So this month's Leaving The Laptop video
is...
I mean it's technically on topic but
instead of leaving forwards, I'm gonna
go back 25 years and talk about
what it was like making music on my Amiga
Will it boot...
No
Come on...
 
Come on, you can
do it!
That sounds good
So the hard disk light's flashing so I think
we're good
the mouse I'm amazed still works
but the buttons were a bit crappy
but what I did was just
replace...
... it was just a like a standard micro switch
so I just replaced the button
All this old stuff is just so much more repairable
than the stuff you buy now
So literally just open it up
"Oh! That's normal"
just twatted it with a soldering iron
and it's all good.
So uh - we can - this is OctaMED
Tiejo Kinunnen so this loads let's see what we got
classical c*m techno
Ooh, I was wondering where these were
can you feel the emotion?
and then the beat drops
Ok look we can see some "C"s
Ah!
Panpipes!
God help me... why would you
Let's see what 'mellow' is
This is actually one I did the school
It's got lyrics
I'm not gonna sing them though
It's very sophisticated
Sorry
Sorry
It's very hard for me to hear that
"Orch"
this is moody
low horns
we are doing some dynamics
bring in some synths
cos you gotta
echoey synths, by using these little "C" controls
and then the hi hat's gonna drop
is there gonna be a beat, that's the question
I mean...
You could call that a beat.
I wouldn't.
All that's left is the "rock"
If it wasn't for this shitty kick..
Can I just... Do you mind if I just switch this bass drum?
Let's try
That's it
yeah
Oh... strings
So is this just on its own? No it's in there
Oh that's the  hi-hats
I mean
you're rocking out right now
I can tell that you're rocking the hell out right now
Yeah!
Oof... and there's a breakdown!
I think this is my favorite one
Now that I've switched the kick drum
Keeps going up
Oooh!
Guitar solo
and then that's the loop I think
That was epic
Okay what's this cover this
This is horrible
No
No
No
No
No
No
Well... what if we...
that's good
I don't mind it like this
if we like
 
Yeah if we just turn off...
 
it's that snare isn't
Let's just switch that
"cool snare"
can I... ooh shit...
I just over wrote something
yeah that is not a "cool snare", I'm sorry
we need something
What about this even
and that kick as well
fuck that kick
and I think I saw one that was like
mellow kick or something
I don't think there's a way to sort of preview it
so once you've got it you got it
that's "bassdrumm." so
just if we that's where it is
I wonder... if this is in time
that's alright
I mean - but we've just got to delete like
every sort of like fifth one of these
we've just got to like...
just like delete
delete
delete
delete delete delete
delete
delete
and then try that
"Play Block"
and then we've got to find that bass sound
6
and "cool bass" that's called!
Turn off loop...
Am i right?
I just want to even shorten that sample
I guess you just... delete it
Cut
ooh, don't loop
 
And we've just got to sort out that... trailing thing
cos I do like the kick sound but I
"edit sample"
If we just... cut this
 
can we... no
 
I think we just eyeball it. Just delete it - cut
Oh... did I break it...
Oh because I accidentally put it on "loop"
 
Just like that. Play block.
 
and then copy that... let's just copy that
track
and then in the next block
continue song
 
and then just paste
Right, now that hi-hat's offending me
 
"good high hat" I mean this is...
How was I supposed to know that it wasn't a good high-hat?
So we got...
 
I just want that plainer one
Or maybe even downsample it
 
I mean this might better
 
I'm just gonna cut this really short
 
Even shorter
 
Oh we've got to... also we've got to sort out this...
track
So that we're not ever hearing that monstrous...
overly busy...
if anything
 
we kinda need some modulation or something
 
I quite like that but I am gonna put our
changes in
 
I like it
I'm wondering how interesting "#€¢"...
...just like... lurking in the background
what are you doing?
 
what are you d- oh
okay
 
Now what we can do is actually load in...
just - whatever
So.. all we used to do is - I mean we used to load them into memory
and then restart the computer
and then you could like
"look at the memory"
But I don't think you can actually do that with OctaMED
based on what was looking at yesterday
but what we can do is....
say we've got this pinball game
I'll just show you this game
like I
don't know if these sounds are gonna be
good enough but I'll show you this game
here's the game
"Pinball Fantasies"
I believe I need to go on the internet
to find the copy protection
hold on
so... sixth uppercase word of Partyland's "Jackpot" feature...
I've just got this here,
so jackpot one two three four five six
"MEGA"
And we're in
 
so how do we play?
start
 
I mean - a lot of making music on an Amiga is...
 
I mean this is not the world's...
Oh that was quite good
 
That was quite a good sound
Okay quit
How do we quit...
Say we, for some reason, love that
I think...
So I've got this Pinball Fantasies dir
so you can literally go into...
was it the third one?
You can literally go into here and just pl-
listen to it
 
but sometimes
 
there you go
...just find like the samples in the RAM
in the memory
This is from a data file but
 
That's quite good innit
Let's copy that
Make a new sample
Put the buffer in...
It worked!
Play block
that did it
 
I almost like that.
 
