The 1992 MIDI Experience: Yamaha "Hello! Music!" Kit for Windows 3.1
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- Опубликовано: 3 дек 2020
- Setting up and exploring the Yamaha CBX-T3 synth module and testing it with classic MS-DOS games and early nineties Windows MIDI sequencer software! It may not be a popular General MIDI music option, but being based on the TG100 it still held its own when it launched at $450 in late 1992/early 93.
● LGR links:
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/ lazygamereviews
● Download floppy disk images of the software here:
archive.org/details/trax-222
● Background music courtesy of:
www.epidemicsound.com
● Featuring MIDI soundtracks from:
Rise of the Triad
Duke Nukem 3D
SimCity 2000
X-COM: UFO Defense
Tyrian
Doom
Space Quest III
Passport Designs Jukebox
#LGR #MIDI #Music Наука
"LGR: 1.44M" is a subscriber count I've been waiting to see for a while, finally reached it!
Each of us subscribers could be a byte on a floppy disk.
@@Chillalil or a hz on a good monitor ;)
Except 1.44 megabytes is a strange marketing figure which assumes a megabyte is neither 10^6 bytes (decimal) nor 2^20 bytes (binary, now known as a mebibyte). It's a weird mix of the two. A "computer" megabyte is 1024*1024 = 1,048,576 bytes and a "human" megabyte is 1000*1000 = 1,000,000 bytes. A megabyte as used on floppies is 1000*1024 = 1,024,000 bytes.
To be precise, a 1.44 meg floppy is: 80 tracks * 2 drive heads * 18 sectors per track * 512 bytes per track = exactly 1,474,560 bytes or 1,440 KiB.
@@grootsyt 1.44 MHz would be a bit more than a "good" monitor.
@@CptJistuce haha i meant just 144hz
That packaging design is the single most early 90s thing I have ever seen
Honestly I'd love to see a brand brave enough these days to make packaging so... loud XD
It just needs a pair of sunglasses.
better than the minimalist crap of today.
2000s graphics card boxes uses to be pretty nuts.
@@zanite8650 It’s not complete until they add a kid skateboarding on a rocket.
LGR Synths when? We'd all love to see your main synth setup!
Come on Clint. Show us yer synths!
third this !
Yes please!
oooooh so that's what he meant by show us his organ...
Or just MIDI Mountain 2: Electric Blues-galloo.
Wow love that "on the fly" you sprung on us at the end. That was fantastic
indeed, id love to remix that! can we have the mid file clint please? 😊
cmon clint, make a rmx contest! 😊
At first I thought "Hello! Music!" was just LGR's greeting for this video.
Same, lol. Either that or a play on "Hello, Nurse!" from Animaniacs
And I said it in Clint's voice too.
Oh hai music
@@jaythomas3180 I did not hit her! I did not.
Also, fun fact - CANYON.MID and PASSPORT.MID were actually written by people at Passport Designs, Inc., the company behind the provided software! I wonder what the originally intended synth was for the tracks...
They always seem to sound best on Roland Soundcanvas based synths.
Love how he called out EBay sellers who are going to be quick to up the price after this video.
or maybe he called out the dudes that want everything they see on retro RUclips.
@@BlaBla-pf8mf xactly
Clint knows the market too well.
People were complaining over at Reddit about it, with LGR responding to the subject here: www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/jizyib/these_ebay_prices_are_insane/gabgoio/?context=3
MT-32 used to go for 50-60 before it became famous on multiple RUclips channels
I love MIDI goodness from LGR!
28:55 DJ LGR in the house!
DJ pendejo!
DJ Lazy
@@Blurredman what's wrong with you...?
@@boden_staendig Or is that DJ Lay-Z?
@@AndrewAMartin Oh yeah! Ha ha!
That's a pretty cool transition you did there at 12:34!
@@patrickglaser1560 Dooo do do do do do do do do dodo do... do do do do!
TWELVE!
Really cool! Very retro like you used to see in old television shows about PC's.
Came here to say that same thing. Super smooth and natural.
It’s December my friends, Christmas Clint is near. Happiness and joyfulness with LGR cheer. 🎄💾🎁
I can't wait for Christmas Clint. Best time of the year.
Clintmas? 😆
@@cs188creations Ha I love it.
As an aspiring musician I would love to see more videos focused on retro music gear! More MIDI devices, hardware synths, sequencers/tracker software, all of it!
Also, we need to see that synth setup!
I had no clue you were SO well versed with DAW's and just music making stuff! To be honest, I struggled a teensy bit following you on some of the more specific concepts you showed in Trax, but this was a deeper dive into early '90s music making than I expected, in all the right ways! Now I'm in the mood for learning more about DAW's myself, dangit! xD
You must be new.
@@wellfuckyoumr you must be smart
2:50 - Wow, it even gives the Macintosh Classic a color display! What a deal! :P
That was a thing, you know...
"Macintosh Color Classic - Wikipedia" en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Color_Classic
@@TimWochomurka except that’s clearly not the computer in the photo
You're right, it's probably an SE/30 with a micron xceed card installed. Mea culpa.
@@TimWochomurka I own a Classic, Classic II and Color Classic, so I'm well aware :)
A color CRT wouldn't have fit the original Classic, the Color Classic's case is quite a bit deeper.
I remember using this during electronic music class!!!!
You WHAT!? I am so jealous oh my gosh that has been my lifelong dream.
Lol I call bullshit
During what now
@@appalachianexploration5714 why
LGR lowkey advertising his mixtape lol
Uhh. That song you put together was fire. ("On the Fly") 28:58.
Needs more LGR MIDI Tracks please!
I remixed it! link in the comments
When that screen zoom kicked in I went : "Oh, yes!"
If the MIDI software is titled "PASSPORT", that means you're required to play PASSPORT.MID on it.
I know, right? Such a missed opportunity. I was holding out for it.
Apparently passport.mid isn't included in Windows 3.1 😢
Jokes on MIDI! I got a Multi-Pass!
@@TylerComptonShow The rest of the songs included with the Passport software shown in the video also came with the Windows MultiMedia Pack that was bundled with some OEM systems. CANYON.MID was also a product of the artists at Passport Designs.
This. I was extremely disappointed at such a perfectly good wasted opportunity.
You made an 1983 B-side Depeche Mode track!
LOL Nailed it... this is very "Nothing To Fear", and I need a copy of that .mid
@@DOSdaze haha exactly! Even “christmas Island” and “the great outdoors”
Using hardware costing a fraction of the hardware Depeche Mode used. For a long time I wondered why the UMI sequencer Vince Clark was a big fan off wasn't more popular. More recently I found out that it cost more than the BBC computer you needed to run it.
There must be at least some musical talent behind this early Depeche Mode hear-alike!
I want him to upload that somewhere
Man i could spend hours playing around with that and listening to the samples. Must have been a lot of fun making this video.
I must be having a MIDI-life crisis because I want to get my hands on one of these...
There's a similar software for Windows called MIDITracker. You can even compose just with your computer keyboard.
Honestly I'd love a modern midi interface with that bank of LEDs on the front running in time to the music, it would be so satisfying.
On the bright side at least you arent hankering for an Electone
Got your pun there,lol
Honestly, I think I'd just build my own. You can get MIDI boards online (from what I've seen, any wave table board should work), an audio amp, power supply, some extra caps for reduced noise, the connectors & controls, and just stick them all together with whatever case you like.
That intro was great!
"chuckles at dubiously made statement" holy shit your subtitles are god tier LGR lol
"At least until unscrupulous eBayers jack up the Buy It Now prices after this video goes live"
I'm crying laughing that killed me
MIDI stuff is so damn good, nice to know there was stuff for it even for Windows 3.1! haha
It's even older than that. Commodore Amiga's had really good midi support.
Most definitely, and you might wanna check out some mid-‘80s Atari ST computers (the 520 and 1040, in particular), which were and even remain some of the most highly-rated and oft-used machines, for production, among the second wave, on up, of digital music artists (with the “first wave,” as I see it, include pioneering groups like Kraftwerk and DEVO (who, in particular, connected piano pick-ups that triggered short sounds from compact cassette (aka, “cassette”) tape players, with recordings of machine guns, helicopters, and other sounds that made form “good loops” to Alan Myers’ drums (“pre-label” recording have been remastered, in/since the ‘90s, from the early ‘70s) and Kraftwerk, who often “had to” construct their own instruments, to (forgive the pun) “craft” the sounds they wanted to make.
They gradually played both “live” than “automated” tracks, on-stage and in the booth-as well as both, simultaneously (note the “masochist” comment, about that, in the video... ), playing live over a pre-programmed track) and they helped to set the tone for sequencers, such as MIDI, and samplers. From the early-/mid-nineties, the Ensoniq LPS-16 was an awesome keyboard/sampler/sequencer combo that could be used live AND/OR with pre-made sequences - especially for the price. Everyone knows about Roland’s stuff, much in the same way the know about “beats by Dre” headphones...
It is surprising to see a Windows program as relatively comprehensive as this, for the time. Most “PC” users were hobbyists, as was mentioned (kinda like Garage Band, etc., today) who owned a PC and saw something like this, on the shelves at K-Mart, Sears, or Toys R’ Us (not a joke or put-down; those stores were the Wal-Marts and Amazons, of today) and in magazine stores that would advertise in PC World, and because the market was already so big that porting or creating a Windows MIDI player was a good idea, especially in terms of percentages of the market equaling a much larger total number of machines, out there.
I know this is all over the place, but I’m remembering more things, as I write. A not very big, but very good, in their simplicity, were also “MOD” players-sampler/sequencers that first sped up/slowed down a sample, to create different pitches-and the 16-32-64 track compositions they could easily create and play, that could even be done with “lower-end” computers at the time. Very inexpensive shareware and even freeware programs, such as “Player Pro” were, relative to their functions and “power,” at a time (in the early-/mid-nineties) when 44.1/48kHz recording were starting to come into their own. MOD sequencing could use a number of relatively small file size sounds that were embedded into the file, made possible “orchestras” of music that took up very little space, and Macs (especially Quadra 660- and 840-AVs) had become the machines that increasingly more digital musicians used (until next-gen, PPC “replacements” took their places), especially because, beyond MIDI, they also had composite A/V inputs and outputs, such that everything could be done on a single, off-the-shelf computer. However, a lot of the best artists/bands, around, still sought out Atari STs and later STEs, etc., which were light years ahead of their time.
Hope that was worth reading. This video and the comment really took me back to undergrad through doc, which was a good time... Sure the hell better than this godforsaken year, I can say with absolute certainty, unless aliens land, on New Year’s Eve, and flood the world with amazing, free tech that’s literally light year’s ahead of it’s time - which may not be as far ahead as one might think, but still... 🍻
Midi isn't CV but it's still a pretty old standard. Basic Midi 1 is 31.25 kbps UART with weird isolated input specs. It more or less requires at least a controller chip but it's a simple protocol with simple wiring.
More on the apple computers back in the days. I remember those sharp monochrome displays and midi sequencers. Too bad you couldn’t play too many games with those, so I went the other route...
Hey Clint- thanks for making this and letting me start my Friday with a smile. Loved your mix too, I hope you incorporate more of your own music into future videos.
Is no one talking about the 12:34 transition!?
That was CLEAN.
Does that mean he was typing looking at a green screen and then made the animation from green screen at an angle to fullscreen in post production? Unnecessarily ambitious!
@@stanstaniboy7655 It appears to me to be a video capture feed of the computer screen being transitioned into the frame from the center outward. I'm not a professional, I just slowed it down and made my best analysis.
Pretty freaking cool looking though. Kudos!
yea like how he do daaaaaaaaaaaaaat
I've always thought that CANYON.MID sounds like it could be the theme for a local newscast.
Doesn’t it?! I used it as the intro to a news cast style video for a high school Spanish class (mid ‘00s) project.
Thanks for reminding me I still "need" to buy a midi synthesizer for DOS.
First video for December and not Christmas clone yet? I miss him… ;__;
The LGR mix was cool!
I love these old MIDI device reviews. This is the perfect sweet spot between your usual early-90s nostalgia and for MIDI and synthesizers of the time. Two great tastes that taste great together. I wouldn’t mind seeing you review old Akai MPC60 like DJ Shadow used.
Hell yeah, early to an LGR video without using notifications
same. automatic came up..
Holy hell dude, you are incredibly talented. More MIDI stuff!
Ok, I never noticed this, but the X-Com: UFO Defense opening music sounds so damned anime!
I love it when MIDI tunes sound slightly echoey. Amazing work on this video and in depth analysis, before there was fruity loops. Top notch mate.
Awesome job LGR. Loved all the recent MIDI stuff you have been doing.
You know you've made it when ebay sellers change their prices after you post a video.
And now I'm curious what LGR's Synthwave artist name would be...
My dumb brain wants to say "Woodgrain" would be involved somehow; Woodgrain Vintage or Lazy Woodgrain or something XD
@@UNSCPILOT "Woodgrain Socks"
Just... Woodgrain
The simplicity
@@ndm13 WOODGRAIN
Woodgrain Applique
Missed a trick there Clint! As soon as I saw that IBM PS/2 set up on the back of the box, I was sure that you was going to recreate that scene exactly in real life😎
I was seriously going to if I found some of those Yamaha speakers. No luck yet!
@@LGR
Please Obi Wan Kenobi, you're our only hope.
@@LGR
Seriously. You might be the only person findable on the internet that would be helpful.
Look at my yamaha xg driver sound emulation video or final fantasy vii video.
Its obvious the most love went into the complete xg hardware experience. I think ive done a meaningful job fixing us being forced to use the general driver option with modern machines interpolating up to a silk 32bit studio sample rate at that.
Thank you for your awesome videos! Best content on RUclips. And the song in the end sounds great!
There were several moments when I wanted to pause the video and press the like button, but I've already done so in the first minutes. :)
That intro music was so late '80s early '90s!
Holy crow, I forgot how good the original XCOM score was! :O
I am impressed with the amount of time you've put into this! I feel like I could watch you and learn about midi recordings!
Great video and the song you made was pretty good too. I love the look of those speakers and I love the sound coming out of this setup
that's a really good tune you crated there! I've been humming it in my head now!
Was expecting Phil Collins at 0:01 but I wasn't disappointed
Was expecting Rick roll
Oh boy I love your music hardware/software videos!!
Fun vid in all its midi awesomeness :)
Happy 1.44M Subscribers Clint!
"Joel, what's a MIDI?"
10:17
It's what you mix with clorians to make a jedi.
Thanks you lgr for the subtitles I hate that youtube wants to take them away.
Duuuuude!! I could watch videos of you messing about with 90s MIDI equipment for hours!
I love me some weird MIDI tunes and modules and such.
Clint, you deserve all the good things, man! This is such a great video. I've been watching for 11+ years man, and I just wanna say bro: don't you ever change.
8:30 I didn’t know that X-Com’s intro music was good until now. Great..
The entire X-Com soundtrack has always been great.
@@MikaelMarius Yeah .. That’s right. I mean, Instruments.
the basic distortion guitar sound on this is the same as the gm one on my yamaha tyros. Thank god for the revoice option.
I really enjoyed this video! I never grew up with these '90s things, but it's always fun to look back to the past with retro tech, especially music tech. Thanks for sharing - lovely tune :)
Excellent as always! - Looking forward to the next oddware
I simply LOVE Tyrian OST 😍
9:10 DOOM not only run on anything, it also sounds good on everything
Look at the sega genesis or Atari Jaguar soundtrack
Sega 32X
@@Ash0512 good ol' diarrhea doom
Except the AWE32/64.
Blast from the past. I HAD one of these, along with TRAX, which was my first sequencer. I had a Mac LC III in those days, a massive upgrade from my previous Mac Plus. This module had some pretty cool sounding drums. Boy did I love that setup. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Also dannggg Clint! That was a sweet tune at the end! Also, god I love the sounds coming from all this old tech. It’s soooo good. And so nostalgic.
Omg all the MIDI that my life has been missing, yes plz
I think you meant “missing”
@@JasonZakrajsek Indeed. Autocarrot has foiled me once again.
i hed yes clue you were math
Man it’s so cool to know Dunkey watches LGR. I never thought he’d be the type
Another dunk fan :D
Yeah his video got released just a day ago, and I was a bit sad for him because he said that no one appreciates quality content but veiws misleading clickbait toxic kids channel
He watches LGR? Nice
@@MrMG43 yeah he mentions him on his newest vid.
Never thought a late 20's early 30's man who's grown up playing games, and still does, would have an interest in LGR?
cool track you composed/mixed there, I love it, good job!!!
30:44 the attention to detail throwing in those "half-beat" hi-hats lol. I love it!
10:52 sounds like space quest 3: christmas special
I was totally expecting to be rick rolled with that intro and I don't know why
I friggin love all the MIDI content. The sounds just take me back to my youth where this was basically how everything sounded. Even if I know as much about this stuff as an earthworm, I love seeing and hearing it. Please keep covering it!
I love the mix you created.
All I could think of when I saw "Hello! Music!" in the title was "Hello, Nurse!" from Animaniacs
We are Aaaanimaaniacs!
With some brand new MIDI tracks!
That intro gave me vibes of Phil Collins' drum solo from In The Air Tonight.
Awesome video clint! Nice mix:D
Awesome video as always!
29:47 - Totally Trent Reznor!
That was my thought too, the opening for 'Only'.
Can we just appreciate how that Bossa Nova track SLAPS 🔥🔥🔥
GREAT VIDEO - got me all in the fired up for the 80s. I ran, jump and dived into Spotify, and found an 80s TV/Film Soundtrack playlist with over 12 hours of 80s luscious blissful nostalgic overload music! :D
I just can’t get over how good the transition was at 12:34
Great editing work
Next up: LGR music channel
Hey LGR how about offering a MP3 download of your track, I want to add it to my jukebox in Two Point Hospital.
Man, I love this video so, so much. I had no idea you were so experienced with music-related things! Also, Trax looks extremely similar to Master Tracks Pro, which I've used in the past, and is also made by Passport. I loved the song at the end!
Great video as always!
Your song was a banger. Felt like some NIN in there.
The 5th Grade school band be like: 10:18
Much like the flawless transition at 12:34, that intro was one of the best I've seen on any RUclips video, let alone one dedicated to a detailed description of something delightfully digital.
nice tune at the end!! very impressed by the midi capabilities of this device also
I still want my color dot matrix printer "GREETINGS" hot dog. I'll pay almost any price.
the intro of Driving.mts sound like a Devo Song!
Awesome package and also love seeing Tyrian on the screen!
Always interesting things on this channel I love this channel
19:30 What are you doing step-editor
That intro music reminded me of Civie 11's outro music.
That's because it is lol
I think Civie recorded it on an (emulated) OPL3 via DOSBox
"frequently modulated day" nice one.
I have an fb01 looking right at it now sitting on my desk. It was a gift from my college music professor. Its a cool little synth and its great for punchy basses.
Your subtitles are spectacular.
13:00 - They totally ripped off AdLib's Jukebox. 😒
LGR has 1.44M subscribers. So he is a floppy disk. LOLLLL
Clint you're the best! Love your retro PC hardware videos! But that goes without saying:))
I would like to see what LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER could do with that set up. It is always fun to watch LGR unwrap and play with older technology.
I thought Hello! Music! was a slice of life anime or something... Guess not.
So glad I got into retro MIDI before Clint started covering it, because as he points out, good luck finding anything on ebay that he reviews. Everything gets cleared out or prices quadruple. On one hand, without reviews, how else are people to find out what existed before and was cool, but at the same time, the moment LGR tells you about a thing, you're immediately out of luck. Was able to pick up a mint condition MT-32 for $40 before retro reviewers went gaga over it. Prices went up 4-10x since then.
Music in SimCity is awesome !!!
12:34 pm - beautiful transition from monitor to full screen.
You can be proud of your track! It remains to agree with David on its implementation in PlanetX4 =)))
Thank you!
The games sounded good even though they weren’t composed for that Yamaha interface. Since I never owned a MIDI module back then and by the time I had a sound card with wavetable on it, the CDROM era already took off. So my ear doesn’t know how non-FM games were “supposed” to sound.
I remember reading about MIDI modules back in the 90’s and always wanted to hear how they sounded. You sir have helped out in helping me hear the authentic sound. Thank you!