Same here. I used a Spectrum 128K home computer and made a MIDI cable and it worked on my Yamaha PRS300 keyboard. I asked my dad for that AKAI Sampler in the music store in Broadstairs under a railway bridge. Would have made a good few old school rave tunes back in 1992 and 1993
Years later in 2014 with a ZX Spectrum 128k in a 19" Rack and two Yamaha A3000 V2 Samplers. Give it a listen. All done in 128k Basic. Samples played on one sampler out the two ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-e26VDj_TE78.html
Thank you for reply. I seen somewhere else stating 4.5s at 44khz, 9s at 22knz. Does that sound right? That is quite a lot of time for 128KB memory card
Sounds about right but actually being able to save all that time will fail. You can make a track with full sample memory used by sampling off a CD.. But you will never be able to save it until that top right pink/red bar stops flashing, then you need an extra slot to make your track on. I try to compress my samples to 13 slots so it leaves two slots to add music 2000 samples and enough ram for the track and all riffs used in the track.
I will have to work that one out as I pitch samples up then turn the sample volume down using ADSR then mic the sample back in +9 semitones then crop the space left after. This allows me to make more theoretical seconds plus save space and often use all 15 slots on a PS1 mem card. If this helps at all but its around 7 seconds at most and I do sample in at 22khz also. Never 11 or 41
Thank you. I am going to have to make something wild and energetic like your music. I used to make techno dance stuff when I first started Music 2000 back in 1999 so I think a bit of classic M2K techno is needed. Soon
PS1 slim real hardware. PC version only runs well on windows 98 haha. The emulated PCSXE music 2000 sounds bad on bass and also gets choppy. Get a REAL PS1 like me and all will sound great
@@DanielReidTheEditor0 I have no issues on PC but I am using the PS1 version on Duckstation emulator, which lets me export music from Music 2000 in WAV format. As for the Windows version there's now a version with extra install options that works for some Windows 10/11 users but not all of them.
@@DanielReidTheEditor0 I have a real ps1 copy, I was just asking because it looked different but then went back to the game and never realized you can do world view
These tracks would make great breakbeat happy hardcore if you added a bit of intro/outro and a 4/4 kick. Have you ever considered releasing aomsthing like that on vinyl so it could ve mixed?
Yes defo and also have some 4 on the floor with breakbeats on top lined up. Proper Old School Hardcore you are talking about here and welcome some of that. SOON!
that would be great. If you could master it then if you allow I could make a dub plate to mix on my turntables. This type of music is the reason I’m looking at M2K as it has the right sound character and limitations for authentic 90s breakbeat HHC. Unfortunately I’m away working at sea so unable to get a PS1 to record in breaks to cut in M2K. Do the recorded samples save to MC or do you have to insert the audio CD each time you load the project?
Hi Daniel. Im trying this out on duckstation but some samples have a whining sound. On bass heavy sounds. Does it do this on real hardware? I have uploaded an example ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Bd9-aGUG-8k.htmlsi=i4B1yUKFdxq-ev1_
Nice one Dan Luv Dread Bass ... Top one...Do You know the memory card trick ? You can store ps1 game saves on to ps2 memory cards . I got loads tunes stored on ps2 memory cards .. only thing You have delete the ps1 card then copy the tune You want back onto the blank ps1 card from the ps2 ..That if You have a ps2 ..Hope this helps....
I played MTV Music Generator (I think it's the same thing as this) on my Playstation 1! I actually was able to install homebrew on a PSP so I could run a PS1 emulator and make beats on the go and it worked nice. These days I use Reason on my PC and stuff like the Korg software on my 3DS.
Yes you hit the nail on the head. after I made this track I thought to myself... hmm this almost sounds like a scarface theme haha so I guess it really does then. Nice
I dont the whole internet has a better track created on ONE Yamaha A3000 sampler yet alone the TWO that I own. WOnder the lack of creation on these machines was down to saving files on a cruddy file system and Japan needed to embrace the Windows Fat file system and used IDE instead of that expensive nowadays messed up crap ribbons the Japs used.
That is the beauty of the Yamaha A3000 Sampler. It sure stands out sound wise. Soundscape making is easy with re-sampling with FX and making sounds alien. Its all fun and games and need a USB floppy emulator to save tracks data unless you have an installed hard drive which in one of my machines I do have and saved the track and loaded the other A3000 with the drum samples to play drums in order to prevent slowing down or latency attack.
Check out the ZX Spectrum 128k A the Grey computer with in built cassette deck. I hacked it all up and stuffed it into a nice 19" 1U Rack unit in this video is my 19" Rack 1st prototype and looks shit in contrast to my newer on in the ABOVE video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-e26VDj_TE78.html
My latency or clogged up beats was caused by using a very cheap USB midi port. I learned that my cheap unit also has other issues like sending out lots of blips of useless data. Can't wait to try out a better one. Plus I remember my Atari ST had good timing with the A3000 sampler and did good jungle tracks.
NEVER buy those cheap (>$15), generic, black, lump-on-a-cable USB-MIDI adapters (usually w treble cleff silkscreened on them); they're out of MIDI spec, no opto isolators, so won't pass sysex data properly, and not to be trusted otherwise, and have caused lotsa MIDI misery to musicians for over a decade, many threads on forums tell the tale...
I am more of a musician as it consumes enough of my energy yet I have been dabbling with Vegas. I could make a better video in camtasia. I am not very adept in my video editing but I give it a go. I edited boss music in ACID pro 11. Plus made all the tracks featured in ACID 11 too.
Thank you very much. I experimented when making this one, I shortened the length of the kick drum and snares and percussive sounds to make more sounds stand out and threw some compression on there when I was working on it and then finally recording into my laptop via small headphone jack.
I know, not many people knew about it's hidden secret power... But it only transmits 8 channels out of 16 you can select Y1 to Y16 but only have 8 out of the 16 channels playing at once. A Sampler can help you trigger recorded chords and one channel can play more than 3 notes then... Have to use imagination and think of expanding on the limits here but a cracking track can be made and it's a mega WOW factor to have made a bit of old school rave or techno or something more contemporary. I botched my first midi lead to a speccy 128k when I was 14yrs of age and got a Yamaha PRS300 keyboard. Shite tunes but I wanted a sampler and dad would not get me one... They cost the same as a second hand moint car back then
That is wonderful. I've been intrigued by the "just put Y in the PLAY command and you can do MIDI stuff" for years. I now have a working +2, but lockdown means I can't go rummaging for MIDI things....
Id suggest a Yamaha A3000V2 or Akai S3000xl and order one and a midi cable and a lightgun for the connection to the back. THE ACTUAL HANDBOOK for the +2 and black one has a diagram to wire up your own MIDI connection and shows the pins of which you need to connect. Use an electronic tester to find the pins but memory serves me the red and black wires are the ones you need on the light gun plug .. Light gun was rubbish anyway Have fun
10 LET a$="Y1V15O4N3ceg5e3ceg5e3df5a3df5a3fgfed5c3fgfed5ccO3cCCcC": play a$ ... THen make another 7 strings and play up to 8 channels of midi. Y determines the Midi channel. V=volume from 0 to 15 and O=octave from 1 to 7 N=seperator between nymbers like a REM for note lengths to be inserted .. 1 to 12 ... Have fun programming in basic like I did
I will have the tape file available on here soon and add a link here later ok. You can load the data from the youtube video into the spectrum or even an emulator spectrum
Check out the ZX Spectrum 128k owners book and it has instructions near the back and the correct pins you need to connect. THis is available online too by the way. Hope you find it, he greay or black 128k book will be fine as the pins are the same on both models and also +3
Same here pal, this strange behaviour is more alleviated if you lower the brightness on your TV set: is this congenital? Tried to play Cookie? It's atrocious !! :-D
No. I did this years ago but I still have all the files and track to make another WAV or mp3 but will make it sound better as have got better at mixing since too. Will put it on Souundcloud
hey man I just got one of these! I have it connected with an AKAI S2800 and a MIDI cable that goes from the THRU of the AKAI into the A3000, but I can't seem to get any sound off of it! Any suggestions?
Maybe your midi cable is dodgy and wont pass through or the Akai isnt passing through data, try the Yamaha 1st then pass through to the Akai, I know the Yamaha Sampler works passing through midi for certain :) hope this helps
make sure sample is turned on and also the correct midi channel is selected for the sample along the edit line ok, the 2nd green light down and far right red light button
The only issue I had when making a whole track on two samplers is that if I did it all on the 1 sampler there would be too many timing glitches due to ram access time and latency of sounds. The A3000 is not sharp at playing sounds on time with midi especially when playing many at once, sounds are in a queue so to speak. I made the track using both my samplers to cut down latency and sound queues but still sounds laggy in parts, hence this track's weird vibe. But it is a demo of what sound you can get out of these machines all the same.
@@RaveyStabs Same Ram modules but I have not tried the fastest simm chips yet , If memory serves me right it can handle 50ns latency simms .. I have 60ns ones ;) Not much but bet every little adds extra durability
Wow, awesome ! Is it downloadable or on soundcloud ? Would like to have it! Did you route the audio of some emulator into a DAW? By the way, your system looks like mine 15 years ago hahah, XP with even the nero adware ;)
Thank you for your interest. I will add this on Soundcloud yes. I routed my PS1 into the PC with a TV card and recorded what was on the screen with camtasia studio I think. I routed the audio outputs from the PS1 into the PC and used minihost VST to enhance the sound and add compression, I made the track around the compressor to give it a certain feel
God Track! Just why so short? You could develop it more... This Music 2000 Ps1 has a really unique sound Song made in this program even today sound very good. Where can you download this track in MP3 320kb? Pozdrawiam serdecznie i mam nadzieję, że zrobisz więcej utworów na kultowym (w pewnych kręgach) Music 2000.
My Rotary encoders are great on my main one but bad onsecond sampler. Apparently some contact cleaner spray does the job and also does moving the Yamaha A3000 away from other electrical inteferance too. I did buy some rotaries to replace with but the detents were wrong. They bloody chose real difficult ones to find. Think Alps are doing them again now though :)
You need to find ones that have the same detents a the yamaha. I Think it is 30 detents or click points and the data must be 1 bit and not two bits of data sent per detent.
