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Music made with Amiga 2000

by Hawke Robinson last modified Oct 24, 2016 09:02 PM
As per comment on the Two Bards One Mic podcast, here are some pieces I composed with the Amiga 2000...

I have a still running Amiga 2000. It is upgraded to 33 Mhz 60030 (with physical switch to go back to original CPU), Fat Agnus, 8 MB Ram, IDE CD, 3 floppy drives, Genlock, SCSI hard drive, and more.

I composed some of my music with it back in the early 90s, and revived it so re-export the music to higher quality audio capture.

Here is the Amiga in action during a test broadcast:

 

I used a number of tools, but the pieces below were composed with Sonix 2.0

Runesword 1994 - http://syntheticzen.com/discography/archives/muses-of-the-early-days/runesword-1994-clean-capture-on-mac-20120617a.mp3/view

Amiga One - http://syntheticzen.com/discography/archives/muses-of-the-early-days/amiga-one-hawke-19950215-clean-mac-captured.mp3/view

Amiga in F (short piece) -  http://syntheticzen.com/discography/archives/muses-of-the-early-days/amiga-f-19950101-captured-20120717a.mp3/view

The Ocean Calls (unfinished) -  http://syntheticzen.com/discography/archives/muses-of-the-early-days/ocean-calls-amiga-19950103-captured-by-mac.mp3/view

The above video clip, is my preparing to broadcast on Twitch. Here is a list of the equipment mentioned in the video (there is far more in the studio, this is just what is mentioned and sometimes demonstrated):

Preparation to broadcast on Twitch. Includes run down of some of the technology and instruments, including:

  • Macbook Pro 2012
  • Arturia V Collection 5
  • Logic Pro X
  • Bitwig
  • Arturia Keylab 49 keyboard & Midi controller
  • Roli Seabridge RISE Keyboard & Midi controller
  • iPad Pro 12.9"
  • Casio Previa PX-310
  • Dell XPS m1330n, OpenSuse Linux 12.3
  • Jack, ZynSubAddFX, Rosegarden
  • Roland UM-ONE Midi to USB adapter
  • Alesis 1622 16 channel mixer
  • Microsoft Surface Pro 2
  • Kindle Fire
  • Amiga 2000 (1989 upgraded to 33Mhz 68030) with MIDI interface
  • Alienware M11xR2, Windows 7, Arturia V Collection 4
  • Arturia Laboratory 32 keyboard & midi controller
  • Focusrite 18i20
  • Yamaha PSR 260 Keyboard with MIDI to Amiga
  • Moog
  • Tascam US-2000
  • KRK Rocket 6 monitors
  • Funkengruven monitors
  • Focusrite 2i2
  • Asus ROG, OpenSuse 13.2 Linux, Open Broadcast Server (OBS).