Hi guys. Well, rather fakebit than chiptune, rather retro than micromusic but - maybe somebody wold be interested in 80s spacesynth / synthwave disco stuff sequenced with vintage computers: Amiga 500 and Atari 520ST + several various synths (both: classic and modern ones).

DOWNLOAD: https://yerzmyey.bandcamp.com/album/shining-otherworldly



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Yerzmyey - Shining otherworldly

(C) & (P) in 2025

Total time: 26:27 min.

Tracklist:

01 Plasma dance in the ionosphere
02 Galactor attacks!
03 NO TRACKER
04 Shining otherworldly
05 Back in Time
06 Trip to Italy
07 Magic Runes


Hello after 6-years break. ;-)
This time I wanted to make entire album in the MIDI technology and connect some synths (both: modern and vintage ones) to two classic computers: Atari ST and Amiga 500 to check out the workflow. To test how they - and their software - compare to modern DAWs.
So, from me the modern DAWs obtain 0/10 point and Amiga/Atari computers with their MIDI software obtain 10/10. For comfort, ease of use, no lags whatsoerver and so on. And additionally in the Amiga case - for graphic aesthetics of the program.


Tracks descriptions:

Plasma dance in the ionosphere - Yamaha Montage 6 + Amiga 500.
Tracked on OctaMED 4.0.
Original sound of the machine has been preserved.
Thx to The Pink!

Galactor attacks! - Yamaha QY10 + Amiga 500.
Tracked on OctaMED 4.0.
Tons of studio-effects have been added.

NO TRACKER - Yamaha PSS-680 + ATARI 520 ST.
YM3420 chip for two-operator FM synthesis and the YM3419 chip for PCM drums.
Cubase 2.1 sequencer has been used + lots of recording studio effects.

Shining otherworldly - Yamaha Montage 6 + ATARI 520 ST.
Cubase 2.1 sequencer has been used.
Original sound of the machine has been preserved.
Greetz to The Pink again.

Back in Time - CASIO CT-X5000 + Amiga 500.
Tracked on OctaMED 4.0.
Original sound of the machine has been preserved.

Trip to Italy - Roland E-30 + ATARI 520 ST.
Cubase 2.1 sequencer has been used.
Tons of studio-effects have been added.
Greetz to Garvalf from France and Ema Zamboni from Italy - both fans of the Roland E. :)

Magic Runes - Yamaha PSR E423 + Amiga 500.
Tracked on OctaMED 4.0.
Original sound of the machine has been preserved.





Hardware description.




Computers:

Atari 520 ST with 4Mb and satan-disk. The computer has been released in 1985.

Amiga 500 with ACA 500. The computer has been released in 1987.





Synthesizers:

Yamaha Montage 6 released in 2016
FM-X digital synthesis and AWM2 sound-generator (Advanced Wave Memory 2)

Yamaha QY10 released in 1990
AWM sound-generator (Advanced Wave Memory)

Yamaha PSS-680 released in 1988
YM3420 chip for two-operator FM synthesis and the YM3419 chip for PCM drums.

CASIO CT-X5000 released in 2018.
AiX sound-generator (Acoustic Intelligent Expression)

Roland E-30 released in 1990
Linear Arithmetic synthesis (LA sound-generator)

Yamaha PSR E423 released in 2010
AWM sound-generator (Advanced Wave Memory)





Sequencer software used:

Cubase 2.1 for Atari 520ST
OctaMED 4.0 for Amiga 500

Welcome back! I think the album is a refreshing take on the spacesynth genre, given the alternative ensemble and usage of effects and automations. I like it.

Thanks. ;)

Working again, after all those years, with the classic hardware - was a surprisingly nice experience.

i gave a listen and i enjoyed it!

Nice 80's album!

Thank You guys. :)
the hardware varies but probably the strangest one was YAMAHA QY-10 that was of size of the video tape cassette (VHS) and they were even selling the synth in the box of the VHS cassette, hehe…