it's mindblowing to see how much of a technological leap was made in the last 30 years. nowadays one single snare sample would weight as much as that floppy disk
I miss my W30! To the bloke who said it had a terrible user interface... Maybe. But I loved mine. It's like a camera - whinge about megapixels all you like, it's what you do with it that counts...
I picked up a W-30 w/scsi a few years back. I am using a similar light for my screen, even though I have a backlight replacement, I just leave it as is. It's a wonderful controller. I put my computer keyboard on top of the floppy disk area (sits nice and flat) and a Novation Nocturn on the open area to the right. After checking out the sampling function I picked up all the Roland samplers from yesteryear, from the s50 (with monitor) to the 760. Even though it became more of a performance sequencer live for Liam, I really enjoy sampling with it. Great video! I have many original Roland sample disks that the W-30 can read. When I see a new wizbang midi controller, I just laugh, so much can still be done done with gear from a certain era.
Completely bowled over and I didn't even know till watching this, these type of keyboards were in existence to accomodate the little floppy disks. Charley I presume must have been made on this. I think Njoi and Altern 8 used Korg, not sure. I bet on this particular one, you could quite easily record LFO-LFO. Incredible :-)
absolutely fantastic, thanks for uploading, really enjoyed watching it, and i'm still amazed at how simple the ingredients are and the method for putting them together, to make such a huge sounding anthem. well, simple if you're liam howlett..
He actually used this keyboard/sampler on the jilted generation album too. It wasn't until FOTL that he started using computer and software DAW sequencers.
this is the real deal, was confirmed by the prodigy's website admin Theresa. Liam sold it to a mate of his 15+ years ago. The video was made by liams mates brother.
I've loved so much this machine in the 90's,and made many live acts whith the w30 synchronized whith the raven quasimidi.I still have it,full of dust,don't know if it still works.Actually,it is a little obsolete , whith the own interest to have 8 separate mono outputs.If you use 2 outputs channels and assign a left part of a sample to one,and the right part to another one,you have a stereo sound (2x 30khz mono and 16 bits definition).The definition its 16 bits 30khz mono sounds,a little "small" today comparing to the actual definitions,and the floppy disks are very difficult to find.Mine had a hard disk and I had added the kw30 wich is a kit that allows it to work whith a scsi hard disk.And the songs are so long to load! but it stays a funny toy.
I had one at the age of 15-16, but i couldnt work good with it. I sold it and bought an Ensoniq ASR-10 later, wich was much easier to work with. I still have my ASR-10 between the rest of my collection.
The days before you had laptops and programs like Cubase and Garage Band, I could imagine it being quite laborious to make tracks like that back then (the process was probably much slower and longer too) yes actual music making programs did exist back then but even then the technology wasn’t quite there yet and it wasn’t like you could take a whole computer with monitor and keyboard and put it on stage with you plus Liam probably had like three or four of these keyboards playing different tracks (or he made a live mix which had the setlist for gigs and stuff) but regardless of all those things some great songs by the likes of The Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Altern 8, Fatboy Slim, Shades of Rhythm, Orbital and others were made on things like this so you can’t deny it was worth it 😁
Why would liam sell it , then again Roland must have sent him a shit load of w 30s and I still noticed at least one on stage up till 2005 , the screen is gone on mine works well if I shine a strong light on it but really badly faded any body can put these samples into their own w 30 , pretty much all originals are here on RU-vid but what liam done all them years ago in his bedroom with this machine is just brilliant , I prefer the old sound liam had before using software it's like a certain human edge or rawness got lost along the way , love this machine ,organic input all the way
@@jiltedgenerator oh that’s cool mate. my dad went to a lot of raves and prodigy concerts in the 90s he gave me a Jilted Generation sweater for christmas
Yup Jiltedgenerator kupił ten egzemplarz :D na kanale ma powrzucane różne ciekawe rzeczy Posiada kilka syntezatorów Liama :D co jakiś czas próbuje gościa kopnąć aby w końcu coś nagrał :D (siedzi na grupkach so...)
Back in tha day the samples were recorded from vinyl then on to floppy But what program did they / he use to put them on to disc for use on the keybord or say a akia sampler ?
the disk contain the data used on a sick track,it's a piece of history plus he can use it,yes it's formatted to work on that brand of keyboard not sure if it's for this specific keyboard... plus the buyer got find his own sounds...
+Daniel Thorp definitely... cause they still performing their old classics ..plus they've changed gears over the years. .at one point they've even used softwares also....
@@jossymusic752 i bought this keyboard from the guy in this video. And one of the stipulations of sale was not to distribute the material on the disk unfortunately 👍
So what if it was? Liam did play most of his stuff by hand, he was and is a classically trained pianist, so I expect he likes to actually play stuff as well as sequence, bizarre how some people still care so much about virtuosity, so called "real music"over substance.
Obviously you don't understand quite what Liam was capable of and just how talented he was/is .. there is a reason you know who he is and what their music is ...he's fucking talented
For example that bassline was first recorded as the single note :P then aranged and rerecorded as the sample once again you know limitations of the hardware :P
✨🙄🙄🙄🙄BAD GEAR....!!!...I have one for the last 6 months...I made a big mistake buying this item....✨🫣🫣🫣🫣..cannot pan anything...in ..out only mono... poor frequency... little time for sampling...the loop doesn't solve the problem...no effects...bad menu...a very primitive sampler...✨🫣🫣🫣✨👎👎👎👎👎👎👎
