🕹AMIGA 500 music | MINI DOCUMENTARY🕹

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In the hunt for the perfect lofi sound, could the Amiga 500 be a fantastic winner?
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[@jorgepinogarciadelasbayonas]

It was 1985 for the Amiga 1000 and 1987 for the Amiga 500 capable of doing sample-based music Even musicians in the recording studio have used the Amiga because the Fairlight CMI was thousand times more expensive. The Amiga was a real multitasking machine and capable of true "plug and play" with it's auto configuration hardware expansion slots.

[@flonkplonk1649]

And it had the HAM mode for 4096 colors (he missed to mention that). And he missed the fact that Amigas were famous for their graphic, animation, video features and software! For example the "Videotoaster" (modified Amiga 2000 with Lightwave 3D). And for example also Cinema4D started on Amiga and also the software that later transformed to Blender 1.0..

[@chrisrapple851]

I appreciate the Another World shoutout for real

[@BlezzBeats]

Furkin masterpiece!

[@bendavies8744]

@@BlezzBeats Damn right!

[@BlezzBeats]

@@bendavies8744 ❤

[@Mode-7]

Dude, this is your magnum opus. You should make more mini documentaries. Though I bet it took a lot of work.

[@BlezzBeats]

Thank you so much for noticing and appreciating man! I have a whole bunch I wanna do, will probably work on them parallel over time to not kill myself :D

[@paulsohi9015]

"average body mass boys were still struggling to get their first single: healthy and content, off the ground" - I died laughing for so long I had to rewind the video

[@BlezzBeats]

Hahahah the "coincidence" was too perfect I mean wtf Skinny Boys must have been trying to directly compete with Fat Boys I don't know what else to make of it 😂

[@jorgepinogarciadelasbayonas]

PS: The Amiga chip names are derived from their functions. PAULA stands for peripherals and audio or ports and audio. The original name during the development was PORTIA. Paula controls the serial port and is also a floppy disk drive controller which is very flexible because it can also handle floppy disks from MS-DOS/IBM-PC and Apple Macintosh.

[@Schneewittchensarg]

När inklippsbilden på Paula Abdul kom så insåg jag att den här killen är ingen vanlig tönt. Informativt, välgjord och tvärtungt!

[@BlezzBeats]

Haha tack som fan!

[@krisgakakrisqu0717]

man... I lost my job yesterday and had the shittiest day in a decade... now I watch this and I am fucking laughing! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!

[@BlezzBeats]

Sorry to hear that man! I hope you're getting back on track!! Thanks for watching and supporting brother

[@audiogus2651]

I remember that magic moment of noticing how different things sounded depending on how bright the power light was... ahhh, just realized that was the first time I learned what a filter was.

[@BlezzBeats]

Yeah I always thought it was pretty awesome that the filter was that important to them lol

[@CrazyArtEducator]

Goddamn guuf! More than just average courage is required for a little dive into PAULA's 8-bit bedroom and indoctrinate the PT commands F01! C40! :D Amiga 500 Graphics capabilities have a bit more than what you described but ... whatthehell, this is about the sound & mjusik! ( :D "It's also got a filter!! which affects to all channels!!" )

[@sensumcommunem]

I loved the Amiga demo scene. More than one piece of my music went into those. Because I didn't have a formal music theory background, or could play an instrument myself, I was eschewed away from it. Over 30 years later I returned to music, and now everyone is producing "in the box".

[@BlezzBeats]

The box is the #1 instrument now 😁🦾

[@wizetek]

Sound Tracker, Noise Tracker, Pro Tracker user on Amiga 500 back in the day here. Then living in Poland, now in Canada. Just got Polyend Tracker and looking to get Maschine MK3 next. Dope video. Keep it up. Cheers.

[@BlezzBeats]

Ahh the Amigas were very popular in Poland right??

[@wizetek]

some popular gear back then in order: ZX Spectrum +, Commodore 64, Atari 65XE, Amiga 500, Atari 520ST

[@bendavies8744]

I had an Amiga 500 and remember the tunes man. Thanks for the video!

[@avace917]

I had my eye on the Atari ST, the Amiga 500 and the Studio 440 but passed on them when the MPC 60 came out. It sounds so crunchy

[@avace917]

Great video

[@soulpuppets]

Whats up Blezz? Dope videos on your channel , this was a great video you summed up the era with precision, I started making music on an Amiga around 1987, I started with Dynamic drums and ended using Octamed tracker, I bought the sampler and it was a very fun start to computer music. I am now using an MPCX and Maschine but I still have my amigas and fire them up from time to time, Im going to upgrade them like you did. Keep up the interesting and Amazing work!

[@BlezzBeats]

Hey man good to internet meet you! Couple years ahead of me then I was born in 1989 and inherited my dads C64, that's how I opened my eyes up to the demoscene and the whole shebang and eventually started geeking on the A500! I'm on Maschine too, having trouble saving the mods (opened up with corrupt samples and hours of lost work, I don't trust it) so so far I've ended up just resampling patterns from ProTracker into Maschine to have the sound intact.

[@experimetalfan8851]

I first got into sampling/sequencing on my Commodore Amiga 500 ...been hooked since

[@BlezzBeats]

Haha dope man! U still use it?

[@experimetalfan8851]

Right now, I'm only using my Maschine MK3 but I still have my Amiga500 ...might just hook it up for some sounds@@BlezzBeats 🤔

[@Febovideo1]

Still dropping gabber, tekno and junglism rn near xmas 2023 on hardware Amiga

[@BlezzBeats]

🫡

[@MrMargaretScratcher]

Oh there it is!

[@_thevaporz]

That Members Only jacket tho! Really cool video, Blezz!

[@BlezzBeats]

Hahah yeah shoulda worn it in the intro too! Thank you Zach ❤

[@ForestWhitakerTulpa]

Trapped between the Amiga and Wii generations, one day I'm in the early 90s X-copying Protracker and demos in the protofurry Amiga meetups and another day I'm in the early 2010's pictochatting for someone to Wii Speak with me about homebrew and youtube poops.

[@BlezzBeats]

lool

[@_s_p_a_r_k_e_s_7615]

junglist massive!

[@nasirhill]

Obviously you're gonna make a beat tape with this right?

[@BlezzBeats]

If 5 people wanna hear it I will! Wrapping up my game boy shiet right now 😁

[@BrashTV]

STOP MAKING SO MUCH FIRE!!!!

[@BlezzBeats]

I. Will. Not. STOP!

[@EvLoutonian]

dude, that's baddAss!!! love it. I did also wonder, could I use the Amiga like a rack sampler, and sequence externally via a MIDI interface, or are trackers really the one way to go with this machine?

[@BlezzBeats]

You could indeed! I have a midi interface for mine too, problem is both the interface and the sampler connect to the serial port so you'd have to either switch them out all the time or find some switch for it

[@EvLoutonian]

@@BlezzBeats ah! What program is good to get for operating as a stand-alone playback sampler? Like, is there a program that can do multiple note polyphony for chords & such?

[@HenrikMalm]

Aaaah the nostalgia. I still have mine in the garage I think. Along with the sampler your dad built me. I made lots of tracks with Sound Tracker and then Pro Tracker. Before the mod-file format was introduced, including the samples in the file, only the notes and meta data was saved. So to be able to load a song you had to shuffle them floppies to load each sample from a different disk. Extra nerd facts: The sampling was off course made through the parallel port, but the parallel port only have 5V power. The serial port however have +/-12V pins. So the cable to the serial port was only to get that extra supply to the sampler components that required 12V.

[@BlezzBeats]

Wow I had no idea you had one, would love to hear some stuff you did on it!

[@Lotuz-mk1xv]

Do you have Amigo Sampler VST, Blezz?

[@BlezzBeats]

I don’t but it looks very dope! Definitely the coolest plugin I’ve seen in a while. Prefer the hands on experience for the experience itself though.

[@syrus3k]

Powla?!

[@paulsohi9015]

yoooo the jam at the end tho?

[@BlezzBeats]

Mneeeeeeh