Virtual Studios (such as Cubase) also for AMIGA?

[Karlos]

hooligan wrote:

using the amiga native audio which is rather unique in its sound quality.

Well yes, if you like crappy 8-bit {bleep}e.

I happen to love it, actually. Everything has a place in electronic music and Paula's natural graininess and non-linearity provides a pretty unique distortion to samples that you can waste hours trying to achieve on modern kit.

[Karlos]

derringer3 wrote:
Karlos please explain this.

Simple. Paula has a unique "lo fi" sound that happens to be especially useful for many kinds of electronic music. The non-linear amplitude response, the grainy (but not hissy due to the response curve) 8-bit sound, the sample replay aliasing  gives it a sound I've never been able to properly reproduce with effects processors/plugins. It sounds fantastic for all kinds of dirty percussion breaks and bass sounds.

[Karlos]

hooligan wrote:
btw are there some Soundblaster-fans claiming the old SB-cards having an unique sound? ;-)

Probably not, but to be fair those old FM synths can sound pretty damn good routed through some effects processing. I have an ancient yamaha keyboard that I use for that sort of thing.

It all depends on what you personally like the sound of. I happen to like dirty electronic sounds.

Let's face it, the TR808 was about the most unrealistic sounding drum synth possible, that didn't stop it captivating an entire generation of musicians and beyond. They embraced it for what it was, not for what it was supposed to be.

[Karlos]

hooligan wrote:
@Bloodline

Having composed hundreds of songs on Amiga I agree with you and Karlos that Paula certainly met its purpose. It did produce damn fine sounds at its time. In 2007, no.. these days there are plugins which can emulate the sound of paula if necessary, and I sure as hell wont be missing it nor using these filters

As I said, it comes down to what you personally like the sound of. Evidently, you don't like that particular sound. Plugins are handy but to imply they can do everything you need seems somewhat glib to me.

I prefer use paula to naturally produce lofi electronic sound just as I prefer to use a real guitar to make guitar sounds, rather than some plugin.

[Karlos]

. When it comes to musical instruments, when you use a real device you often get happy accidents!

Not to mention instant responsiveness under all conditions. Even a few millisecond delay can be really off putting I find.

[Karlos]

That's pretty good, I reckon I could probably cope with that for live playing. It's when you get a 50ms delay coupled with choppiness once the polyphony creeps up I find annoying. No cure for that except to upgrade.