Top 5 reasons for persisting with Amiga

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I can't really think of 5 reasons, but I still use my Amigas for music production...All my early work is on Amiga formatted drives and needs Amiga software to view... And I stay with AROS because it's fun and that's where my history is, I grew up with Amiga OS, it was my main system for 10 years. It's nice to remember why I got into computers, and it's nice to see how far they've come!

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mikrucio wrote:
@ bloodline

is that why you got a box of logic pro (mac) as your avatar?

Yup, Logic Pro 7.2 is the most amazing music production software I've ever used!

it's ok man I use logic aswell. and nothing on the market comes close to it. if there was logic on the amiga. id def use  it. but since Apple bought emagic years ago. thats not gonna happen.

Well, I like to use OctaMED as I find it a more natural way to compose... and it's great for getting percusion loops together.

Also I like to sample stuff using the Amiga and get a real 8bit grit sound that you simply can not get with bitcrushers.

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Karlos wrote:

bloodline wrote:

Well, I like to use OctaMED as I find it a more natural way to compose... and it's great for getting percusion loops together.

I love OctaMED. Trackers are just so intuitive I tend to find.

Yeah... butthat's only because we grew up with them... I learned music with trackers and a megalosound sampler... :-)

Also I like to sample stuff using the Amiga and get a real 8bit grit sound that you simply can not get with bitcrushers.

Paula is such a dirty girl :-D Beyond the basic fact it's 8-bit, partially it's the total lack of any antialiasing filters and partially the non-linear amplitude response. Actually, even 14-bit sounds fabulously lo-fi on there too.

Yeah, I think the nonlinear nature of her DACs actually help to improve the quality (if not the fidelity) of the low resolution sound... I was never impressed with paula 14bit audio (even though I wrote my own sub ranging algorithm back in the day...). The Amiga did have the advantage that, you could sample at 80Khz which did actually help the quality somewhat...

Actually I still like to use my Roland W-30 because of it's 12bit DACs (not to mention it's beatufitul filters...)