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It's coveted by musicians and a number of other specialty applications. Specialty groups are rather time agnostic. The Technics SL-1200 turntable for instance
by kristopolous 6y ago
It's coveted by musicians and a number of other specialty applications.
Specialty groups are rather time agnostic. The Technics SL-1200 turntable for instance (look it up, you've seen it) hasn't changed much in 50 years and Technics brought it out of retirement because the demand for used ones was so high
So a 68020 is perfectly fine for these types of things. It's not a general purpose tool, it's a specific thing just like the Technics are for hobbyist and professional "turntablists" and not meant to substitute say Spotify
- megablast 6y agoThe Technics SL-1200 is used by DJs all over the world to entertain millions. What is the amigs used for??
- kristopolous 6y agoTechno and electro by artists which you may have not heard of but who have prestigious awards and Wikipedia pages. Along with the Prophet, Roland SH-101, TR-808 and TB-303, the Amiga is coveted vintage equipment. (For instance, this coldwave producer: https://www.discogs.com/artist/3805670-Equinoxious https://www.discogs.com/artist/3805670-Equinoxious ... That's almost exclusively 35 year old equipment) This album for instance, was produced on an Amiga and even has it in the album title https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=35Lv8J1VMog https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=35Lv8J1VMog Might not be your thing, sure, fine. That's not the point. There's a significant scene that uses amigas for this. Vintage Commodores have a fanbase all on their own in the electronic music world and get featured prominently in some videos such as (1:50) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-UdW-lmHSNY https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-UdW-lmHSNY There's after market hardware, such as an Amiga 500 SCSI -> SD bridge because at one time old 50 pin SCSI drives were going for hundreds of dollars and people in this community started making modern retrofits so they didn't have to pay high prices for failing hardware.
- robin_reala 6y agoThere was a great video on jungle production by Pete Cannon where he demonstrates his Amiga setup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDn7ZDcx9w0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDn7ZDcx9w0
- kristopolous 6y agoOh absolutely. Amen break slicing and sequencing on Amiga trackers was essentially THE junglist instrument. Amen style has fallen out of fad but it's not dead by a longshot. (ex, 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRkfrpgLpeQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRkfrpgLpeQ and 2020: https://youtube.com/watch?v=D4y0X2zzzXM https://youtube.com/watch?v=D4y0X2zzzXM - compare to 1995: https://youtube.com/watch?v=GhopRCAFQ2k https://youtube.com/watch?v=GhopRCAFQ2k). I'd be shocked, literally shocked if these weren't done in a protracker-style piece of software. It was also the hardcore tool of choice for classic rave (ex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PcHOHfwdOs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PcHOHfwdOs) ... you can almost visualize the vertical scroll.
- EamonnMR 6y agoI assumed that rognvald used a tracker but his Rognmashine plugin seems to run only on Max for Live: http://rognvald.com/Rognmashine.html http://rognvald.com/Rognmashine.html which suggests that Live is his Daw of choice (though I can't independently confirm that.)
- mycall 6y agoBreakcore in particular.