@@bazilgamerdeer1239 even before this. Brad Fiedel who did the entire terminator two score on a fair light CMI iii, had the intro sounding like a real Orchestra and choir unlike Hans Zimmer who uses a real choir and orchestra!
I was a user of Creator since 1988 and met with Lengeling at Musikmesse in 1993. He showed a demo of audio to midi coming with the next version of Logic. I got into Emagic Logic at version 2 and used it to compose music for a game developer. What a great time in life. 😊 Thank you for the upload.
haha i remember sequencing a string quartet on an atari, it didn't compete at all with string players but it gave me a chance to make sure the notes were right.
Heheh, few years ago i would say something similar, yet last month i've produced something that people cant believe is synthesized. Cant post links so i You like to check please find "Wind Still Blows" on my channel - UA-cam forbids links, and it's not for advertising myself, but i found that i've managed to become really close on strings with todays tech. So if some wants to check - feel welcome! :)
In 1992 I was using Roland U20, Roland Sound Canvas, dedicated midi card in a 386 SX computer running Cakewalk in Windows 3. I think I still have that computer somewhere.
My biggest regret in life: I had $1200 to spend on something, something musical. There was a Carl Thompson Bass at the music store in my city that someone had ordered and never payed for. They wanted $3000 for it, but it had been there for over a year, so they kept reducing the price and it was down to either $1100 or $1200. However I could get an Audiomedia 2 card, a CD burner and ProTools with either 4 or 8 whole tracks (WOW!!) for around $1200. My stupid 20yo self, "a thousand dollars for a bass? ONE instrument? That's crazy" "or i can have the coolest high tech 4-track around. I can record bands. Open a studio. Sell CDs!!" Obviously I don't have the soon to be priceless Stradavarius of bass guitars today SMDH. My only defense is that at my bands last performance in 2001, my custom Peavey bass was stolen, so perhaps I wouldn't have the Carl either way. I just knew it was what Les Claypool played so it was cool. I didn't understand the value of a hand crafted instrument and how it would appreciate with time, nor did I know about Moore's Law which isn't exactly true today, but still exists in a slower form.
The amazing thing about MIDI is you can take that exact thing they captured, and run it through the latest software which sounds ultra-realistic (even with human flaws added at random times). Sometimes I download old MIDI tracks and add them to my DAW just to goof around with them.
I learned the piano via the duck arcade game. I became very accomplished in piano, winning an award from the estate of Glenn Gould. I could never shake the habit of slaughtering mallards, however. The horrid shrieks they make when being chased down by my beagle are like music to my ears! Thanks Computer Chronicles, for letting me relive this memory
haha the guy " I can change the string into horns" then the data doesnt load in the table , the dropdown list flashes and dissapears and he exists , saying again " I can change the string into horns" but mentally realized he better just change topic and pretend it worked and hope nobody noticed it glitched , shame. Always so funny when something that you expect to work, that normally always works , then breaks when you want to show it to someone else. anyway so glad these guys paved the way forward. Imgine they could see some modern bedroom set up from this era , electric drums going into a usb powered interface controlling some amazing VST in a DAW that has sounds recorded in the most professional crazy manner imaginable. Where you can even choose exact brands and models or tweak settings like tension , sticks being used to play , room and overhead mic influence ,, im very thankful.
7:20 Finally. Bars & Pipes was the Sequencer I used on the Amiga when I started. It was almost absolutely unknown, but so much better than everything on the Atari!!!
Have you seen the full length rap music video from the era, Don't Copy That Floppy? Check it out if not. It's more than just a phrase, it was a whole super cheesy campaign they had.
@@garblojones I wasn't referring to the film, which I haven't even seen yet. "Be Kind Rewind" was a catch phrase that was used at video rental shops that asks customers to rewind the VHS cassettes before dropping it in return box. rental shops don't have the time to rewind hundreds of tapes that are returned. And as a customer, it sucked having to rewind a video because we were just eager to pop it in and start the movie. It's usually taped to the VHS case or on a sign in the shop.
Bars and Pipes Professional was the first relatively straightforward MIDI sequencer I ever used. I wrote quite a bit of music using that - I don't have the MIDI files anymore, but I do have the 4-track recordings I made with it. I use a program called Bitwig now, and even after all these years it has the same easy to use feel B&P Pro had.
Call me crazy, but the first sequencer one really gets into is like a first love. Thats why I have a Power Mac laptop, Opcode Studio 4 interface and a 3.5" copy protected disk of Opcode Vision. I think I'd like to try to get this stuff running, I have a few pieces of analog gear just collecting dust. Sure I could use External Instrument on Ableton, but then I'd have to render in real time, im better off sampling my MOOG or MiniBrute, then effects are easier. I like Bitwig too, I'm just not as good with it as Ableton, or even Logic. It has some great features and the soft modular is really cool.
I used a shareware Mac program called MIDIgraphy. I liked it so much I paid for it. Took me many years to find something just as simple to get started with on a Linux system: LMMS. Now Linux has PipeWire, which lets you interconnect different software apps in a modular fashion, all working to make music together. It can do video, too.
It's funny to see how inaccessible this type of software was for the working class back then and how software now can be used by anyone that isn't necessarily a classically trained musician
Even if you got a cracked copy of Cubase and a mono emulator to run it in medium resolution, you still needed expensive MIDI hardware and in 90s money it was £1,000 for a sampler, £400 for an analogue mono synth etc…. I would have loved to have had an Akai S2000 or Yamaha A3000 but could never afford one. Once the iMac, then the G3 Desktop came out, I ditched my Atari STe inside of a year after finally being able to afford that kind of money. The fact I was still using a home computer from the late 80s in the late 90s made it night and day better and I could still run ST stuff on it with emulators.
i remember i was looking around in a music shop at an early version of cubase on atari st and i thought what a shame i've got an st but i cant afford that, then this guy shuffled up alongside and said.... a few minutes later i met him out in the carpark...haha great days. years later i spent a fortune buying and upgrading cubase then stopped using it because i switched to live then reaper haha big salute to the guys from Radium and the rest of 'em wherever they are :)
@@koma7252 yeah thats it the technology is only tools, they dont write arrange and play the music. most of my favourite music comes from pre digital days.
14:36 That's a Yamaha YS100 or YS200. 15:02 That's a Roland SoundCanvas SC55 General MIDI sound module. 21:09 That's an E-mu Proteus triggered by a Roland PC-200 MIDI keyboard controller.
@@dj2bklyn Mine broke during transport accident into 2 half keybeds. The connected part (left side) still worked just fine. is taped a tr626 into the now empty part of the shell. Fit was perfect.
It's such a shame to have lived through how Atari essentially fumbled the North American market while getting relative success in Germany/UK. One would wonder what form their machines would look today had they not dissolved their computer division.
By 1992 i had been using computers with midi for about 5 years and was about to get a new mac with cubase and digidesign software , those days were so much fun, everything was new and fresh. And expensive!
14:47 In the late 80s, I was using a Passport MIDI Interface and Master Tracks on my Commodore 128, with the Juno 106 I had, plus the Akai sampler and DX100 I borrowed from my high school. Later I learned that passport.mid in Windows came from the same company. Fun to see the old NAMM show video. :)
Commodore 128? i don't remember that, but the sound on the 64 was a selling point for me. I know there's a few musicians who still make music with an Amiga (Mindless Self Indulgence). My life didn't change until I saved up enough for a Mac Performa and got Opcode Vision. Now i'm playing catch up learning how to use onboard and VST effects, because a computer to do that was far outside a normal person's finances in the early 90s. "Borrowed" from your HIgh School? Kinda like the triple beam scales people would "borrow" from the science dept? I wish I would have "borrowed" that MOOG our school had. LOL
@@borisCHoppz The C128 was the follow-up to the Commodore 64. It had a mode where it emulated a C64, and except when I was using it for GEOS or a couple other programs, I pretty much stayed in the C64 mode. I never used the CP/M mode for anything serious. The device loans from the school were legit. No one else was using those things at the time, so they were cool with me taking them home over break. It was the 80s, and a fairly small high school, so didn't even have any paperwork to sign. Just had to tell the director of the music program when I had them.
ua-cam.com/video/xqqhuqlU3Zk/v-deo.html this is my beat tiptoe through the window I make photos of serial killers come to life in the music video but I make music this Way this is how all music is made to this day
My favourite part is the Roland SC-55, I bought one for myself as a sort of Christmas present and it's still a decent sounding module especially for playing back midi files. The other person in the slot after used an Emu Proteus/1 which also still sounds good even today even though I don't actually own a Proteus/1 but I do have the Orchestral version the Proteus/2 which has patch 125 "Whistl'n Joe" most famously on The X Files.
0:50 lol he's right. You still gotta resort to tricks a lot of the time to make electronic string samples sound real. That duck game is lowkey inspired. Need to bring it back. After graduating from the tutorial stages (white keys only), bring in two alternate paths (with their own progress lines). Red/green ducks that correspond to the black keys (sharps/flats). That Super Jam thing on the Amiga sounds really convenient. It's like a less vulgar arpeggiator. Those motion sensor orchestral tools were great. Love the conductor tool
Rocksmith 2014 has a similar game, called Ducks Redux, where you have to play notes on a guitar at the right time to shoot down ducks before they reach a wall.
Modern chord library plugins like Captain Chords and Scaler 2 are infinitely more capable. Obsolete Amiga software would just be clunky and lack the connectivity of modern software .. You COULD use it but *why?* would be the question.
TNice tutorials man is so good at explanation ...since I have been watcNice tutorialng soft soft tutorials , tNice tutorials is my first ti to really understand it . I love soft
I never saw a better midi sequencing software than BarsNPipes on Amiga.... I used it for a few years, and those functions never got duplicated in another software.
@@MarcoMugnatto Studio Vision would actually stand up today, basically a predecessor of Ableton. Why they went out of business is beyond me. I wish one of today's sequencers had step time like that. Hmm its a pretty simple thing, maybe I can try to write a MAX instrument?
@@borisCHoppz Well what this video shows is nothing bigger than what the free Audacity can easily do. The Studio Vision, from what I understood, isn't the sequencer one, but the one that records audio on the video
@@Revelator2025 I miss the step sequencer dearly. And the random function for key velocity. Wish someone would write a MAX instrument for Ableton for these things
TNice tutorials is much more simple than I thought with you explaining it. Currently half way through and I feel like I know everytNice tutorialng already lmao
Does anybody know the name of the MIDI Driver or Sound Card that was being played in the video? Reason I'm asking is because at 21:00 I haven't heard that type of MIDI wavetable playback since the 90's when I had an IBM Aptiva and it brings back huge nostalgia for me. What I'm wishing and hoping for is if I can track down exactly what that MIDI Mapper/Driver is then maybe someone out there has created a Sound Font file of it. That way I can listen to Duke Nukem 3D, Warcraft 2, Doom 95, Hover and many classics I first experienced with that MIDI sound 😇
Currently a reaper user, but the thing at 9:25 still impressing me 😂😂 Love that tune on 18:09 EZ Vision are the same developers that developed EZ keys, EZ bass? Guys u r GREAT
Presenting the notes to the user as musical notation (only) proved to be a dead end. Most musicians don't read music...and don't need to. History proved that the piano roll/waveform is BY FAR the best way to present musical compositions.
@@MarcoMugnatto I beg to differ. If you play a keyboard, a piano roll is much closer to what you actually play than notes. It's much more intuitive. In addition to that, a piano roll is much more accurate than notation since you get the precise timing and length of notes. With normal notation things are quantised into notes.
@@Magnus_Loov You can't humanly read dynamics with a piano roll in real time (that is, while playing). You can't know the time and key signature in real time (while playing) with a piano roll.
Things started to go wrong when somebody called a lot of presets and templates "creativity!" Many of those early musical programmes for computers were the death to musical expression. One beat and one set of companying instruments were the start of factory made music, it was an assembly line. From then on all music sounded the same. Later on real programmes were developed, like Logic where you started with empty tracks and you really had to fill all the tracks with your own music.
I hate how he’s like ok you have some seconds left we gonna have to cut you And it’s like mega interesting Just imagine seeing this at the time I’d have been so annoyed it ending so soon
That was always the weak point of this show, no time for anything. And imagine in the USA broadcast you also had to suffer from ads every few minutes. Fortunately I never lived in the USA , we had the BBC without ads here.
@@MorbidManoeuvres if you haven't seen them yet, there are a few dozens of episodes of the computer chronicles dating from 1983 to the late 90s. Most are on youtube, it's a nice collection, I watched them all , one a day before going to sleep. Full of nostalgia , I was a kid in the 80s
They were on a limited budget, and I guess that meant that shooting any extra footage that wasn’t going to appear in the show would add to the cost. Hence the need to keep the segments strictly within time limits.
basically there is only PC's left. Apple gave up making their unique hardware long ago. Mac's are just Pc's running MacOS. Linux would be another alternative
ProTools with required hardware. I had the cheapest setup possible, around $1200 for 4 tracks, minus the computer. Smart Studios Butch Vig's (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, and his band Garbage) had the $35k version.
gosh, Melissa was splendid
30 years later it sounds almost just as good as the real thing
hardly
@@BenPotts this man hasn't heard of spectrasonics keyscape, completely indistinguishable from the real thing
@@bazilgamerdeer1239 facts
@@bazilgamerdeer1239 even before this. Brad Fiedel who did the entire terminator two score on a fair light CMI iii, had the intro sounding like a real Orchestra and choir unlike Hans Zimmer who uses a real choir and orchestra!
Absolutely not lol
I was a user of Creator since 1988 and met with Lengeling at Musikmesse in 1993. He showed a demo of audio to midi coming with the next version of Logic. I got into Emagic Logic at version 2 and used it to compose music for a game developer. What a great time in life. 😊 Thank you for the upload.
which dev??
0:51 "It's unlikely it will ever sound as good as a string quartet"
haha i remember sequencing a string quartet on an atari, it didn't compete at all with string players but it gave me a chance to make sure the notes were right.
Haha EastWest Opus go brrrrrrr
Heheh, few years ago i would say something similar, yet last month i've produced something that people cant believe is synthesized. Cant post links so i You like to check please find "Wind Still Blows" on my channel - UA-cam forbids links, and it's not for advertising myself, but i found that i've managed to become really close on strings with todays tech. So if some wants to check - feel welcome! :)
@@gaelcastillo129 what are you talking about?
tokyo scoring strings:
In 1992 I was using Roland U20, Roland Sound Canvas, dedicated midi card in a 386 SX computer running Cakewalk in Windows 3. I think I still have that computer somewhere.
Are you me? I had almost the same setup, except for a Gravis midi interfece plugged into the game port on my Sound Blaster.
if you still have that computer somewhere the roaches have probably infested the inside and the rats have chewed and pissed all over it. 🤢
My biggest regret in life: I had $1200 to spend on something, something musical. There was a Carl Thompson Bass at the music store in my city that someone had ordered and never payed for. They wanted $3000 for it, but it had been there for over a year, so they kept reducing the price and it was down to either $1100 or $1200. However I could get an Audiomedia 2 card, a CD burner and ProTools with either 4 or 8 whole tracks (WOW!!) for around $1200. My stupid 20yo self, "a thousand dollars for a bass? ONE instrument? That's crazy"
"or i can have the coolest high tech 4-track around. I can record bands. Open a studio. Sell CDs!!"
Obviously I don't have the soon to be priceless Stradavarius of bass guitars today SMDH.
My only defense is that at my bands last performance in 2001, my custom Peavey bass was stolen, so perhaps I wouldn't have the Carl either way. I just knew it was what Les Claypool played so it was cool. I didn't understand the value of a hand crafted instrument and how it would appreciate with time, nor did I know about Moore's Law which isn't exactly true today, but still exists in a slower form.
I loved cakewalk 3.0
Let's cut straight to the chase: 24:51
Oh myyyyy lol - cado
That vocal performance 🔥🔥🔥 gotta admire his commitment!
😂 😂 😂 😂 The most cringiest thing I've seen & heard so far
Mmmm do um do mm do do m dooooo
@@weakw1ll succeeded
Amazing how many of the fundamentals are still there in DAWs to this day.
This video is science for producers, they will love it when they see this video
Early 90s (1990-1992) still look's like a 80s. Love it!
The amazing thing about MIDI is you can take that exact thing they captured, and run it through the latest software which sounds ultra-realistic (even with human flaws added at random times).
Sometimes I download old MIDI tracks and add them to my DAW just to goof around with them.
Yep. Super cool, and really fun.
We need DAW developers to bring back the bouncing ball that follows the timing bar!
Yes, this is so beautiful!
😂
Yes, very nice feature! ahahaha
YES BOUNCY
good point
I learned the piano via the duck arcade game. I became very accomplished in piano, winning an award from the estate of Glenn Gould. I could never shake the habit of slaughtering mallards, however. The horrid shrieks they make when being chased down by my beagle are like music to my ears! Thanks Computer Chronicles, for letting me relive this memory
UA-cam is reccomending this video to all producers and engineers in 2022
I love to see the passion in these musicians and engineers
"almost like a snap to grid" why did that make me smile proudly
haha the guy " I can change the string into horns" then the data doesnt load in the table , the dropdown list flashes and dissapears and he exists , saying again " I can change the string into horns" but mentally realized he better just change topic and pretend it worked and hope nobody noticed it glitched , shame. Always so funny when something that you expect to work, that normally always works , then breaks when you want to show it to someone else.
anyway so glad these guys paved the way forward. Imgine they could see some modern bedroom set up from this era , electric drums going into a usb powered interface controlling some amazing VST in a DAW that has sounds recorded in the most professional crazy manner imaginable. Where you can even choose exact brands and models or tweak settings like tension , sticks being used to play , room and overhead mic influence ,, im very thankful.
7:20 Finally. Bars & Pipes was the Sequencer I used on the Amiga when I started. It was almost absolutely unknown, but so much better than everything on the Atari!!!
Nice. Aphex Twin made his Hangable Auto Bulb only in 1994. 2 years after that. Damn we could have breakcore/braindance in the mid-80s.
Better quality microphone than most ppl screaming in games now days lol
This show was so on the cutting edge of saving and preparing everybody.
OMG "Don't Copy that Floppy" - brilliant. I don't remember ever hearing that as a kid but I'm going to start using it now, as outdated as it is 🤣
Have you seen the full length rap music video from the era, Don't Copy That Floppy? Check it out if not. It's more than just a phrase, it was a whole super cheesy campaign they had.
Modern day internet has files illegally flying back and forth constantly. It'd blow their mind.
Be Kind, Rewind :D
@@jackmercer4244 classic!
@@garblojones I wasn't referring to the film, which I haven't even seen yet. "Be Kind Rewind" was a catch phrase that was used at video rental shops that asks customers to rewind the VHS cassettes before dropping it in return box. rental shops don't have the time to rewind hundreds of tapes that are returned. And as a customer, it sucked having to rewind a video because we were just eager to pop it in and start the movie. It's usually taped to the VHS case or on a sign in the shop.
Bars and Pipes Professional was the first relatively straightforward MIDI sequencer I ever used. I wrote quite a bit of music using that - I don't have the MIDI files anymore, but I do have the 4-track recordings I made with it. I use a program called Bitwig now, and even after all these years it has the same easy to use feel B&P Pro had.
Call me crazy, but the first sequencer one really gets into is like a first love. Thats why I have a Power Mac laptop, Opcode Studio 4 interface and a 3.5" copy protected disk of Opcode Vision. I think I'd like to try to get this stuff running, I have a few pieces of analog gear just collecting dust. Sure I could use External Instrument on Ableton, but then I'd have to render in real time, im better off sampling my MOOG or MiniBrute, then effects are easier.
I like Bitwig too, I'm just not as good with it as Ableton, or even Logic. It has some great features and the soft modular is really cool.
I used a shareware Mac program called MIDIgraphy. I liked it so much I paid for it. Took me many years to find something just as simple to get started with on a Linux system: LMMS.
Now Linux has PipeWire, which lets you interconnect different software apps in a modular fashion, all working to make music together. It can do video, too.
1992 was the year Commodore faced by bankruptcy, so ironically this time was the beginning of the end for Amiga (and Atari too).
It's funny to see how inaccessible this type of software was for the working class back then and how software now can be used by anyone that isn't necessarily a classically trained musician
oh you just had to know where to look haha ;)
Even if you got a cracked copy of Cubase and a mono emulator to run it in medium resolution, you still needed expensive MIDI hardware and in 90s money it was £1,000 for a sampler, £400 for an analogue mono synth etc…. I would have loved to have had an Akai S2000 or Yamaha A3000 but could never afford one. Once the iMac, then the G3 Desktop came out, I ditched my Atari STe inside of a year after finally being able to afford that kind of money. The fact I was still using a home computer from the late 80s in the late 90s made it night and day better and I could still run ST stuff on it with emulators.
Trackers.
i remember i was looking around in a music shop at an early version of cubase on atari st and i thought what a shame i've got an st but i cant afford that, then this guy shuffled up alongside and said.... a few minutes later i met him out in the carpark...haha great days. years later i spent a fortune buying and upgrading cubase then stopped using it because i switched to live then reaper haha big salute to the guys from Radium and the rest of 'em wherever they are :)
@@koma7252 yeah thats it the technology is only tools, they dont write arrange and play the music. most of my favourite music comes from pre digital days.
I wish I still had my Roland SC-55. Seeing one here made me awfully nostalgic.
Oh. Why did you get rid of yours? I still have my 155.
I recently bought a Roland SC-55.
14:36 That's a Yamaha YS100 or YS200.
15:02 That's a Roland SoundCanvas SC55 General MIDI sound module.
21:09 That's an E-mu Proteus triggered by a Roland PC-200 MIDI keyboard controller.
I miss that roland controller
@@dj2bklyn Mine broke during transport accident into 2 half keybeds. The connected part (left side) still worked just fine. is taped a tr626 into the now empty part of the shell. Fit was perfect.
I know this is heresy, but I always considered the default Windows sound to be ALMOST on par with a true SC-55.
I miss all the blinking lights on the huge rack of E-mu Romplers that I had around 1998
@@Rxke got to miss the old gear
It's such a shame to have lived through how Atari essentially fumbled the North American market while getting relative success in Germany/UK. One would wonder what form their machines would look today had they not dissolved their computer division.
Probably the same as any other computer. There isn't all that much variety today.
Miss my Atari ST ‘s I called them my poor mans Mac
Yeah, Atari's bosses were essentially clueless.
Similar for Amiga. Excellent hardware, BIOS, OS and apps, but the management wasn’t in tune with the business world.
@@r.kapaun01 Still have those compositions?
By 1992 i had been using computers with midi for about 5 years and was about to get a new mac with cubase and digidesign software , those days were so much fun, everything was new and fresh. And expensive!
see my comment on archivestereo's post above regarding Digidesign
I'm speachless. The music technology in 1992 is the same in 2022! muhahahaaa.... :-)
Check out the heavy hitters in this thing. What a privilege to see.
broken it down makes it seem so user-friendly and easy to use. I can’t wait to start making soft! Thanks again!
what a cute character, melissa jordan, is. very sympathetic 🙂
9:00 Melissa is the best sales person :).
Sure is
30 years ago, wow how time flies!
"I can start making this look like a real piece of music" I absolutely knew he got that sample from this show hahaha 17:05
14:47 In the late 80s, I was using a Passport MIDI Interface and Master Tracks on my Commodore 128, with the Juno 106 I had, plus the Akai sampler and DX100 I borrowed from my high school. Later I learned that passport.mid in Windows came from the same company.
Fun to see the old NAMM show video. :)
Passport is classic!
Commodore 128? i don't remember that, but the sound on the 64 was a selling point for me. I know there's a few musicians who still make music with an Amiga (Mindless Self Indulgence). My life didn't change until I saved up enough for a Mac Performa and got Opcode Vision. Now i'm playing catch up learning how to use onboard and VST effects, because a computer to do that was far outside a normal person's finances in the early 90s.
"Borrowed" from your HIgh School? Kinda like the triple beam scales people would "borrow" from the science dept? I wish I would have "borrowed" that MOOG our school had. LOL
@@borisCHoppz The C128 was the follow-up to the Commodore 64. It had a mode where it emulated a C64, and except when I was using it for GEOS or a couple other programs, I pretty much stayed in the C64 mode. I never used the CP/M mode for anything serious.
The device loans from the school were legit. No one else was using those things at the time, so they were cool with me taking them home over break. It was the 80s, and a fairly small high school, so didn't even have any paperwork to sign. Just had to tell the director of the music program when I had them.
That's so crazy because this is how all music is made now even rock music is made digitally anymore
ua-cam.com/video/xqqhuqlU3Zk/v-deo.html this is my beat tiptoe through the window I make photos of serial killers come to life in the music video but I make music this Way this is how all music is made to this day
This is fucking incredible
Those EZ Vision and Studio Vision programs were very legit for the time! There's a lot going on there that is still like modern DAWs
That's Fl Studio's grandparents!
24:49
+Aaron Palmer Such an accurate description!
I'll bet that Stewart was trying not to laugh during that.
@Aaron Palmer - ua-cam.com/video/5bK6Gqxcvg0/v-deo.html
Sampling that now. Just wait, you're gonna hear that loop on the next Drill hit from Chief Keef
you all came for 24:49
don't lie to yourselves
For a second I thought it was Bobcat Goldthwait. 😁
So glad I came to the game very late....😱
Sampling that now. Just wait, you're gonna hear that loop on the next Drill hit from Chief Keef
I didn’t but I’m glad I did now. Hahahaha
So glad for these mad genius pioneers
Шикарный секвенсор этот EZ Unison. Я даже и представить не мог, что кто-то писал музыку на компьютере в 1992 году)
Now I am learning how music is being reproduced. I wish I could be there in person.
My favourite part is the Roland SC-55, I bought one for myself as a sort of Christmas present
and it's still a decent sounding module especially for playing back midi files. The other person
in the slot after used an Emu Proteus/1 which also still sounds good even today even though
I don't actually own a Proteus/1 but I do have the Orchestral version the Proteus/2 which has
patch 125 "Whistl'n Joe" most famously on The X Files.
Thank you so much for uploading this here
0:50 lol he's right. You still gotta resort to tricks a lot of the time to make electronic string samples sound real.
That duck game is lowkey inspired. Need to bring it back. After graduating from the tutorial stages (white keys only), bring in two alternate paths (with their own progress lines). Red/green ducks that correspond to the black keys (sharps/flats).
That Super Jam thing on the Amiga sounds really convenient. It's like a less vulgar arpeggiator. Those motion sensor orchestral tools were great. Love the conductor tool
Amiga was and still is used in certain Electronic music styles...
Rocksmith 2014 has a similar game, called Ducks Redux, where you have to play notes on a guitar at the right time to shoot down ducks before they reach a wall.
Luckily we have string libraries today that sound so good they're used widely in film & TV scoring!
eventually it all snapped into place and I started learning how to add all the effects, titles, motion text. It was pretty cool to see my
My 1993 Yamaha TG33 tone generator was awesome
Wow. That's my favorite episode ever!
honestly that chord thing for the amiga at 8:30 looks like it would still be very useful today for writing progressions.
Modern chord library plugins like Captain Chords and Scaler 2 are infinitely more capable. Obsolete Amiga software would just be clunky and lack the connectivity of modern software .. You COULD use it but *why?* would be the question.
Super jam is the pioneer of all sorts of computer keyboard directed music ever!!✌️✌️✌️😍😍😍
A.I. asf
I feel old. I literally had that Encore program when I was a kid.
TNice tutorials man is so good at explanation ...since I have been watcNice tutorialng soft soft tutorials , tNice tutorials is my first ti to really understand it . I love soft
I never saw a better midi sequencing software than BarsNPipes on Amiga.... I used it for a few years, and those functions never got duplicated in another software.
the beginning of all DAWs
Wow that Studio Vision program is incredible!
You are being ironic, right? Maybe in 1992
@@MarcoMugnatto Studio Vision would actually stand up today, basically a predecessor of Ableton. Why they went out of business is beyond me. I wish one of today's sequencers had step time like that. Hmm its a pretty simple thing, maybe I can try to write a MAX instrument?
@@borisCHoppz Well what this video shows is nothing bigger than what the free Audacity can easily do. The Studio Vision, from what I understood, isn't the sequencer one, but the one that records audio on the video
Some really awesome sweaters on display
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Thank you for explaining this thoroughly!
Opcode studio vision was bought by Gibson and canned. Trent Reznor made all of his first albums with Studio Vision.
So was Blue Ribbon bought out, although by Microsoft. I hate how companies are bought and sold like commodities.
Studio Vision and Studio Vision Pro were fantastic Sequencers. Opcode rules!
@@Revelator2025 I miss the step sequencer dearly. And the random function for key velocity. Wish someone would write a MAX instrument for Ableton for these things
Dont forget Herbie Hancock and Thomas Dolby
thank you man,you are a legend
It's crazy that some of those softwares have better UX than some in 2022
who else is here 30 years later
30 years later. are you disappointed or amazed by the progress we've made?
disappointed honestly
@@hiatusfromtheworld we have advanced so much in so many good ways, there is no way you can be disappointed.
was a life-saver. Thanks a lot.
21:42 nice sequencing
oh MAN that EZ vision demo was great
TNice tutorials is much more simple than I thought with you explaining it. Currently half way through and I feel like I know everytNice tutorialng already lmao
I wondered why Mr. Cheifet's voice sounded strange at first. Then I realized he was trying to keep it quiet during the performance.
they are legend they bring music alive to us great sound
First "Fl Studio"
Does anybody know the name of the MIDI Driver or Sound Card that was being played in the video? Reason I'm asking is because at 21:00 I haven't heard that type of MIDI wavetable playback since the 90's when I had an IBM Aptiva and it brings back huge nostalgia for me. What I'm wishing and hoping for is if I can track down exactly what that MIDI Mapper/Driver is then maybe someone out there has created a Sound Font file of it. That way I can listen to Duke Nukem 3D, Warcraft 2, Doom 95, Hover and many classics I first experienced with that MIDI sound 😇
Currently a reaper user, but the thing at 9:25 still impressing me 😂😂
Love that tune on 18:09
EZ Vision are the same developers that developed EZ keys, EZ bass? Guys u r GREAT
Toontrack
@@madcona thanks for correcting me
I was wrong) But even with that, EZ Vision was a FIRE in a past
Really appreciate tNice tutorials. Thankyou brother
Thank you in advance
Presenting the notes to the user as musical notation (only) proved to be a dead end. Most musicians don't read music...and don't need to.
History proved that the piano roll/waveform is BY FAR the best way to present musical compositions.
Depends on the purpose. Piano roll is not good for reading music if it's what you want, nor for transcribing your compositions in a readable form.
Different tools for different jobs. There is no "best" way of scoring, it depends entirely on the use case.
@@MarcoMugnatto I beg to differ. If you play a keyboard, a piano roll is much closer to what you actually play than notes. It's much more intuitive. In addition to that, a piano roll is much more accurate than notation since you get the precise timing and length of notes. With normal notation things are quantised into notes.
@@Magnus_Loov You can't humanly read dynamics with a piano roll in real time (that is, while playing). You can't know the time and key signature in real time (while playing) with a piano roll.
@@Magnus_Loov it seems like it would be harder to quickly pick out tonal and rhythmic structure which helps live performers understand what to play
Pioneer of sampling tech 😮😮
Things started to go wrong when somebody called a lot of presets and templates "creativity!" Many of those early musical programmes for computers were the death to musical expression. One beat and one set of companying instruments were the start of factory made music, it was an assembly line. From then on all music sounded the same. Later on real programmes were developed, like Logic where you started with empty tracks and you really had to fill all the tracks with your own music.
MIDI music: "This is amazing!"
MOD/C64 artists: "Am I a joke to you?"
The whole recording business went to a visual sound editing workstation...Thats not bad untill you forgot the real purpose of all that you see
25:52 when you use delay plugin for the first time
Learned how to record with MIDi, 3 stack of ADATs, MAC, and a Board.
I hate how he’s like ok you have some seconds left we gonna have to cut you
And it’s like mega interesting
Just imagine seeing this at the time
I’d have been so annoyed it ending so soon
That was always the weak point of this show, no time for anything. And imagine in the USA broadcast you also had to suffer from ads every few minutes. Fortunately I never lived in the USA , we had the BBC without ads here.
@@Blackadder75 thanks for reply, damn its just crazy such a glimpse into the future and so hurried. now its like hard to come across stuff like this
@@MorbidManoeuvres if you haven't seen them yet, there are a few dozens of episodes of the computer chronicles dating from 1983 to the late 90s. Most are on youtube, it's a nice collection, I watched them all , one a day before going to sleep. Full of nostalgia , I was a kid in the 80s
They were on a limited budget, and I guess that meant that shooting any extra footage that wasn’t going to appear in the show would add to the cost. Hence the need to keep the segments strictly within time limits.
Very Nice Video For 1992 Year 😃
10/10 for the singing at the end 😁
These 30 yo sequencers & computers look more responsive & faster than my modern day Cubase setup!
purchases I made was soft soft. I knew it was my passion but I was just stuck because of trauma I couldn't deal with. Now that I'm at a
I need that game for my kid, when and if I have one
I wish there were more computer competitors out there these days besides PC and Mac. Too bad Atari and Amiga didn't survive.
basically there is only PC's left. Apple gave up making their unique hardware long ago. Mac's are just Pc's running MacOS.
Linux would be another alternative
I wonder what equipment and programs were used at professional music studios ?
ProTools with required hardware. I had the cheapest setup possible, around $1200 for 4 tracks, minus the computer. Smart Studios Butch Vig's (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, and his band Garbage) had the $35k version.
@@borisCHoppz
thanks.
and what version did you have ?
@@gmergmer2606 OMG I have do idea. I do have the Opcode Vision floppy ver 1.1 sitting right nere. Ill link thi pic somehow
not an apple fan but that software was quite advanced for its time
2:20 - No. It's simply telling you if your input was wrong or not.
Melissa Jordan grey, got so much positive energy!
got a Roland Mt32 , Kawai K1 and a Boss Dr550 in 1993 and still using them making midi music everyday //:soft synths suck
yeah
The Amiga, what a machine! No need for extra hardware or much knowledge of music, just buy the software and play with it.
Man, I started on Atari ST ! So looooooong ago 😄
How woderfull to see this ❤️
7:10 Atlanta Olympics? My condolences ...