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For some reason stereo just makes me nauseus. Maybe the mono 8-bit generation will never like stereo 16-bit. http://csdb.dk
The Amiga was stereo, but only 8-bit. There were just two hardware channels per stereo channel though, with no mixing between them, so it doesn't sound very nice with headphones.
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...
So you got a higher pass-through of some of the higher frequencies contained in the played samples (as the original filters were too wide and cut into the real data), but also you got higher aliasing harmonics, that shouldn't be there but kind of make it sound better in total. Actually, in music production you often add filters in the chain that artificially create harmonics to "excite" the audio and make it more interesting for the ear. This was kind of an unintentional exciter :)
On the Amiga 500, the D/A filter was switchable by software, by toggling the power LED. I'm pretty sure some engineer thought it was crippling to have the filter there permanently online, and sneaked in a toggle feature but couldn't find any free GPIO :)
More in depth description of the D/A reconstruction filter and mod-player emulation issues arising from it:
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…
Moby - Elekfunk
Also shouts to Sklathill, whose stuff I can't find in Mod Archive otherwise I'd recommend him too.
[0]: https://purplemotion.bandcamp.com/album/tracked-1991-2000
Check out modtu.be, the most advanced mod archive player around. https://modtu.be/
I was slightly surprised to find the site at the article link doesn't seem to have playback built-in, but this looks like a really awesome web-player!
ModArchive also has in-browser playback available too.
highly recommend the works of radix, especially FIRE&ICE2
Some of Radix/Mosaik's later work I think is absolutely stunningly beautiful too: Leandi, Aerials (On bandcamp) etc. Well worth a listen!
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Here's a playlist with all of these songs! Thanks for the great recommendations https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnRRE4-idfADx_BgudiHYizK7...
.. also Deadlock by Elwood. Or in fact, anything by Elwood…
I think we should note though, that Elwood's main contributions were during the PC-tracker-scene 'era' (FastTracker2) and not so much an Amiga thing.