Atari (YM2149) music: Scavenger compilation (Dolby Headphone)

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  • Опубліковано 27 лип 2024
  • A compilation featuring five tracks from Scavenger (Joris de Man). This upload is intended for headphones only. Caution: sudden loud high-pitch sfx type noise at 8:52.
    Jumplist:
    00:00 Knuckle Joe 2 (duration slightly extended)
    02:05 Please Wait
    04:46 Pajaro - Synergy Megademo
    08:52 Sample Animal is Alive!
    11:41 Leif Rular - PYM
    Emulated with Micro ST beta 5 and recorded to wav with ESI Juli@ using its DirectWire capability (no physical cables needed).
    Disclaimer: i have absolutely no idea how close this is to true YM2149 sound.
    Micro ST beta 5 available here:
    bulba.untergrund.net/ayplayer_...
    SNDH Atari ST YM2149 collection (playable in Micro ST of course):
    sndh.atari.org/about.php

КОМЕНТАРІ • 82

  • @PCFixer
    @PCFixer 2 роки тому +3

    Oh, man, I used to HAVE an Atari ST back in the Day -- what great nostalgia. Grumpy parents yelling at kids to "turn down those silly bleeps and bloops!" instead of going to their kids room and hearing THIS blasting out and going, "Okay, what is this, it sounds great!"

  • @AtariCrypt
    @AtariCrypt 8 років тому +35

    Pure Atari ST goodness, I love Scavenger so much.

    • @GrantGarner
      @GrantGarner 7 років тому +3

      Is it weird that I want to have his babies?

    • @AtariCrypt
      @AtariCrypt 7 років тому +4

      BeST reply ever! LOL

    • @triton4541
      @triton4541 3 роки тому +1

      Bonsoir,
      Je vous like tous les 2, mais je ne comprends pas car je suis Français.

  • @s_t_s4846
    @s_t_s4846 2 роки тому +4

    My all time favourite ST musician with his fellows Tao/Cream and Jess/OVR. What a masterpiece, I'll never grow tired of listening to it! Need mooooore!

  • @sheepthehack
    @sheepthehack 4 роки тому +7

    I am LITERALLY back in my bedroom circa 1990... listening to ATARI ST MENU DISK CRACKTROS!!!! Man.. They influenced my life so massively.. not just as a kid.. but shaped my later career as a reverse engineer!!! always curious about whats under the hood!!! :) thanks man.. great tunes!

  • @youdj_app
    @youdj_app Рік тому +1

    The best of the best of atari music, I listened it 200 times 😄

  • @vapourmile
    @vapourmile 3 роки тому +10

    I'd never known an ST can produce music like this until today.

    • @Ama-hi5kn
      @Ama-hi5kn Рік тому +2

      The YM2149 is a kind of special version of the AY-3-8910. Found in the Amstrad CPC and Spectrum 128 and several other computers.

    • @ashleywhiteman2684
      @ashleywhiteman2684 Рік тому +1

      ​@@Ama-hi5knit's not that special the St has some cpu headroom for additional fx to be processed. It's a pretty rudimentary chip otherwise.

    • @Ama-hi5kn
      @Ama-hi5kn Рік тому

      @@ashleywhiteman2684 The YM2149 is a version of the AY-3-8910. But the sound it produces is not exactly the same. The YM2203 is another version which includes FM sound.

    • @przemekkobel4874
      @przemekkobel4874 10 місяців тому

      @@ashleywhiteman2684 Except when replace YM with the AY in ST, all higher quality samples won't work.

  • @Adam_Lyskawa
    @Adam_Lyskawa 4 роки тому +8

    YM2149 sounding better than SID is really a thing! Amazing audio quality and stereo mix.

    • @terhazza
      @terhazza 3 роки тому +1

      I really first thought this was a SID track...'man, this is very clean sounding SID tune'

  • @youdj_app
    @youdj_app 4 роки тому +3

    Man, you can litterally feel the "bits" in that music, the best ST music I have heard (and I heard many!), in love :D

  • @laurentd9980
    @laurentd9980 5 років тому +7

    Awesome pieces of soundchip music!!! The talent of the composers is just incredible, it's pure magic to be able to get such sounds out of the PSG!! I don't think the designers of the GI/YM chips ever dreamed of such possibilities !!!

  • @Optimus6128
    @Optimus6128 3 роки тому +5

    I don't know why AtariST music makes me cry, more than Amiga music. Or maybe I love the Scavenger tunes, they are so wholesome.

    • @Ama-hi5kn
      @Ama-hi5kn 3 роки тому +2

      Being an Amiga user myself, I have to admit... I dig these tunes. :)

  • @OzMaHmkar
    @OzMaHmkar 6 років тому +9

    Really awesome shit, just the way it's supposed to be. Thank you, Sir, for uploading this.

  • @kebman
    @kebman 3 роки тому +2

    Holy great balls of fire some of the purest, greatest chipsound I've heard on this website.

  • @umitanonymous3400
    @umitanonymous3400 4 роки тому +1

    One of the greatest chiptunes

  • @sebastienmichalaki1542
    @sebastienmichalaki1542 6 років тому +12

    Very good song Joris!!!!! great : Mad Max, Tao, Jess, Count 0, Havoc, Lap, An Cool, Lotus, Doclands and Big Alec...

  • @paulspark7287
    @paulspark7287 4 роки тому +4

    I've just ordered a couple of these chips to have a go at wiring one up. Sounds really cool and definitely cheaper and easier to find than a SID :-)

  • @Splatpope
    @Splatpope 6 років тому +5

    to know that this dude made the soundtrack for Horizon, geez man

    • @Kuokka77
      @Kuokka77  6 років тому +1

      Holy balls. I didn't realize that. Awesome game. Just started The Frozen Wilds. Video description updated with his correct first name.

  • @rogerwennstrom6677
    @rogerwennstrom6677 9 років тому +2

    Awesome!
    That intro of "Leif Rullar" through Dolby headphones is one of the few times where something really lived up the rose tinted nostalgic vision of it I had buried somewhere deep in my memory... Ah, good old times.

    • @markpenrice6253
      @markpenrice6253 8 років тому +1

      What's this "dolby headphone" nonsense anyway? Is this supposed to be Prologic surround sound or something?

    • @rogerwennstrom6677
      @rogerwennstrom6677 8 років тому +1

      Short answer: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_Headphone
      Kuokka remixes the original tracks using dolby headphone, with some stereo channel separation, to give them a more "speaker-like" feeling when listening through headphones. I think he's done a good explanation of this in some of his videos. Can't remember which one though.

    • @Kuokka77
      @Kuokka77  7 років тому +6

      A software DSP plugin that creates virtual 5.1 output for any headphones. I mostly use it to make Amiga audio more tolerable with headphones ua-cam.com/video/pr7hPclH1cw/v-deo.htmlm01s
      But it worked ok with Scavenger's tracks too.

    • @umitanonymous3400
      @umitanonymous3400 8 місяців тому

      ​@@Kuokka77Well Done, exceptional channel, totally a divine work out of this world.Appreciate it fully.😊

  • @beastworld8109
    @beastworld8109 2 місяці тому

    WTF WHY THIS GO SO HARD THO?? THAT 2ND TRACK ON GOD

  • @Kusivittu666
    @Kusivittu666 8 років тому

    Voi helvetin perse miten hyvä tämä on. Etenkin Knuckle Joe -osuus. Repeattia vain piisaa. Kiitokset Kuokka!

  • @sebastiendame5172
    @sebastiendame5172 5 років тому

    great, very good melody and sounds used..... come back when i was looking demo in my bedroom on my ST in the middle of the night. thanks

  • @GarielBee
    @GarielBee 3 роки тому

    This is a gem

  • @carstenkoeckritz8071
    @carstenkoeckritz8071 5 років тому

    Nothing can beat Scavenger's music!

  • @mrgaiswinkler
    @mrgaiswinkler 4 роки тому

    great sound! love it

  • @markpenrice6253
    @markpenrice6253 8 років тому +18

    Sounds pretty good, btw. As accurate as most other emulations (it's not hard to make a *theoretically* perfect YM-emulation, as it's an entirely predictable state machine), the only inaccuracy is that it's stereo rather than all the channels being mixed down to mono (sounds pretty good in the 'phones, though, despite preventing use of some of the more clever-dick channel combining effects eg for samples), and there isn't the inherent background noise and somewhat over-the-top bandpass filtering experienced in a real system thanks to internal circuit noise in the ST and YM themselves, and the sound being routed through the video port (and cable) to a monitor with poorly amplified output to a single low-quality speaker itself subject to quite a bit of 50/60hz and 15.6/15.7khz resonance from the CRT scan circuitry.
    To be honest, I rather prefer the unnaturally clean version. It was always disappointing trying to get recordings of ST music on tape, either using a mic or plugging directly into the monitor's headphone socket, because of all of the above affecting the quality and needing the volume turned up so high it started clipping.

    • @Kuokka77
      @Kuokka77  7 років тому +3

      This post was so long that UA-cam decided to flag it as potential spam. Sorry it took this long to approve it (i don't check that place on UA-cam's channel settings often enough).

    • @noop9k
      @noop9k 3 роки тому

      @psdominator I almost gave up on commenting under BS posts about politics & history, posts get insta-deleted due to keywords or some other factors, while obvious propaganda trolls run free. I once had a popular post with 3-digit number of likes but wasn’t able to respond to propagandist’s comments to it, *everything* got deleted after I outed one of them as an obvious troll.

    • @noop9k
      @noop9k 3 роки тому +1

      And anyway, back to topic. Dunno about Atari, I listened on an old-ish TV(I still keep our old TV from ~1990) with TDA2003 amp inside, but with high quality cable without any discernible noise, so I don’t think noise should be considered normal. Speccy scene uses several different stereo layouts and most tunes assume stereo output, nobody cares about mono anymore. And there are countless arguments about AY and YM audible differences.

  • @johnacove
    @johnacove 4 роки тому

    Something else! 10/10! 👌

  • @Ich_liebe_brezeln
    @Ich_liebe_brezeln 4 роки тому +1

    YM2149 and AY-8910: really impressive sound chips
    TI SN76489: Am I a joke to you?

  • @matthew81uk
    @matthew81uk 11 років тому

    Sounds good!

  • @JornLavoll
    @JornLavoll 3 роки тому

    So good!

  • @markpenrice6253
    @markpenrice6253 8 років тому +1

    14:05 onwards - oh yeah, that's the shit right there. Back to the 90s in fine style. Modern progressive genre-smashing chiptune is all well and good, but sometimes, you gotta get back to the original ST style synthchip music.

  • @MrFoxafonk
    @MrFoxafonk 3 роки тому

    pure genius

  • @FoxMulder78
    @FoxMulder78 10 років тому +4

    I love how Micro ST kinda censored the bad word at 14:04 :P

    • @markpenrice6253
      @markpenrice6253 8 років тому

      as in it'd be louder if replayed in mono, you mean, given that it came through quietly on both channels? :D

    • @FoxMulder78
      @FoxMulder78 8 років тому +2

      I mean it cuts out; "MOTHERFUC---!" Playing the original file on another player you can hear the full word :P

  • @mark12358
    @mark12358 6 років тому +1

    Similar in specs (3voices+1noise, 8octaves) to SID sound in some way, although it's a "off the shelf" Yamaha low cost chip.

    • @cy-kl5hg
      @cy-kl5hg 3 роки тому +1

      It may be similar but it's far from SID. Nevertheless some impressive tunes can be made on it.

  • @handlesareanunfortunatefeature
    @handlesareanunfortunatefeature 2 роки тому

    Are you sure that second track isn't from a SID? Because it sure sounds similar... regardless, still a great complilation!

  • @rolandsahlander2239
    @rolandsahlander2239 6 років тому

    @Kuokka77 Would it be possible for you to do a SID-version of the last song? Love this upload btw!

    • @Kuokka77
      @Kuokka77  6 років тому

      The SID emulated Scavenger tracks that i uploaded recently were only possible due to them being part of the orbtraxx 3 music disk. The last track of this upload was not featured in it.

  • @TonHet1
    @TonHet1 7 місяців тому

    O CPU desse computador influencia o som dessa máquina? é mto diferente o AY-3-8910 desse computador pra um ZX Spectrum.

  • @douglasalves4892
    @douglasalves4892 5 років тому

    ♥♥♥

  • @sviru007
    @sviru007 Рік тому

    this is absolutely awesome. this is from 1040ste? or can you play it also on 520stfm?

    • @Ama-hi5kn
      @Ama-hi5kn 7 місяців тому

      It plays the same on any ST computer. It just uses the same YM2149 sound chip.

  • @georgor1980
    @georgor1980 5 років тому

    He was also the composer of the magnificient sundtrack of crapman! Do I remember well?

  • @Yeowtch
    @Yeowtch 3 роки тому

    🤠

  • @Mr.Atari2600
    @Mr.Atari2600 8 років тому +1

    So, YM2149 is kinda like a mixture between AY & SID?

    • @Miesiu
      @Miesiu 8 років тому +1

      YM2149 is the same as AY - the only other catalogue number.

    • @gibs75
      @gibs75 8 років тому +5

      The SID like effects are made with cool programming tricks involving the CPU to tweak parameters on the soundchip at high frequency.

    • @markpenrice6253
      @markpenrice6253 8 років тому +6

      YM2149 = a Yamaha branded (and fully licensed) copy of the General Instrument AY-8910, with a couple of very minor changes (I think something to do with how it treats the clock divider pin and the fine detail of how the envelope works?) but otherwise pretty much a direct photocopy of the original circuit mask sheets. For the most part, any code for the AY will work identically on the YM and vice versa.
      All the awesome effects you hear are 100% clever programming and abuse of e.g. the envelope function, the ST's own system timer, etc.

    • @alexsinclair2012
      @alexsinclair2012 7 років тому

      Ahh.. The clock divider input, Which is perfect if your machine runs at the NTSC colorburst frequency, Which many machines of the era did for the sake of component count. Thus, Reducing the overall cost.

  • @sheepthehack
    @sheepthehack 4 роки тому +1

    I think the AMIGA lacked CLASS... It was too powerful... so never really pushed people to get every last drop from the chips... To this day u can recognise an atari st chip tune... amiga tunes could have been from anywhere!!!

  • @Miesiu
    @Miesiu 5 років тому +1

    How did you record stereo from YM ?

    • @Kuokka77
      @Kuokka77  5 років тому +2

      You should read the video description. In short, emulated audio and the software allows stereo effect

    • @Miesiu
      @Miesiu 5 років тому

      THX!
      Forgive my blindness ...

  • @packardjosy3881
    @packardjosy3881 5 років тому

    who needs 4 channels ? YM power !

    • @Miesiu
      @Miesiu 5 років тому

      User's Atari XL/XE !

  • @Heaven6502
    @Heaven6502 Рік тому

    great stuff!!! YM my ass!

  • @markpenrice6253
    @markpenrice6253 8 років тому

    The SFX noise doesn't seem very troubling to me, does it really need a particular warning?

    • @Kuokka77
      @Kuokka77  7 років тому

      When you listen loud, it can be quite startling :)