fredag 17. august 2018

Doing Amiga Music with 16-bit Stereo Samples!

AmigaOS deserves a beautiful sunset!
Welcome to a long expected update to my well-known Amiga blog! Been a long while, and I had a lot of work to do regarding my Amiga music.

This year in August, my AmigaOne 500 aka SAM460ex, is 6 years old, and still going strong just like when I bought it the first time 6 years ago! Amazing!

Even the good old OctaMED SoundStudio is working very well under latest AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Update 1, as long as you don't quit it under the OS. If so, the OS freezes and a hard reset would have to be done. Such a freeze makes it impossible to click any icon to be activated. Instead, I just do a soft reset pressing Ctrl Amiga + Amiga the way we know it, after working with music.

Amiga music with 16-bit Stereo RIFF Walkabout Music Samples


OMSS doing 16-bit Stereo MAUD recording!
Since my previous Amiga blog, I have done a lot of work re-composing all of my Amiga music, including Ninja Remix, Last Ninja 2 and 3, with 16-bit Stereo RIFF WAVE variant of the famous, high quality Walkabout Music Samples, for far better dynamic and clearness, making quite a difference!

Amiga music sounds so much cleaner and better using 16-bit stereo samples! That is of course if the tunes are great themselves. Then the quality is truly worth it! I have even improved my Amiga music of tracks like Airwolf Theme, The Hobsyssel Hobbit Theme, LOST and Jan Hammer's Super-hit from Miami Vice - Crockett's Theme, all using 16-bit Stereo RIFF WAVE Walkabout Music Samples! The quality is just amazing, and where there are vibrations from certain instruments, these sound now much more realistic, and bass sounds to have a deeper more powerful tone! All in all very impressive indeed!

As you can see from the screenshot above, it's fully possible to use OctaMED SoundStudio to record directly-to-disk in 16-bit stereo, even in MAUD format, thanks to the new MAUD Sound Datatype Support, provided with latest version of A-EON's impressive Workbench Enhancer. But because my MP3 converter program - CodeAudio, doesn't support converting with MAUD files, my music has to be recorded directly-to-disk, using 16-bit stereo AIFF instead, as CodeAudio for now only supports AIFF. That's actually quite okay. The result gets perfect anyway.

Image improved with HDR in GIMP!
Last Ninja music and other well-known tracks are not the only music I have done. I have also started to work on instrumental Blues on my Amiga. A collection I call "Norway Blues".

On YouTube, I already released my first 2 Amiga Blues tracks, titled "Bergen City Blues" and "Nordic Women". They were also re-composed using 16-bit stereo samples!

My next Amiga track is under work as you read this blog, titled "Mushroom". It will be a beautiful Ambient track, giving you the feeling of actually being out in the nature, listening to beautiful music. You'll love this.

Also improving several images for my music to look at on YouTube is also very exciting! Using GIMP - the open source variant of Photoshop, I can even improve poor looking images with HDR, and then they look much better, as seen in screenshot! GIMP is a truly powerful photo editor program!

Enjoy my great Amiga music with 16-bit stereo samples on YouTube here:


Written by
Helge Kvalheim


























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