It was 1985 for the Amiga 1000 and 1987 for the Amiga 500 capable of doing sample-based music Even musicians in the recording studio have used the Amiga because the Fairlight CMI was thousand times more expensive. The Amiga was a real multitasking machine and capable of true "plug and play" with it's auto configuration hardware expansion slots.

@flonkplonk1649

12 күн бұрын

And it had the HAM mode for 4096 colors (he missed to mention that). And he missed the fact that Amigas were famous for their graphic, animation, video features and software! For example the "Videotoaster" (modified Amiga 2000 with Lightwave 3D). And for example also Cinema4D started on Amiga and also the software that later transformed to Blender 1.0..

Dude, this is your magnum opus. You should make more mini documentaries. Though I bet it took a lot of work.

@BlezzBeats

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for noticing and appreciating man! I have a whole bunch I wanna do, will probably work on them parallel over time to not kill myself :D

I appreciate the Another World shoutout for real

@BlezzBeats

4 жыл бұрын

Furkin masterpiece!

@bendavies8744

3 жыл бұрын

@@BlezzBeats Damn right!

@BlezzBeats

3 жыл бұрын

@@bendavies8744 ❤

PS: The Amiga chip names are derived from their functions. PAULA stands for peripherals and audio or ports and audio. The original name during the development was PORTIA. Paula controls the serial port and is also a floppy disk drive controller which is very flexible because it can also handle floppy disks from MS-DOS/IBM-PC and Apple Macintosh.

"average body mass boys were still struggling to get their first single: healthy and content, off the ground" - I died laughing for so long I had to rewind the video

@BlezzBeats

4 жыл бұрын

Hahahah the "coincidence" was too perfect I mean wtf Skinny Boys must have been trying to directly compete with Fat Boys I don't know what else to make of it 😂

I loved the Amiga demo scene. More than one piece of my music went into those. Because I didn't have a formal music theory background, or could play an instrument myself, I was eschewed away from it. Over 30 years later I returned to music, and now everyone is producing "in the box".

@BlezzBeats

5 ай бұрын

The box is the #1 instrument now 😁🦾

I remember that magic moment of noticing how different things sounded depending on how bright the power light was... ahhh, just realized that was the first time I learned what a filter was.

@BlezzBeats

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I always thought it was pretty awesome that the filter was that important to them lol

I had my eye on the Atari ST, the Amiga 500 and the Studio 440 but passed on them when the MPC 60 came out. It sounds so crunchy

@avace917

6 ай бұрын

Great video

Sound Tracker, Noise Tracker, Pro Tracker user on Amiga 500 back in the day here. Then living in Poland, now in Canada. Just got Polyend Tracker and looking to get Maschine MK3 next. Dope video. Keep it up. Cheers.

@BlezzBeats

3 жыл бұрын

Ahh the Amigas were very popular in Poland right??

@wizetek

3 жыл бұрын

some popular gear back then in order: ZX Spectrum +, Commodore 64, Atari 65XE, Amiga 500, Atari 520ST

man... I lost my job yesterday and had the shittiest day in a decade... now I watch this and I am fucking laughing! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!

@BlezzBeats

4 жыл бұрын

Sorry to hear that man! I hope you're getting back on track!! Thanks for watching and supporting brother

Still dropping gabber, tekno and junglism rn near xmas 2023 on hardware Amiga

@BlezzBeats

7 ай бұрын

🫡

I first got into sampling/sequencing on my Commodore Amiga 500 ...been hooked since

@BlezzBeats

4 жыл бұрын

Haha dope man! U still use it?

@experimetalfan8851

4 жыл бұрын

Right now, I'm only using my Maschine MK3 but I still have my Amiga500 ...might just hook it up for some sounds@@BlezzBeats 🤔

Whats up Blezz? Dope videos on your channel , this was a great video you summed up the era with precision, I started making music on an Amiga around 1987, I started with Dynamic drums and ended using Octamed tracker, I bought the sampler and it was a very fun start to computer music. I am now using an MPCX and Maschine but I still have my amigas and fire them up from time to time, Im going to upgrade them like you did. Keep up the interesting and Amazing work!

@BlezzBeats

4 жыл бұрын

Hey man good to internet meet you! Couple years ahead of me then I was born in 1989 and inherited my dads C64, that's how I opened my eyes up to the demoscene and the whole shebang and eventually started geeking on the A500! I'm on Maschine too, having trouble saving the mods (opened up with corrupt samples and hours of lost work, I don't trust it) so so far I've ended up just resampling patterns from ProTracker into Maschine to have the sound intact.

När inklippsbilden på Paula Abdul kom så insåg jag att den här killen är ingen vanlig tönt. Informativt, välgjord och tvärtungt!

@BlezzBeats

4 жыл бұрын

Haha tack som fan!

Goddamn guuf! More than just average courage is required for a little dive into PAULA's 8-bit bedroom and indoctrinate the PT commands F01! C40! :D Amiga 500 Graphics capabilities have a bit more than what you described but ... whatthehell, this is about the sound & mjusik! ( :D "It's also got a filter!! which affects to all channels!!" )

I had an Amiga 500 and remember the tunes man. Thanks for the video!

That Members Only jacket tho! Really cool video, Blezz!

@BlezzBeats

4 жыл бұрын

Hahah yeah shoulda worn it in the intro too! Thank you Zach ❤

Oh there it is!

Trapped between the Amiga and Wii generations, one day I'm in the early 90s X-copying Protracker and demos in the protofurry Amiga meetups and another day I'm in the early 2010's pictochatting for someone to Wii Speak with me about homebrew and youtube poops.

@BlezzBeats

3 жыл бұрын

lool

junglist massive!

Aaaah the nostalgia. I still have mine in the garage I think. Along with the sampler your dad built me. I made lots of tracks with Sound Tracker and then Pro Tracker. Before the mod-file format was introduced, including the samples in the file, only the notes and meta data was saved. So to be able to load a song you had to shuffle them floppies to load each sample from a different disk. Extra nerd facts: The sampling was off course made through the parallel port, but the parallel port only have 5V power. The serial port however have +/-12V pins. So the cable to the serial port was only to get that extra supply to the sampler components that required 12V.

@BlezzBeats

4 жыл бұрын

Wow I had no idea you had one, would love to hear some stuff you did on it!

Obviously you're gonna make a beat tape with this right?

@BlezzBeats

4 жыл бұрын

If 5 people wanna hear it I will! Wrapping up my game boy shiet right now 😁

STOP MAKING SO MUCH FIRE!!!!

@BlezzBeats

4 жыл бұрын

I. Will. Not. STOP!

yoooo the jam at the end tho?

@BlezzBeats

4 жыл бұрын

Mneeeeeeh

dude, that's baddAss!!! love it. I did also wonder, could I use the Amiga like a rack sampler, and sequence externally via a MIDI interface, or are trackers really the one way to go with this machine?

@BlezzBeats

3 жыл бұрын

You could indeed! I have a midi interface for mine too, problem is both the interface and the sampler connect to the serial port so you'd have to either switch them out all the time or find some switch for it

@EvLoutonian

3 жыл бұрын

@@BlezzBeats ah! What program is good to get for operating as a stand-alone playback sampler? Like, is there a program that can do multiple note polyphony for chords & such?

Powla?!

Do you have Amigo Sampler VST, Blezz?

@BlezzBeats

3 ай бұрын

I don’t but it looks very dope! Definitely the coolest plugin I’ve seen in a while. Prefer the hands on experience for the experience itself though.