schematics for old skool amiga sounding amps

[David Krupicz]

----- Original Message -----
From: Carlos Vila Deutschbein <si04697 at salleURL.edu>
To: Stereo mIKE <mr_c at start.com.au>
Cc: <synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl>
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 12:49 PM
Subject: Re: schematics for old skool amiga sounding amps


> The Amiga uses a custom audio chipset (Paula), there should be no
> shematics out there. (Somebody do a Paula-Station? :)
>
> I guess the best you could do to reproduce Old skool music from Amiga
> games (or crackers intros) is get an Amiga 500 and OctaMED (MED for that
> purpose).
> MED has a really cool synthsound generator for that cheesy lo-fi

YES!!!  These sound great!

> 8-bit-ness. If you can, use a compressor/noisegate (with extreme settings)
> for that extra rawness. I use it lots with snaredrums and drumloops!
>
> Tracker programs on the PC are based on Amiga old-time classics like
> Protracker etc, but they are so sophisticated now they lost their appeal
> IMO. Ok you can always sample @ 8bit and limit yourself to 4 tracks :)

The Amiga (which I still actually use for sequencing ;)  had a maximum
frequency of 28867 hz, which was slaved to the video scan rate.

Anyhoo, in order to get the crunchiness of the amiga, you would have to
reduce your audio to 8 bits and no greater than 28867 hz.  Of course,
the amiga had 4 channels of audio which it would mix in hardware.

The easiest way would be to get the WinUAE amiga emulator and download
an early version (or any version for that matter) of OctaMED.

Or buy a secondhand amiga, they're pretty cheap these days, seeing as how
they're
10 years out of date.