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Re: Amiga Music Preservation

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Post by codetrotter »

rasz wrote: post #9
sitkack wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are inbrowser tracker file players, esp with Wasm rendering could be done client side. That said, with super low bitrate codecs from Xiph it might be much much simpler to encode once and ship the compressed song. Sending the tracker files means that it can be much easier to visualize and slow down playback.

MOD trackers worked fine on 8MHz systems, there is no need for WASM here. https://warpdesign.github.io/modplayer-js/

A properly written WASM MOD player could probably be a lot nicer on the battery than one implemented in JS. Then again, JS does have some quite advanced audio specific APIs available in browsers these days. So profiling would be necessary in order to tell if a good implementation in WASM beats a good implementation in JS on power consumption.

Re: Amiga Music Preservation

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Post by exogeny »

Here are some recommendations for those on HN new to the tracker scene:

Jester - Elysium

Jester - Stardust Memories

Tip and Firefox - Enigma

Greg - Odyssey Pt. 2

Firefox - Galaxy 2

Mantronix - Act Of Impulse

Dr. Awesome - 12th Warrior

NHP + BKH - Enigma Year

Captain - Space Debris

Captain - Beyond Music

Uncle Tom - Occ-San-Geen

Romeo Knight - Beat To The Pulp

What a crazy and beautiful era for creativity! A German, Swedes, a Swiss, a Norwegian, two Frenchmen, two Finns..all with four channels and about 200k of space. Not to mention they were probably all teenagers at the time too!

The demoscene is such a great deep dive -- I'm only referencing about three years of productions here, there's so much more that came after on the PC side and even lots before too if you dig into the C64 and Atari scenes. So much goodness!

Wrong continent and era for me unfortunately. :)

Re: Amiga Music Preservation

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Post by codetrotter »

empressplay wrote: post #12

wow, there are files of mine on there I thought I lost decades ago lol

That’s pretty cool :) I often value digital archival because it lets me find old stuff that others made. But finding old stuff that was made by oneself, carefully saved by someone else, that must be even nicer!

Re: Amiga Music Preservation

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Post by S_A_P »

For the folks that want to make music in that amiga tracker style- check out the Polyend Tracker. It’s a usb(a phone charger battery will run this thing for hours) powered self contained groovebox/synth/sampler with an 8 track tracker style sequencer. I just got mine a week ago and it’s already one of my favorite pieces of kit. I can go outside, lay in bed/on the couch and make music that I would have to be at a desk with my other gear and Mac to make otherwise. It’s small enough to throw in your laptop bag but large enough to feel like real gear. Highly recommend!!

Re: Amiga Music Preservation

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Post by gregsadetsky »

exogeny wrote: post #13

Here are some recommendations for those on HN new to the tracker scene: Jester - Elysium Jester - Stardust Memories Tip and Firefox - Enigma Greg - Odyssey Pt. 2 Firefox - Galaxy 2 Mantronix - Act Of Impulse Dr. Awesome - 12th Warrior NHP + BKH - Enigma Year Captain - Space Debris Captain - Beyond Music Uncle Tom - Occ-San-Geen Romeo Knight - Beat To The Pulp What a crazy and beautiful era for creativity! A German, S…

Here's a playlist with all of these songs! Thanks for the great recommendations

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnRRE4-idfADx_BgudiHYizK7...

Re: Amiga Music Preservation

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Post by gregsadetsky »

S_A_P wrote: post #15

For the folks that want to make music in that amiga tracker style- check out the Polyend Tracker. It’s a usb(a phone charger battery will run this thing for hours) powered self contained groovebox/synth/sampler with an 8 track tracker style sequencer. I just got mine a week ago and it’s already one of my favorite pieces of kit. I can go outside, lay in bed/on the couch and make music that I would have to be at a desk…

Main product URL:

https://polyend.com/tracker/

(it's out of stock directly from Polyend, but check with music stores, local and otherwise)

Just got one too and still learning about it (and really really like it). Have you seen this great video? It's a good high level tutorial of most features (it's a tiny bit dated when compared to the latest firmware, but it's still mostly the same UI)

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

Also... the Tracker supports .mod files..!

https://help.polyend.com/944600-Is-the-Tracker-able-to-impor...

Re: Amiga Music Preservation

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Post by codetrotter »

shric wrote: post #16
codetrotter wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Clever :) I am too used to many sites sharing a single IP address that I didn’t even think about doing it that way.

Also won't work for https

Depends on how it’s configured. It could still serve plain HTTP and redirect (HTTP 300 family) to the domain name and TLS.
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