A couple of my tracks...
I don't know how many of us were hardcore ravers back in the day or 'just' enjoyed the music, but to me this music defined the early 90s and was synonymous with my Amiga days too, with using OctaMED being one of my favourite things to do with it. I have been able to convert some of my old OctaMED tracks and put them into FLStudio, and, being able to use more than 8 tracks at a time, been able to flesh out them as I would have liked back then.
You can listen on soundcloud here:
https://soundcloud.com/thedjfizz/to_the_light
https://soundcloud.com/thedjfizz/emotion
You can listen on soundcloud here:
https://soundcloud.com/thedjfizz/to_the_light
https://soundcloud.com/thedjfizz/emotion
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got a mate who spends ridiculous amounts on exactly this kind of stuff on vinyl, maybe you should get them pressed up!
Hmmm... feel like putting together a hardcore mix now... :D
Yeah, I got my A1200 Christmas '92, and got my old A500 hooked up null modem cable style to get full glorious 8 track 8bit goodness! Emotion was started sometime in '92 (I got OctaMED 3 off a CU Amiga coverdisk!) but by mid-93 it was sounding slow, so I whacked it up to its present bpm as the contemporary stuff was hitting the mid 150's and especially the jungle breaking the 160bpm barrier, I never went back down even though most of the post-hardcore breaks type stuff sits in the mid 140s, which I like too, but I'm happy with the hardcore stuff being 140-160, not much more than that, although I have made stuff beyond into the 170s but more Jungle/DnB style.
it's sad to see jumbo is long gone (reinforced , fsol and a few more were there) and I used to go kickin also. more a case of being born in the right location , getting to know certain folk.
you are right about the channels / amount of sample time.. now it's unlimited pretty much. a friend still has loads of real synths etc. me , I just have the virtual versions.
sample cd's of the time though, coldcut's one and the xstatic goldmine ones I remember well, and obvious things like the creative essentials ones / jungle warfare etc.
I have loads of sketches I should sit down and finish, just haven't had the time.
I did a much more complex hack of Noisetracker on the Atari ST to add features like a secondary tempo control, a-la MED, AVR sample loading, load and save of songs/samples only without affecting the module as a whole, extra octaves and fixed the transpose feature.
I've always loved making music using tracker progs, and still use Buzz tracker and FL Studio on the PC. My interest in this stuff has ended up serving me well as myself and Dunny are now actually programming FL Studio, which is pretty much a dream job for us both! :)
I was in Herts, home of a few labels like Moving Shadow and what not, but my regular was Music Power on Green Lanes, it was on the way home from work so it was a natural stop for me and I ended up hanging out there at least two times a week, usually three or more, spending hours, and my pay cheque ;)
Wow, that's awesome that you work on FLStudio, it's funny, it was that program that seemed like the most logical step forward for OctaMED, the others just had too much of a 90 degree difference of approach that seemed too high a curve to learn and still be productive. I've been using FLStudio since before FL became an acronym ;) Fully paid up Producer edition I will add :)
You mentioned Nebula II, and that's what these two tracks remind me of more than anyone else... stuff like X-Plore H-Core and Peacemaker. I can hear influences from Sonz of a Loop Da Loop Era and Manix in there too, which is nice :)