THE VIDEO SHELF · amiga sampling and trackers
Amiga Samplers : Budget dance music in 1990
debuglive makes a 1990-style dance track on an Amiga 500 with a Stereo Master sampler and cheap secondhand records, showing how sampling and trackers worked within tight memory limits.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters recommend it as a clear demonstration of Amiga-era sampling and tracker workflows.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- debuglive
- Topic
- amiga sampling and trackers
- Format
- demo
- Level
- intro
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 7
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2020–2022
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From the original HN conversations
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There is a great video on youtube that explains how it all works. [VIDEO] He gets into the explanation of how the tracker software works about 8min 30seconds in. Typically though if you got a cracked game at that time it would have the crackers …
uk_programmer on Hacker News · 2020-03
In Someone Is Stealing Tracker Songs and Selling ThemHere's a good recap of what sampling looked like in the time of Amiga: [VIDEO] “Ta-da-da-da... aaaaaaand we're out of memory.” Likewise apparently DJ Shadow pulled off quite a feat with his Akai MPC60 on ‘Endtroducing’, because the sampler could store something like twelve samples, …
aasasd on Hacker News · 2021-06
In Renoise – A DAW with a tracker-like interface
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