Amiga
Articles about Amiga:
Blip Festival 2009
The Blip Festival, a three-day music and arts festival, returns to New York City this year at Brooklyn’s Bell House December 17th, 18th, and 19th.
The festival showcases the use of the former heavyweights of computing such as the Commodore 64 and Amiga, the Atari ST and 2600, and the Nintendo Entertainment System and Game Boy to create arresting music and visual art. Read more…
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Filed under: Free Music Software, iPods & Portable Media Players
ModBox (App Store link) is a free universal Tracker Format Player for the iPhone that plays Amiga and PC module music (e.g. Protracker, Fasttracker, Screamtracker). It features a song database with direct-download from various authors, an integrated FTP Server and support for all common module formats (e.g. Protracker, Fastracker, Screamtracker, etc.). Read more…
Amiga 1200 Techno Music
This is a promo video for John Tracker’s Amiga 1200 album, Cyber Techno. All 18 tracks on the album were created on the Octomed tracker app on an Amiga 1200.
via bazartist:
Jon Tracker’s track made on the Amiga 1200 titled Cyber Techno and promotional video to assist. This track and the Amiga Album will be available on iTunes soon.
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Filed under: Computer Music, Software Synthesizers & Samplers, Virtual Instruments
Patrick McCarthy (Roth Mobot) takes a look at Aegis Sonix: an early software synth for the Amiga.
If you’ve used Sonix or the Amiga for making music, leave a comment with your thoughts! Read more…
List Universe has published an interesting look at the top 10 soundtracks created on the Amiga computer.
#4, above, is State of the Art (at least for 1992):
State of the Art is another demonstration of the sound and graphical capabilities of the Amiga, using advanced programming techniques to combine silhouette dancers with hardware generated special effects – one of the very first sources to do so to such an extent. The music is in the hardcore rave style that was very popular at that time, using many high quality synth sounds and modern sounding rhythms; which seems to complement the presentation to a tee.
See the full list here.
