01 Plasma dance in the ionosphere 02 Galactor attacks! 03 NO TRACKER 04 Shining otherworldly 05 Back in Time 06 Trip to Italy 07 Magic Runes
Hello after 6-years break. ;-) This time I wanted to make entire album in the MIDI technology and connect some synths (both: modern and vintage ones) to two classic computers: Atari ST and Amiga 500 to check out the workflow. To test how they - and their software - compare to modern DAWs. So, from me the modern DAWs obtain 0/10 point and Amiga/Atari computers with their MIDI software obtain 10/10. For comfort, ease of use, no lags whatsoerver and so on. And additionally in the Amiga case - for graphic aesthetics of the program.
Tracks descriptions:
Plasma dance in the ionosphere - Yamaha Montage 6 + Amiga 500. Tracked on OctaMED 4.0. Original sound of the machine has been preserved. Thx to The Pink!
Galactor attacks! - Yamaha QY10 + Amiga 500. Tracked on OctaMED 4.0. Tons of studio-effects have been added.
NO TRACKER - Yamaha PSS-680 + ATARI 520 ST. YM3420 chip for two-operator FM synthesis and the YM3419 chip for PCM drums. Cubase 2.1 sequencer has been used + lots of recording studio effects.
Shining otherworldly - Yamaha Montage 6 + ATARI 520 ST. Cubase 2.1 sequencer has been used. Original sound of the machine has been preserved. Greetz to The Pink again.
Back in Time - CASIO CT-X5000 + Amiga 500. Tracked on OctaMED 4.0. Original sound of the machine has been preserved.
Trip to Italy - Roland E-30 + ATARI 520 ST. Cubase 2.1 sequencer has been used. Tons of studio-effects have been added. Greetz to Garvalf from France and Ema Zamboni from Italy - both fans of the Roland E. :)
Magic Runes - Yamaha PSR E423 + Amiga 500. Tracked on OctaMED 4.0. Original sound of the machine has been preserved.
Hardware description.
Computers:
Atari 520 ST with 4Mb and satan-disk. The computer has been released in 1985.
Amiga 500 with ACA 500. The computer has been released in 1987.
Synthesizers:
Yamaha Montage 6 released in 2016 FM-X digital synthesis and AWM2 sound-generator (Advanced Wave Memory 2)
Yamaha QY10 released in 1990 AWM sound-generator (Advanced Wave Memory)
Yamaha PSS-680 released in 1988 YM3420 chip for two-operator FM synthesis and the YM3419 chip for PCM drums.
CASIO CT-X5000 released in 2018. AiX sound-generator (Acoustic Intelligent Expression)
Roland E-30 released in 1990 Linear Arithmetic synthesis (LA sound-generator)
Yamaha PSR E423 released in 2010 AWM sound-generator (Advanced Wave Memory)
Sequencer software used:
Cubase 2.1 for Atari 520ST OctaMED 4.0 for Amiga 500
