I love seeing things like #heatwave trending, it means we’re there! 😀
Merely writing the title of this blog post brought excitement into my heart. Thinking about summers in the 1990s during my early college days brought great memories of messing with my Amiga and Yamaha SY22 synthesizer. The very one that was left here by my brother’s friend (And still is here to this day).
However these days with the addition of the Polyend Tracker (which I’m loving btw) and also the C64 to add that SID Chip touch to my music. Despite the strong pangs and waves of nostalgia from the past. I don’t think music making times have been so exciting as they are at the moment.
I’ve not long posted a video exploring the Yamaha SY22 and this video was quite a treat as it included all of the above systems.
If you’ve not watched it yet, here it is:
Who would have thought, that big chunky coffee table which we brought back from my old city would be used for a vintage music setup?! Life certainly has it’s ways of surprising you 🙂
I am now working on a future video to try incorporate the Amiga into the mix too. In the video above, my track Zaman which I’ve created on the Amiga, I have re-created now on the Polyend Tracker. This allowed me to add more dimension to it and mess about with it more freely via MIDI with synths and the C64’s SID. The Amiga was indirectly involved, however as I said I want it to be more directly involved so I’m thinking about working on a little something today. I’m going to keep this a little surprise for now. I’m also trying to speed type this blog post because I’m itching to work on it.
About the Polyend Tracker (Also, feedback If someone from Polyend is reading this).
I love using this machine, but I have to say the .MOD and .IT support is inconsistent and scruffy at best. In fact a lot of the times I’ve tried to load a MOD file into it, it doesn’t work. When it does work, it’s all over the place. I did a review on the Polyend tracker and love it (I’ll link it below). However if Polyend are reading this, could you please improve the .MOD and .IT support, it will help those of us like myself who have a big musical history with the Amiga 🙂
The remnants of the music setup from the last video I posted, as you can see, things have become a little fluffier.
Oh one more thing, a while back I had done a review on my Soundcraft Signature 12 MTK. Which was actually watched by the designer of this very mixer itself, Sean Karpowicz, who enjoyed my video 🙂
If you haven’t seen this video, check it out here:
There’s been a niggle with it which I haven’t figured out until recently. Judging by some of the comments I’ve had around over time, It seems I’m not the only one.
Yeah for a while even I wondered why the headphones out is mono only, also the VU meters are displaying mono despite there being two and labelled ‘L’ and ‘R’.
I decided to sit with this mixing console last night and faff around with it until I figured it out (the instruction manual didn’t help, I tried that first)
Basically you have to turn off the AFL/PFL. I have uploaded a short video explaining this, check it out here:
Edit: I’ve edited this post so many times trying to re-embed this ‘short’ video, it shows up in the edit view but not in the final view..Not sure what’s going on there, if it doesnt show up for you then this is the link.
Wow, going back to search for the comments mentioning the mono headphone output issue, so many lovely comments I’ve only just noticed! Youtube doesn’t notify me of every comment so this is a lovely surprise.
This has made my day! Thank you all so much!! <3 <3
Hope you’re all enjoying the lovely sunshine, have an amazing day everyone <3
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