Amiga Samplers : Budget dance music in 1990

"im just playing around here" makes absolute jammer

Tfw this guy is jamming and making legit bangers

12 minutes in.. "Cheesy sounding house track"? Hell no, I love it! It's perfect to listen to while I'm running. I've cut it to a loop.

"You never forget the first time you saw an Amiga"..so true, i was 9, one of the best days of my life. ❤

“And we’ve run out out of memory” lol. Don’t miss any of that

If that's cheesy house music, I guess I have cheesy music taste. That was fire

I can't express how interesting this is. These days being able to program chart-topping beats on an average PC is a given but I've always wondered how things worked out back in the day. Also, these demo tracks sound like absolute bangers!

I just watched the history of the Amiga Commodore, "From Bedroom to Billionaires" and it amazes me that there were (are!) scenes like these, populated by highly passionate, talented people. That last mix is dope!

All right, this was awesome. I've always wanted to try this on my A500 so it's really cool to see the process laid out like this. Thanks for putting this together, looks like a ton of fun!

I love how happy this guy sounds. He’s really in his element. 😄

I was using sampling back in 1985 on my Amiga 1000. In 1986, I got an adapter to make my own sound samples which I used to make of instrument sounds. The device came with software to play back the samples in real-time using a MIDI keyboard, and also included the ability to save them in the Amiga's industry standard IFF format. My Amiga was used like an Ensoniq Mirage or Fairlight, in the mid 80s. I even had software that made the Amiga emulate the Mirage sampler and was compatible with disks made for it. I purchased 30 of them and used them in my bands. No other computer was even close to this ability in the mid 80s to run "soft synths". Later, the concept caught on with VST's, but the Amiga had that ability way back in 1985. The Atari ST''s sound chip by comparison was a huge step back from even the C-64, and actually the same chip used in the TI 99/4 produced back in 1979 or 80.

This reminds me of being a small kid back in 91/92, and spending hours in my uncles room watching him cut together tracks. His room was just floor to ceiling vinyls, tapes, and 8 tracks, and him in the corner with his Amiga, synths, and hi-fi system blowing the roof off the place. It was quite the education 😂

When you're 38, as I am, it sort of blows your mind that this was really only big for 4, 5 years at most. It was such a huge thing back then.

This video is what YouTube was meant for IMO. These days you have to dig around to come across gems like this.

How smart were people back then, like your self, to improvise and make their own sound collection. I did not know my Amiga could do this, so Awesome. Good on ya, and also loved the Coldcut , Lisa Stansfield music..back when music was amazing! I did the same thing on my humble C64.

It's ILLEGAL to make such jams and then not release them

so freaking dope

This is awesome. I had ProTracker on my A600 as a kid, but never really managed to make anything resembling real music. I had a few floppies with mod tracks that I loved listening to though. Seeing all those commands scrolling by was pure magic!

13:30 That sounds amazing, i love that. When the beat went from chaos to something more standard it was really nice

imagine, stumbeling on to this video, watching it, and realising you still have your "old" amiga 1200 carefully stocked in a room. running upstairs, unpacking it, and listening to the "crap" music you made yourself back in the early 90's.... i spent countless days fiddeling around with protracker, entering all them command to the notes.... ah nostalgia :D