Music On An OLDSKOOL Apple Macintosh Classic and CUBASE 1.0
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
- SO YEAH TIME TO PROCRASTINATE by trying to make a song on cubase 1.0 on an old apple macintosh. im setting off tomorrow for my europe tour, info can be found here :-
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Hello, this is absolutely great! It is also a quite crazy coincidence that this video came out right on time to celebrate #Cubase 30th anniversary. Also, thank you for letting us use your video on our #CelebrateCubase page.
Cubase its a crazy coincidence!!! It was a 1 in 10950 chance near enough haha
Cubase Logic
Happy 30th, Cubase! It's amazing how the gui looked back then, i like it.
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER are you gonna do more videos with CUBASE 1.0?
As an early user of Cubase on Atari ST, I marvel at the pedigree. Rock on, fellas!
Look, mum's old computer
Look mum, sum computer...
Look Mum three computers
I was about to type exactly this. xD
Look iPhone, it's your mum.
My mom actually still owns one of these. I doubt that it works now...
Glad to see you finally embracing modern technology
kid versus chemical fuck computers😂
*the computer doesn't work*
...
*Sam srubs the motherboard*
...
*The computer doesn't work*
...
*Sam scrubs the motherboard again*
...
*The computer works*
Good old vintage computers!
The definition of insanity.
At least you could fix them!
It's working like an Alladin's lamp - it's need to rub.
The electronic equivalent of hitting an engine with a wrench to start it.
And instead of coolers, just wrap it in wet towels. XD
I knew he had a computer! This must be how he uploads to RUclips.
Nah, he uses the Amiga to do the videos.
@@ICanDoThatToo2 Look more like he's using a C64.
@@jan_777 .....Help !!! I have only a ZX81 !!!
its impressive how little cubase has changed
Yeah right, Cubase 9 and it's still basically just 'enter some sequencer notes, multitrack and go' -- although I'm not sure it's so much impressive as 'shocking' that C9 doesn't have the option of a totally new sequencer paradigm by now. But yeah it's impressive 1st gen got it so right!!! Cubase 10 I want the option to fully change the game up now though in my native seq.
This guy's the walking definition of a mad genius.
Keep being you, man!
Thanks for the demo, I've been looking for a new DAW for a while now
R E T R O A E S T H E T I C S!
@@MerlinErdogmus imma livestream making vaporwave on that beast
@@elmer4090 Great, now i gotta go to ebay and find a macintosh now.
DP 3.0 kills 'Base.
Man, I can barely get a simple midi keyboard to work with the latest Cubase and this guy controls a wall of synths with a 30 year old computer effortlessly. That's skill.
Thirty years time we'll be watching Look Mom no Brain Implant hacking Ipads to sequence Virtual Reality Controlled Oscillators.
That's what i call vocals
Just found this channel. Love the massive wall of modules - the whole room is like a massive computer music man cave.
Becauss it is
TOUR INFO! playing HAMBURG, FRANKFURT, MUNSTER, BERLIN, DRESDEN, STUTTGART, ZURICH,LONDON :) www.lookmumnocomputer.com/
I USED A NAIL BRUSH TO CLEAN IT NOT A NAIL FILE!!! :)
See you in Stuttgart :D
@@Praemolar15 see you there!
May be in the future. In Moscow. In winter time...
'^_^
Wish you could come to Italy in one of your future tours. Dunno, Milan perhaps?
Awesome. Thanks and enjoy the tour!
SAM
YOU HAD ONE JOB SAM
ONE JOB
HE BROKE HIS ONE AND ONLY RULE!!!
Macintosh isn't a computer, it's an Apple. Atleast that is what I was told when I asked if I could play on the computer whenever I wisited someone who had one of those
WOWOWOWOW! I remember this! Entire days spent looking at this tiny little screen! It used to take 30 seconds to open and close the key editor when I had track intensive songs... THANK YOU FOR THIS! Such an amazing flashback! 👍👏👍👏👍
Fanboy or not... cubase remains an exceptional piece of software. ..just like Tesla changed the world. ..cubase changed the way how people made music. .. 30 years ago, with computers less powerful than a today's Texas Instruments calculator... and cubase would run flawlessly. . With ultra tight code. .tons of features. ..amazing.
Once people try cubase, it is hard to move to something else. .. these last year's, a new trend was set.
I remember, 10+ years ago, youtube videos, trailers, udemy, sonic academy tutorials, online tutorials/courses, 9 times out of 10, the guy would be using Logic, on a mac. Every freakin video made, Logic was being used. Very few were done in Cubase, and if we looked for a cubase tutorial, video, on RUclips, there were only 2 or 3 vids, with a bit of luck.. and had been done with a cracked cubase 5.1. I remember sending emails to sonic academy and others, saying 'why the hell all your videos are using Logic...?'....'ohjj, you know. .. our guys have Macs... Logic...'...
Today, many many artists are using cubase. .many many tutorials are using cubase. I would say 50% of the videos are made using cubase, 45% use Live...and a little 5% or less use Logic. Even the Mac users, once they try Cubase, they realize how much more advanced, features wise, midi, synths, etc etc, Cubase is.
And the millions of new 'producers', who know nothing about music theory, when they use cubase, they have a pallette of countless Midi tools, to create chords, notes, etc, they have retrologue, padshop, halion sonic... and with very little knowledge, they immediately start creating entire compositions.
How, this is a long comment. .. but .. hey.. Cubase is so inspiring..people who own it almost feel 'proud'...
If one day steinberg finds a way to remove the usb dongle, their use base would double, in just 1 month... but until then...
What will Cubase 10.5 bring (excepting Full ARA2 support) ?
Long life to the king :)
@@only4posting the similar program C-Lab Notator came out before Cubase and still exists under the name Apple Logic Pro
Pfft can’t fool me. This is actually Sam’s evil twin: LOOKMUMACOMPUTER
Shouldn't it be Lookmumsomecomputer... Cause there where three apples and I think I saw a Commodore Pet
That’s Mum’s Computer Pet.
are you sure it isn't the furby killer that is the evil one?
Nope it’s not me
this man could make music with a wall socket
wall socket music is all hairy dudes screaming over distorted guitars, get some taste
Oh Cyranek! Hi!
I am a Big fan of you dude, Great Lyrics and Passion for Music and Gear.
A computer AND playing the black keys on the MS-10, I don't know what to believe any more!
I didn't realize he was plugged into his setup until he got up and messed with a knob and was thinking "wow cubase 1 has some pretty modern sounding instruments"
Jacob Darling the original cubase on an old mac is pretty much just a sequencer. We used to have to use a sampler, synthesizers, and a midex to generate and record a code on to one track of an 8 track to sync every up with our recorded audio. Big pain in the ass and it was expensive as well. Kids today are lucky
Your comment makes me feel hella old. Cubase 1 was the first computer based Midi Sequencer I ever played with.
SternLX cubase was the first "professional" program I worked with, but a few years prior I actually started out on something that was way ahead of it's time. On my father's Amiga, we had a program called DDS that actually allowed you to sequence digital audio samples on the computer with four mono tracks, two left and two right. I never really learned how to use the program correctly until years later when it was obsolete. Amazing machine for the time.
It's so crazy to think that computer sequencers were the cutting edge for so long before fully fledged DAWs became possible!
I mean I know it's about the limitation of processing power for real time audio playback but still. Having jumped into production long after the all-in-one-DAW became the norm, it's still quite strange to me.
That said I'm all for old gear. As soon as I can afford to/get lucky at a yard sale, I'm going to get my hands on this kinda stuff ASAP. Limits really work for creativity!
Jacob Darling instruments? 😂
I am totally with ya mate! Old computers for recording, It is so amazing even now of what old macs can do. The track is dope btw!
At school, doing GCSE Music from 1993 to 1995 we had Cubase 2, 3 and Score for Atari STs with high res monitors with blitter chips and 3 and up required maroon coloured dongles to get them to work.
The dongles were £100s each.
Those dongles still cost something around 100 euro.
@@mb2776
No doubt, they're museum pieces at this point.
We fought over them as 3 was just so much better.
@@MostlyPennyCat i got 2 red dongle for cubase 3. Using one for cubase and one as a spare.
I wish my high school in the 90's had Cubase in GCSE music....I might have actually paid attention.
@@danmorrison667
We had a bizarrely well equipped music department in M Block.
The class room where we had that gear was actually the performance room for the recording studio, with a booth off to the side.
Once I moved up to A Level Music Technology we were taught how to use it.
We had an 8 track reel to reel, part of the course was cleaning, loading and using that with the 16 channel desk and some offboard off of the FX loops.
We had a freaking rack mounted emu sampler.
Didn't have talk back to headphones so I built one out of old equipment in the design tech block.
One of our teachers even provided his personal VCS3 and Roland system 100 Modular analogue synths as subtractive synthesis was also on the curriculum.
Last time I visited, about 15 years ago, they demolished that block and built an even bigger music block.
Good times.
I sensed huge prodigy vibes when you were playing with the prophet.
Kick asssss
still got my old copy of steinberg pro 12 somewhere..ran it on an atari st whose case literally bulged with a 1mb RAM upgrade. EAT MY POWERRRR
I never knew cubase went back this far lol.
@@outdatedgear5036 Cubase was created for the Atari ST.
Haha! This was brilliant. I remember Cubase SX1 from about 2003, but this is a whole other generation of it. Actually shows how the fundamentals of DAWs and midi haven't actually changed much.
LOOK MUM ON COMPUTER
This guy needs to have a fully produced childrens television show.
My dad used to use an original Macintosh.
It still works, but one of the drives you need to use a paperclip to eject the floppy.
It’s I think a 512K upgraded to 1MB.
Its from 1985. Or maybe 1988.
Its old as hell.
Mac's should have came with paperclips.
My dad still has a ps1.
Perhaps someone could modify an original Mac to make music?
Like keep the original processing hardware but maybe find a way to add a sort of DIY sound card or MIDI interface
That is not how I picture "procrastination", but hey, I guess it's fine...
Great job dude :)
I don't even need to watch your videos to give a thumbs up anymore. (I do watch them, lol.. but guaranteed quality.)
Cubase was created for the Atari ST, and runs best there. Or Cubase Audio on the Falcon. Even today, the Atari ST line, including the Falcon, have the tightest MIDI timing. Nothing beats it after 34 years, even! That's a fact.
Theoretically you could just record midi as audio and get sample accurate midi.
I totally believe it. The more complicated computers get, the worse the latency usually is.
your studio/workplace is fabulous
You’re probably a great example of why the “Always be recording!” rule is a good rule. :-) Cheers!
It was most likely you re-seating the board into the socket that did the trick, not the actual scrubbing. Oxidation on those pins probably causes a bad connection to the motherboard. Still it's awesome you were able to get it working with minimal effort, nice job!
I started out in the 90s using a MAC Classic and Cubase 1.0 working with both digital and analogue synths. I now have have a comparative beast of a computer and virtual synths coming out of my ears. The music that I made them, some of which was released commercially was better than the music I make now. Not sure if it is an age thing but I think when you have less kit you push harder to make it work and get the best out of what you have - compared with nowadays when it is tempting to spend hours scrolling through 1000s of presets and gigs of samples searching for an illusive sound.
For those asking "is this a good laptop for music production?" lol
Maverick Hunter K 😂
Any comp can be used to make it work. Good remark!!!
He's not using any software synths or FX though.. which is when some extra cpu power becomes desirable.
@@frydac Yeah, but it doesn't change the fact that you can make music with anything. It's all about how you use your stuff. Any PC today is more powerful than studio PCs of the past.
I love watching you play with your toys. It reminds me that there's still a kid in all of us.
2:23 - and that, my friends, is some precision electronic craftsmanship right there. Love it :-)
Already living this old-school stuff
That dying capacitors Mac sound is a cherry on top xD
the excitement I feel watching this is real
I love old technology, love making it work, bringing it back to life, and using it in tandem with newer technology to make things like this
hopefully someday I can find an old beauty like one of those and get it working
If the old SCSI disk dies, there is a thing called SCSI to SD that allows you to use SD cards as hard disks in these and other old Macs.
I love how after the music stops he talks like really low, and I ask myself "at what volume does he spect for me to hear this?" i turn the volume up so that i can listen to him and when stops talking, the music comes back up super loud, an I'm like "yeah, that volume!"
This channel = Beakman's World + Computer Chronicles
Yep this is where it all started for me in 1989. Now on Cubase 10. Great stuff!
defnitly want more look mum's old computer :D
I love Your enthusiasm, son. I've been Cubase user since 1992!
Only a genius can make a computer work again by scrubbing its organs clean with a nail brush.. This was fucking awesome haha
Dude I remember using those old Macintosh computers in kindergarten and first grade. Man how computers changed through out the years!
What a spicy boy, Would love to see ya make something like a modded hula girl that would dance along based off the BPM or something
omg this is so dope!!! my little brother and I tried this in 2005 with an old apple computer and some software we downloaded off the net. it only had 4 channels. your sounds are killer this is so dope!!!
Send the others to the 8-bit guy to fixem. Its collab time.
I'll bet he had the skills to fix them himself
@@isaakwelch3451 rubbing board =/= fixing
@@C40V15 if hes knowledgeable enough to know thats a temporary fix (and like he said, he knows what the problem is and just wanted it to work for this video, then I'm sure he has the skills to fix them. I mean, look what he makes already!
@sbmphr Huh. Geeks with guns. I had no idea that guy was a gun nut. It really IS all about where you’re raised and the culture you’re embedded in.
I used that stuff brand new. I was so happy not having to stare into a little tiny LCD to write a song. Now I stare at several tiny LCDs patched together with cables because I'm so sick of looking at a computer screen. :)
When LMNC uploads a video featuring 3 computers, you know, the procrastination is about to get serious!
I love that you just called sandpaper "soggy nail files"!
I'm sure you are being possessed by the spirits of Edgar Froese and Robin Williams! Quality video and all the best for your European tour.
His overjoyed happy cry at 3:02 is the exact same sound I make when I stub my toe
I remember seeing a Mac hooked up to a Allen&Heath 48 input Console in the early 90's with Cubase as the DAW.
@Beeblebrox One yes
Cubase was horrid on early Macs, the timing was all over the place once you had a few tracks running. Opcode Vision and Performer were way better at the time.
The thing about Performer though was that you'd hit play sometimes and have to wait a couple of seconds for it to buffer before it played but the timing was bang on.
Happy days.
@Beeblebrox One You could play and record digital audio back then using Sound Designer II software on a Mac ( a precursor to Pro tools ) it was crude, but it worked. I remember it taking ages just to normalise a stereo track.
@@billB101 Timing was never as good as an Atari ST, though. Even with Opcode Vision (which I composed on back in 93, prior to the Falcon release on the US). Even today, the Atari ST line, including the Falcon, have the tightest MIDI timing. Nothing beats it after 34 years, even! That's a fact.
@@RetroDawn Couldn't agree more, the Atari had midi wired directly to the motherboard. I mean, Notator was and still is the tightest computer based Midi sequencer ever made, it's so tight it hurts. Only bettered by MPC timing IMHO ( not the new software based MPC's though, they're a pile of junk. )
Shame sequencers on Atari's are such a PITA to use though. ;)
What a legend, I say keep the Mac classic in the setup, it adds to the aesthetic of musical wizard
OH LOOK!! ABLETON CAME OUT WITH A NEW VERSION!!!!
What's an ableton?
Clean, efficient, German
All thos nobs and levers and switches.thats heaven.
He's literally just fooling around... still sounds better than most songs nowadays... Maybe I adore retro sounds too much but go Sam
Look mum, a frickin' computa... how crazy is that?! *sam's voice*
Nice one.
All my old Macintosh computers are working 2019 and none of my Apple computers.
I don't know for sure, but I get the feeling that Richard D. James would be proud of you & smile at this.
>no computer
>mac
I was willing to let it slide when you were using an arduino, but this has gotten out of hand /s
@R T you probably use ifunny 🤮
Thank you for providing just another prove that you do not need a modern computer to get happy. That you could be happy without any computer is what you proved so far.
been watching since the first synth bike video, we would love to see you in Atlanta if you ever tour the US!
fuck yeah man your killing it! cant imagine how crazy would be to tour with your gear :O love your creations!
The saddest part is this man had demonstrated more musicality with 30+ year old hardware than a professional electronic musician makes in an afternoon today
'This man' is a professional musician btw. His European tour isn't for sightseeing 😂
This video was a great help when I was setting up my macintosh retro music station! I ended up getting that same opcode box and having the caps redone
Ya really need to pop those caps of the motherboard, I can hear the computer whining in the video.
I had a classic waited too long to recap it. Now the floppy drive controller is bust, but the rest works, although the cats knocked it over with it's case not bolted and its CRT got necked.
P.S. some of the music in this video reminds me of SLUGBUG, but he also has more guitars, organs, and drums in his.
Ha ha...I learned electronic music in high school using a 1st gen Mac, Yamaha FB-01 and TR-505. Brings back memories.!
Looking forward to see you in Zürich! I'll buy you a beer 🍻 cheers..!
"Gritty Grids" - I'm saving that one for later.
Pretty dope!
I actually still use my Atari Mega 4 with Cubase for driving my Midi devices, best midi clock in the world!
I started out with a drum machine addon you could get for the commodore 64 and it blew my mind you could make drum sounds and sequence it. I don't think sequencers were a thing yet. Anyway I naturally went from that to the Amiga as that's what commodore owners did and oh no! it turns out it was the AtariST that everyone was making killer tunes with. So I had to struggle along with my chip tunes until! I found a midi interface for the Amiga and my whole world changed. I couldn't afford amazing synths so I had the cheapest effects and synth modules without keyboards. IT was effing glorious but the software just wasnt on that same level with the cubases and the big monster sequencers that let you do so much.
Anywhoo, I'm amazed you're still at it with the Atari. Do you have like a giant mountain of floppies or are you all hard drive'd up with something insane like a multi terabyte drive hooked up to the atari. That would be hilarious to think you could bring that so up to date in some ways. Anyway hats off to you for sticking with it man!
@@ClayMann Brilliant! (Hey @lookmumnocomputer, your comment section actually rox my sox)
So most of my modern production is mostly done on Logix Pro X for me, but whenever I work with Midi devices (Still love my Roland jv-880 or GEM WS2 module, getting into modular) for some reason using my Atari just works way better. Sure you miss out on some more modern features, but since midi has not really changed that much, it does not matter actually.
I have a old Atari hard drive that i store most of my stuff on (88 MB), but before then i used floppies and kept midi backups using a USB floppydrive, but since I am building a new studio at the moment, I am looking into upgrading my Atari with a CF/SD card for storage, and moving to a VGA adapter to use a more modern screen, since I can't be bothered working on a small CRT anymore heh.
11:43 “Coolio Gangsta’s Paradise“
That was great! Can listen it all the day.
I grew up on Chiptune music and it reminds me my childhood playing with old computers...
that soggy nailfile technique could catch on. I hope you've patented it
Nice to see the old machines being used. I was the atari 1040ST kid way back when computers were cool. Also great tool for midi work. Would love to see you tackle some tunes on the Atari ;)
@ᚱᛰႮᛠᕮᚱ ᚦAᕮᛖᛰᚤ lol. i had no choice for a 520. my father bought the machine. and when i went to university i bought a similar one, to be able to run the software i already had. so yeah. still, i value efficient code. it's insane that you need gigabytes just to load an operating system.... why does a wordprocessor not fit on floppydisks anymore? insanity.
Nice! plus those computers run the best game ever made: Lode Runner!!!!!!!!!!!!
The irony of you finally having looped back around to older Tech computers just makes me giggle. Also the fact that it's gone from look mum no computer to look Mom 3 computers
Ah the good old days... I remember doing that on the old Cubase but on an Atari STe. That old Classic seems to work much better than modern Macs given how old & battered it is ;) You should get in business with the great Louis Rossmann here on YT.
Espen Kraft made a video about atari st and cubase :)
@@mb2776 I know and watched it already, thanks. Who knows if in 30 years people will make nostalgic videos about iPad apps ;)
even an old mac makes it sooooo much better, love to hear you mess with something current
Now I'm wondering if my cubase 10 key works for cubase 1
These where the days when computers worked fine, :D This episode "LOOK MUM A COMPUTER" ;D
PLEASE remove the PRAM batteries from all your compact macs. they vent, leak, explode and cause severe damage at their advanced age. better to not have one in it at all.
But I want to know what time it is :
IKO Ledvina its time to remove your PRAM batteries
@@ninethirtyone4264 replace em
Who gives a shit dude a small little pram will not fuck that up even leaking. Old pos nobody gives a ratsass about unless you're a hoarder lol
@ANNIHILATION TV where did i say it was funny.... That's the problem with a low IQ like yours. Fact doesn't give two fucks about your feelings...
Well this was fun...
That bass line tho. Nicely done sir.
you are the best dude!
This is actually a sick melody
I'm glad you're less chavvy and less hyper now. Couldn't watch some of your earlier videos
when was he ever "chavvy" and what's wrong with being "hyper" lmao
Some guys with strange minds say that, more the creative process is "difficult", more the results are amazing ;-)
This is like Colin Furzes Music making cousin. . lol
You’re a legend the way you can tweak and fix all this stuff ... props bro... I love this channel!!!! 🤙🏻
That computer can almost be classified as analog, compared to modern computers ;)
No, analog computers are a thing, they use the physical properties of electronic components to do math. This is in no way an analog computer.
The ;) and “almost” show that the comment was not to be taken literally and was, in fact, a joke.
But thanks for the explanation, nonetheless.
Your channel brings so much cool stuff to me. Rock on and happy touring!!!!!!
Hi I'm look mum no computer and here are my computers
Didn’t you watch the intro? ...it’s Look Mum Computer. 😁
This channel is gold!
iCosmo
Sweet. I've used 2.0 for many years, but I upgraded it like 10 years ago, so now I run the very high tech 3.0. Very good software in my opinion :D
i think i love you. cheers and
greetings from frankfurt. .. love your stuff
oh, you´re not "lucky"..so i just like you.. but cheers. again
..and hey. it looks like this midi thing[qbase] is the same as in reaper today, somehow!?
That's the beauty of MIDI. It works the same everywhere (for the most part).
Three big synth makers got together in the early 1980s and created a standard language for electronic instruments to communicate with each other.
Macintosh was the first computer to brag about built-in MIDI support (there's an old promo video with famous musicians making… "procrastination music").
I still work with my Amiga2000 and DrT's KCS which is amazing and so much fun.
You have no idea how reading this warm my (old) heart. :)