DJing on AMIGA Computers! A1200 PT-1210 Jungle Live Mix

[@bryndal36]

Just another way the Amiga proves it's ability to blow ppl's minds 30+ years later.

[@CypiXmusic]

This goes as the most creative DJ set i have seen to this day

[@ferromontanino]

Would be so interested in hearing you talk a bit about all of this! Just the process, what you're actually doing during the set, how the software works etc. Such a dope performance!

[@schenken660]

Agreed but, so far, it remains a wonderful mystery.

[@x0r1k]

He starts the song on both computers, syncs them in headphones and mixes with the mixer. Pretty much what any DJ do, but instead of vinyl or CD he has computers.

[@BumblingFool912]

My dad grew up with Amiga and the Spectrum and to this day is still doing computing and IT as his breadwinning business. Fact I can enjoy not only his music and the technology of his youth thanks to brilliant wizz's like yourself, is a delight. Big ups and cheers for the chill mix \o/

[@undergroundbass946fm]

Jungle sounds so good on an Amiga

[@BennyboyTruth]

Probably because a lot of the well-known original anthems from back in the day were made with them in the early days. Aphrodite, Zinc, and Omni Trio for sure... Possibly Nookie as well? Plus countless other early-mid 90s producers. Even big names in the house music scene like Richard Earnshaw (Duffnote), Rob Hayes (Audio Honey), and Sandy Rivera started their musical journeys with Soundtracker or OctaMED!

[@malworld.5535]

@@BennyboyTruth Mickey Finn, Bizzy B, Dex and Jonesey also used Amigas to make music as well, now with Mickey, he and Aphrodite composed the rave hit Some Justice on an Amiga!

[@BennyboyTruth]

@@malworld.5535 Brian's channel is awesome

[@AmigaJunglism]

@@malworld.5535 wasn’t it two Amigas?

[@malworld.5535]

@@AmigaJunglism Yes.

[@tomhardy5188]

Love it used to make jungle tunes on PT 2.3b back in the day. Love the way the Amys are orientated 'battle style'

[@myfaveyoutube]

When we talking about two 1200's and a mixer and we don't mean technics

[@ffinianhe]

This is completely mental mate, huge respect :)

[@bluesteel3201]

I’m loving that awesome tracker vibe. Your are going to be big with this. Tracker Grooveboxing DJing. Do not quit! Rock On you a Prophet of our scene.

[@AmigaJunglism]

Nice selection. Great to see OctaMED in the mix.

[@SiGoesRetro]

Thanks man it’s such a tune had to get it in there!

[@sy247]

Buzzing to hear this. Loved Amiga back in the day then got into raving lol

[@NE0TIMELESS]

Thank You For Sharing, my favourite computer those days the A1200 :) cheers

[@nicolem8882]

Love listening to drums and base mixes This is awesome, nice one 👍😎 wish I could do it.

[@einokeino303]

Cool setup! Never imagined something like this, but live mixing with trackers could present some extra benefits, compared to mixing pre-recorded songs. For example, possibility of using a computer as synth / drum machine in real time, in addition to using it as player.

[@ukaszrodziewicz1592]

That's awesome!

[@BoyInTheWoods]

Good to see and hear man, killing it. Not long got Renoise to get into using the old tracker techniques. Loving it so far, programming on lines allows for a level of rhythm that’s it next level 👌🏼

[@antismap]

Awesome mix and tunes ! I like that with the limitations of protracker on the amiga we get raw sounds not drowned in delay / reverb / other effects. This forces the artist to create interesting edits without simply slapping effects and automations ! I assume that doing a tune on protracker requires a lot of sample prep tough, mostly done on a more recent computer...

[@SiGoesRetro]

Thanks for checking it out ❤️ Yeah it depends on what you’re trying to recreate, if you’ve got a sample most of the time you can get away with just a bit of eq & adding things like delay etc. The worst bit is combining sounds to try and get more things into 4 channels, takes a bit of time but it’s all good fun!

[@antismap]

@@SiGoesRetro The issue that I often have with modern daw workflow is that I end up spending a lot of time tweaking eqs or compressors, making it more like an engineering exercise rather than focusing on composition. Those old trackers don't let you lose your time on those things !

[@marwanaitaddi8272]

I'm a bit late to the party but I really like your work ! Listened to it while working it was cool

[@Confuzius]

ah this is just great. a culmination of how fare we've come. art! art art art !!!

[@kokorodokoro]

Really feeling this.

[@ProBloggerWorld]

This mix is really, really good. Enjoyed it, keep it going! (At first I thought this is a joke, but really: cool stuff!)

[@CCfiftyeight]

Nice! I like that! It's always impressive what you get out of the Amiga. 👍 Hey, there's a klf record at the wall! 😁

[@SiGoesRetro]

Thanks so much and good spot, best album ever!

[@synthoelectro]

That's Jungle the way I remember it.

[@Kj16V]

As Equinox would say: Amiga power!

[@malworld.5535]

This is proof that the Amiga kicks butt! Well done, mate!

[@SiGoesRetro]

It is the best computer ever made! Thanks for watching mate, check out my other mixes too 👌🏼🔥

[@malworld.5535]

@@SiGoesRetro You bet!

[@sub-jec-tiv]

Soo good. Wanna hear this on huge speakz.

[@vinniefray7299]

FLIPPIN ASTOUNDING ! 4x2 track Midi Mixing . OUTOFDISWURLD

[@azrael-labs]

it's mit MIDI btw

[@Gesceap]

Just jumped to a random spot now I'm jumping to the beat. Nice one

[@SiGoesRetro]

Thanks for stopping by mate glad you enjoy it ❤️

[@Tony-ql6sw]

this is spot on - nice one.

[@SiGoesRetro]

Thanks mate!

[@Verzekering02]

Mad mad respect

[@n4records924]

YES! This is ace

[@canaldrive_r]

Criatividade nível máximo. 🤯

[@stgalby]

Max respect!

[@TheBizzyBScience]

cool man

[@SiGoesRetro]

Thanks for watching Brian! Would love a Brain mod pack for the next mix! ❤️

[@TheBizzyBScience]

@@SiGoesRetro ok let me see what i can do

[@thomasgauvreau3780]

awesome mix

[@SiGoesRetro]

Thanks for listening ❤️

[@VanillaSoul]

This is fucking apeshit, this is going on my favorites.

[@ArturBax]

awesome ! 🕹

[@TheAldawg77]

Love the fast tracker hex retrig sound. You use 8bit or 14bit?

[@SiGoesRetro]

Amigas are 8bit!

[@underscar111]

good vibes bro, keep going!

[@arcadeages3917]

Where can I find these music files to play on my Amiga? Just new to Amiga in 2023 after lusting over them when I was a kid

[@SiGoesRetro]

Amiga Music Preservation is a good place to start!

[@famousarmystudio]

unreal! love it.

[@AppalachianOrganics301]

❤❤

[@smokesystem90]

идеально

[@rosevoiture]

ебануться круть какая

[@alanzhou8807]

Such a great set! I'm wondering if this setup will be viable in a professional venue setting? Is the audio output of Amiga good enough to be played on a high-power audio system? Also, is it easy to convert mp3 or other modern music formats into .mod? Thanks!

[@SiGoesRetro]

Thanks mate! Yeah this setup in big venues has been done, it sounds great. It’s difficult to just convert a normal song into a mod because of the sound quality and memory limitations of the Amiga, so the best way to do it is to recreate the song on the Amiga in tracker software, using original samples as best you can, which is what I do!

[@largonius]

Awesome stuff!!

[@justinbear1883]

Crazy!!!

[@martindrake37]

I think it is the 30th time now listening to this gem set :) May I ask how you got the picture on the screens AND the Streaming Software simultanously?

[@SiGoesRetro]

Thanks for listening mate, appreciate it! So I literally just use a phono Y cable to split the signal between a usb capture dongle and the lcd monitor screens.

[@raakam52]

Ok I need an Amiga now

[@SiGoesRetro]

The best computer ever!

[@BxCx666]

Niiiiiiiiiice

[@warwolt]

This mix goes fucking hard!!

[@dan_rtype]

What monitors are you using? They look perfect.

[@SiGoesRetro]

They’re just 7” lcd monitors with a composite input, the reverse camera style ones on eBay are similar and pretty cheap nowadays

[@sidderssidley1163]

Sounds epic! Would love to know how you put this together technically . I'm just starting out with my old A1200, an akai s2000 sampler and me grandad's old keyboard (has midi). I guess I need to find a version of Octamed and start learning! 😁

[@SiGoesRetro]

Love it, get using that AMIGA! All the songs in this mix are 4 channel Protracker MODs made on original Amiga computers. There’s no other hardware involved!

[@sidderssidley1163]

@@SiGoesRetro Many thanks mate, I'll prob have a go at using just the amiga and a pro tracker\octamed as well as trying to learb the midi stuff involved with the keyboard and sampler business! Can't wait to get some tunes going!! :)

[@AmigaJunglism]

You got the eb16 fx board lurking in your s2000 per chance?

[@azrael-labs]

@@AmigaJunglism for me yes, but i'm using it so nope, i will not send

[@AmigaJunglism]

@@azrael-labs it’s cool. I did find one.

[@DJDiskmachine]

Siiiick

[@CastleHassall]

Wait a minute, that's not the Amigas your running the audii files ON is it?.. Amigas have drastically small sample length/audio file length capabilities.. Are you using the Amigas to trigger those two devices that have the actual (pre-mixed full length) song files on them, the small screens devises above each computer?.. i could be wrong but i remember amiga being used by London Electricity before he went to London one time at my friend's flat when he was about to start out in jungle and the actual sound file storage on it was tiny, like just a few seconds you could chop up etc not minutes long files

[@SiGoesRetro]

Everything you’re seeing and hearing is coming out of the Amiga computers, the devices above are just 7” monitor screens. The Amiga 1200 has around 2MB of memory which can be used for sample time, that’s more than enough for 8bit jungle. The Akai S900 sampler had less than half of this!

[@arkaei]

ha, this is dope!

[@keegan7438]

Nutty

[@Splozy]

What's that spacey sound called that comes in at 4:17?

[@genericfirstnamegenericlas6490]

Synth pad.

[@CmJr328]

What is the software being used on the Amiga? Anyone know?

[@SiGoesRetro]

PT-1210

[@soeneido443]

You got original tunes in there m8? Love that 8bit sound on breaks

[@SiGoesRetro]

There’s a few original tunes on my other mixes, thanks for checking it out mate!

[@lobit12]

whats the model of the mini display?

[@SiGoesRetro]

They’re flysight black Pearl lcd screens

[@mortalsound9106]

This is incredibly cool! Where can I get these files?

[@SiGoesRetro]

Check out Amiga Music Preservation I’m sure most of these are on there!

[@user82938]

The link to the DJ software seems broken now.

[@SiGoesRetro]

The website is no longer active but there’s places you can still download it from online

[@azrael-labs]

this piece of software is capable of doing great things... Wait, if i connect four Amiga 3000 (like, on a big **PHAT** tower), with PT-1210 on every A3000 to make a 16-channel Dj-set

[@alien_brain]

bro! did you write those beats? gnarly!

[@Furnerfamilyadventures]

is there a list of mod files that you used and where to download them.

[@SiGoesRetro]

Have a look through Amiga Music Preservation.

[@QUIZFILTER]

This.. is.. fuh.. king.. ill!

[@gilbertosandino8324]

En fin ......

[@myfaveyoutube]

Stop lookin at your phone tho

[@SiGoesRetro]

Gotta be on the chat!

[@mariits]

wtf is this ?

[@nathanielf48]

Wicked set 😊

[@SiGoesRetro]

Thanks!

[@uoailewa]

❤