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Re: Amiga Music Preservation

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Post by danwills »

rkok wrote: post #32

Great to see that the preservation effort is still alive. Though having missed the glory years of tracker music, since a young age I have had a strong affection for its sound. Another treasure trove for tracker music is The Mod Archive: https://modarchive.org/ Some of my favorite tracker music: - Purple Motion - Starshine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3xHPIuX3s4 - Robert Allen - Epic Pinball Theme https://www.yout…

Mod Archive has an in-browser player! Another comment somewhere in here links https://modtu.be which seems to be a fairly awesome in-browser player too!

Blurry lines between amiga and PC tracker scenes hey? there was a lot of back-and-forth. Impossible not to have Purple Motion on any classic-mods list though, I absolutely agree!

Re: Amiga Music Preservation

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Post by de6u99er »

gregsadetsky wrote: post #17
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...

Thank you. If you like tracker music you might like this one too

Binaerpilot: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mPZ2AmFjEVSeZjnW7O...

Re: Amiga Music Preservation

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Post by danwills »

Massive tracker music fan (and quiet author, hardly anything released) here, my main exposure was as the PC-scene arose (from ScreamTracker onwards).

I'd like to recommend some mostly-pc tracker-music authors that are perhaps not necessarily the 'Pop-Stars' of the tracker scene, but I still think they made really absolutely awesome, different and interesting music in this format:

Dune aka Brothomstates (https://modtu.be/?m=26492)

Shad (https://modtu.be/?m=337401)

Croaker (https://modtu.be/?m=89553)

Yolk (https://modtu.be/?m=55561)

Sulphur (https://modtu.be/?m=385511)

Xhale (https://modtu.be/?m=55280)

Groo (https://modtu.be/?m=30096)

Re: Amiga Music Preservation

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Post by markwrobel »

l33tman wrote: post #44

Fun fact: the tracker songs recorded from real amigas (or faithful emulations) have a certain nuance to the samples which you learn to recognize, due to that everybody disabled the D/A low-pass filter back in the day, which is normally really required after a D/A to reproduce the actual analog samples. So you got a higher pass-through of some of the higher frequencies contained in the played samples (as the original…

Turning the filter off is quite noticeable. I did a sample test, with and without the filter. Not by turning off the power LED in assembler, but using a setting in WinUAE.

The samples are on my site: https://www.markwrobel.dk/post/amiga-machine-code-letter8-wa...

Re: Amiga Music Preservation

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Post by Sharlin »

avnigo wrote: post #46

This album [0], Tracked (1991-2000) by Purple Motion is excellent. Got all the nostalgia. [0]: https://purplemotion.bandcamp.com/album/tracked-1991-2000

And it’s on Spotify!! I was excited to find it a while ago, though I do have most of the songs as original mods somewhere on my disk too…

Re: Amiga Music Preservation

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Post by Nr7 »

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…

There's a modern remix of Space Debris on the soundtrack of the 2011 game Rochard by Recoil Games. It was made by the original artist Markus "Captain" Kaarlonen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsapsOqc7UI

Re: Amiga Music Preservation

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Post by tluyben2 »

I have been looking for the past 10 years for one particular 'cracked game' intro music with a starfield that pulsated to the music (the song was over 10 minutes I think and took up a few k; I cannot for the life of me remember the cracker group name, let alone anything else): it was waveforms instead of samples. Jungle Command did a lot without traditional sound tracker like tools but it is not from them. I will just enjoy listening to 1000s of Amiga songs in search for this one.

My normal goto music was from Romeo Knight or Uncle Tom by the way.

Stupid factoid: I was jean Michel Jarre fan begin 80s and this song [0] by Romeo Knight got me into guitar playing (it was the first song I could play on a friend's guitar, well, sort of). And that got me into metal which I definitely do not regret.

Favorite Uncle Tom one [1].

[0] https://youtu.be/i0bvhWs810g [1] https://youtu.be/zR9a4vTuuoo

Re: Amiga Music Preservation

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Post by nxtbl »

Stone Oakvalley's work on these and Commodore 64 sids hasn't been mentioned yet?

He has gone through and recorded all of the Amiga modules and C64 sid tunes as mp3. C64 tunes are even recorded separately for three/four different sid chip variations. New releases of HVSC collection have also been recorded promptly.

https://www.paula8364.com/ for Amiga, 484GB x2

https://www.6581-8580.com/ for C64, 159GB x3

Re: Amiga Music Preservation

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Post by nickt »

danwills wrote: post #51
rkok wrote: post #32

Great to see that the preservation effort is still alive. Though having missed the glory years of tracker music, since a young age I have had a strong affection for its sound. Another treasure trove for tracker music is The Mod Archive: https://modarchive.org/ Some of my favorite tracker music: - Purple Motion - Starshine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3xHPIuX3s4 - Robert Allen - Epic Pinball Theme https://www.yout…

Mod Archive has an in-browser player! Another comment somewhere in here links https://modtu.be which seems to be a fairly awesome in-browser player too! Blurry lines between amiga and PC tracker scenes hey? there was a lot of back-and-forth. Impossible not to have Purple Motion on any classic-mods list though, I absolutely agree!

Bassoon tracker is another good in-browser tracker, with a nice Amiga-like feel to it.

https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/

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