I'm pretty blown away by the level of quality you've accomplished with tech that far predates anything we have at our fingertips and is far more convenient to use today .. I think it's a testament to not blaming the tools, but looking at the artist and how we can best use those tools to the fullest.
When I was a kid I built my own sampler from gathering the components & making the circuit board even had a preamp & mixer added for different inputs later adding high & low pass filters. I would hook it up to the VHS & sample actor voices for those explicit one liners "Feeling lucky punk" or explosions the special effects then add them all into a song. It's was great times always learning something & having fun at the same time with all your mates. One of our friends would sneak us into the radio broadcast station late at night on the grave night shift & we would sample a stack load off records or make our own mix tapes that didn't cost a thing, well the Maxwell tapes the good quality ones 90 XLII did, we used to get all the new hits before they hit the local records stores, naughty naughty hahahaha.
Man that sounds so cool. Im born 1991 and in love with tape, vinyl, Audio gear etc. And it was just amazing to read this Story. Being able to build a Sampler, the mystery around it etc. Really Talented
I still use the old 1.44s on my old synths, for backup and restore of settings and patches mainly, but also to run MIDI files from - they've never failed me.
Yea totally. I grew up with a mpc that used Floppy Discs too, so im used to using small samples. Now I own a digitakt and people tell me the New mpc offers so much space and the dt has only 1gb, and its so much for me 🤣 back then i had that 1gb in 100s of floppys
It's incredible how creative musicians were with limitations, but also how versatile they were with tech. Thanks for the fun and fascinating video, and I also love how the track you made sounds like it's from the early 90s, haha.
Because it's a reupload from a random channel. Which is strange considering the video is still up on Ctrix's actual channel, along with a few other great videos on trackers and tech.
Dude! I am 50 and had a great blunt before watching your video. First thing first, It was fantastically put together and informative and secondly, it brought the good old days back to mind and sent me 35 years back Thanks mate and keep up the good work
No worries. more is coming soon (I took a break for a while) This is actually leached / reposted content. My actual channel is at ruclips.net/user/debuglivevideos There's an Atari video coming in a couple of months that's taken me over a year to create. Very similar to this one.
I super respect electronic music producers of the 80s and 90s. you had to have a real pulsing passion and love to work with these devices. it took ages to make a track. Amazing thing the music was way much cooler with less technology by your side, you needed to have some real electric and electronic know-how to be an electronic musician. in a way, it made a lot more sense. it wasn't just pressing buttons. these guys were artisans of music
The beats you created are giving me hardcore Streets of Rage vibes and I'm so here for it! Anyone who's interested in this kind of music, look up Yuzo Koshiro. Maybe find some inspiration and way to apply some of these sick skills
This is fantastic! Man how I wish the internet was as established as it is today in the early 90's. I was a poor kid in a small town in Sweden and no one I knew had any knowledge about this stuff. I could've made so much higher quality stuff back then with the money I spent on the wrong equipment. Back then I didn't know what a sample was, I thought all electronic music was made with midi to expensive synths and drum machines. The only thing my parents could afford was a used Atari ST an a used Roland MT-32. In itself the MT-32 wasn't bad, but it had almost no sounds for EDM, especially drum wise. Then mid 90's I bought a Windows PC on installment, and an expensive DAC I don't remember the name of from a local music shop, because it supposedly had good General Midi. It sucked too, the drum kits were horrible. It wasn't until 1997 that I actually learned what a sample was when I got a collection of EDM drum loops on cd-rom, and FINALLY I had good kicks, snares and hihats.
Yeah! This gives you a proper feel for how the early rave/'ardkore/jungle records were made. There were many samples that popped up in several tracks with a slight change in pitch.
Wow, I can't believe this only has 7,080 views. This was very informative. For the longest, I always wondered how musicians made electronic music without the use of DAWs. It's amazing seeing how far production has come in 30 years. Makes you wonder if in 2050, people will be looking back at our current DAWs like this?
Lol as an modern day producer I thought my life is hard finding inspirations. Can you imagine these legends have to put insane amounts of work collecting vinyls, floppy disk & ideas. Nowdays everything is one tap away from your computer it’s all in the internet.
Brother that was where the fun was! You were always on the lookout for a single sound to add to your library. Made you listen to music in a completely different way too. Others heard a verse and you heard the bass drum at 3m26s!
I was born in 1975, I had an Atari ST, this video was amazing and nostalgic, absolutely loved it. I remember going to Turnkey on Charring Cross road, coming back home and asking my mum for £1200 to build up a studio..........................................She laughed
Ah yeah childhood memories, I was one of those kids with an Amiga+sampler in the early 90's and was lucky enough to have my own CD player i could hook up and take samples! Classmates didn't believe I made stuff like that at home on my Amiga just to show how much of a novelty it was back then. Thanks for this nice video.
In the early 90's I was drummer in a band. To be able to practise at home, I lived in a not so sound proof apartment, I bought an Alesis D4 and trigger mics and stuffed my drums and played with a headset. I remember connecting it up to my Amiga to sample all the sounds from the module. It took quite some time to sample all 500 sounds because I was very much a perfectionist. I was glad I did after though since it ment I had a huge amount of drum samples to use when I made songs in the tracker.
I thought the same shit This dude makes some great music and is really technically proficient at using those old samplers and trackers My jaw was on the floor when he was cutting that sample up like that
I started with Impulse tracker in 1995, this video reminds me the good old vibes. Nowadays I'm still making music with FL Studio and I live from it. A good producer/musician can create good music with any thing as this video shows, nice work ;)
Oh man :) I was born in '73, so I saw the entire PC evolution from day one. At the time, things like this seemed unattainable. And to a point they felt like if you could do it, you'd be something "special". Mind, not that many people could afford an Amiga - that was the dream. Things like "real speech" photos and videos were all hopes for the future..... actually realistic colours were something of a dream. I was lucky to have a ZX Spectrum, then an Atari ST with a load of consoles along the way (Megadrive and Dreamcast were my favourites). You certainly know your stuff! I still love the sound of the old Commodore 64 sound chip. I even shagged a girl one time because she had a Commodore 64 and Mission Impossible.............................. wasn't impossible after all hahaha
My favorite kind of youtube content; informational guide making me spend all my money on old stuff that would be much cheaper and easier for literally anybody to do in an app in 2022
When I saw Tony Williams' "Lifetime," hearing 2 seconds of Allan Holdsworth imistakeable guitar sound woke me up a bit to something familiar from those days 30+ years ago...I sure miss THAT GENIUS! In 1990, I purchased a Casio Guitar Synth (not the toy one)...I saw Stanley Jordan live, he was using one; when I saw one in a music store, I bought it. Incredible machine, it was an ESP strat, with a midi generator, and option to drive a remote unit. I plugged one into a Kurzweil and wow!...that was phenomenal.
man this brings back memories.. had an amiga 1000, 500, 1200... I built my own midi interface from schematics off a BBS. And it worked! Also..Octamed was my go to program.
I still have my favourite mod files on my hard drive. Probably the only files I keep transferring from PC to PC since 90's. I have build my own Covox clone just to listen to those files. BTW ... Thanks youtube for recommending this video!
The time period between analog to a (useable/reliable) digital brought so much innovation with such little and limited resoures. It's a quirky but interesting time for audio. Zip disks wasn't too far away from this, then mp3's, then a 'giant' leap forward; all happened in a very short amount of time
F*#king quality this. People don’t realise the amount of record shops and hardware shops people had to go to just to find affordable production hardware and software. The 808 only made it to the streets because of the New York riots in the 80s. Thank god it did though.
Wow, what a super cool history lesson, I ended up getting a 486 PC with the first version of cubase and a k2000 with 8megs of sampling! cost a fortune but was worth it
I had an Amiga 500 and the GVP sample cartridge around about 1990, I used to sample everything and sequence it with octamed.... God I loved those days. I've still got an Amiga 600 and have absolutely no idea how I would get the old mods working again, I don't even know where you could could get workbench disks anymore Great vid, bought back a lot of memories
Thank you YT suggestions! This was a nice trip down memory lane! I remember playing with trackers when I was 11 or 12 years old. It was a DOS tracker: Fast Tracker II and it was amazing. I later discovered the entire history and Amiga legacy behind it and got into the demoscene. Kinda late to the party but had a blast. Visited demoscene events right into the early 00's.
I have such fond memories of tracker music. There is just something about the 8bit low samplerate sound that I love. I used to have cd's full of mods, but I lost them over time. I'm quite sad about that. Also, your tracker skill is amazing. So good
Pretty efficient way to tell us you dont explore music and just listen to the radio. also ironic comment cause this just reuses the previous generation of music
Thank you for making this video. Although I never did sampling or audio editing on my Amiga 500 that I bought August 10, 1989, I did play a bunch of Psygnosis games. One of those, Shadow of the Beast, had such awesome music and I recorded it onto a cassette and drove around town blasting it. Thank you for helping me remember this. Best wishes to all!
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A Dutch hardcore band called Neophyte linked 3 computers together to have 12 tracks running at once . The ep was called " The 3 Amigas "
They also did the Protracker ep
@@nekro9t2 haha yes I forgot about that one. I was an octamed man myself. I had an ep out on twisted vinyl Prototype - Mental floss
hmm you could use 8 channels with octatracker! so your have needed just 2 amigas for 16tracks!
This guy is a monster, all the tracks he's making are bangers
what is his name?
@@tinkiniminki7712 ctrix
The final track is amazing, there is a lot of effects edited for each notes. Don't forget it is 4 tracks only...
100% accurate
went crazy on that last joint.
The fact this dude can make better sounding tracks on an Amiga and stereo master than I can on a modern PC and a modern DAW is upsetting
😅
This is true bro
sound quality of samples of 2000 songs is 🔥
Same.
I'm pretty blown away by the level of quality you've accomplished with tech that far predates anything we have at our fingertips and is far more convenient to use today .. I think it's a testament to not blaming the tools, but looking at the artist and how we can best use those tools to the fullest.
When I was a kid I built my own sampler from gathering the components & making the circuit board even had a preamp & mixer added for different inputs later adding high & low pass filters. I would hook it up to the VHS & sample actor voices for those explicit one liners "Feeling lucky punk" or explosions the special effects then add them all into a song. It's was great times always learning something & having fun at the same time with all your mates. One of our friends would sneak us into the radio broadcast station late at night on the grave night shift & we would sample a stack load off records or make our own mix tapes that didn't cost a thing, well the Maxwell tapes the good quality ones 90 XLII did, we used to get all the new hits before they hit the local records stores, naughty naughty hahahaha.
That's amazing and really cool, what a chad
How's ya sneak in? Sounds like fun adventures
What a chad
Man that sounds so cool. Im born 1991 and in love with tape, vinyl, Audio gear etc. And it was just amazing to read this Story. Being able to build a Sampler, the mystery around it etc. Really Talented
Damn, sounds like the plot to a fun movie.
Bro has just blew my mind with how easy he made it look. He's a frickin genius making certified bangers on an amiga
Amazing how much you can get done with a 1.44mb floppy
It was the DD not a HD diskette ;)
880 KB :)
uwu?
I still use the old 1.44s on my old synths, for backup and restore of settings and patches mainly, but also to run MIDI files from - they've never failed me.
Yea totally. I grew up with a mpc that used Floppy Discs too, so im used to using small samples. Now I own a digitakt and people tell me the New mpc offers so much space and the dt has only 1gb, and its so much for me 🤣 back then i had that 1gb in 100s of floppys
It's incredible how creative musicians were with limitations, but also how versatile they were with tech.
Thanks for the fun and fascinating video, and I also love how the track you made sounds like it's from the early 90s, haha.
it's mind blowing how far audio technology has come in the past 30 years
so glad this popped up on my feed.
same here i just discovered this 5 minutes ago!
@@SilverTsunami88 one minute ago for me
The algorithm chose you today & It was an absolute win
Same, brings me back. I loved banging out tunes on my A500, what a trip back in time. Total win.
How are we all just seeing this video now, 2+ years after its debut!? Bringing back memories of some old tracks for sure!
Because it's a reupload from a random channel. Which is strange considering the video is still up on Ctrix's actual channel, along with a few other great videos on trackers and tech.
Those who create samples/sounds for others to use are beautiful people.
I don’t know why this is suddenly being suggested to everyone but I’m glad it is. Good stuff here man.
This blew my mind today. I've never seen or heard of this before despite making music on laptops for almost 15 years!!
Dude! I am 50 and had a great blunt before watching your video. First thing first, It was fantastically put together and informative and secondly, it brought the good old days back to mind and sent me 35 years back
Thanks mate and keep up the good work
No worries. more is coming soon (I took a break for a while) This is actually leached / reposted content. My actual channel is at ruclips.net/user/debuglivevideos There's an Atari video coming in a couple of months that's taken me over a year to create. Very similar to this one.
I super respect electronic music producers of the 80s and 90s. you had to have a real pulsing passion and love to work with these devices. it took ages to make a track.
Amazing thing the music was way much cooler with less technology by your side, you needed to have some real electric and electronic know-how to be an electronic musician. in a way, it made a lot more sense. it wasn't just pressing buttons. these guys were artisans of music
you sound old
RUclips has chosen you Singapore Community Radio to be on everyone's recommendations. Well done.
The beats you created are giving me hardcore Streets of Rage vibes and I'm so here for it! Anyone who's interested in this kind of music, look up Yuzo Koshiro. Maybe find some inspiration and way to apply some of these sick skills
lol that's what I was thinkin! bangin indeed!
I love how everything in that mixing program was in hex. Even things like volume. Turn it up to FFFF!
it feels like a musical adventure for composition instead of just making music, really interesting.
Absolutely boss programming here
“I’m just playing around”. Creates certifiable top 10 hits
I feel like I've just discovered an ancient world that I should have been a part of. This is all so very inspiring!
I'm 17 and have been producing on FL since I was 13... It is so interesting seeing how people produced at home with these samplers and systems.
@@Lamster66 jeez bro im not reading all that... bro wrote an essay lmao
You referred to the track as "cheesy house" but I guarantee /everyone/ was groovin' in their chair by that point.
Best YT recommendation for ages
This is fantastic! Man how I wish the internet was as established as it is today in the early 90's. I was a poor kid in a small town in Sweden and no one I knew had any knowledge about this stuff. I could've made so much higher quality stuff back then with the money I spent on the wrong equipment. Back then I didn't know what a sample was, I thought all electronic music was made with midi to expensive synths and drum machines. The only thing my parents could afford was a used Atari ST an a used Roland MT-32. In itself the MT-32 wasn't bad, but it had almost no sounds for EDM, especially drum wise. Then mid 90's I bought a Windows PC on installment, and an expensive DAC I don't remember the name of from a local music shop, because it supposedly had good General Midi. It sucked too, the drum kits were horrible. It wasn't until 1997 that I actually learned what a sample was when I got a collection of EDM drum loops on cd-rom, and FINALLY I had good kicks, snares and hihats.
WHY is this vid just poppin off....2yrs old but all the comments r from old skool boys like me within the last 4 hrs....great work fella
Where have u been when people could need this videon in the 90’s?!
Yeah! This gives you a proper feel for how the early rave/'ardkore/jungle records were made. There were many samples that popped up in several tracks with a slight change in pitch.
Wow, I can't believe this only has 7,080 views. This was very informative. For the longest, I always wondered how musicians made electronic music without the use of DAWs. It's amazing seeing how far production has come in 30 years. Makes you wonder if in 2050, people will be looking back at our current DAWs like this?
Lol as an modern day producer I thought my life is hard finding inspirations. Can you imagine these legends have to put insane amounts of work collecting vinyls, floppy disk & ideas. Nowdays everything is one tap away from your computer it’s all in the internet.
Brother that was where the fun was! You were always on the lookout for a single sound to add to your library. Made you listen to music in a completely different way too. Others heard a verse and you heard the bass drum at 3m26s!
That feel when this guy makes a better track on 30 year old technology than you can make with modern software and synths :')
Software tries to replicate the sound of the old technology anyway. It's always better to use original equipment
so sweet. captures the early-90s aesthetic perfectly, step-by-step
I was born in 1975, I had an Atari ST, this video was amazing and nostalgic, absolutely loved it. I remember going to Turnkey on Charring Cross road, coming back home and asking my mum for £1200 to build up a studio..........................................She laughed
Damn this guy is like a historian, archeologist and sound engineer in one person.
Annnnnd were out of memory. Laughed out loud. Takes we way back! Miss the tracker days
Honestly surprised I watched till the end - I can appreciate passion like that
This randomly came up on my recommended. This is absolutely genius. Fantastic.
Ah yeah childhood memories, I was one of those kids with an Amiga+sampler in the early 90's and was lucky enough to have my own CD player i could hook up and take samples!
Classmates didn't believe I made stuff like that at home on my Amiga just to show how much of a novelty it was back then.
Thanks for this nice video.
In the early 90's I was drummer in a band. To be able to practise at home, I lived in a not so sound proof apartment, I bought an Alesis D4 and trigger mics and stuffed my drums and played with a headset. I remember connecting it up to my Amiga to sample all the sounds from the module. It took quite some time to sample all 500 sounds because I was very much a perfectionist. I was glad I did after though since it ment I had a huge amount of drum samples to use when I made songs in the tracker.
15:17 jesus christ this is mindblowing
I thought the same shit
This dude makes some great music and is really technically proficient at using those old samplers and trackers
My jaw was on the floor when he was cutting that sample up like that
So you're telling me this Is a fairly obscure video from two years ago. And suddenly the RUclips algorithm randomly decided i needed to see it today?🤔
me too lol
im glad it did, awesome vid
ruclips.net/video/i9MXYZh1jcs/видео.html here's the original video, if youtube doesn't remove the link
That’s what we’re telling you Bigfoot.😂
@@joeldukes303 who's Bigfoot?
I started with Impulse tracker in 1995, this video reminds me the good old vibes. Nowadays I'm still making music with FL Studio and I live from it. A good producer/musician can create good music with any thing as this video shows, nice work ;)
the tech and stuff was interesting but can we agree that when he got the sequencer up, bro was making fire fr
man, where was this video in 1990
People deep within the military industrial complex were getting smashed off their tits making chooooooons in the 70s, and sharing them via ARPANET
Okay, these beats are way too fire for how casual this video is! Love this whole thing end to end.
Oh man :)
I was born in '73, so I saw the entire PC evolution from day one.
At the time, things like this seemed unattainable. And to a point they felt like if you could do it, you'd be something "special".
Mind, not that many people could afford an Amiga - that was the dream. Things like "real speech" photos and videos were all hopes for the future..... actually realistic colours were something of a dream.
I was lucky to have a ZX Spectrum, then an Atari ST with a load of consoles along the way (Megadrive and Dreamcast were my favourites).
You certainly know your stuff!
I still love the sound of the old Commodore 64 sound chip. I even shagged a girl one time because she had a Commodore 64 and Mission Impossible.............................. wasn't impossible after all
hahaha
I got covid so I have nothing to do. Im just on youtube all day pretty much, this is blowing my mind. Incredible stuff.
aw get well soon & let this kinda sh*t get yr mind off things!
Got my Amiga in 1989, built a 3 second sampler in high school electronics lab. Amiga forever ❤️
bro what a tune holy shiz!!!
This is the best video I've ever seen
U got the good kush?
My favorite kind of youtube content; informational guide making me spend all my money on old stuff that would be much cheaper and easier for literally anybody to do in an app in 2022
lol, so true!
When I saw Tony Williams' "Lifetime," hearing 2 seconds of Allan Holdsworth imistakeable guitar sound woke me up a bit to something familiar from those days 30+ years ago...I sure miss THAT GENIUS! In 1990, I purchased a Casio Guitar Synth (not the toy one)...I saw Stanley Jordan live, he was using one; when I saw one in a music store, I bought it. Incredible machine, it was an ESP strat, with a midi generator, and option to drive a remote unit. I plugged one into a Kurzweil and wow!...that was phenomenal.
As someone who started making music with Reason 2.5 this was fascinating
Wow, you just crank out pure gold. I swear 1989 was peak western civilization. Amazing machinery
What an absolute gem of a video
The algorithm has chosen you today.
Such an interesting video!
I created my early tracks using Music on PS1, then Ejay, then Cubase.
man this brings back memories.. had an amiga 1000, 500, 1200... I built my own midi interface from schematics off a BBS. And it worked! Also..Octamed was my go to program.
One of the most Interesting video I saw in years
"We'd better save this" - damn right you had, some of those grooves you made are truly excellent!
The groove is insane 🔥
Casually pumps out fucking masterpieces like it’s nothing
I still have my favourite mod files on my hard drive.
Probably the only files I keep transferring from PC to PC since 90's.
I have build my own Covox clone just to listen to those files.
BTW ... Thanks youtube for recommending this video!
The time period between analog to a (useable/reliable) digital brought so much innovation with such little and limited resoures. It's a quirky but interesting time for audio. Zip disks wasn't too far away from this, then mp3's, then a 'giant' leap forward; all happened in a very short amount of time
I wish I have seen this video back in 1989.....
F*#king quality this. People don’t realise the amount of record shops and hardware shops people had to go to just to find affordable production hardware and software.
The 808 only made it to the streets because of the New York riots in the 80s. Thank god it did though.
As a lo-fi fan, this is truly inspiring!
Wow, what a super cool history lesson, I ended up getting a 486 PC with the first version of cubase and a k2000 with 8megs of sampling! cost a fortune but was worth it
I don't regret clicking on RUclips suggestions after that video.
It just gave me a lot of ideas (I am a music composer myself )
The production is dope won't lie 14:47 very good
12:23 "pretty cheesy sounding house track there!"
False. It's dope.
Yoooo whoever recommended this to me at RUclips needs a raise, this is awesome! So good!
I had an Amiga 500 and the GVP sample cartridge around about 1990, I used to sample everything and sequence it with octamed.... God I loved those days. I've still got an Amiga 600 and have absolutely no idea how I would get the old mods working again, I don't even know where you could could get workbench disks anymore
Great vid, bought back a lot of memories
Looks like the algorithm gods got us all together for this wonderful video
Praise be the gods!
Sounds better than any of the trending things going on now.
he is so well spoken. bang. quick and smart.
Wow what a gem, this video is why youtube can be so amazing
in the early 90's i've made many Tracker Songs on my Amiga Computer with protracker and oktalyzer..many greetings from Brunswick in Germany.
Thank you YT suggestions! This was a nice trip down memory lane! I remember playing with trackers when I was 11 or 12 years old. It was a DOS tracker: Fast Tracker II and it was amazing. I later discovered the entire history and Amiga legacy behind it and got into the demoscene. Kinda late to the party but had a blast. Visited demoscene events right into the early 00's.
same here dude :)
Thats actually a sick track. ..
I appreciate that the first platter you lay down to sample is Coldcut.
This is such a great concept for a video. Been looking for something like this for a while. Makes me feel warm and fuzzy lol
i can see why a lot of people preferred to make indie music in the early 90s. so grateful for my modern DAW!
The late 80's, early 90's UK Hardcore/Jungle rave scene owes everything to the Amiga and Atari ST.
This is fantastic to see how it used to be done
And the tune you came up with is very cool 😎
What a stud getting the place pumping live.
First computer was an amiga 500. no idea it could do any of this!!! this guy is so talented!
yo, that track at the end is a banger, in fact, the track before that is as well
I have such fond memories of tracker music. There is just something about the 8bit low samplerate sound that I love. I used to have cd's full of mods, but I lost them over time. I'm quite sad about that. Also, your tracker skill is amazing. So good
Ive never appreciated my modern day DAW and Serum more!
Makes me respect the artists of the previous decades ALOT more too!
We don’t know how easy we got it now
better than 80% nowadays productions
Pretty efficient way to tell us you dont explore music and just listen to the radio. also ironic comment cause this just reuses the previous generation of music
Thank you for making this video. Although I never did sampling or audio editing on my Amiga 500 that I bought August 10, 1989, I did play a bunch of Psygnosis games. One of those, Shadow of the Beast, had such awesome music and I recorded it onto a cassette and drove around town blasting it. Thank you for helping me remember this. Best wishes to all!
Dude, you're a real sample hero
It took 2 years for this to be suggested to me, but I'm glad it was
same
Same
In 90's i did music with FastTracker 2 or Impulse Tracker in PC, just sampling sounds or using synthesizers. :)
Awesome video, Also the beat is so good! I love that bass line craziness,
We used an Atari + Cubase but this brings me back to the time of sampling LP's on 45rpm to save sampling time