New user says hi!

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Hi there!

I'm quite the newbie, despite I've owned an Amiga for nearly a decade. Back in the days when State of the Art was Redefined I never owned an Amiga but I was fascinated by the ones my friends had. In 1996 I bought my first Amiga, a 2000, to do animations and some music. After music became my main interest I bought a Amiga 600 which I took on the road for live gigs and ater the 600 died (it's burried in the studio, I still think it can raise from the death) I bought a 1200, which I'm using for 3 years now.
Like I said, I only use my Amiga for music, so I'm afraid I won't be the most valuable and contributing user on this forum but I do hope I'll be able to awnser some questions on occassion. I do have plenty of questions myself, I wil post them in the appropriate forums soon

For those who care, here's a picture of my studio, with the Amiga as it's pounding heart:

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Thank you all for your welcomes

The program is use is the infamous Octamed Pro 4.0. I tried different programs (amongst wich Octamed 6 and Octamed for PC) but I keep turning back to this one, altho lately it gets very tempting to switch to a laptop for live gigs (which is actually the reason I signed up here...) I like Octamed because it's the program I started with and well... why learn something new if what you know is good already? Despite Octamed is a tracker I hardly do audio with the Amiga anymore, except for some percussion sounds or some sampled effect sounds. Because of the low sample rate Amiga's are really good for beats. Most of what I do with the Amiga is midi sequencing, I have a Vector Midi Plus midi interface and a sampler of unkown origine.

I have had stuff mastered, altho I'm quite lazy with keeping track of releasing. In 8 years I did 3 solo EP's, the last one is due to be released next month. I contributed to some compilations in the meantime and I hooked up with a friend on 4 or 5 albums (he's also an Octamed / Amiga user).
If you want you can listen to some mp3 files on my website, but most of them are only short previews:
http://www.bunker-records.com/orgue-electronique

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Thanks Restore Yes, that is a DX7 you see there. I recently got it because my DX100 died on me... You had quite a nice kit yourselve! I can't blame you for getting rid of it tho, it all takes a lot of room and with todays technology there's hardly any reason to keep all those big synths in a small house... Except for sentimental reasons I have to say, I love old sounds, I love old chicago house and italo disco and so on... I checked your music, it sounds very professional. Did you do that all with software? Rather impressive... Sounds like hit song material to me I don't think I'll ever reach that level of production, but I guess the kind of music I like to make can get away with little and gritty production skills. Atleast that's what I tell myself

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Well, to be honest... I know what you mean... When I hear music like yours, made with VSTi's I'm always impressed by the power of it all. The guy I bought the DX7 from was also using SX and software and it was very, very impressive. It is really very good, even the analog emulating software like VAZ and Pro53 and Auturion Moog are really convincing... So indeed, I really have no good reason at all to stick to the way I'm working now, except that it actually works and I like it this way... I trust my Amiga and I trust my synths. When I hook up my Amiga it works. No latency, no processor that's too slow... I'm too attached to my Amiga and Octamed. I bought Cubase SX and I don't like it that much... Despite all it's features I can't seem to learn the program. I have no patience for it, I keep switching to Octamed. I also bought Renoise for my laptop, which is a fastracker like tracker that supports VSTi (it's really very good and very cheap), but when I found out I could emulate an Amiga on my laptop I figured I'd go that way. If it fails, I'll get along with Renoise for sure.

To be honest, the thing is... I'm a romantic. I like older electronic dance music, I like older synthesizers and I like the older production methods. Octamed 4 fits into that romantic picture... It's silly, but that's the way it is right now. Maybe when I get further and learn more, like you have, I'll see the limitations of Octamed. But right now I think it's a bless. I like limitations actually, they make me more creative. I have to work around the limitations to get done what I want, it's kinda feeding me, if you know what I mean. (sounds hippy, I know )

So how did you get started? You must have been at it for quite a while now, no?

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You can find my electro project Voimalaitos at:
http://www.mikseri.net/artistit/?id=28472

And remixes from my old ahx/c64 tunes at:

http://www.mikseri.net/artistit/?id=29433  

Sounds good to me I wouldn't mind hearing more of your stuff. You have nice influences, I love Op:l {bleep}s! Finland has a good scene for this stuff... Lot's of good music coming from the north: Polytron, 8bit rockers / bangkok impact, Imatran Voima... Do you know Phinnweb?

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yeah I work often with him, we did some releases together and we tour a lot together. We've even been to Finland two or three times. One time we played with Opel {bleep}s they where great, too bad they had to split up.
Your music is good, don't worry. I'd like to hear more when you have some, it's always nice to listen to what other people make.