Beats On My Amiga Using Octamed V4

[minikomi]

Hey man up the audio ;) Nice track

[NuMoominba]

@chillskid. You could say so mate. Either that or Renoise is OctaMED on Steroids.

[chillskid]

Is this like the ghetto version of Renoise?

[funk2ion]

nice work, not seen octamed in action for years, brings back some memories, really like the tune too. check out my 2 most recent uploads of dnb tunes i made with octamed in 97

[NuMoominba]

Soon to be featured in a nice price of pc codework. Hope to celebrate the 10,000 views. Thanks to eveyone that listened and watched this.

[NuMoominba]

There is a soundloud link on my new page in the info. Cheers man. Means alot.

[samesoul]

do u have a d/l link? tight track m8

[NuMoominba]

ive upped a slightly different edit of this in HQ on my new page. its also downloadble

[NuMoominba]

I've found a version of this on a floppy disk. It's not the one I've been looking for but at least I can get some of that bass n beats in HQ.

[NuMoominba]

I will be posting a cleaner video of this track once I find amongst my floppies. Think this one was one of my biggest mods in the 90's at nearly a whole megabyte!!!

[danisageeza]

Oh yes... the memories come flooding back! Used to gig out with mine back in the day..... Big choon by the way!

[sublow]

Heavy stuff here mate. Also noticed the timing on these old machines is ultra tight... Jealous

[pokerockmario123]

1 MEG of RAM was much for it's time. Nice module!

[NuMoominba]

I'm sure I've a version of this on disk that is 99 blocks plus a a bunch of extra samples in. Where for art thou flopply diskette. I'll find it and post the audio in high quality

[theskiprat]

@numoominba, i used to use midi on octamed 4 back in the late 90s usind a musicX midi interface.. afair it wasnt too painful an experience and even had 2 1200s synced with x interfaces and my huge old casiotone keyboard, unfortunately i dont have any of my amiga gear with me any more as its currently all in my mothers attic, but maybe i can figure it out on uae if i can emulate the midi input somehow

[naaaaaagz]

respekt

[NuMoominba]

@ vegunited, I have also been trying to trigger samples via midi on octamed V4 but no success as of yet

If anyone can help out ,well, that would be just the ticket.

[NuMoominba]

Thanks for all the positve feedback on this one guys.

[thesharpshootaz]

this is so cool, back in the 80's we made so many hiphopbeats on the mighty Amiga with Octamed and Oktalyzer. Many props man!!!

peace from the Netherlands !

DJ Excalibur

[drazil91]

I thought I was the only one on the planet still messing with this. Any chance of getting/trading MODs? Sadly, I don't think they can be emailed, FAT on disk is different with PC. I would love to have some new stuff to mess with.

[moejoe1337]

@drazil91: why don't you just have a look at some MOD pages like modarchive . org?

[drazil91]

OK, thanks. Can they be downloaded in a format the Amiga can read though?

[moejoe1337]

@drazil91: well, all modules (you'd mostly be interested in .MOD, i guess, but we also have other amiga formats) are zipped, but I guess unzipping them and putting them on a disk using your favourite amiga tools shouldn't be a problem. :)

[drazil91]

Thanks for killing my weekend. Kidding. Thanks.

[moejoe1337]

you're welcome. :D

[DaveCrozz]

think some people for got how power full the amiga was come perd to the atart st

[markash1971]

some of the music and sound fx in amiga games was made with octmed, you could load in the music files and mess around with them, then put them back in the game if you had an amiga external hard drive. my little brother used to play a game called pitch black i think? follow up to another world. i swaped a lazor gun sample for a wierd sample from a game called top bannana. pissed him off big time lol

[markash1971]

i used to have a JV8.80, S.2000, bass station rigged up to octmed. dont even think about using an ADAT or syncing an external time critical device to it. it could never keep in perfect time

[markash1971]

i used octmed live on stage a few times for playing drum patterns. people used to say "how the fuck can you read the screen with all the 0's and 1's scroling down" if only they knew how easy it was to use lol. was a nightmare using an MC 303 with octmed, but fast as hell for making up drum patterns. does anyone remember TIGER STRINGS for amiga. would still use it if i had my old midi box

[RedDressMusic]

oooooh this brings back so many memories. i started out on Octamed Pro when i was 12, i used to have 2 portable TV's rigged up to 2 Amiga a600's, just to get an 8 tracker system lol those were the days

[mistergeneration]

me too - two Amigas, two octameds, 8 tracks! I mostly did my tunes in 4 track, tho!

[neonelectro]

I remember using octamed when I did a live gig back in the 90's. It got me back into making music after a 10 year break. Great little programm in it's day.

[vegunited06]

is it possible to trigger samples-in-octamed via MIDI? i have a midi interface and I was messing around on the MIDI page of octamedV4 but I couldn't get anything.

[GuruMediator]

Another Octamed user called Paul, nice one:)

Superb tracker, easy to pick up feel, gets better with age:)

One Tracker to rule them all ! ! !

[renegadegenius]

Renoise - do a google search as I can't paste links on here.

It's basically octamed but with more on it & u can load vsts into it as well, loads of effects on each channel.

[firstaid4souls]

yeah, the best amiga music stuff 4 ever!

[Moominba]

there is a tracker program for the pc called Art Of Noise i think. Very similar to octamed. Google it, there might be a free download of it.

[pokerockmario123]

@Moominba Or if you don't have an Amiga, try MED Soundstudio, it's the newer version of OctaMED.

[RetroSpectreUK]

@Moominba very nicely done, some great stuff could be done with Octamed for its time.

[Moominba]

I'm thinking of putting full version of this track up in mp3, or just doing an audio swap. . .

[ltechdnb]

big big tunes!! i use 2 have 500+ well good fun! nice werk dude - keep it up - L Tech

[Wiegieboard]

Octamed FTW. I still think it's the best system for electronic music that's out there.

[NakedSheff]

great! matrix!!!)

[funkberto]

Great AMIGA beat

Can you MAKE A HIP HOP BEAT WITH SOMETHING LONG FUNKY SAMPLES, PLIS???

[liquidize]

That's awesome! :D I used that version of OctaMED for so long. It's amazing how creative it kinda forces you to be. I miss it. I like the tune :)

[erolbrown]

Top work mate. Listening back to the stuff I did in the early to mid 90s I can't believe how moer creative I was then. I used to love sliding sub-basses up and down, cutting up breaks into their individual sounds and trying to recreate the pattern in Octamed. You actually learned how drums patterns fit together rather than just relying on pre-tuned samples which fit seamlessly together like they do today.

Great work mate.

[Moominba]

your right. Not run on an emulator. It's running from a real amiga 500 plus with 1 meg ram. Even using a commodore monitor.

Nice to get some porti feedback. Will put some of my jungle/drum and bass mod's up.

That time strech was a hell of a lot of 1901, 1902, 1903 commands. But very effective.

Watch this space.

[BudBudToker]

I loved the days where we could innovate in our bedrooms. I can remember editing the sample wave like it was yesterday. Octomed turned alot of people onto dance music. It taught us to try new things. did you ever try to timestretch using it? I remember timestretching was the holy grail cos one of the Akai S samplers could do it.

Did you have this running on an Amiga? or is it an emulator - I dont reckon an emulator could run that fast.

Nice one for posting this and I would love to see more.

[TraceurZeno]

Oh that is Great memories.

The amount of hours I spent on Octamed on my trusty Amiga.

Great sounds man, thanks for sharing!

[SNEDILLIO]

Really good...

[LoliRipe]

this is pretty funny. you should put up the mod for download in the info section :3