Fixing Music I Made 25 Years Ago on my Amiga

[@jm96mx]

Loving this bit of old-school!

[@gregeatonarrangements4352]

"Am I right?" You most certainly are! Brilliant stuff.

[@shushushushush]

I'm not sure why this was in my recommendations but I'm glad it was

[@tubeMonger]

Haha, I recognize the ST sounds. I did the music for a 64k megademo five years ago with some of the ST samples (Dekadence, Eighteen).

[@Squaretomato-o5q]

ok now i want one of those! and your soudtracks were kickass ! great job

[@AndreaCimitan]

Loved this one Michael!

[@ghfjfghjasdfasdf]

@ 4:00 Totally sounds like something from a Sega Genesis game!

[@mattspets1679]

Amazing video. I had the same reaction @ 10:58

[@roberthazelby4424]

Great video. Back in the day I only fleetingly used Octamed 5 to play mods or just mess around with the instruments. I’ve now recently reinstalled it and am working my way through a series of excellent Amiga Format tutorials. What a wonderful piece of software.

[@michaelforrest]

Sounds great fun! I used to have a bookshelf of Amiga Format magazines - where have you found the tutorials you're using now?

[@roberthazelby4424]

@@michaelforrest I can’t recall where I got it from. I googled Octamed Tutorial and it brought up a lovely PDF someone had put together of the multi month tutorial from Amiga Format. It takes the legendary Fairlight tune and uses the instruments on that track for the basis of the tutorial.

[@roberthazelby4424]

@@michaelforrest Found it. www.kittenrock.co.uk/releases/AFmedtut.pdf

[@michaelforrest]

@@roberthazelby4424 OMG this takes me back!

[@michaelforrest]

That's the Coverdisk where I got the copy I am still using to this day 😅

[@drakon_ex]

4:20 this moment is great!!

[@MMSZoli]

Nice! When I had my old 8 bit computer, one of my friend recorded Amiga tunes to cassette and I listened to it at home :-) ( Aaah, do I see a pristine condition MOOG in the background? Wow!)

[@michaelforrest]

I wouldn't call the Moog pristine! It's from 2015 and the pitch and modulation wheels have become weirdly sticky 😬

[@MMSZoli]

@@michaelforrest Yeah, I have only a Moog Mini VST to play with, used with a Korg Microkey, but those sounds... Eargasm :-) Frankly speaking I tried to create MOD music on my PC at the university, but gave up just after the the drum section finished, had no clue how to continue :-) Congratulations to your old tunes, I have a small clue how much work it could be... Certainly those samples are 8 bit, limited by the sampling rate, and also by the memory. My favourites are chiptunes... Just few days ago I found my ZN427E based Covox card I built at the university, maybe I will try it, if it can still play MODs... or can be linked with my Commodore Plus/4 via User port :-)

[@NYESmusic]

Haha that's so cool!

[@grahamdunning]

Bangin! I liked the mangled pinball sounds

[@MrAndroidData]

ooooh octamed, loved it, 8 bit samples from aminet etc

[@alexanderwingeskog758]

Getting back to basics! Love it! OctaMED Soundstudio was super awesome on the A1200 (The sequel to this one I guess)... can't remember but 64 tracks? could play 14 bit (AHI) and render the audio to a 16 bit fileformat (Wave .wav)... and had so much stuff... ---edit Wow never ever thought of loading "raw" data into the sample editor and pick the samples directly like you did... I always thought it was compressed (but sure, lossless compression on sound data was not a thing those days I guess)... I had Action Replay cartridge (MK3 I think...) that could rip every sample in memory directly and save them, it could also find "mods" and save those too (which was prefered because then you got some Soundtracker/Protracker sample edit/fix also with the sample ofc and the score)... I learn something new haha!

[@ElliotMurphy]

This was fantastic!

[@NonoVoyou]

that's actually reaaaally good

[@NYESmusic]

How long would it take to program a beat on old software like that?

[@mb2776]

I'm not an octamed expert but from what I can tell, it's not that hard. Jungle heads used octamed back in the days. Check out paradox, he uses octamed and an akai sampler live.

[@tekk9995]

5 secs?

[@tekk9995]

Retro Jungle Production With Pete Cannon : kzbin.info/www/bejne/f3XRaI16mN1srZI

[@richsolent8111]

At 4:28 I went beast mode.

[@COSDR]

Amazing!!!

[@bentstruments]

this cool

[@hansu-nihon]

Great OctaMED songs, could we download them somewhere to expand our songs collection?

[@michaelforrest]

Thank you! I'm afraid I don't have them available right now but it could be a fun project. Do you mean mp3s or are you ore interested in the tracker files themselves?

[@hansu-nihon]

@@michaelforrest I mean the real OctaMED tracker songs, so whe can play them on our Amiga's.

[@michaelforrest]

@@hansu-nihon Haha okay. Well, to be honest, I don't have any way to transfer data between my Amiga and my Mac at the moment so I'd need to figure that out first! I have some older versions of the songs on an emulator but I'd rather share the improved versions 😅

[@matty6598]

Nice!

[@LivyathanAD]

I learned all sorts using OctaMED. 30 years later I'm using FL Studio but if it wasn't for OctaMED ...

[@flonkplonk1649]

Oktalyzer was also a thing

[@LeonTrimble]

Keep those pan pipes!

[@jumhig]

I should go back and " fix" me old Amiga mod tunes. Need to get an Amiga again first... 🙂

[@michaelforrest]

Hehe. I do have an emulator on my Mac but I cannot remember how I transferred the data from my Amiga!

[@xsm5525]

"that hihats offending me" haha, all that doskpop dad-rock ST-01 / ST-02 sample packs is pure cringe man, not your fault though, guess we were all slaves to the doskpop back then. Only the lucky ones back then had their own sampler cartridge.

[@michaelforrest]

Today I learned the term "doskpop".

[@iannickCZ]

Finally I hear my subwoofer for first time there!