modulated day” ;)
19:30 What are you doing step-editor
Clint, you deserve all the good things, man! This is such a great video. I've been watching for 11+ years man, and I just wanna say bro: don't you ever change.
Next up: LGR music channel
Damn you Clint! I'm a Synthwave producer, and now thanks to you I NEED THIS!!!! Wow, it's insanely cool!
13:00 - They totally ripped off AdLib's Jukebox. 😒
The games sounded good even though they weren’t composed for that Yamaha interface. Since I never owned a MIDI module back then and by the time I had a sound card with wavetable on it, the CDROM era already took off. So my ear doesn’t know how non-FM games were “supposed” to sound.
I remember reading about MIDI modules back in the 90’s and always wanted to hear how they sounded. You sir have helped out in helping me hear the authentic sound. Thank you!
the intro of Driving.mts sound like a Devo Song!
Have this setup in mid 90s, you was the king!
I still want my color dot matrix printer "GREETINGS" hot dog. I'll pay almost any price.
Can't wait to see a video on the FB-01. I LOVE mine because it sounds like every mid 80's arcade game in a box. It's like I hooked my midi keyboard directly into a Gauntlet machine. I know the sound chips are almost identical, and there's something about that lo-fi FM synthesis.
LGR has 1.44M subscribers. So he is a floppy disk. LOLLLL
Quite advanced quantization features! Also, cool to see you have the Keystep; I also have it (primarily got it to control my modular over cv).
That intro music reminded me of Civie 11's outro music.
That's because it is lol
I think Civie recorded it on an (emulated) OPL3 via DOSBox
Great content as always. The layout on these older PC based MIDI programs reminds me of the sequencer on the Roland MV samplers. Complex and a bit tedious, but very powerful.