Well this was just delightful. Loved your Amiga sampler video some years ago too and this feels like a perfect sort of follow-up. Glad to see you back on YT and I’m stoked to see part two!
As a teen in the 80s, I had no clue what all this was, how it worked, etc. So I stayed away from synths and workstations and just played acoustic instruments. Decades later this video just brought it all together and now it makes sense. I understand now how it works and I really appreciate it. Thank you.
I wish I had seen this video in 1988, when I was 12 years old. Alas, for lack of anyone around to tell me and for lack of the Internet, I discovered the joy of MIDI only 25 years later. Oh well, never too late !
The compositions in this video, and your career in general, are insane and deep. Being limited to only four tracks really pressurized your creativity into a laser.
This takes me back... the Atari ST was the main staple of my studio for such a long time as a cash strapped young man. I started with the Alesis MMT-8 sequencer and then graduated to the Atari with Emagic Notator Logic (before it was bought by Apple). My keyboard was a DX11 without velocity sensitivity. I did have use of an MT-32 for a while, but my drum machine was a TR-606 Drumatix - frickin' loved it. My most expensive purchase back then was a Roland U-20 keyboard which really pushed my music forward... I could go on, but thank you for this trip down memory lane
My middle school choir teacher used one of those proprietary-floppy-format Roland boxes to record her accompaniment and then play it back while we practiced! I remember taking the floppy disk for a song I really liked, and then being extremely disappointed when the format wasn't MIDI.
In 1990 I owned an Atari STe, a Roland D70 and a Roland SC55 and no mixing gear whatsoever. And my first software was Steinberg Pro 24, the predecessor of Cubase. When later Cubase came out, it was a complete revelation.
Mate, your videos are just the best! I'm a modular synth guy but you make such interesting and fascinating stuff and often I can take little nuggets of info and apply them to my own work flow. I recently shared your deflemask video on reddit because it's the video that really helped me get my head around FM synthesis. Looking it up, I was sad to see you hadn't posted in 3 years - and now I've come off a long 12 hour night shift at the hospital and came home to this lovely video of your triumphant return to RUclips to wind down to! What a lovely surprise!! As always, I'm astonished by your musical and compositional talent. When you busted out that electric guitar I went bananas! I hope your time away was lovely and I can't wait to see what else you've got in store. Can't believe I've watched so many of your videos and hadn't yet subscribed. Thank you so much for all the hard work you put into making your videos. From the work bringing this gear back to life, sharing the history from the magazines, making sense of it all and putting out amazing tracks - It really shows!! We appreciate you, welcome back!
It can actually do even wilder / harder stuff. I might explore programming sub-osc-kicks in part 2. I've made a hard-house banger with a donk on it, and when I ran it though a compressor (RNC1773), I was laughing for about an hour at how legit it sounded. Never underestimate FM!
Tremendous! Hoping to have a play around with MIDI on my Atari ST. Liked the video and little details like the VHS tapes used to prop up the keyboard. Period correct support.
I was wondering if anyone would notice that... cheers! The MIDI timing is super tight on the Atari; especially with sending SysEX and the like. Synths that just don't want to program on a USB MIDI interface are often rock solid from the ST.
Incredible how technology has evolved since then. A very nice history review to acknowledge and honor our beginnings. But finally it always comes down to the talent of the musician. You sure got much talent !
My thought actually was how little it has evolved in 35 years. Yes, it’s far more advanced now and there are better sounds available for free than what you would pay a fortune for back then. But the sequencers were actually a lot more advanced than I remember them to be, and they still work in the same way.
@@henrikpetersson3463 I was thinking the exact same thing. The principle and even the user interface of the software is very close to today's sequencers
Great video. Brings back fond memories of simpler times. There is no doubt that Atari was the best choice if you were into music back then. My setup was an Atari STe 4mb, Cubase 2.01 connected at first to a Korg O1/w, and aa Kawai Digital Piano and later to a Korg Trinity. Instead of sending program changes at the start of the song I saved the sys exclusives message that configured the whole Trinity mixer in its sequencer page in the first bars. Btw it's amazing how much you get out of the Yamaha.
Awesome! I actually saved the SysEX to config the K1 too. Just dumped it as a patch. Like the Trinity, The K1 actually does amazing dumping back and forth. The little joystick works as a volume / pan control in the "mixer" mode on it too. It was very much designed to be tweaked with on hardware rather than in MIDI.
@@Mopark25 Early on in my MIDI journey I would agree, but once you become more experienced its much easier to use SysExc as the commands are short and snappy (easier for the synth's CPU to process), plus there are a ton of features that bog standard MIDI commands simply can not access, e.g. tweaking reverb settings for room size, density etc.
What a nice surprise to see another video from you :-) And about a part of growing up in the UK during the late 80's' I'd forgotten about! Our music studio at school had maybe 20 of these synths including a few impressive ones with a lot of buttons and all with red LED displays. Imagine 30 odd 12 year old kids playing them together, it must have driven our music teacher mad!
What really sent the teachers mad (because every student world-wide thought it was the funniest thing) was when kid turned the volume to max and everyone pressed the demo button at the same time! 100% did that as a kid. 100% got a detention for instigating it!
So good to see all this stuff again. Back in the late 80s I had an Atari ST, MT-32 and Yamaha FB01, all synced to a Yamaha MT2X 4 track (for recording vocals and guitars). Good times.
this really took me back. Well done getting the yamaha to play mulitimbral, I never could figure that out with mine and an Alesis mmt-8. My friend had a Kawaii K1-ii, and another had an atari with midi. Then I got a yamaha SY-22. Good times. Thank you for taking the time to make this video.
Good to see you pop on my recommended again! Thanks for the watch during work :) I just finished watching. I never grew up with this generation of hardware, but I feel like my father helped me to have a closer connection to it than I realized it. Also crazy just how powerful Yamaha's "toy synths" have become; I have a PSR-260 that we picked up at a yard sale for $20 years and years ago, and with a copy of FL Studio and some midi cabling, voila! It's kind of like I'm living a semi-modern version of this experience! To this day I still make music using it as a midi controller, and its seriously one of the most reliable pieces of equipment I've ever owned. Thank you for sharing the first part of the story of midi home production studios, I absolutely love how far we've come and seeing where its roots grew!
Just to let you know there are cosmetically 4 versions of that keyboard - the PSS-480 and PSS-580 without the Music Station branding, and the PSS-480 and PSS-580 _with_ the Music Station branding.
Man this was one of the coolest things I've seen this year, gave me a pretty good insight too into how you'd go about sequencing this stuff back in the late 80s/early 90s too. Looking forward to the next part!
The MT32 and a Yamaha YS100 were my window into making a small living, making backing tracks for cabernet acts. Great trip down memory lane thanks for posting:)
this video gives such a concise example of what a humble studio could look like back in the day. looking forward to more videos and tunes. cTrix is a legend!
Videos like these are what make RUclips great, a place to preserve niche and era specific parts of our history for future generations to enjoy. Also, as someone who has been producing/composing professionally for almost 20 years, I can’t begin to tell you how talented and knowledgeable this man is and how pain staking it must have been to get to his level. Debuglive, you’re amazing mate, please keep doing you!
Great content. Had a 520STFM upgraded to maybe 1MB Ram (It's been a while), a black and white 12" TV, an Alesis SR-16 and a D-110 that I use to lug round to gigs in the early 90's as a one man band. Mastertracks Pro 6.2 was the sequencer of choice and I played guitar and sang with all the usual program changes. A lot of work back in the day! :)
Loved this video. You told the real experience musicians had and you made a sequence with not only different instruments but different sequencers. Great chops. I was one of the first to have a DX7 and I learned to program it. Here on the west coast I made a very convincing piano that many bands used. I think I called it Lanuzapiano
Hi, today everything is so easy. VSTs everywhere, multi midi outputs, usb connections, what u want is quickly to have. I remember about 1987 (I was 17) to connect (via midi) D-50, DX-7 and so on, you must used in and thru in cascade mode....it was so artificial but was marvelous. Thnaks for this video just to remember to new generations how it worked before. Cheers from Italy.
I had an Atari ST - plugged in into a Yamaha keyboard and used the cubase software. While on a plane I got talking to a guy who was a professor of music and we talked computers, music and MIDI - he recommended Cakewalk software, a Roland Sound Canvas sound generator and a midi interface to connect to a PC. I was in a music store in LA and asked about the Sound Canvas - it was pricey but after being shown the inbuilt demo tunes - wow! - take my money! - that was in 1992. I still use it these days for piano sounds layered with an electric piano. I also stayed with Cakewalk , upgrading software and PC as it grew from a DOS based MIDI editor to a very powerful top of the range DAW, Sonar Platinum - until Gibson dumped it. I vowed never to buy another Gibson product after that - guitar, plectrum or polishing cloth - NO more Gibson - ever.
Great video. Glad to see you mention the Casio - I've got one of the models that has the same demo of 'Night Birds' built in and I've been meaning to see how one of those keyboards' PCM sound would work in a project like yours. Thanks for showcasing the hardware, particularly the period-correct focus!
When I listen to what you managed to produce on limited hardware compared to what I've produced on much less limited hardware, I I can confidently say the difference is raw talent, your stuff kicks the ass off my stuff.
Thanks! Cheers for showing this to your father too - The Mix was excellent. I'm hoping they re-run it on iView at some point (they've done "best of" compiles, but the show in it's original format was solid) Pass my thanks.
Thoroughly enjoyed this trip down memory lane. I remember testing a Korg M1 in a music shop and being amazed by the Saxaphone Sound. Loved the Yamaha's though and I had a few of those myself, they were great machines for the budget. I still own a Yamaha PSR 730, which still produces some amazing sounds even though it's 26 years old ! I now own a Yamaha Montage 8, which is just delightful too!
Fantastic video! You are so talented at building tracks and this video gave me new insight into how the best in the business at the time made demos and tracks, such as Vince DICola and his collaborators with the Transformers music. Thanks for a wonderful piece and I look forward to watching more of your videos!
This gives me chills down my spine. Flashback is the word and I love it! Haven't been thinking of it but I miss these days running Atari STFM (later STE and Falcon). Thanks for a great review!
Thanks for the sharing the video. My first music productions I did with the Atari 10180ST. Simply because it was the only computer that time with midi, and the monitor was a very good high resolution monitor. I had a Kawai K4, Korg M1 , Yamaha TX81 and a Yamaha R1 drumcomputer. Almost all the producers I know were using the Atari with hardware synths (modules in a rack) and drumcomputer. One thing I am missing in your video... actually Cubase was more or less the standard software to be used with Atari, to make music productions. After the Atari I bought the Commodore Amiga for it's samples and graphical stuff.
Can’t tell you what a big smile this put on my face between the well-researched historical detail, the fun upgrade path story, the upbeat presentation, and the absolutely cracking music. Super excited for part 2! As a UI designer, one random observation that is driving me nuts: what is the Chicago font (Mac OS) doing there in Cubase 1.5 on an ST? There’s gotta be some kind of backstory there!
This is great! I had a D50 (still have it), MC500 sequencer and MT32 back in 1987 and as a teen was thrilled when I figured out how to get multi-timbrality from sysex sent from the MC500 - this whole workflow sends me back to that time.
Wow this was an unbelievably great video! Excellent production value, epic little compositions that really show off the hardware/software, super quick and snappy with no fluff, charismatic on top of the rest of it, A+++++++
Just 10 minutes in... but your talent to show off whats possible with this setup amazes me! Thanks for sharing and for showing me what my humble ST would have been capable of.. if it weren´t for my not even humble capabilities ;-)
Awesome video. I was an Amiga owner but always knew the Atari had been used widely in the recording industry. I can now see why Please keep up the great work...!
Yoo! ctrix got the style and the knowledge amazing composer indeed Thanks to you i got into chiptunes since square tokyo 2013 hope you doing fantastic looking forward the next video.
Right down memory lane! Really miss the ol' Atari running cubase ... Such a treat to work with and the tracks were put together in a split. Today DAWs drag the user into a mouse clicking battle.
Just watched your amazing article. Brought back some serious memories of using the 520st with pro 24 and a fostek a8. Ended up writing for music mart setting up the sound Bytes section. Good memories thanks
Wow... my first set up in 1987 MT32 P100 and a DX 27... many hours of fun. Then i left it for a while! But i got a job as a warmup dj/lighting technician at Roxys, it inspired me to get some new kit. So i saved up and in 94 i got Cubase Compact, P75 with SB16 pc, JV 1080 and a CD 3000i sampler. Well i was blown away! ... i could now make club remixes as the sampler had 8 megs of memory. Thats about 22 seconds of stereo at 20k 44.1. Plenty to sample loops and bass , stabs and riffs. Awsome... it still lives in a case under my bed ❤️👍
What a lucky coincidence, I got lately a working 1040STF and SM124 and kept my beloved Korg PolySix and Kawai K1. Together with my new acquired BARP Odyssey I will be making big noise again like in the old days. Nice vid!
Man, what a nostalgia trip. In the late 80s, I built my first music recording set up. It was Steinberg's Pro24 running on an Atari 1040ST with a Roland MT32 for the main sounds. I found a secondhand Akai AX73 to use as a mother keyboard (and also used its onboard bass sounds) and eventually added a Korg P3 piano module for 'realistic' piano sounds. I remember having to be very careful with the multitimbrality of the MT32 - but it taught me to make every note count in the stuff I wrote. Looks like you're going to delve into the MT32's sound editability with the next video, which I eventually got into myself for a while. Looking forward to seeing that. 🙂
In '91 my studio consisted of Roland MT-32, Ensoniq VFX, Alesis HR-16 and MMT-8, DataDisk, and Tascam 238 Sycassette (striped with MIDI sync on track 8). I did have a 386 computer running Cakewalk in DOS, too.. That was synced via MIDI. I also had a home-built 16-pad drum trigger system that would interface via MIDI to the HR-16, so I could record my playing using sticks and dual kick pedals on the floor! Even a funky home-brewed hi-hat interface that allowed switching from closed to open on the hi-hat trigger pad. All the sounds ran through the Alesis 16-channel mixer (I forget that model number, but it was the brand-new deal at the time). Even back then, this was way more power than I needed. Nowadays it seems quaint...
Well this was just delightful. Loved your Amiga sampler video some years ago too and this feels like a perfect sort of follow-up. Glad to see you back on YT and I’m stoked to see part two!
yeah man! same here. hang on... LGR? ahahaha. yo dude!
sometimes we do our best work by giving ourselves 36 months of runway
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 aha! Yes. That pesky LGR christmas clone. Hahaha.
I was literally just thinking, "Classic computers and MIDI synths? This is a video LGR would like" ... and there you are in the comments. 😁
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 oh shut up. lol. tf?
Just so you know, you've got unbelievable talent bringing these old sounds to life within your compositions. Love to see it!
SHEESH the gang's all here
Nice to see you here fellow music producer 🎸🎹🎺🖥🎵🎼🔉🎶🎚🎧🎤
Or hear it, lol :)
As a teen in the 80s, I had no clue what all this was, how it worked, etc. So I stayed away from synths and workstations and just played acoustic instruments. Decades later this video just brought it all together and now it makes sense. I understand now how it works and I really appreciate it. Thank you.
Sounds like background music on a video game.
Never get intimidated by something that can’t kill you! 😁
Atari and Jean Michael Jarre ….the kings 🎉
I wish I had seen this video in 1988, when I was 12 years old. Alas, for lack of anyone around to tell me and for lack of the Internet, I discovered the joy of MIDI only 25 years later. Oh well, never too late !
The compositions in this video, and your career in general, are insane and deep. Being limited to only four tracks really pressurized your creativity into a laser.
This takes me back... the Atari ST was the main staple of my studio for such a long time as a cash strapped young man. I started with the Alesis MMT-8 sequencer and then graduated to the Atari with Emagic Notator Logic (before it was bought by Apple). My keyboard was a DX11 without velocity sensitivity. I did have use of an MT-32 for a while, but my drum machine was a TR-606 Drumatix - frickin' loved it. My most expensive purchase back then was a Roland U-20 keyboard which really pushed my music forward... I could go on, but thank you for this trip down memory lane
My middle school choir teacher used one of those proprietary-floppy-format Roland boxes to record her accompaniment and then play it back while we practiced! I remember taking the floppy disk for a song I really liked, and then being extremely disappointed when the format wasn't MIDI.
In 1990 I owned an Atari STe, a Roland D70 and a Roland SC55 and no mixing gear whatsoever. And my first software was Steinberg Pro 24, the predecessor of Cubase. When later Cubase came out, it was a complete revelation.
Mate, your videos are just the best! I'm a modular synth guy but you make such interesting and fascinating stuff and often I can take little nuggets of info and apply them to my own work flow. I recently shared your deflemask video on reddit because it's the video that really helped me get my head around FM synthesis. Looking it up, I was sad to see you hadn't posted in 3 years - and now I've come off a long 12 hour night shift at the hospital and came home to this lovely video of your triumphant return to RUclips to wind down to! What a lovely surprise!!
As always, I'm astonished by your musical and compositional talent. When you busted out that electric guitar I went bananas! I hope your time away was lovely and I can't wait to see what else you've got in store. Can't believe I've watched so many of your videos and hadn't yet subscribed.
Thank you so much for all the hard work you put into making your videos. From the work bringing this gear back to life, sharing the history from the magazines, making sense of it all and putting out amazing tracks - It really shows!! We appreciate you, welcome back!
Much appreciated! Likewise, I've learnt many things from watching my friends in the modular world 🙂
i'm actually surprised just how hard that first track went, who knew a cheap Yamaha could do that!
It can actually do even wilder / harder stuff. I might explore programming sub-osc-kicks in part 2. I've made a hard-house banger with a donk on it, and when I ran it though a compressor (RNC1773), I was laughing for about an hour at how legit it sounded. Never underestimate FM!
@@CTRIX64 Oh damn, I would love to hear it!
Tremendous! Hoping to have a play around with MIDI on my Atari ST. Liked the video and little details like the VHS tapes used to prop up the keyboard. Period correct support.
I was wondering if anyone would notice that... cheers! The MIDI timing is super tight on the Atari; especially with sending SysEX and the like. Synths that just don't want to program on a USB MIDI interface are often rock solid from the ST.
Incredible how technology has evolved since then. A very nice history review to acknowledge and honor our beginnings. But finally it always comes down to the talent of the musician. You sure got much talent !
My thought actually was how little it has evolved in 35 years. Yes, it’s far more advanced now and there are better sounds available for free than what you would pay a fortune for back then. But the sequencers were actually a lot more advanced than I remember them to be, and they still work in the same way.
@@henrikpetersson3463 I was thinking the exact same thing. The principle and even the user interface of the software is very close to today's sequencers
This was amazing. My dad and grandpa were huge Atari ST users so I enjoyed showing them this video to. Excited for part 2
Great vid! There's a lot of my music, gear and Atari history in there! And thanks for the shout out!
Great video. Brings back fond memories of simpler times. There is no doubt that Atari was the best choice if you were into music back then. My setup was an Atari STe 4mb, Cubase 2.01 connected at first to a Korg O1/w, and aa Kawai Digital Piano and later to a Korg Trinity. Instead of sending program changes at the start of the song I saved the sys exclusives message that configured the whole Trinity mixer in its sequencer page in the first bars. Btw it's amazing how much you get out of the Yamaha.
Awesome! I actually saved the SysEX to config the K1 too. Just dumped it as a patch. Like the Trinity, The K1 actually does amazing dumping back and forth. The little joystick works as a volume / pan control in the "mixer" mode on it too. It was very much designed to be tweaked with on hardware rather than in MIDI.
Wouldn't exactly call this simpler 😅
Korg Trinity ❤️ they used it in the Sonic Adventure soundtrack!
@@Mopark25 Early on in my MIDI journey I would agree, but once you become more experienced its much easier to use SysExc as the commands are short and snappy (easier for the synth's CPU to process), plus there are a ton of features that bog standard MIDI commands simply can not access, e.g. tweaking reverb settings for room size, density etc.
randomly found this in my recommendations and now im tempted to buy an atari ST just for cubase
What a nice surprise to see another video from you :-) And about a part of growing up in the UK during the late 80's' I'd forgotten about! Our music studio at school had maybe 20 of these synths including a few impressive ones with a lot of buttons and all with red LED displays. Imagine 30 odd 12 year old kids playing them together, it must have driven our music teacher mad!
What really sent the teachers mad (because every student world-wide thought it was the funniest thing) was when kid turned the volume to max and everyone pressed the demo button at the same time! 100% did that as a kid. 100% got a detention for instigating it!
So good to see all this stuff again. Back in the late 80s I had an Atari ST, MT-32 and Yamaha FB01, all synced to a Yamaha MT2X 4 track (for recording vocals and guitars). Good times.
Keep those sick beats coming! Your channel is my musical haven! 🎧❤
this really took me back. Well done getting the yamaha to play mulitimbral, I never could figure that out with mine and an Alesis mmt-8. My friend had a Kawaii K1-ii, and another had an atari with midi. Then I got a yamaha SY-22. Good times. Thank you for taking the time to make this video.
Good to see you pop on my recommended again! Thanks for the watch during work :)
I just finished watching. I never grew up with this generation of hardware, but I feel like my father helped me to have a closer connection to it than I realized it. Also crazy just how powerful Yamaha's "toy synths" have become; I have a PSR-260 that we picked up at a yard sale for $20 years and years ago, and with a copy of FL Studio and some midi cabling, voila! It's kind of like I'm living a semi-modern version of this experience! To this day I still make music using it as a midi controller, and its seriously one of the most reliable pieces of equipment I've ever owned. Thank you for sharing the first part of the story of midi home production studios, I absolutely love how far we've come and seeing where its roots grew!
your debut of the PSS-580 MusicStation was legendary, what a great piece of equipment !
Just to let you know there are cosmetically 4 versions of that keyboard - the PSS-480 and PSS-580 without the Music Station branding, and the PSS-480 and PSS-580 _with_ the Music Station branding.
Man this was one of the coolest things I've seen this year, gave me a pretty good insight too into how you'd go about sequencing this stuff back in the late 80s/early 90s too. Looking forward to the next part!
The MT32 and a Yamaha YS100 were my window into making a small living, making backing tracks for cabernet acts. Great trip down memory lane thanks for posting:)
That was awesome, that first demo such a tune from such a limited synth
So good to see a video from you again, this was super solid. Great music as always.
this video gives such a concise example of what a humble studio could look like back in the day. looking forward to more videos and tunes. cTrix is a legend!
Yes. Finally another video!!
Videos like these are what make RUclips great, a place to preserve niche and era specific parts of our history for future generations to enjoy. Also, as someone who has been producing/composing professionally for almost 20 years, I can’t begin to tell you how talented and knowledgeable this man is and how pain staking it must have been to get to his level.
Debuglive, you’re amazing mate, please keep doing you!
Thanks. I'll keep trying to make content where I can!
Thank you for the outstanding musical talent to capture the era of the composition and sound arrangement. Absolutely impressive.
I love how almost 30 years later, quantize in Cubase is still "Q". Cubase is my main DAW of choice and idk it just made me smile :)
I started midi sequencing in 1990...this back in times was delightful. BTW your sequences were great!!
Fantastic as always. Your tunes are amazing.
Great content. Had a 520STFM upgraded to maybe 1MB Ram (It's been a while), a black and white 12" TV, an Alesis SR-16 and a D-110 that I use to lug round to gigs in the early 90's as a one man band. Mastertracks Pro 6.2 was the sequencer of choice and I played guitar and sang with all the usual program changes. A lot of work back in the day! :)
Loved this video. You told the real experience musicians had and you made a sequence with not only different instruments but different sequencers. Great chops. I was one of the first to have a DX7 and I learned to program it. Here on the west coast I made a very convincing piano that many bands used. I think I called it Lanuzapiano
Hi, today everything is so easy. VSTs everywhere, multi midi outputs, usb connections, what u want is quickly to have. I remember about 1987 (I was 17) to connect (via midi) D-50, DX-7 and so on, you must used in and thru in cascade mode....it was so artificial but was marvelous. Thnaks for this video just to remember to new generations how it worked before.
Cheers from Italy.
I had an Atari ST - plugged in into a Yamaha keyboard and used the cubase software. While on a plane I got talking to a guy who was a professor of music and we talked computers, music and MIDI - he recommended Cakewalk software, a Roland Sound Canvas sound generator and a midi interface to connect to a PC. I was in a music store in LA and asked about the Sound Canvas - it was pricey but after being shown the inbuilt demo tunes - wow! - take my money! - that was in 1992. I still use it these days for piano sounds layered with an electric piano. I also stayed with Cakewalk , upgrading software and PC as it grew from a DOS based MIDI editor to a very powerful top of the range DAW, Sonar Platinum - until Gibson dumped it. I vowed never to buy another Gibson product after that - guitar, plectrum or polishing cloth - NO more Gibson - ever.
An absolutely amazing video. I loved every minute of it. Well done!
Great video. Glad to see you mention the Casio - I've got one of the models that has the same demo of 'Night Birds' built in and I've been meaning to see how one of those keyboards' PCM sound would work in a project like yours. Thanks for showcasing the hardware, particularly the period-correct focus!
PortaSounds were seriously underrated in their capabilities, even the preset only ones! That Kawai is seriously impressive though.
Man, the tunes you put together are so freakin' COOL!
You gave me the biggest smile from ear to ear...through this video. What an amazing trip down memory lane!
Thank you for making these gems again. This is literally one of my favorite channels for this kind of content.
So talented! Absolutely love the research and quality in these videos and so glad to see you back making videos again! Can't wait for the next one.
When I listen to what you managed to produce on limited hardware compared to what I've produced on much less limited hardware, I I can confidently say the difference is raw talent, your stuff kicks the ass off my stuff.
Amazing video !
1:45 thanks for showing that wiring diagram. I always wondered how those 2 ports in the side of an ST could control a whole studio!
This is amazing! You really bring out the best of the old equipment.
Wow dude this is one of the best videos ever released on RUclips. Congrats and thanks for your hard work making it!
YES
Never has there been a RUclips video where I am pleased it's made me feel old! Great work on this one @debuglive
The best RUclips video I've seen in years. Also, your tunes are phenomenal mate!
Your demo songs are absolutely INCREDIBLE. Holy shit. Much like everything else about this video
Super high quality music tech nerd documentary with excellent retro tunes and a ton of lovely nostalgia!? Instant subscribe!
Thanks for keeping the memory alive!!! For me, the first tune with the least expensive equipment sounded the most interesting 😂.
Your videos are so impressive and well-produced! I showed my father who was a producer for The Mix on the ABC and he was thoroughly impressed.
Thanks! Cheers for showing this to your father too - The Mix was excellent. I'm hoping they re-run it on iView at some point (they've done "best of" compiles, but the show in it's original format was solid) Pass my thanks.
@@CTRIX64 I sure will.
Great video. Brings back memories of my teens back in the 80s. Had a casio cz 101, and then saved like hell to get a kawai K1.
Thoroughly enjoyed this trip down memory lane. I remember testing a Korg M1 in a music shop and being amazed by the Saxaphone Sound. Loved the Yamaha's though and I had a few of those myself, they were great machines for the budget. I still own a Yamaha PSR 730, which still produces some amazing sounds even though it's 26 years old ! I now own a Yamaha Montage 8, which is just delightful too!
Fantastic video! You are so talented at building tracks and this video gave me new insight into how the best in the business at the time made demos and tracks, such as Vince DICola and his collaborators with the Transformers music. Thanks for a wonderful piece and I look forward to watching more of your videos!
Incredible video. Its always a blast to see you pull off those demos.
Seeing this old version of Cubase displaying a VERY familiar UI is kinda impressive.
This gives me chills down my spine. Flashback is the word and I love it! Haven't been thinking of it but I miss these days running Atari STFM (later STE and Falcon). Thanks for a great review!
Thanks for the sharing the video. My first music productions I did with the Atari 10180ST. Simply because it was the only computer that time with midi, and the monitor was a very good high resolution monitor. I had a Kawai K4, Korg M1 , Yamaha TX81 and a Yamaha R1 drumcomputer. Almost all the producers I know were using the Atari with hardware synths (modules in a rack) and drumcomputer. One thing I am missing in your video... actually Cubase was more or less the standard software to be used with Atari, to make music productions. After the Atari I bought the Commodore Amiga for it's samples and graphical stuff.
Can’t tell you what a big smile this put on my face between the well-researched historical detail, the fun upgrade path story, the upbeat presentation, and the absolutely cracking music. Super excited for part 2!
As a UI designer, one random observation that is driving me nuts: what is the Chicago font (Mac OS) doing there in Cubase 1.5 on an ST? There’s gotta be some kind of backstory there!
You’re videos are awesome man. Welcome back ❤️
This is great! I had a D50 (still have it), MC500 sequencer and MT32 back in 1987 and as a teen was thrilled when I figured out how to get multi-timbrality from sysex sent from the MC500 - this whole workflow sends me back to that time.
ahhh memories! I had a PSS790 back in the day. Now I do part-time guitar/keyboards production for rappers.
I used to play with the same MT-100. I loved that "E.Pno1" preset.
Maaaaaan, your amiga sampler video threw me down a dnb rabbithole that I have yet to escape, good to see you back
Well that was my setup back in the day, with the PSS-580. Thanks for refreshing my memory!
Wow this was an unbelievably great video! Excellent production value, epic little compositions that really show off the hardware/software, super quick and snappy with no fluff, charismatic on top of the rest of it, A+++++++
So glad you made a new vid . Now I know who you are and can go thru you're whole library. You rock❤
I have so much respect for what you are doing man... Amazing video!!!
Awesome video :-) It took me right back to when I started in electronic music with my Atari St1040 and a hard drive the size of a VHS video recorder.
Loved it, had pretty much that journey, Atari ST, Cubase, MT-32, K1, such memories, thank you!
Lol. Love the little 8-bit guy cameo in proper low res and black and white 😂. Nice job on the video as well. Subscribed !
Just 10 minutes in... but your talent to show off whats possible with this setup amazes me! Thanks for sharing and for showing me what my humble ST would have been capable of.. if it weren´t for my not even humble capabilities ;-)
That was amazing. Thanks! Can't wait for part 2!
Great history of the Atari ST Era. Thank you!
Awesome video. I was an Amiga owner but always knew the Atari had been used widely in the recording industry. I can now see why Please keep up the great work...!
Yoo! ctrix got the style and the knowledge amazing composer indeed
Thanks to you i got into chiptunes since square tokyo 2013 hope you doing fantastic looking forward the next video.
Cheers! Sounds like you had fun at SST2013. What times those were 🙂
Awesome work mate! Big inspiriation to me - keep it coming cTrix!
I'm not even a musician (though I do get a grasp of what's going on), and this has been so good. Honest thanks for this.
Wow, all of these demos go crazy
Thanks for taking us back to the video game sounds of the 80s and 90s and even some radio sounds too.
Still holding out hope for a part 2! But any video would be great
Right down memory lane! Really miss the ol' Atari running cubase ... Such a treat to work with and the tracks were put together in a split. Today DAWs drag the user into a mouse clicking battle.
Very nice video ! I started in 1992 with a ST and a Roland E-15 : it was very good already !
Nice tunes you got there. Just bought my second Sound Canvas to get on to the MIDI train. And DOS games.
Awesome, for someone who lived in those times behind the Iron Curtain, such materials are like gold :)
Just watched your amazing article. Brought back some serious memories of using the 520st with pro 24 and a fostek a8. Ended up writing for music mart setting up the sound Bytes section. Good memories thanks
Kawai K1 Rocks! Awesome vid and screen capture quality.
Wow... my first set up in 1987 MT32 P100 and a DX 27... many hours of fun. Then i left it for a while!
But i got a job as a warmup dj/lighting technician at Roxys, it inspired me to get some new kit. So i saved up and in 94 i got Cubase Compact, P75 with SB16 pc, JV 1080 and a CD 3000i sampler. Well i was blown away! ... i could now make club remixes as the sampler had 8 megs of memory. Thats about 22 seconds of stereo at 20k 44.1. Plenty to sample loops and bass , stabs and riffs. Awsome... it still lives in a case under my bed ❤️👍
Ahh man, this is amazing! That setup was the EXACT same one that got me started! Atari STE and PSS-680. Tune is great btw :)
What a lucky coincidence, I got lately a working 1040STF and SM124 and kept my beloved Korg PolySix and Kawai K1. Together with my new acquired BARP Odyssey I will be making big noise again like in the old days. Nice vid!
Awesome. Brings back old memories. Now I want to dig my Falcon out. :-)
This is just absolutely wonderful! Your content is incredible!
Man, what a nostalgia trip. In the late 80s, I built my first music recording set up. It was Steinberg's Pro24 running on an Atari 1040ST with a Roland MT32 for the main sounds. I found a secondhand Akai AX73 to use as a mother keyboard (and also used its onboard bass sounds) and eventually added a Korg P3 piano module for 'realistic' piano sounds. I remember having to be very careful with the multitimbrality of the MT32 - but it taught me to make every note count in the stuff I wrote.
Looks like you're going to delve into the MT32's sound editability with the next video, which I eventually got into myself for a while. Looking forward to seeing that. 🙂
Woah, that MT-32 brings back some memories. We had hours of fun with our Amiga and one of those back in the day!
In '91 my studio consisted of Roland MT-32, Ensoniq VFX, Alesis HR-16 and MMT-8, DataDisk, and Tascam 238 Sycassette (striped with MIDI sync on track 8). I did have a 386 computer running Cakewalk in DOS, too.. That was synced via MIDI. I also had a home-built 16-pad drum trigger system that would interface via MIDI to the HR-16, so I could record my playing using sticks and dual kick pedals on the floor! Even a funky home-brewed hi-hat interface that allowed switching from closed to open on the hi-hat trigger pad. All the sounds ran through the Alesis 16-channel mixer (I forget that model number, but it was the brand-new deal at the time). Even back then, this was way more power than I needed. Nowadays it seems quaint...