Amiga Samplers (technical) - FutureSound / Master Sound / Stereo Master

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A technical look at 2 cheap Amiga 8-bit samplers from MicroDeal - in comparison to an earlier FutureSound model. What was the included software like? Was it usable?! Plus technical issues and sound comparisons. This is part 1 of 3. (Later parts will look at the high quality offerings!)

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  • @Brainles5
    @Brainles52 жыл бұрын

    I hope you resume this series of videos! They are fantastic!

  • @RWL2012

    @RWL2012

    9 ай бұрын

    I'm still waiting for part 2b lol

  • @ahanukaev

    @ahanukaev

    5 ай бұрын

    Me too!!!

  • @telecrate
    @telecrate4 жыл бұрын

    This series will be the reference for explaining early 90s sampled computer sound technology.

  • @CTRIX64

    @CTRIX64

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Telecrate. Behind the entertainment value, there's a certain amount of documentation for histories sake going on too. :-)

  • @ModernVintageGamer
    @ModernVintageGamer4 жыл бұрын

    loving this series mate. subbed

  • @persona83
    @persona834 жыл бұрын

    I'm lovin' these series. You should complete that "cheesy" House track.

  • @wishusknight3009
    @wishusknight30094 жыл бұрын

    As primitive as amiga sampling may be, its still light years ahead of what pc's could do in the 80s.

  • @SerBallister

    @SerBallister

    4 жыл бұрын

    PCs were boring office machines in the 80s, who was gaming on them back then ?

  • @vapourmile

    @vapourmile

    4 жыл бұрын

    LOL. False.

  • @wishusknight3009

    @wishusknight3009

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@vapourmile ?

  • @vapourmile

    @vapourmile

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@wishusknight3009 You're imagining things. Ever head of "information availability fallacy"? It's basically the argument from ignorance: You aren't aware of something therefore it doesn't exist. For the sake of example: The CompuSonics DSP-1000 was a professional studio grade PC compatible 16bit digital signal processor and sampler which allowed PC-Based processing and mastering of CD quality audio. It was literally used to improve the quality of CDs. It was also available to the professional market in 1984. It predated ALL the Amigas. You should really try looking harder, you obviously won't find something if you aren't looking for it.

  • @LuciRosseTV

    @LuciRosseTV

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@vapourmile sorry mate, ha was talking about the PC that regular people were using at the time... by the way " the CompuSonics DSP-1000 was a VCR-sized desktop unit with stereo I/O, 16-bit converters and a claimed 20 to 20k Hz bandwidth. The format never took off, yet the unit laid the groundwork for other CompuSonics products in the fledgling DAW market - certainly well in its infancy in 1984."

  • @DannyJonesUK
    @DannyJonesUK4 жыл бұрын

    KZread's recommended videos feature has been spot on lately - was shown your other video about the Amiga samplers and trackers and loved it (instant sub of course) - not only that but damn your really can seemingly effortlessly knock out a banger regardless of the age of the tech Awesome subject, great channel tbh - thanks for your time in making these.

  • @JesusisJesus

    @JesusisJesus

    4 жыл бұрын

    Daniel Jones I just finished watching part 1. You said exactly what I wanted to say. 👍

  • @MicahBuzanANIMATION

    @MicahBuzanANIMATION

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same for me.

  • @axecept2
    @axecept24 жыл бұрын

    Dude, this stuff is great. As a dude who made tracker music, just seeing the actual crap people had to do 'back then' just to be able to create samples and then turn that into music on old computers like the Amiga, really makes me respect my favorite musicians who did this crap a whole lot more. Keep this stuff going!

  • @CTRIX64

    @CTRIX64

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks! Will work on some new stuff soon.

  • @jonathansoko1085

    @jonathansoko1085

    2 жыл бұрын

    This is why there's so much classic hip-hop and electronic music from that era. With the limitations came creativity. Nowadays people don't even have to try they just buy samples from cymatics, and loop them, done. Everyone's the same

  • @vix_in_japan
    @vix_in_japan4 жыл бұрын

    Dude your latest 2 videos are off the scale interesting! I'm a pixel artist (I do a lot of it on an Amiga at the moment like a nomad thing) not a musician but I love music and this was so so interesting. Can't wait for the DSS8 episode :) thank you for all your effort in these videos.

  • @vix_in_japan

    @vix_in_japan

    4 жыл бұрын

    Like a Nomad? lol that sentence needed more devotion.... normal it should say :)

  • @CTRIX64

    @CTRIX64

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@vix_in_japan Haha - I knew what you meant! Also - thanks for your channel - it has some fantastic content on it. Especially some of the real-time streams while working on something. I've checked in now and again for the last year :-)

  • @vix_in_japan

    @vix_in_japan

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@CTRIX64 Aww thanks man, glad you enjoy it, always stuns me when people whose creativity I enjoy so much pop in to watch a noodler like me :)

  • @Sheevlord
    @Sheevlord4 жыл бұрын

    15:55 Wow, that demo bundled with the software is quite something. It's like a kid randomly hammering on a synthesizer. Or a CD player desperately trying to play a VERY scratched disc.

  • @JarrydHall

    @JarrydHall

    4 жыл бұрын

    Sheevlord “Alright lads, we need to create a demo track to go with the software. Only catch is it needs to include a Run-D.M.C. sample and some seagulls.”

  • @tehshingen

    @tehshingen

    4 жыл бұрын

    AH YEAH! lol

  • @Ryoga2K

    @Ryoga2K

    4 жыл бұрын

    comes to show that the guys that put all the product together.. didn't really know that much about what they were doing.. at least from a musician point of view

  • @CTRIX64

    @CTRIX64

    4 жыл бұрын

    Certainly sounds like a demo by coders doesn't it! Although to anyone who was non-musical, it would have still been an impressive demo of what it was capable of I guess!

  • @sanjacobs6261

    @sanjacobs6261

    3 жыл бұрын

    I've had music teachers who would find all sorts of symbolism and deepness in that track, hahaha

  • @SS-hz4jo
    @SS-hz4jo10 ай бұрын

    I didn’t realize how easy and economical it was to make sample based music back then. I remember struggling with a Protools digi 001 that never worked out for me. Now I see why people stuck to Amiga, which I really wanted, and Atari.

  • @csabasanta5696
    @csabasanta56962 жыл бұрын

    You really should continue this amazing series!

  • @pete3300
    @pete33004 жыл бұрын

    I wonder how long before you get a copyright strike on your own house tracks because someone thinks they sound similar. Keep up the great work. Loving your work on the Amiga.

  • @CTRIX64

    @CTRIX64

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yeah - I uploaded it in advance and left it for a few days to let the gods check it. I released my old Amiga stuff creative commons but via an aggrigator and it copyright claims everything. I hate it and can't undo it. People wonder why I haven't released music in 6 years and that's why! I keep it to live shows these day :-) Buuuuutt... that might change

  • @BlezzBeats

    @BlezzBeats

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@CTRIX64 Please make that change!

  • @MattBFreq3

    @MattBFreq3

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@CTRIX64 I hear you...I've made a few tunes featuring samples from other people's work, but have not released them for that very reason! I tend to stick to non-descript, single samples for most of my work now

  • @gblargg
    @gblargg4 жыл бұрын

    The Amiga being able to effectively continuously vary the playback sample rate IN HARDWARE was great.

  • @vapourmile

    @vapourmile

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@rorz999 LOL. The Amiga's sound chip is explained by the fact an 8bit DAC is one of the cheapest simplest possible circuits to build. my.eng.utah.edu/~bowen/DAC_Proj/8-bit_r2rdac_current_sources.html When the Amiga was released FM synthesis was still preferred in professional musical instruments because synthesizers are far more controllable. What was more ubiquitous in the 1980s, the Amiga or the FM Yamaha DX-7? kzread.info/dash/bejne/iZ2Nw5aohduxgps.html Amigas are not famous for being preferred in pro studios. They were the digital equivalent of the already outdated 1963 Mellotron. Except the Mellotron from 23 years before could easily voice more than 4 notes at a time. kzread.info/dash/bejne/gGRrj7t6e9e4cdo.html

  • @CTRIX64

    @CTRIX64

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@vapourmile I see your point from a studio perspective.... but the Amiga was never a studio device nor marketed to that use-case ever. There was a huge divide between a computer and a studio in the 1980s. The most a studio computer did was control automation or play out simple MIDI data (by 1985) for which the Atari was marketed. Studio's contained $$$,$$$ of gear ... and even a basic sampler cost $$$$. The Amiga was $$$ (note the missing dollar digit!) and was a full computer with the bonus of 4 channel hardware sampler / re-player which could do some amazing things if you were careful and efficient with the sample source. Any studio owner would instantly hear it as 8bit and aliased. A note on the R2R DAC - which are indeed simple to build - was not what was in the Amiga. The Amiga did a bunch more than just contain a single DAC. Unlike the sample playback cards for other platforms which were essentially a R2R DAC (like the HippoSound for Atari or SoundBlaster on the PC). The Amiga effectively had 4 x 8 bit DACs + 64 volume levels per channel, and as @blargg mentions above - it did varied resampling in hardware meaning that the CPU usage was 0% on audio playback unless you were doing modulation. A single command could trigger a sound effect and it'd just play until you stopped it in code. Even the Sound Blaster on the PC right up until the modern day uses the CPU for audio playback. That's why many Amiga people bought Gravis Ultrasounds if they bought a PC. I remember my dads 486SX/25 couldn't even playback a MOD without sounding fuzzy (as the SoundBlaster was 8 bit rather than 4 x 8bit). Consider the Amiga had an 8mhz CPU back in the old days... to output to a simple R2R DAC would have been impossible if you wanted to do anything (like gameplay) at the same time. Studio samplers had dedicated processors worth many more times the price of an Amiga and built for the task. To answer your question on the DX - yes it would have been more common to find a DX7 in a studio. But I'd argue in the 1980's the Fairlight / E-mu Emulator and a ton of other digital samplers (often triggering drums and other effects) were just as common as the DX7. The Amiga is essentially a poor-persons Fairlight / Emulator. I do love the DX7 though. Mines currently broken but I'll possibly film a repair video - mostly because when a DX7 goes wrong it makes some of the wildest sounds you will ever hear!

  • @vapourmile

    @vapourmile

    4 жыл бұрын

    ​@@CTRIX64That was unfortunately not very informative. Like so many others you seem to have assumed I don't know what I'm talking about. No, I'm a computing professional, and a programmer of the era when the Amiga was popular. So I can and have written programs for the Commodore Amiga, PC and Commodore 64 in the Amiga's day in Assembler. Including sample players, copper lists, etc. A professional sampler only had one job: To make a single 16bit 44Khz digital recording of a sound. After that it was then processed by hardware which could play polyphonic sound, if needs be. Although in a professional setting, even to this day, samples are usually merely filtered then used as they are. Basslines, drum rhythms, etc. The Amiga isn't really like a Fairlight. The Fairlight was not as simple as you claim. It provided sound shaping through frequency analyses which are complex even by the standards of today. The Fairlight used synthesising technology based on an FFT algorithm, there is nothing equivalent on an Amiga. Also, contrary to your claim, the sound chip on the Amiga didn't resample anything. Samples can be played back at different speeds and that is all, so it is rather as simple as I said. You simply set a volume control, point it at a region of memory, set the playback speed, then trigger playback. There have been attempts to improve on this using real-time software algorithms but an unassisted 68000 doesn't do very well when it comes to shaping sounds coming at it at a maximum of 4x22Khz. The 68000 isn't going to have an easy time modifying samples at a rate of 2 8 bit samples per raster then passing them to chip RAM. It just doesn't have the power. You can get things like 8-voice players, but what's the point? Even a cheap PC consumer sound card like the AdLib has a synthesizer chip with 9 voices onboard hardware processing and 16-bit waveform output. The AdLib is not an exotic device, it's the lowest end ever of the PC audio market. In short though, yes studio equipment was more expensive. Amiga fans ALWAYS shout "COST!", but it isn't a valid argument. YOU may have had a tight budget but not everybody shares your own budgetary constraints. Mercedes are more expensive than Volkswagen Polos, private planes are more expensive than cars. . It doesn't matter. You don't dictate terms on what other people can afford to own. You can't invalidate something based on an assertion YOU can't afford it. Who cares if it's beyond your price range? Of course studio equipment is more expensive, it's better. It's more capable more sophisticated equipment with far more stable and quiet signal generators. When people love Amigas they cling to anything the Amiga has done and tout it as extraordinary, purely because it's an Amiga doing it. What about more generally,?If you aren't emotionally tied to the Amiga? What do people remember in music? The Amiga? Or the Prophet 5, the Roland 303 and 808, the DX-7, the Fairlight, the Clavichord, Moog and Oberheim. Even in its forte, which was computer games, people remember Sega and Nintendo, Mario and Sonic. Amiga fans grossly overestimate the Amiga and grossly underestimate everything else. Always trying to claim that anything more expensive doesn't count. No, if you can afford it then its utility is NOT invalidated by its cost. Why do DGX-2 workstations, TODAY cost £350,000? Why did the Summit supercomputer cost £325,000,000? Devices are NOT invalidated by the fact you can't afford them, and the fact they are often often more expensive does NOT imply the purchasers of them would be better of with Amigas. Nobody did weather research on a Commodore Amiga. The Amiga is a cheap consumer toy.

  • @wohlhabendermanager

    @wohlhabendermanager

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@vapourmile "The Amiga is a cheap consumer toy." So many words and your conclusion is to tell us what we already know? News flash: Everyone knows that the Amiga is a cheap consumer toy. This is what it was marketed as (at least the 500). But you compare apples to oranges. The Amiga was not studio equipment nor was it ever marketed as studio equipment. You compare things that wheren't build for private use to a home computer (emphasis lies on "home") that was build to do many things. That doesn't make any sense. If you want to do a comparison that isn't "private planes vs cars" (what the heck?) you'd need to compare it to something that is in the same field, like PCs or Macs. But you completly miss the point with about every single one of your sentences. Except the one I quoted and which is common knowledge.

  • @vapourmile

    @vapourmile

    4 жыл бұрын

    ​@@wohlhabendermanager "If you want to do a comparison that isn't "private planes vs cars" (what the heck?) you'd need to compare it to something that is in the same field, like PCs or Macs" LOL. No I don't.... the no true Scotsman fallacy in disguise, again. Yeah.... "If you want to compare the Amiga to anything else the only things you're allowed to compare it to are things like the Amiga, you know, like the Amiga". You can rule out ANYTHING ELSE as "not the same thing as an Amiga" comparison because obviously the only thing truly "the same thing" as a Commodore Amiga is the same Commodore Amiga. Your argument is "The only way to make a fair assessment it to preemptively discount from consideration that isn't a commodore Amiga". No, sorry, that's bullshit. I can venture exactly the same in return: If I want a Cray supercomputer then I don't have to compare it to anything except Cray supercomputers. Microcomputers need not apply. There is literally nothing about an Amiga that means you MUST consider it and reject other things. Having considered it, if you want SOMETHING ELSE, example: Something more powerful than an Amiga, then it's very easily ruled out. When I set up a CGI department in the late 1980s we have £21 million to spend. Know how many Amigas we used? None. You probably can feasibly make an album entirely on Garage Band on an iPhone, but there's no fucking point and it's stupid to imply when making a choice you Must select from tools a bit like Garage Band, because it obviously isn't true and that fact explains why people don't: They can get something more suitable instead. The idea the only things you can take into consideration when making a purchase are things matching the exact description of a Commodore Amiga is fucking stupid. What if you *don't* want an Amiga because it *Doesn't* fit your specification? "The only things you're allowed to choose from are those things which fit the description of the Amiga" is clearly stupid and wrong. When people go out to buy a Bugatti or Lamborghini they *can* weight it up against a Ford Fiesta if they want to but it's fucking stupid to suggest that, having done so, they are then forced to make a selection from something in the same price bracket as a Fiesta. They don't. That's my point. Nobody who wants to own a helicopter *must* choose a scooter instead. "You're can make a free choice, only your choice has to fit the size and shape of scooter because that's what I had!". No, that has never been true.

  • @lonephantom09
    @lonephantom094 жыл бұрын

    I always appreciate the level of effort you take with these videos - delivered with extreme care and diligence to the small details. Kudos, and greetings from Massachusetts!

  • @ClayMann
    @ClayMann4 жыл бұрын

    I had one of these as a kid and I loved it. Used it a lot with Octamed which for me was the only music software I ever learned how to use properly. I love all detail you go into here. I had no idea what was inside was so simple.

  • @chriscuthbertson
    @chriscuthbertson4 жыл бұрын

    I had 'Stereo Master' and i loved it.

  • @machineboyCom
    @machineboyCom10 ай бұрын

    Such a fun trip down memory lane, I remember buying the Stereo Master sampler and recording my cheap electric guitar and making mods in OctaMed. Sampling was still pretty magic back then, and having friends talk in the microphone and playing back their voice sped up was a lot of fun. Hoping you'll get around to part 2 one day, these videos are wonderful documentation of a really interesting time in computer audio!

  • @tekwon
    @tekwon4 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic video! It really brings back a lot of good memories. The Technosound was my first sampler. I remember having to mail order it from the UK (to Australia). I had to actually mail out a bank cheque to the UK and then wait MONTHS hoping something would show up in my postbox. It's amazing what we could do even with those crazy limitations we had. I still use some sampling techniques I learned from those days.

  • @channelsabored
    @channelsabored4 жыл бұрын

    Seriously! These are great videos. I got interested in the MOD scene after finding Ilkae's back in 2006 or so. I had already started writing music on piano rolls by this point, so using tracker software felt somewhat limiting, however I really respected what you folks were able to accomplish through those limitations. It's so cool to hear about it all first hand, and you're doing a great job explaining things and producing the videos as well.

  • @microfighterz
    @microfighterz4 жыл бұрын

    I actually kinda liked that muffled warm sound filter

  • @huskion
    @huskion4 жыл бұрын

    Not only do these two videos have fantastic quality informative content and great production value, but an amazing soundtrack

  • @giggipoops
    @giggipoops4 жыл бұрын

    I extremely love your idea of producing such videos. Simply amazing! Waiting for the next one

  • @BlezzBeats
    @BlezzBeats4 жыл бұрын

    Dude you can never go too far this rabbit hole, thanks for putting the time in. Made my weekend!

  • @VAN17INO6
    @VAN17INO64 жыл бұрын

    man i was blown away by the videos already and then i realized i know your music from 8bc!! keep on with the series, its never too far into the rabit hole when you know your stuff right

  • @atarig33k
    @atarig33k4 жыл бұрын

    These have got to be the two best videos I have ever seen on KZread. Can't wait for the next.

  • @smiljanicn
    @smiljanicn4 жыл бұрын

    Man, you are such a talent! the low end in your music gorgesly sounding in my BD DT770 headphones. Amazing!

  • @Peter-gu9ph
    @Peter-gu9ph3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you soooo much for this amazing early 90s flashback! So many great memories. I went all the way back then with an Amiga 3000 - took me about 3-4 years to pay off! I had the DSS 8 Digital Sound Studio (you show in the first Intro video) and thought the demo song was one of the most amazing productions I'd ever heard - hoping that when you upload the second video in this series (2b: Mid-Range) you feature the DSS 8 demo song - or even better, upload it as a stand-alone video with the whole song.

  • @PointBlankMusicSchool
    @PointBlankMusicSchool2 жыл бұрын

    Amazing and informative. Insane how far we've come.

  • @fabiosolazzomusic
    @fabiosolazzomusic4 жыл бұрын

    Still waiting for the part 3!

  • @kidcoal33
    @kidcoal334 жыл бұрын

    cant wait for the second part!!

  • @jon_c
    @jon_c4 жыл бұрын

    Loved this. Perfect amount of detail as I'm an avid synth and electronics enthusiast.

  • @cameronkemp9742
    @cameronkemp97424 жыл бұрын

    another amazing video, well done mate. youtube recommended you to me for some reason, and i watched on a whim because i used to be pretty into this kind of technology. but although i no longer am very interested in it, you make it all so incredibly interesting and fun to watch!

  • @tommyottobisdee
    @tommyottobisdee Жыл бұрын

    This video is A-MAZ-ZING!!! It’s just so fascinating to see and hear how all this stuff worked back in the day - I can’t believe how many everyday modern mixing tasks you simply don’t even need to think about?! I mean, not once did you give any thought to using an EQ, a compressor or anything like that haha!? Makes me feel like I’m wasting so much time by constantly wondering which expensive VST channel strip I’m going to use on a drum sample these days…?! Kinda blows my mind! Hope you’ve got more vids like this cos I love it!!

  • @Ecidemon
    @Ecidemon4 жыл бұрын

    This series is great fun to watch! I used to have an A.M.A.S sampler for my Amiga back in the day and would use it to make samples for use in the tracker software.

  • @HOUSEWARMING
    @HOUSEWARMING4 жыл бұрын

    Great execution. Top notch production and just my niche.

  • @namakudamono
    @namakudamono4 жыл бұрын

    Wow, this was awesome! Looking forward to the next part! Now you have me wondering about the hardware in TechnoSoundTurbo2 cartridge!

  • @RasVoja
    @RasVoja Жыл бұрын

    Love and respect! Remember those mod and sample days so vividly and passionately!

  • @MadCandor
    @MadCandor Жыл бұрын

    Respect for taking the time to make such a great video.

  • @HoldandModify
    @HoldandModify4 жыл бұрын

    Dude I watch all kinds of Amiga vids but this is the first time in six years I found yours. These are great! Start a retro Amiga music series!

  • @eastkingstonnh
    @eastkingstonnh2 жыл бұрын

    I remember seeing a presser about your concert using the Amiga. Amazing! I used to use a DSS8+ all the time. I believe I still have it!

  • @devjock
    @devjock4 жыл бұрын

    Mate, I'm loving this series! Can't wait for the DIY episode. In the time between your first return to the amiga 500, I've gotten myself a pretty decent setup, accelerator and all. Only thing missing (ea; still in transit from ebay) is an IDE harddisk. Definitely going to build myself a sampler. I'm hoping it's gonna be a fairly high quality one, or atleast, if it's "feature complete", there's options to either strip it down to the core or completely pimp it out if you have deep pockets. Coming from fasttracker for msdos, I know I want to go all-in on tracking on the Amiga. Cheers man, can't wait for more episodes!

  • @CTRIX64

    @CTRIX64

    4 жыл бұрын

    Awesome! Let me know if you do make one. Yeah - Fasttracker was and is still amazing. The 4 channel life does make it extra special though :-) The limitations are wild. Also - you can do your sampling on a modern PC and it'll still sound like an Amiga once the samples are shipped over. I might do a video on how I pre-prep samples on the PC side.

  • @xwildzerox666

    @xwildzerox666

    4 жыл бұрын

    ​@@CTRIX64 Sampling on PC(+Mac?) and shipping over would be interesting. I always end up resampling stuff through the amiga and back into ableton when I want that amiga-ey sound. Definitely also gonna build a sampler based on the next video, too, as I had one of those cheap ones and it's recently died!

  • @peterpiper0815
    @peterpiper08153 жыл бұрын

    Wow, this is top notch youtube content! Beside your musical and entertainment talent your knowledge is great and you know how to explain things in a way that is easy to understand (stereo sampling with a mono converter, aliasing etc) I'm waiting for the next part.

  • @gabrielfutureneon3177
    @gabrielfutureneon31773 жыл бұрын

    Can't wait for the next video! Got my Amiga 500 and DSS8 ready!

  • @brianhginc.2140
    @brianhginc.21403 жыл бұрын

    The AD7576 used in those cheap samplers was the 'cheapest' iteration of the chip from Analog devices and it did have missing codes meaning at a quite spot, the ADC would hop 2-3 codes on the 8-bit up and down with a fixed void in the middle making that hiss between your speech 2-3x worse than it should be. In the day, I tried wiring the top 8bits of a 250$ 16bit ADC IC to my Amiga's parallel port and that 'squeltching' on and off hiss between the speech was almost eliminated, like 3x quieter with actual sound in there instead of the abrupt on and off hiss of the AD7576 in those cheap samplers. So, the Amiga was actually capable of better reproduction than the samples we ended up with those 50-100$ samplers boxes. It's sad since most Amiga sampled audio in games was actually done with a load of hiss which shouldn't have been as bad as it was by a factor of around 3 fold.

  • @NMTCG
    @NMTCG3 жыл бұрын

    been waiting for part 2 please! It's a trip down memory lane!!!

  • @andrez.pagnossim8481
    @andrez.pagnossim84814 жыл бұрын

    Your videos are the best, Chris! Keep 'em coming!

  • @olahansson5827
    @olahansson58273 жыл бұрын

    Great video! Think I’ve seen it maybe 4 times by accident. Really looking forward to the next part!

  • @CraigPerry
    @CraigPerry4 жыл бұрын

    This is a brilliant series, i need to see more from this guy

  • @renbymon
    @renbymon4 жыл бұрын

    For an old school amiga user who's thinking about trying out sampling on one this is totally on point! Looking forward to the rest, especially the DIY one even though I've got a Technosound Turbo. :)

  • @gan9e
    @gan9e5 ай бұрын

    16:00 that synth pulse sound is taken from the film Planes Trains & Automobiles, the hotel room scene where the two main characters share a hotel room for the first time.

  • @newkfromrotterdam
    @newkfromrotterdam Жыл бұрын

    this was awesome.. and very interesting to see that every sampling-circuit added a different character to a sampled sound! i hope you do the other parts too, soonish.. i would like to make my own HQ DIY amiga sampler :D

  • @wohlhabendermanager
    @wohlhabendermanager4 жыл бұрын

    1:09 I can't express how much I like that you left that part in. You check the cable direction and the port direction, but still try to plug it in the wrong way around. Happens to me every single time. Glad to know I am not the only one. :)

  • @falkorock
    @falkorock3 жыл бұрын

    Looking forward for Pt 2b and the Bonus!

  • @WhiteDieselShed
    @WhiteDieselShed4 жыл бұрын

    I had and may still have a Megalosound, similar size to the small stereo MASTER unit. Limited by the RAM on an A500 but on the A1200 +8mb RAM exp and a MASSIVE!! 1GB hard drive, space was no longer an issue. Copying a CD across from the A500/A570 to the A1200 using a parallel cable took about 24 hours though... Adding a 4x CD drive to the A1200 had the shopkeeper telling me its for a PC and will not work on the Amiga. If he knew it did work he would probably have quadrupled the price. I moved to a PC because the parts were so much cheaper. Sub £50 modem for a PC or hundreds of £'s for an Amiga one.

  • @tunnis7us
    @tunnis7us10 ай бұрын

    3 years later and still waiting the part 2... Otherwise great stuff :)

  • @timowen5772
    @timowen57724 жыл бұрын

    I'm back to being a 16 year old again, with my 4 track and oscilloscope connected to the A500 (and later A1200). Super content - can't wait for part 2.

  • @JulienEarle
    @JulienEarle4 жыл бұрын

    tbh if youre a modern dance music producer these videos are super enlightening on why it doesnt matter if you sample sounds and make your own tracks, the foundation of dance music is people playing samples as their instrument

  • @blondeengie
    @blondeengie4 жыл бұрын

    I love your videos !! Really inspiring , please continue to create more !! 😍

  • @sikalafazelipapa3368
    @sikalafazelipapa3368 Жыл бұрын

    Your videos about samplers are perfect samplemines

  • @Mr_ToR
    @Mr_ToR3 жыл бұрын

    just discovered your channel. beautifully made videos. 👍👍 Made maybe over 100 modd on my a500 back in the day with soundtracker and octalyzer. i had a cheap sampler with which i sapled my instrıments. even used it as a midi sequencer with my 2 synths. i always wished to able to use midi and mods/tracked amiga samples together but never was able to do it though.

  • @a500
    @a5004 жыл бұрын

    I had the Stereo Master. It did okay. I only ever used the supplied software for using the realtime effects. When sampling I'd use the Audiomaster III by Aegis and MED (Later Octomed). So watching this really brought back some memories.

  • @mcrsit
    @mcrsit4 жыл бұрын

    I'd say let's go down the rabbit hole as much as we can! Excellent work, keep it up!

  • @trobinson7876
    @trobinson78763 жыл бұрын

    Another Absolutely fantastic video - so informative and beautifully put together - subbing for sure

  • @InXLsisDeo
    @InXLsisDeo4 жыл бұрын

    40ms of resolution xD Hard to believe one could make anything useful with that. Fantastic series you did here ! This is the beginnings of home computer music right there.

  • @KONEY.INDUSTRIAL
    @KONEY.INDUSTRIAL4 жыл бұрын

    It's nice to remember that back in the days people were referring to these devices as "(audio) digitizers" while the term "sampler" meant more a device like an AKAI S900/S1000 or similar :)

  • @DataCollaborate
    @DataCollaborate10 ай бұрын

    I hope Part 2 will come soon, im really really interested what comes next. :)

  • @LastV8Interceptors
    @LastV8Interceptors4 жыл бұрын

    These videos are amazing. Thank you for making them!

  • @johnchainsman
    @johnchainsman4 жыл бұрын

    Amiga was the greatest line of home computers of all time.

  • @Mattened
    @Mattened Жыл бұрын

    These videos are absolute gold, mate

  • @SecurityDivision
    @SecurityDivision4 жыл бұрын

    Best description of aliasing ever!

  • @dtsdigitalden5023
    @dtsdigitalden50234 жыл бұрын

    Excellent, just excellent. I had a cheapie mono sampler, with a British flag on it (but I can't remember what it was called), which I used with my Amiga 500 (and later, the Amiga 3000). It was absolutely awful, but with heavy EQ applied to the output of what I was sampling, the results became surprisingly usable. Thanks again for this terrific series of videos; I can't wait to see the next part!

  • @KIRASIXHUNDRED
    @KIRASIXHUNDRED3 жыл бұрын

    15:49 was a real treat! Watched that part back a few times.

  • @DuckAlertBeats
    @DuckAlertBeats4 жыл бұрын

    Props on the Run DMC sample identifications! Technosound was my weapon of choice. Man I almost miss all this stuff. Maschine, Reason, Ableton are great... But not as much fun honestly

  • @cutnrun22
    @cutnrun224 жыл бұрын

    New sub due to this vid 👍 Looking forward to the dss8 breakdown. I recently got a Dss 8+, not used it yet, but want to know more about the quality it produces. Really love this sampling hobby, and amiga is where it started for me. Since then i have had an Akai s950, s2800, s1000, s1100, s3000, s3200, etc etc. Great vid. Thanks.

  • @HammondDirk
    @HammondDirk3 жыл бұрын

    Brings back memories from my teenage period :-D. I had the Techno Sound Turbo II, also "Stereo", it had the same noise issues, was always a bit frustrating...

  • @DrJRMCFC
    @DrJRMCFC3 жыл бұрын

    Superb. Never used a sampler but love early rave tunes that were often made on such equipment,. Did my degree in electronic engineering so really interesting. Subscribed....

  • @easyerthanyouthink
    @easyerthanyouthink4 жыл бұрын

    Awesome info. Awesome video Awesome Amiga 👍 Good old days. How i miss them.😢 Episode 2 . Bring it on 😆

  • @user-ij5sm2wk7y
    @user-ij5sm2wk7y4 жыл бұрын

    Great! The more technical, the better! I can't go back to the more entry-level, generalist videos now.

  • @CTRIX64

    @CTRIX64

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hahahaha.... love it. I totally just visted your web page too. It's on point. That secret page on the SNES launch is magic! Next video is kinda looking semi technical too... but more a look at software.

  • @JamesChurchill
    @JamesChurchill4 жыл бұрын

    16:20 it's the sound of the FUTUUUUURE

  • @jazzthief81
    @jazzthief814 жыл бұрын

    You're spoiling us with these.

  • @Mphuthimorena
    @Mphuthimorena3 жыл бұрын

    Your video production is crazy, I love the series. keep it up. Edit:Please keep geeking out, electronics are awesome.

  • @Audiobungalow
    @Audiobungalow4 жыл бұрын

    These videos are so awesome! Keep it up.

  • @Mute67
    @Mute673 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this video serie on Amiga samplers! It's one of a kind! I have several Amiga samplers myself including (2)DSS+, Audio Engineer +, Aura, (2)Clarity16, Microdeal Voice Master for CDTV, Alcotini sampler - the first hardware I bought for my Amiga 500 back in the days :).

  • @CTRIX64

    @CTRIX64

    3 жыл бұрын

    Nice! I couldn't source the Clarity 16 or Aura (wow)... but I've got both the DSS carts I'll take a look at next time!

  • @Mute67

    @Mute67

    3 жыл бұрын

    I don't want to be perky but if you are interested in one of the Clarity 16 samplers to test it and maybe make a review of it let me know.

  • @CTRIX64

    @CTRIX64

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Mute67 Sounds like it could be a part of the 2021 continuation of these videos. The Clarity probably needs to be featured at some point! Would be great to chat :-)

  • @Mute67

    @Mute67

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@CTRIX64 Sure, I have to find a way to contact you about that ;-)

  • @NewLoops
    @NewLoops3 жыл бұрын

    Love this vid! We've come a long way.

  • @slowlymakingsmoke
    @slowlymakingsmoke4 жыл бұрын

    Loved the video dude. Always messed around with them as a teenager, but never got serious. Think I might now.

  • @habitek
    @habitek4 жыл бұрын

    This video is just GREAT ! Many thanks for very interesting material and we need mooooooreeeeee ! :)

  • @Roomer645
    @Roomer6454 жыл бұрын

    Keep this going Mate ! I recall having a Golem sampler and using Audiomaster for software.

  • @wizetek
    @wizetek4 жыл бұрын

    This is so good! Looking forward to more videos like this from you. Instant sub of course. Cheers from Toronto, Canada.

  • @funkymedlol
    @funkymedlol4 жыл бұрын

    again awesome video, can't wait for the next part

  • @luciano1819
    @luciano18192 жыл бұрын

    My first working tools in music. Amazing machine ❤❤

  • @JarrydHall
    @JarrydHall2 жыл бұрын

    Loved your videos. I remember enjoying them as they were released and still enjoying them now. Any chance for a follow up part 3? :)

  • @my_username
    @my_username3 жыл бұрын

    When I was about 12 I bought a second hand A500 for peanuts from a family friend. It came with a Master Sound cart which I never even tried to figure out. All that hardware is long gone now of course... but seeing it in this video brought back the memory of it lying around! In fact it kind of makes sense, as it came with two boxes of PD disks, so I guess the guy had bought the Master Sound based on the allure of making his own PD demos.

  • @BordelAmbiant
    @BordelAmbiant3 жыл бұрын

    Can't wait for the next episode... I had the DSS tracker back then (unofficial copy), and I'd rip off samples from games like Flasback (which songs I could read directly inside DSS!! Even the address of the composer was written inside as a comment). That's the way I did music back in 1994... I was light years away from the knowledge and means of what you expose here... This is SO amazing, man!!! Next episode right NOW!

  • @amiga1productions
    @amiga1productions2 жыл бұрын

    I built a sampler back in the day, used it to create samples for various public domain demos, thanks for the memories :-)

  • @reno5159
    @reno51592 жыл бұрын

    Recently got an Akai S3000XL for £95. Bit dated today but makes me realise how lucky we are to get this hardware at an even cheaper cost😂 Loving this series hoping to see an update soon. Subscribed

  • @futurismus
    @futurismus10 ай бұрын

    oi Ctrix, firstly mad video. second finally some respect for my first love the k1. k1ii from Hornsby cash converters cheers dad. met john chowning down the track and he wasn't aware of that lil fm guru but was nice to chat to him about fm being the first form of sound synthesis i learned in a weird way it all makes sense. wrote a bunch of stuff on the mt32 ages ago too im sitting here with my aptiva d-20 ms2000 and mt32 and would only be happier if i had a k1

  • @peterpiper0815
    @peterpiper08153 жыл бұрын

    10:25 'and you can start to hear the crunch come back in there' YES exactly what some sounds & genres need :)

  • @idogepgyar
    @idogepgyar4 ай бұрын

    crazy stuff, keep em coming!

  • @nomadyogaman3034
    @nomadyogaman30344 жыл бұрын

    I had no idea how interesting I would find this!

  • @vondelpark8141
    @vondelpark81413 жыл бұрын

    Great stuff thanks, I used to sequence with A-drum, a horizontal tracker.

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