Making electronic dance music in 1990 with budget home computer
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- Опубликовано: 17 июл 2024
- Here's a look into making electronic dance music using budget home computer. Video courtesy of @CTRIX64
An Amiga 500, Stereo Master and handful of $1 records from a 1990 Sunday market: Can we make a dance track on a budget home computer? Of course! Back when big-name dance tunes required big-budget-gear, a secondhand Amiga let you take the first steps to making a dance-floor banger. 
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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 🔥
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!
Bro has just blew my mind with how easy he made it look. He's a frickin genius making certified bangers on an amiga
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.
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.
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.
“I’m just playing around”. Creates certifiable top 10 hits
Best YT recommendation for ages
as a music producer of this era using ableton 11, it's so insanely interesting to see how bedroom producers made music back in the beginning stages of edm. this video was a super fun watch good job!
ableton 11 got released 2021.... back then people uses noise and sound trackers like in this video, cubase or hardware sequencers. fun fact, people are STILL using soundtrackers.
It wasn’t called EDM 😂
@@bazz303 cubase was next level, but i can remember this program was only available on Atari ST and later on PC.
but the atari had only 4 channels and the ST was way more expensive. still a atari ST+cubase and midi keyboard was more proffessional.
i remember a friend of my who also loved making music, making music for the gaming industrie(music such as in thunderforce megadrive). he send them copies. this guy was brilliant with Cubase.
@@eventhorizon2873 Atari ST _has_ 3 channel chipsound. Nothing more nothing less. Thanks to cool coders we can enjoy 4 channel digi sound. The Atari itself was pretty cheap. Cubase with its Dongle was the expensive part. But then Cubase and Midi is totally unrealted to the Ataris capability of generating sound. Total noiseless computer with a flicker free black and white monitor controlling Midisynths. Perfection. :)
The beginning stages were in the 70s with Kraftwerk.... in the 90s electronic music was already a standard
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.
This blew my mind today. I've never seen or heard of this before despite making music on laptops for almost 15 years!!
Did the algorithm just hit? seeing a ton of new comments haha
sure did!
Yep. RUclips decided this video is what the worlds needs, in these trying times. Also, this totally sounds like any number of Sega Genesis soundtracks, of my youth (Streets of Rage comes to immediate mind)
@@bobgregorasz7685 I'm glad it did! This video was amazing. I love music production and old Amiga / Commodore stuff, so it was right up my alley :)
Damn this guy is like a historian, archeologist and sound engineer in one person.
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?
it's mind blowing how far audio technology has come in the past 30 years
RUclips has chosen you Singapore Community Radio to be on everyone's recommendations. Well done.
so glad this popped up on my feed.
same here i just discovered this 5 minutes ago!
@@SilverTsunami88 one minute ago for me
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.
Records for 3sec ''aaaaaand we are out of memory''
Yes this guy is a big Monster he can dig on anything anywhere very hard.
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
You referred to the track as "cheesy house" but I guarantee /everyone/ was groovin' in their chair by that point.
I wish I have seen this video back in 1989.....
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.
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.
12:23 "pretty cheesy sounding house track there!"
False. It's dope.
it feels like a musical adventure for composition instead of just making music, really interesting.
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 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
Those who create samples/sounds for others to use are beautiful people.
WOW ! It's like we are in the 90's and discover for the first time a "how to" make music with a computer ! 😄 very impressive setup. Fast forward 2022 ... we have 1000 times better hardware & softwares but 1000 times shittier music too ! lol. I guess, limitation is really a blessing for talented people.
Very well put!
Im so glad i clicked this
How awesome dude love it
I don’t know why this is suddenly being suggested to everyone but I’m glad it is. Good stuff here man.
Absolutely boss programming here
Died laughing at “…and we’re out of memory.”
Maximum 1mb on standard A500 ! LoL
Where have u been when people could need this videon in the 90’s?!
Casually pumps out fucking masterpieces like it’s nothing
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!
The late 80's, early 90's UK Hardcore/Jungle rave scene owes everything to the Amiga and Atari ST.
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.
HIS BEATS GO THO
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
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.
Okay, these beats are way too fire for how casual this video is! Love this whole thing end to end.
Two year old video, but all the comments seem to be from today
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
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 ;)
“Bring the bass in!” Yessssssssssssss 🙌🏾
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.
And....we're out of memory. Hahaha, awesome
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
Sounds better than any of the trending things going on now.
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
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.
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
oh my. this video made me smile all the way through. great work. it’s nice to see you actually use this stuff live too!
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
It took 2 years for this to be suggested to me, but I'm glad it was
same
Same
This is so cool to see. Thanks so much for preserving this bit of electronic music history.
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!
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.
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.
Well no they didn't actual Musicians and Home producers used synth sample and Drum modules triggered by a midi sequencer used SMPTE time code to sync up a 4 track or 8 track into a mixer.
They then played back the recorded instruments like Guitars and Vocals from the multitrack and the midi sequencer played the midi modules back live and you mixed that.
In the early 80s we used synth modules and Hardware sequencers This was relatively new because prior to that Analoge sequencers triggered analog synths via trigger pulses and control voltages or built in sequencers like in the Sh101 or the Pro1. Midi effectively changed everythng, by the end of the 80s we were either using Cubase ( Yes it really is that old) or C /lab ( which later became Logic) on an Atari 1040 Or Steinberg Pro 16 or Pro24
This type of software shown here was for geeks who couldn't get girl friends
Spent way too much time playing Elite. when not meeting with other geeks to play Dungeons and Dragons
@@Lamster66 jeez bro im not reading all that... bro wrote an essay lmao
@@toshiroinhell
And that's why you'll never learn anything bro!
I remember sending off a postal order for these disks. So I took cash to the post office to get a postal order to put in an envelope and wait weeks for the floppy disks to come back.
Looks like the algorithm gods got us all together for this wonderful video
Praise be the gods!
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?
One of the most Interesting video I saw in years
I appreciate that the first platter you lay down to sample is Coldcut.
This is the best video I've ever seen
U got the good kush?
This randomly came up on my recommended. This is absolutely genius. Fantastic.
Honestly surprised I watched till the end - I can appreciate passion like that
I'm in love with all of these sounds! Amazing and so nostalgic! 😍🤩🎵🎶🎹🎛🎹
Thats actually a sick track. ..
1985: "Ah man. This 8-bit stuff sounds like pure shit."
2022: "Ah man. I love this 8-bit 80s-sounding stuff."
1990: "No, it didn't sound like that in the 80s."
Got my Amiga in 1989, built a 3 second sampler in high school electronics lab. Amiga forever ❤️
Well done, this was great! I started my production journey on a tracker and this is pure nostalgia
"and your home computer sounded like this"
0:50
Chiptune fans:
"Perfection"
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
oh this is just wonderful. thank you so much for sharing this piece of history!
Wow, you just crank out pure gold. I swear 1989 was peak western civilization. Amazing machinery
Annnnnd were out of memory. Laughed out loud. Takes we way back! Miss the tracker days
so sweet. captures the early-90s aesthetic perfectly, step-by-step
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!
bro what a tune holy shiz!!!
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.
This video was amazing thank you for making it. I'm very happy with the stories you shared.
"We'd better save this" - damn right you had, some of those grooves you made are truly excellent!
We don’t know how easy we got it now
Bro are you an old school dance legend in disguise? I started thinking this would just be a slightly informative video and ended up waving glow sticks about gurning
😂
Fantastic bit of computer history. I've always been curious about that era and how it worked with such limited memory and storage. Thanks for putting this together!
Owww - this is an amazing return to my music production begins. Thank you for that great nostalgia ;)
Wish I'd seen this video in '88.
My degree is in music production. this video is epic
Same lol
3:56 that was quite brutal floppy insert :-) awesome video! all and beyond the things I remember from the past plus your musical talent. no idea why it has just been recommended to me, but it made me happy
That "cheesy house" jam was straight up fire.
the tech and stuff was interesting but can we agree that when he got the sequencer up, bro was making fire fr
Fun fact: You didn't look for this video. The video looked for you...
Man I really take current music production access for granted. For less than 5 grand I have top industry mics, I have interfaces and guitars, a midi controller, amp, daw and plugins, DI box, drum machine.... Better than a professional setup from 30 years prior. Thank you technology. This was a super entertaining video. That beat sounded great, even by current standards.
This video helped me appreciate more of our time
Imagine 30 years after this.... Perhaps we would be inside the computer in a better simulation... haha
Ty for the video! I was a member of the Amiga scene in the early 90's as a gfx guy. Sometime I saw our musician how create some mod's. This video bring back those memories 🙂
We really take modern technology for granted lol
I own a lot of this equipment... when i was young (1989) i was a bit poor but never forget this desire... when i turn 35 i bought lot of this stuff in flea markets and get my revenge ahahhah very fun way to make music
excellenttt