This is cool - it’s awesome seeing an Atari ST still being used for music production. I mainly use Cubase running on a Mega STE, but still use Notator and Logic from time to time.
Thanks for the kind words, everyone! My guide to using C-LAB Creator: notebook.zoeblade.com/C-LAB_Creator_guide.html My guide to using the Akai S1000: notebook.zoeblade.com/Akai_S1000_guide.html
Hey Zoe - Missed you 😊 This is a super piece and sort of weird because C-Lab was my firts sequencer and I also had a S1000 at the time. Didn't produce anything like this though but a great commbo 🎶
I really wanted to use an old Atari or Amiga with a built-in midi port, along with OctoMed, but ended up grabbing a Polyend Tracker just to make my life (marginally) easier. Seeing this makes me wanna comb through eBay all over again.
Did the Atari ST have synthesis chip in it? I know the Amiga 1000 just used DSP only if I recall. I had an Amiga 1000. I remember the wars going on between Atari ST and Amiga 1000 on the BBS forums lol -- I got an Amiga 1000 around 1986 if I recall.
Well the Amiga as a self-contained instrument had a *much* better sound chip, with four channels of PCM playback. It spawned the tracker application, like a Fairlight CMI's page R at a fraction of the cost. On its own, the Atari ST had a pitiful attempt at a sound chip, *but* it had built-in MIDI in and out, so a lot of rave and even professional music from Europe (including the UK) was sequenced on it. This was pretty cunning of Atari's engineers, as it was so simple and cheap to implement, but that minor change turned what was otherwise just another home computer into a music industry studio standard. So which machine's "best" completely depends on whether you have any other MIDI equipment or not, chiefly an Akai S900/S950/S1000 sampler...
Thanks for sharing, nice tune ! I use my Atari ST too with Cubase 2.0 and never got Creator/Notator, though there are no good cracked version around :d ! But now Ronni Music's Sweet16 is freeware and is (it seems) similar in concept to Creator. I noticed on your screen that channel 9 is TX-81Z, is it really the case or everything is from the S1000 ? Thanks for keeping the old gear alive and sharing your guides! :)
Yes, thanks to Tim's Atari MIDI World, a lot of the cheaper and more obscure Atari ST MIDI sequencers are now freeware with their authors' blessing, Sweet Sixteen among them. As for Creator, these days a secondhand dongle's pretty affordable (I got mine for £50, not too bad for a thorough MIDI sequencer). Though I wouldn't want to have to swap dongles back and forth all the time, so I guess no Cubase for me any time soon... Yes, that pad/strings sound is a TX81Z. The rest is samples I made in the S1000, chiefly of System-100M and MS-20 clones. Thank you for the kind words!
@@tonelab A small label released an album of them a few years or so back, even though I made them in the mid 90s to early 00s or thereabouts... I released a separate album of others myself, Deep Cuts: zoeblade.bandcamp.com/album/deep-cuts And there's a SoundCloud account of yet more of them, but I'm not saying where. None were used back in the day. They're pretty atypical for mods in that they didn't use the standard samplepacks, I used my voice, then household objects, then an SH-101. It's real outsider art...
Thanks! Pretty much, yeah. The strings are a TX81Z preset (I didn't have time to make my own FM pad sounds), and the sub-bass is the S1000's built-in sine wave, but the rest are mine. The drums are an MS-20 clone through a distortion pedal. The arpeggio's just a basic square wave on a 100M clone. The delayed noise bursts would have been one of the two. So all vintage digital and cheap modern analogue clones of classics.
I'm pretty sure Creator and Cubase were used for all sorts of electronic music in the late 80s and early 90s... Breakbeat hardcore and jungle were just amongst the most popular examples...
Excellent tune. Need an ST (520 or 1040) in my life!
I swear this feels like a song you'd hear in a dream, I love that liminal vibe
Creator it is , yes, i just listen and saw it is just ner the same layout in the st . Beautyful music
AMAZING!
This is cool - it’s awesome seeing an Atari ST still being used for music production. I mainly use Cubase running on a Mega STE, but still use Notator and Logic from time to time.
Thanks for the kind words, everyone!
My guide to using C-LAB Creator: notebook.zoeblade.com/C-LAB_Creator_guide.html
My guide to using the Akai S1000: notebook.zoeblade.com/Akai_S1000_guide.html
Great song!
Atari forever, the best tool for musicians. Congratulations.
Woow, yep, this is great. Thanks very much!
So great music. And the classic notator! So cool!
Awesome :)
Super track👍
awesome!
Nice to see an old ST still doing good work
Love the '80s vibe and the vintage tech. Thank you for sharing!
I really really like this
im in love w this thank u for all ur creativity and work !!
If Warp Records had published Artificial Intelligence III, this would fit right on it.
Hey Zoe - Missed you 😊 This is a super piece and sort of weird because C-Lab was my firts sequencer and I also had a S1000 at the time. Didn't produce anything like this though but a great commbo 🎶
I really wanted to use an old Atari or Amiga with a built-in midi port, along with OctoMed, but ended up grabbing a Polyend Tracker just to make my life (marginally) easier. Seeing this makes me wanna comb through eBay all over again.
Now that is just awesome. Thanks for sharing!
Righteous! Totally freakin' love it.
Delightful! Nice work.
Did the Atari ST have synthesis chip in it? I know the Amiga 1000 just used DSP only if I recall. I had an Amiga 1000. I remember the wars going on between Atari ST and Amiga 1000 on the BBS forums lol -- I got an Amiga 1000 around 1986 if I recall.
Well the Amiga as a self-contained instrument had a *much* better sound chip, with four channels of PCM playback. It spawned the tracker application, like a Fairlight CMI's page R at a fraction of the cost.
On its own, the Atari ST had a pitiful attempt at a sound chip, *but* it had built-in MIDI in and out, so a lot of rave and even professional music from Europe (including the UK) was sequenced on it.
This was pretty cunning of Atari's engineers, as it was so simple and cheap to implement, but that minor change turned what was otherwise just another home computer into a music industry studio standard.
So which machine's "best" completely depends on whether you have any other MIDI equipment or not, chiefly an Akai S900/S950/S1000 sampler...
Very nice.
Subscribed immediately! Beautiful!
💙
vintage vibe
awesome.
This rules
Thanks for sharing, nice tune ! I use my Atari ST too with Cubase 2.0 and never got Creator/Notator, though there are no good cracked version around :d ! But now Ronni Music's Sweet16 is freeware and is (it seems) similar in concept to Creator. I noticed on your screen that channel 9 is TX-81Z, is it really the case or everything is from the S1000 ? Thanks for keeping the old gear alive and sharing your guides! :)
Yes, thanks to Tim's Atari MIDI World, a lot of the cheaper and more obscure Atari ST MIDI sequencers are now freeware with their authors' blessing, Sweet Sixteen among them. As for Creator, these days a secondhand dongle's pretty affordable (I got mine for £50, not too bad for a thorough MIDI sequencer). Though I wouldn't want to have to swap dongles back and forth all the time, so I guess no Cubase for me any time soon...
Yes, that pad/strings sound is a TX81Z. The rest is samples I made in the S1000, chiefly of System-100M and MS-20 clones. Thank you for the kind words!
OMG you're still using the 1040ST 😍 I got one of those after my stint on the Amiga 500 🥰 they were so cool 🤓🍿
The Amiga's cool too! I started out tracking (admittedly, in DOS).
@@TransistorSounds Wow! that's oldschool 👌🏼I was using FastTracker or NoiseTracker with a sampler.. making mods was so much fun 🙏🏻
Nice! I started out on Scream Tracker, then Impulse Tracker. I’d best not try to work out how many hours I spent staring at that gold and green grid!
@@TransistorSounds that's awesome 😊 did your mods get used anywhere?? you should post some of your mods 😃
@@tonelab A small label released an album of them a few years or so back, even though I made them in the mid 90s to early 00s or thereabouts... I released a separate album of others myself, Deep Cuts: zoeblade.bandcamp.com/album/deep-cuts And there's a SoundCloud account of yet more of them, but I'm not saying where. None were used back in the day. They're pretty atypical for mods in that they didn't use the standard samplepacks, I used my voice, then household objects, then an SH-101. It's real outsider art...
Muy bueno!!
Atari is awesome!
Hello Zoë ! Ne serait-ce pas un album d'Autechre à coté de l'écran de l'Atari ? From France
Bonjour! Oui, Incunabula.
I love the bass! Zoe, did you make those samples yourself?
Thanks! Pretty much, yeah. The strings are a TX81Z preset (I didn't have time to make my own FM pad sounds), and the sub-bass is the S1000's built-in sine wave, but the rest are mine. The drums are an MS-20 clone through a distortion pedal. The arpeggio's just a basic square wave on a 100M clone. The delayed noise bursts would have been one of the two. So all vintage digital and cheap modern analogue clones of classics.
What kind of camera do you use?
Why, that would be a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K with a set of Meike lenses!
but this is not The Jungles?
I'm pretty sure Creator and Cubase were used for all sorts of electronic music in the late 80s and early 90s... Breakbeat hardcore and jungle were just amongst the most popular examples...
Just listening to your music and finally realised this was sarcasm, nevermind. You clearly know your stuff! 😄 Top tunes!
Awesome!