Entire album produced on Amiga

[ajlwalker]

Do a google for - "Calvin Harris" Amiga

You will find pages of reading on this Scottish kid who produced his album using his brother's old Amiga.

Sadly the machine has now died, but you'll feel proud reading the links.   :-)

[bloodline]

Tan Hauser Gate's "Travel in Twos" Album was produced using Amigas (3 amiga 1200s to be exact). Look for it on iTunes.

[c64_d0c]

http://www.myspace.com/calvinharristv
listen here....

videos...
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Calvin+Harris&search=
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[weirdami]

@ajlwalker

was ist zis google?

[amigakid]

Not my type of music, but fun to listen to.  He did a great job.

[countzero]

WOW, it's a fantastic album, but it's not entirely done on an amiga. That's not possible, don't buy that.

[weirdami]

@countdown
You mean like the machines that pressed the CD's aren't Amiga's?

[amigean]

OMG - Harris' music is brilliant! some of the samples he uses sound like they're straight out of demotunes! Apparently he's also self-made, in every sense of the way (bypassed record companies - used MySpace as slingshot to fame)...

Can this be true - did he really do it all on an A500?

/me should put my machines to good use   :lol:

[countzero]

weirdami wrote:
@countdown
You mean like the machines that pressed the CD's aren't Amiga's?

he may have got samples/loops from amiga stuff but overall mixing/sequencing should be on a PC/Mac.

If you look at other vids' you see them jamming with a notebook (PC).

[amigean]

He mentions an "ancient Amiga computer" on his bio too...


I'm sure Amiga Inc. is going to capitalise on this real soon - by suing his a** off!  

 :lol:

[trilobyte]

@countzero

But it *is* possible!  All it takes is a MIDI sequencer, Sunrize Studio16 or some other multitrack audio program like AudioLabs' ProStationAudio, etc

This guy obviously didn't produce the entire album on the Amiga though, as is evidenced by people saying that the mastering was done professionally...

Still, it sounds like he has enough outboard gear that perhaps he was just using the Amiga 500 as a MIDI sequencer, and then using some kind of mixer/recorder... there's no way that his sound sources were 100% Amiga.

-trilobyte

[trilobyte]

@weirdami

mixing/sequencing is totally possible on the Amiga.

Sequencing: using Music-X/OctaMED/Bars'n'Pipes/Dr.T's KCS or whatever you feel like using.
Mixing: using Studio16 / ProStation Audio / whatever else you feel like using.

I've produced a number of tracks on Amigas and Ataris;  some were sequenced on the Amiga using Bars'n'Pipes and recorded to a Tascam 388, others were sequenced on an Atari w/Notator and recorded to an Amiga with a Sunrize AD516 and Studio16 software...

[weirdami]

@trilobyte

Oh, I know. There's like... professional expensive software and junk. That was my point, really.

[ajlwalker]

According to the Dutch Wikipedia entry he used Octamed, but my Dutch isn't very good.   :-P

[bloodline]

It would virtually impossible to make an entire Album on the Amiga now... But OctaMED synced to a real sequencer like Logic Pro turns the Amiga into a wicked 8bit sampler/synth module!!!!

I'm pretty sure Clavin didn't use the Amiga on many his recordings except perhaps as a sequencer... until very recently Vince Clarke was still suing a BBC Micro to sequence... then Gareth Jones forced him to upgrade to Logic Pro :-)