Amiga music for music snobs?

[TenLeftFingers]

I'm a bit of an audiophile and while I'm a big fan of some Amiga soundtracks (eg the Flashback music, Turrican 2 (in small doses)) I find a lot of it relied on the weaker aspects and isn't good for easy listening. For example high-pitched brass sounds sound very cheap but down a few octaves sound pretty decent.

Anyway, a lot of the music I've been looking through on YouTube is very noisy stuff or too fast and I'd want to be on drugs or something to enjoy it. Anything classy anyone would recommend?

At some point I will probably learn to use the trackers to put something together myself that you can all poke fun at

Edit: I realise I am just not the target audience for this music, but there are always exceptions. For example Nothing Else Matters on The Black album, Trail of Tears by Testament, Black Lodge by Anthrax - all beautiful soft songs by heavy metal bands.

Edit2: I found this: http://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_random but I'm still interested in specific suggestions.

[Gzegzolka]

go and check amigaRemix webpage there are some cool tunes.

[Jope]

The Amiga does 8 bit samples and to conserve RAM, they were not sampled at anywhere near CD quality.. The samples will all sound very crunchy to your golden ears, that's just how it is. :-)

[Thorham]

Originally Posted by TenLeftFingers

I'm a bit of an audiophile

Don't listen to the sound quality, listen to the music

[s2325]

http://amigamuseum.emu-france.info/F...Reorchestrees/

[lordofchaos]

Here's a mod I made, it's fairly chilled and easy on the ear.

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[TenLeftFingers]

Originally Posted by Gzegzolka

go and check amigaRemix webpage there are some cool tunes.

Very nice! But these are all mp3 remixes whereas I want something I can play on the A1200 to keep me motivated to get other apps working

Originally Posted by Jope

The Amiga does 8 bit samples and to conserve RAM, they were not sampled at anywhere near CD quality.. The samples will all sound very crunchy to your golden ears, that's just how it is. :-)

Thanks for the reality check, and good point. But there are still exceptions, such as the Flashback title tune that plays to all the strengths of the Amiga (subjective, I know).

Originally Posted by Thorham

Don't listen to the sound quality, listen to the music

I think it's too late for me I'm afraid But now that you mention it, maybe I should run it through better speakers also.

Originally Posted by s2325

http://amigamuseum.emu-france.info/F...Reorchestrees/

I like what I hear so far (I listened to Another World soundtrack). Are these also available as 'tracker files'?

Originally Posted by lordofchaos

Here's a mod I made, it's fairly chilled and easy on the ear.
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Very nice lordofchao, that is very listenable indeed.

[Mrs Beanbag]

Originally Posted by Thorham

Don't listen to the sound quality, listen to the music

Quite! it would be like watching 1970s Dr Who and complaining about the special effects...

I think this is my most easy-listening track:
https://soundcloud.com/mrs-beanbag/m...ag-supermarket

[TenLeftFingers]

Perfectly titled Mrs Beanbag

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[Mrs Beanbag]

or try this one https://soundcloud.com/mrs-beanbag/warzone

[Jerry]

I always liked the 2nd part of [ Show youtube player ] (mod)
[ Show youtube player ] - Also some very nice easy listening tracks. (AMP link to elf)
Chrylian - The famous "Sonate to Her" (despite the Lotusesque distorted guitars) is fabulous, but also some quite cool (acid-)jazz stuff

[Mrs Beanbag]

Premiere end credits music: [ Show youtube player ]
mod.pathway: http://modarchive.org/module.php?53407

[Thorham]

Nearly There
Youtube: [ Show youtube player ]
Mod (MOD): http://janeway.exotica.org.uk/releas...3556#downloads

Electric City
Youtube: [ Show youtube player ]
Mod (THX/AHX): http://aminet.net/package/mods/jazzc/ElectricCity

Satallite One
Youtube: [ Show youtube player ]
Mod (S3M): http://modarchive.org/index.php?requ...id&query=54250

[TenLeftFingers]

Absolutely gobsmacked by those Thorham, thank you very much!! Nearly There in particular sounds fantastic. Transferring to my miggy now

Edit: extensions for these are different. .mod and .s3m play on Deli Player (only .mod on Hippo Player) but I get errors for thx.electric city. How do I play these natively?

nearly there.mod
satell.s3m
thx.electric city

[Thorham]

Originally Posted by TenLeftFingers

(only .mod on Hippo Player)

Hippo player should play S3M files.

Originally Posted by TenLeftFingers

I get errors for thx.electric city.

I assume you use Delitracker2? Delitracker2 has an AHX player, but it doesn't decrunch files automatically, sorry about that

Here's the decrunched version: electricCity.zip

[TenLeftFingers]

Originally Posted by Thorham

Hippo player should play S3M files.


I assume you use Delitracker2? Delitracker2 has an AHX player, but it doesn't decrunch files automatically, sorry about that

Here's the decrunched version: Attachment 46154

Thanks, but the .zip contains the same file (I did extract the .lha). Or is it just the filename that's the same?

No need to apologise! I've had a great night listening to these while tidying up - many thanks!!

[iggybeans]

Originally Posted by TenLeftFingers

Edit: I realise I am just not the target audience for this music, but there are always exceptions. For example Nothing Else Matters on The Black album, Trail of Tears by Testament, Black Lodge by Anthrax - all beautiful soft songs by heavy metal bands.

I get that. I like the harder rock too, but a well written, more laid back tune by competent rockers is always good.

Add to those you mentioned one I've been running through my rotation, Motorhead's 'Dust and Glass', definitely not like 'The Ace of Spades'.

[Paul_s]

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[ma693541]

Try this one; Video Game Music They have a lot of Amiga Music in MP3 format.

[Thorham]

Originally Posted by TenLeftFingers

Thanks, but the .zip contains the same file (I did extract the .lha).

Yeah, it does

The problem is most likely that the AHX player is still in Delitracker's PlayerStore folder. This folder is in the DeliPlayers folder. Move the AHX-DeliPlayerII020 file from DeliPlayers/PlayerStore to DeliPlayers. Re-load Delitracker if it was running. That should solve the problem.