Tag: Cheetah Specdrum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?vcLfYT6yXgEc Cheetah Specdrum!!! I still have mine, and my Spectrum and 2 Amigas. Yes this is how you had to create music back in the day, although I have to say The RAM Music Machine on the Amstrad (or other computers) rocked more than the AMS - great for no additional hardware but you were stuck with that sound - now fashionable, or was - but then it really didn't cut it if you wanted to sound like what you heard in the charts! Or create echo or sample - one of the amazing things about the RAM is it could sample - 1.22 seconds! WOOH! Myself and Kirk produced many tracks on his RAM Music Machine before I graduated to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?vzBf0l4DuqKk And yes my Amiga A500 made those annoying clicking noises too, I think it was a particular bug in A500+s! This is OctaMED - what is called a music 'tracker' rather than the usual 'bar' notation that is usually used in sequencers - most of the Amiga demos were created in trackers like this and Protracker, Fasttracker and the llike. I started with MED and graduated to OctaMED, and also used AudioMaster audio editor and dallied with Bars and Pipes - might sound a bit like an old fogey but actually I've not found any programs as good or as easy to use as these early programs - it seems with the PC and Mac modern software complexity and bloatware is the way - only Renoise, Ableton and Sony's Acid have come close. The recently RavEvil was produced originally like this, and remixed in Renoise - because I'm glad to say tracking is still going on the PC - with Renoise (I have bought Renoise) and the soul of Protracker continues in the open-source Madtracker! And if you're into chiptunes I recommend you use a tracker - either OctaMED Sound Studio emulated on your computer via Amiga Forever or the free WinUAE (you'll need to hunt around for Kickstart ROMs and Workbench - I still legally own these, I suggest torrent sites) or use the PC version of OctaMED, MED Studio which has the chip synth creator in it - or use something like MilkyTracker if you can find it - site is currently down! I know you can get plugins etc. but really for that authentic Amiga-demo chiptune sound you need to use the original or similar tools, and understand all the slides etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?vyzPPBlqaHE8 Madtracker and Renoise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?vltGPE6lVGQU

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