SPECTACULAR Soft Synths of the Commodore Amiga

These sound pretty amazing, especially the early ones. How eye-opening.

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The Commodore Amiga 1000, plus Noisetracker, then OctaMed is where I began my musical production journey back in 1990. I don't use trackers any more, but I remember fondly where my roots are. The demoscene is where I spent much of my free time, wishing I could make tunes as good as Purple Motion from the Future Crew.

This was a blast from the past! I tried so many of these programs back in the nineties, creating all sorts of weird and wonderful sounds, but with absolutely no musical knowledge, it never went anywhere. Thanks for finely crafting this video together; both the nostalgia trip AND seeing all that software/hardware being used by someone who knows what they're doing made it well worth a watch.

really great, comprehensive overview of amiga audio. i can feel your passion for this, and really enjoyed it.

Super cool! Never knew the Paula could do AM and FM in hardware, and it's fascinating seeing how many complex softsynths were released relatively early into the Amiga's lifespan.

I loved all these programs growing up. It was so amazing each program doing something so new.

Bars and Pipes!!! That was my happy place 😊 Texture by Roger Powell made my brain hurt but I wish there was a version for windows. And Music Mouse by Laurie Spiegel was my moment of Zen.

Fascinating. I missed the whole Amiga experience, moving from Commodore 64 in the 80s directly to a 386 PC in the 90s and it was a long time before MIDI came back into my life.

This has absolutely blown my mind. Not even sure what to say.

Oh yes. Lots of memories and lots of cool stuff i´ve never seen.

Magnificent! Thank you for crafting and sharing this.

Loving it already, only watchen 5 minutes so far, will watch the rest when I have time.

"in a pwm manner" nick batt flashes i really enjoyed the deluxe sound jam, and the whole moody/mysterious background music and the aesthetic! you're really talented!

As a 16 year old in 1986, I remember my A500 being able to play dist guitar samples. Totally blew me away back then. Me and my mate Peter Wallis would swap disks from public domain 17 bit software. Mainly fancy text set to very urgent sounding music. Loved my Amiga.

I never knew soft-synths were around that long, I thought the only options back then were hardware ones... Fascinating stuff

Amazing info and beautifully presented- thank you so much!

Love this. Great documentary. I'd forgotten how talented the Amiga was!

I enjoy your narrative pace as well as the general presentation of the project. It definitely achieves a vintage nostalgic atmosphere. 🦉🍐🎃

Excellent video! The Amiga was such a forward-looking machine and it's incredible just how much of the modern computing experience was already available on the platform all the way back then.  I've wanted an Amiga ever since I was a little kid but only just managed to snag myself a (fully recapped!) A1200 just last year. I hadn't heard of a few of these synths but I'm definitely gonna have a play around now!