Amiga Music Recording

[Tronam]

Protracker, for roughly 5 years, until the sad decline of the Amiga platform. <sniff>

[emergeaudio]

I used DigiBooster Pro 2 which was the best tracker for Amiga (1200 + 030/50) required. I made some songs with up to 24 tracks (with 16 bit after rendering to file), you could use 2 commands per line, had simple DSP (mainly delay effect) and kind of bass synth. The new version of DigiBooster Pro (v3) was released about one/two years ago but I don't know too much about it, looks very same like previous version.

Another well know app for Amiga is Audio Evolution




There is also HD-Rec

[fster]

Still have the Amiga 1000 and Dr. T's sequencer...loved it. Also used Mimectic's Soundscape!

[Jace-BeOS]

I bought two Amiga 1200 units a few years back because I missed out on those as a kid. Thought I'd do retro music work with them and other gear. Turns out there's a reason it's the past.

Amiga brought trackers to the computer world. Trackers came to PC. PC trackers are where I started. So I still credit Amiga for my computer music beginnings.

[Hardock]

Protracker has got a (for that time) powerful sampler.

wait... but i think sample recording was not possible. I think i did it with another program that came with the A/D converter.

Used it long time, but its also long time ago

[emergeaudio]

Protracker has got a (for that time) powerful sampler.

wait... but i think sample recording was not possible. I think i did it with another program that came with the A/D converter.

Used it long time, but its also long time ago

It was possible to sample, but a bit limited (max 64kb per sample), I sampled many sounds with ProTracker in 90's

And below screenshot of DigiBooster Pro 2 :

[Jace-BeOS]

I'm almost 100% certain you needed extra hardware to do that though (my A1200s can't sample without extra hardware). Surely Soundtracker had the ability to use said hardware, since its creator sampled a lot of synths (and the synths of his friends?) to create ST-01 and such. Odd how he's no longer a musician.

[surferman]

Med Tracker
Octa-med mostly
Deluxe Music
Dr. T's
Bars and Pipes
Audio Master and the digitizer.

Started with an amiga 500 then on to a souped up A1200 with a 84060 board in it.

[a-type]

Oh yeah... the Amiga was where I cut my teeth in music production, and is mostly the reason I still use a tracker today (renoise).

Pre-synth gear I went:
- Noisetracker
- StarTrekker
- ProTracker
- MED
- Octalyzer
- OctaMED

Then after I got some synths and an Akai sampler it was:
- Bars & Pipes Pro
- Music-X

Music-X was incredible. It used to allow you to nest MIDI clips inside other MIDI clips, so your entire song could be one MIDI clip with other MIDI clips inside it, all containing their own nested MIDI clips. I don't know of any modern day DAWs that allow that.

[Jace-BeOS]

That sounds mind bending.

[memyselfandus]

[glokraw]

aeon, the money behind new Amiga doings, just bought rights to
Octamed Sound Studio, and earlier versions, so look for availability, code cleanup,
and a new release, in coming months. They did this with Personal Paint7,
and also purchased Aladdin 4D, and Image FX, so they are gathering the
most powerful Amiga apps, for the future.

http://www.a-eon.com/

[bungle]

At the price A-EON are charging for the x1000, they should be able to afford to buy every piece of Amiga software ever developed hahahaha
£2300 in the UK, you would have to be some serious fan to pay that !!

[Xenobioz]

I started with Sonix on an Amiga 500+. I loved making sounds with it, but using a note staff for making music was a bit too difficult (I could read notes though). I had Protracker but it crashed on my Amiga so I could not use it, but then I finally got Octamed. Using a tracker was so much easier. Unfortunately OctaMed didn't have such a great and easy to use softsynth like Sonix did.

I got to borrow a sampler, so I sampled some guitars from Metal songs. But mostly I use samples from demo and game modules. I also experimented with making my own sounds from samples. I took samples which I cut away almost everything except a little but in the beginning and then I made it loop a short section in the end of it. So I got kind of a synth/chip sound with a interesting attack. I still have my Amiga1200 in a closet, but I wish I had kept my C64 instead.

BTW I just released a Sonix "Emulator" VST. http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=432259

[glokraw]

At the price A-EON are charging for the x1000, they should be able to afford to buy every piece of Amiga software ever developed hahahaha
£2300 in the UK, you would have to be some serious fan to pay that !!

It was indeed a serious fan who paid for developing a new motherboard for
other serious fans to own and enjoy. With more to come.

Winuae, Morphos, aros, amigaforever, amipup, Sam 440/460, Effica,
Pegasos, AmigaONE, refurbished and original Amigas, all offer various levels of entry and compatibility. iBooks and Powerbooks running Morphos, can host a lot of Amiiga software, for laptop fans.

There are avid Gamers who will drop 2300 in a few years, on repetitive fancied up
flamethrowers, while X1000 users in the same timeframe, will hopefully be gaining vastly improved capability, as the OS advances, which brings additional drama
and buyout speculation into discussions. Amiga: The Soaps of the IT industry