Amiga Samplers : Budget dance music in 1990

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aasasd · 2021-06 · Recommendation

Here's a good recap of what sampling looked like in the time of Amiga: [VIDEO] “Ta-da-da-da... aaaaaaand we're out of memory.” Likewise apparently DJ Shadow pulled off quite a feat with his Akai MPC60 on ‘Endtroducing’, because the sampler could store something like twelve samples, also not too long. A sorta related anecdote is how the British ‘mind the gap’ was this terse because it was recorded on a solid-state memory, costing dearly in '68 even for the small amount by today's standards.

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uk_programmer · 2020-03 · Recommendation

There is a great video on youtube that explains how it all works. [VIDEO] He gets into the explanation of how the tracker software works about 8min 30seconds in. Typically though if you got a cracked game at that time it would have the crackers group name and there would be a little graphical demo and some tracker music.

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aasasd · 2022-05 · Reference

Here's also a demonstration of using a sampler and a tracker with an Amiga, all from around 1990: [VIDEO] “Aaaand we're out of memory.” (There's also the humor of sampling Coldcut, who themselves were wizards of audiovisual sampling, at least for their time.)

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