KVR Audio

Sendy · Post by **Sendy** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 11:38 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0tU8Eckpcg

I had this one as a teenager and love all but two of the tracks (Make your Move and the cheezy keyboard workstation transcript). Considering there's only 4 voices of sample playback on the Amiga there's some great melodic themes and funky bits. It's all a bit 90's obviously, but genuinely good music IMO. I used to feel a bit weird about taping this kind of thing when I was a teenager. Most people were listening to the latest chart music or hip-hop, and there I was recording songs from a really limited computer - often right from computer games (Turrican 2, Apidya and Jim Power are standout music in their own right). But in my view, the limitations are just as much a part of the music as the possibilities.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Sun Apr 26, 2015 2:43 pm

I still think the Arkanoid theme of Martin Galway takes some beating

Head nodding electro mayhem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1stW0J7Myew

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Sun Apr 26, 2015 2:47 pm

Sendy wrote:I used to feel a bit weird about taping this kind of thing when I was a teenager. Most people were listening to the latest chart music or hip-hop, and there I was recording songs from a really limited computer

I think Urban Shakedown made some of their early 12" more or less only with Amiga, that also got into the charts.

From comment made on Discogs:
Some Justice was actually written on two Amigas. To synchronise them they had a pattern of clicks on each Amiga which looped before the tracks started. They basically kept starting the tracks until the clicks were in sync. That's how they got 8 track audio before the Amiga 1200 came out and without using programs such as OctaMED which further degraded the 8-bit sound quality when using more than the Amiga's 4 hardware sound channels.

So everybody was bascially listening to limited computer music back then

what a great time it was

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESo18N2G5Qk

murnau · Post by **murnau** » Sun Apr 26, 2015 2:58 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHNu1ve8b6M

sprnva · Post by **sprnva** » Sun Apr 26, 2015 3:28 pm

Amiga scene demos were often a great source of inspiration (and samples) for me back in my Protracker days. I used to download them at college onto 720k PC floppies and then write them to Amiga floppies on my A1200 back home. There was some great tracks on those.

Some demos whose tracks stuck in my head were Lech (Freezers), Hydrocephalus II (Equinox), Real (Complex) and Necrofthonia (Apocalypse) and most of the Melon Dezign stuff.

suthnear · Post by **suthnear** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 2:22 pm

Numanoid wrote:I still think the Arkanoid theme of Martin Galway takes some beating

The c64 arkanoid theme has provided two of my main ringtones since forever, with several classic Amiga tunes making up the rest (from demos as well as games). I love the obvious looping and digitisation artefacts.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 2:36 pm

suthnear wrote:The c64 arkanoid theme has provided two of my main ringtones since forever, with several classic Amiga tunes making up the rest (from demos as well as games). I love the obvious looping and digitisation artefacts.

Indeed, a loop from that would work well as a ring tone

What puts me off most old c64 music from the 80's is not so much the chip sound, but the melodies.

Had more of the composers focused on making funky grooves (like is featured in the Arkanoid theme) it had made more of listening experience for me.

Most of the tunes are just like jolly commercial jingles, gets on my nerves

Pretty damn awesome Amiga music disk