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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Desktop Audio and Video => Topic started by: detz on September 09, 2007, 12:14:46 AM

Title: My EP Available now- Sequenced using Octamed
Post by: detz on September 09, 2007, 12:14:46 AM: In a bit of a rush right now, so just a quick post I'll put more detail later on, but my EP is available now, all produced on hardware, sequenced using Octamed SS.

(http://www.4teenth.co.uk/front.gif)
Get it here.... (http://www.myspace.com/4teenth)

If you're into DJ Shadow, RJD2, Mr Scruff, chilled out stuff like that I reckon you'll enjoy this..

(http://a945.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/69/l_5613ca23bd4ddd7f6a4d580a85569770.jpg)

Ta for your support, if I ever make enough money I'll Re-release Octamed with all the features I wish it had right now...
Title: Re: My EP Available now- Sequenced using Octamed
Post by: detz on September 10, 2007, 12:14:03 PM: Oh and if you do have a listen, leave me some feedback...
Title: Re: My EP Available now- Sequenced using Octamed
Post by: Housey on September 10, 2007, 01:04:14 PM: sounds good to me...I like this style.. after a breif listen i'd say 'can't get out' and 'That Barcy Tune' sounded best.

I assume you use the PC version of SS?
Title: Re: My EP Available now- Sequenced using Octamed
Post by: jmbattle on September 10, 2007, 01:06:33 PM: Well, it's not really my cup of tea, but kudos to you for putting together an EP using an Amiga assuming you are not running Octamed under Windows, that is... May I ask what other hardware you are using - perhaps a PC for sampling?

I doubt my old TechnoSound Turbo II sampler would sound terribly clean these days...and it would be a shame to ruin those lovely string samples with 8bit noise!

Cheers,
James
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Title: Re: My EP Available now- Sequenced using Octamed
Post by: detz on September 10, 2007, 02:26:23 PM: I'm running the Amiga version of SS, but unfortunately these days that's running under UAE.

Mostly the sounds are coming from an Akai S5000, various other sounds from a Novation Basstation, a Drumstation, a Korg Microkorg, going through a Spirit desk, and a few Behringer outboard/ effects bit. Ideally I'd like to upgrade the behringer stuff, get a nice decent valve compressor etc...
Title: Re: My EP Available now- Sequenced using Octamed
Post by: Housey on September 10, 2007, 05:06:01 PM: hey nice setup.. blown away that ur using winUAE, thats props to amiga ver of OctaMED SS right there, seeing the amount of windows software which is far more capable :-D

Good work..
Title: Re: My EP Available now- Sequenced using Octamed
Post by: jmbattle on September 10, 2007, 10:42:08 PM: Is there any reason why you are using the Amiga version of SS over the PC version?

Cheers,
James
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Title: Re: My EP Available now- Sequenced using Octamed
Post by: detz on September 10, 2007, 11:00:13 PM: I dunno really, just to keep things constant - i started writing with SS on a real amiga, and then basically just put that hard drive into the PC when I sold all my Amiga kit and started using it from UAE...
Title: Re: My EP Available now- Sequenced using Octamed
Post by: Debaser on September 11, 2007, 02:56:22 AM: Great stuff detz. Very cool that you are trying to do your best sticking with some Amiga tools.
Title: Re: My EP Available now- Sequenced using Octamed
Post by: detz on September 11, 2007, 04:28:25 AM: For me the whole lines/blocks/sequence way of building up a song is very intuitive- although it may take a while to program the individual blocks, once you are there the song seems to come together almost automatically.

What I tend to do is I find a nice loop, or an idea, get that running, find some drums or program some in, and gradually build up everything I want in the song in that first block. I then play around with switching tracks on and off, so i have aroigh idea of how I want it to build up and break down etc. From there I copy/paste the individual tracks onto new blocks, duplicating where necesarry so that I have an identical block but with a fill at the end for example...
Title: Re: My EP Available now- Sequenced using Octamed
Post by: hooligan on September 11, 2007, 05:03:56 AM: Quote

detz wrote:
I'm running the Amiga version of SS, but unfortunately these days that's running under UAE.

Exactly what I am doing, SS+UAE+synths. Works pretty nicely too.
Title: Re: My EP Available now- Sequenced using Octamed
Post by: detz on September 11, 2007, 12:26:55 PM: Yeah I love it - it confuses nthe hell out people I know who use cubase and reason etc tho....

I'm considering using cubase as well, on a seperate PC just as a virtual synth, well a bank of virtual synths. Also for stuff where it needs to not be hard quantised, say, fro a realistic sounding piano. I know in octamed you can delay a note by as little as a third of a line, but even running 128 lines per 4 bar block I still sometimes feel that it sounds too 'programmed' obviously as most of what I do is live samples, this is not usually that much of an issue...
Title: Re: My EP Available now- Sequenced using Octamed
Post by: golem on September 15, 2007, 08:46:09 AM: Nice chewnz dude. I like "Can't Get Out" the best. You have some lovely sounding clean samples in all tracks and some groovy basslines. I have fought against using PC sequencers too - the red mist descends when I think of them. If you are thinking of getting Cubase just for virtual synths you may consider getting E-Mu Proteus X2 instead. You can run this on your PC as a synth without needing a PC DAW VST environment (maybe having Amiga sequence it).
Title: Re: My EP Available now- Sequenced using Octamed
Post by: mingle on September 15, 2007, 10:46:56 AM: Hi,

Do you have any MP3 demos/examples?

I may be a bit dim, or slow (or both!) but I couldn't see any on the myspace page!

Cheers,

Mike. :banana:
Title: Re: My EP Available now- Sequenced using Octamed
Post by: detz on September 16, 2007, 11:56:52 PM: Yeah, should come up in the player when you go to the myspace page...