one correction is that its not a post FX bitcrush like RX950, Decimort etc but actually loading like raw 8bit PCM as a real amiga or sampler would :) hence why the samplerate change isnt instant it needs time to recalculate after u change the samplerate thats why automation of the samplerate is not intended as stated in the manual. Any other plugins use post FX bitcrush which is instant but also brings in noise and lots of other stuff isnt truely authentic!
@@stekker1 This is actually huge. Essentially it's not really an emulation at all then right? Except for what I would assume some Amiga filter or DAC emulation?
@@atetraxx no exactly it's not meant to be a 1:1 emulator but just as close as possible :) there is some DAC going on but the stuff like samplerate actually changes the sample itself its not an audio FX applied to clean sample like a fake thing ( which most suposed sampler plugins do )
@@fartbox8956 Redux has been around for years. This plugin is trash. Slicex is superior in everything. Plus it’s not a gay trap, what straight man wants to buy and Amigo Plug in? That’s the most homosexual shit I have ever heard. You homos need to get your attitude checked.
wow! amazing video! was so much fun programming this over the past 2 months 😁. Seeing everyone’s lovely words in the comments is crazy to see ❤️. thank you all for enjoying the Amigo. big love
This is one of the best VSTs! I've been looking for something like that for years. To simulate that AMIGA crunchiness in DAWs I had to sample from ProTracker and even then it didn't work properly. You and Stekker are original badman!
This dev needs all the love. I would be ecstatic to see a VST each for this same concept applied to the downsampling and DAC conversion on NES, SNES, MD/Genesis, even N64 and PSX would be interesting!
@@meskisable NES had 1 dedicated channel of up to 4-bit DPCM sample-based audio, SNES' entire 8 channels were ADPCM sampler-only channels (the SNES was not capable of synthesis), and Genesis' YM2612 sound chip often switched off its 6th FM channel to use it for 8-bit ADPCM samples instead, such as for drums and voice clips. I'd love to have a VST that faithfully recreates the downsampling processes of each chip, even if true NES chiptune tracks would only be able to use 1 channel at a time!
very true, and something extremely overlooked. lot of people go into autopilot mode when using tools like this (this is how you chop a break, this is how you process a chord, etc...) - but experimenting, screwing with settings, going outside typical production "conventions" is how new things are discovered and you end up with something unique in a track
Urban Shakedown - Some Justice & Early Omni Trio vibes. My mate had the sampler for his Amiga back in the early 90s. He made some tunes and older lads played them at a club. We put a tape together with Amiga tunes and then halfway through I recorded a childrens record "All Aboard". The tears of laughter when "My Boomerang Wont come Back" kicked in over the system and everyone stopped dancing looking around confused. You know the score 😂
i LOVE this, used to make amiga and fasttracker tracks back in the day. timestretch, chord memory, this is the first vst i’ve seen in a long time that feels like it was made by actual electronic musicians who know their history
I still have my Amiga 1200 and haven’t switched it on for so long it probably won’t ever start again (I fitted a hard drive in it!). Hearing the crunch of the sample really reminded me of a (very!) long time ago. I go all the way back to zx spectrums, bbc micro etc. This plugin is going straight in my studio! Who’d have thought just how powerful computers would be when we were back in the 70s(!!!). Even then, the stuff was way better than using paper cards to store programs on :D
This is PURE nostalgia. I suddenly feel transported back to the very first raves back in the 80's. Only this plugin is SO much easier to find than the warehouses and fields they were held in! Thank you so much for uploading this!
ableton redux or just any other good bitcrusher does a similar thing with the sound. i work in ableton and even some of the stretching modes sound similar if you tweak them a bit. then if you need you make the sound mono and yeah. although sound may be similar the feeling of having a separate plugin to do all this seems cool
I love this thing, made working with samples in a DAW so much more fun. Please make a tutorial on how to make 90s breakbeat rave/hardcore, Amigo Sampler is so perfect for that genre :)
Blown away by how good this is for just 13 bucks. Really quick and fun to use and fantastic sound! Could get the same results through other means but it wouldn't be anywhere near as fast or as musical. Having the "Akaizer" built in it's a game changer for me. And a fun chord memory mode built in?? 10/10 full stop.
Bought this at the weekend, and have enjoyed it a lot - it does everything I hoped. I do have my old Amiga (and software) in my loft, but I can't see it ever being used again, so this plugin was a great option for me. It sounds great!
This looks super cool and came out just in time for me to make my Autechre-inspired techno and ambient album...I even got a Realistic Concertmate-500 (the Radioshack reskin of the Casio Sk-1) to do it!
Two words. Hell. YES! I've been getting by using an old freeware sampler plugin called Helios for my Amiga sound needs. It can do linear and no interpolation modes along with some minor chopping and sample manipulation. But since it's so old and outdated, it has many bugs. Especially in the ADSR department and some stereo samples just don't work correctly even when it's supposed to combine the two channels. This is an instant buy for me especially with the ability to chop samples similar to Fruity Slicer, (FL Studio is my DAW of choice as you can see) emulate the Amiga sound interpolation, AND do old Akai stretching effects.
And from the other end of the spectrum, my phone speaker could only reproduce the aliasing of the bass sample. Original: silence, I think? Amigo version: little sparkly sounds twinkling in the distance, LoL.
This is great, as an amateur bedroom producer who had a secondhand S950 and an old MSQ700 trying to make rave music in the 90's recording onto my stereo VCR not doing that great at it, only wished I had known about making this music on Amiga's with trackers and samplers as I guess that is how many did it back then, still would love to try this out.
I had an Amiga a bought a sound interface for it. I overloaded it the first week. My dads mate who designed electronics for weapons technology fixed it and added overload protection. Still miss that crunchy percussion.
Besides VST's basically doing full on Amiga emulation, there's also Olav Sorensen's Fasttracker and Protracker clones that run like a dream on 64 bit windows systems.
TAL-Sampler is a big more feature packed overall, really emulating a larger breadth of sampler technology and workflow from the 90s. Amigo is much more lightweight (not a bad thing) Example: TAL-Sampler lets you map samples across your keyboard manually and provides extensive controls / options around the keygrouping process. Amigo automatically maps things starting at C3 and you cant control that. Both are amazing tools & it's worth having the two in your toolbox, imo
To clarify the slight puzzlement to the why there would be an "Akai" timestretch. It wasn't just Akai's that did this and was why everyone making hardcore/jungle back then had a copy of AudioMaster IV for their Amiga. If Amigo emulates the way Audio Master IV timestretches, I'd say that's a major deal for the emulation of the "Amiga sound".
the stretch on Amigo Sampler is akai style :) but you are correct how most amiga sampling softwares had a form of stretch effect too! or how u can kind of "fake" a stretch on trackers using the sample start offset command
@@stekker1Fair enough, the OctaMED fake tracker stretch wasn't that good imo. AudioMaster IV timestretch can be heard on quite a few tracks by Aphrodite & Bizzy B btw, I'm also pretty sure it's used for DJ Taktix - The Way. it's easy to confuse with the Akai one as they both sound similar for the most part being that it was such early days for that sort of thing, but there's that extra crunch to the AudioMaster IV one.
My 8bit ad box was so noisy i used it as a noise generator in combination with an eq and reverb delay on the mixer for some wicked 90tees stoner sessions😂
Dope video for a cool AF looking sampler VST. Can the reverse function be automated and does it function like tape or vinyl reversing at current play position (like a spin back effect or scratching like Renoise can)?
Thanks for the great video! I started using Amigo this week I love it. Question about mapping. I'm using the Alesis VI49 keyboard controller, but I don't know how to get the samples mapped to the pads on the keyboard. I haven't seen a mapping or midi learn feature on the Amigo UI. Any suggestions?
Bought this today, great piece of kit, cant figure how to automate parameters in FL Studio though with this in the way i would with other vsts, anyone know please?
Probably a really stupid question but… HOW DO I ACTUALLY USE IT??? I don’t like using the piano roll to play specific chops is there any other way to use it? I can’t figure it iut
bigup mate ! lovely video
one correction is that its not a post FX bitcrush like RX950, Decimort etc but actually loading like raw 8bit PCM as a real amiga or sampler would :) hence why the samplerate change isnt instant it needs time to recalculate after u change the samplerate thats why automation of the samplerate is not intended as stated in the manual. Any other plugins use post FX bitcrush which is instant but also brings in noise and lots of other stuff isnt truely authentic!
@@stekker1 This is actually huge. Essentially it's not really an emulation at all then right? Except for what I would assume some Amiga filter or DAC emulation?
@@atetraxx no exactly it's not meant to be a 1:1 emulator but just as close as possible :) there is some DAC going on but the stuff like samplerate actually changes the sample itself its not an audio FX applied to clean sample like a fake thing ( which most suposed sampler plugins do )
@@atetraxx and it does accurately load amiga format samples ! even with their loop points intact if they had those saved
@@stekker1 cheers mate, great context, pinning for folks to see!
This plugin will pave the way to a new wave of proper oldschool jungle :)
If Renoise didn’t, then I doubt this will.
@@Myexpectationsarerealistic renoise isn't a plugin bruh the effect is different.
@@fartbox8956 turn the interpolation off in the sampler and use the cheap timestretch in Renoise combined with Akaizer and you get similar results.
Ehh
@@fartbox8956 Redux has been around for years. This plugin is trash.
Slicex is superior in everything. Plus it’s not a gay trap, what straight man wants to buy and Amigo Plug in? That’s the most homosexual shit I have ever heard. You homos need to get your attitude checked.
wow! amazing video! was so much fun programming this over the past 2 months 😁. Seeing everyone’s lovely words in the comments is crazy to see ❤️. thank you all for enjoying the Amigo. big love
amazing plug in ! just bought and having so much fun. love the UI
Wow..its a plug in ! S0 dope ! I used to use fasttracker 2 , great stuff.
You programmed an instacop. Thank you.
Guess i'm buyin it 🤷
This is one of the best VSTs! I've been looking for something like that for years. To simulate that AMIGA crunchiness in DAWs I had to sample from ProTracker and even then it didn't work properly. You and Stekker are original badman!
This dev needs all the love. I would be ecstatic to see a VST each for this same concept applied to the downsampling and DAC conversion on NES, SNES, MD/Genesis, even N64 and PSX would be interesting!
NES, SNES, MD doesn't use samples, but has their own synths. Their properly emulated by Plogue.
@@meskisable NES had 1 dedicated channel of up to 4-bit DPCM sample-based audio, SNES' entire 8 channels were ADPCM sampler-only channels (the SNES was not capable of synthesis), and Genesis' YM2612 sound chip often switched off its 6th FM channel to use it for 8-bit ADPCM samples instead, such as for drums and voice clips. I'd love to have a VST that faithfully recreates the downsampling processes of each chip, even if true NES chiptune tracks would only be able to use 1 channel at a time!
This sampler is making me realize why old school stuff is so weird sometimes. You just keep experimenting with samples with it
very true, and something extremely overlooked. lot of people go into autopilot mode when using tools like this (this is how you chop a break, this is how you process a chord, etc...) - but experimenting, screwing with settings, going outside typical production "conventions" is how new things are discovered and you end up with something unique in a track
Just when I thought I don't any more plugins...
need
didn’t
Oh no, the correction police are after me
Fart into your mic, press record, stay safe.
You ALWAYS need more plugins 😁
As someone who has started of his music production obsession using octamed, this is definitely my cup of tea!
Urban Shakedown - Some Justice & Early Omni Trio vibes. My mate had the sampler for his Amiga back in the early 90s. He made some tunes and older lads played them at a club. We put a tape together with Amiga tunes and then halfway through I recorded a childrens record "All Aboard". The tears of laughter when "My Boomerang Wont come Back" kicked in over the system and everyone stopped dancing looking around confused. You know the score 😂
i LOVE this, used to make amiga and fasttracker tracks back in the day. timestretch, chord memory, this is the first vst i’ve seen in a long time that feels like it was made by actual electronic musicians who know their history
Omg this is THE sound i have been wanting for 20 years lmao. ❤
I still have my Amiga 1200 and haven’t switched it on for so long it probably won’t ever start again (I fitted a hard drive in it!). Hearing the crunch of the sample really reminded me of a (very!) long time ago. I go all the way back to zx spectrums, bbc micro etc. This plugin is going straight in my studio! Who’d have thought just how powerful computers would be when we were back in the 70s(!!!). Even then, the stuff was way better than using paper cards to store programs on :D
Wow. This looks like it really enables you to do some things that previously took some extra editing skills and time to implement.
This is PURE nostalgia. I suddenly feel transported back to the very first raves back in the 80's. Only this plugin is SO much easier to find than the warehouses and fields they were held in! Thank you so much for uploading this!
The hoops I’ve been jumping through to make this sound… this is great
ableton redux or just any other good bitcrusher does a similar thing with the sound. i work in ableton and even some of the stretching modes sound similar if you tweak them a bit. then if you need you make the sound mono and yeah. although sound may be similar the feeling of having a separate plugin to do all this seems cool
you just need a proper bit crusher and sample rate reducer mate, D16 Decimort is excellent for that type of sound
@@Mia1Goth been using ableton redux and haven’t really been happy with it. I’ll try out the Decimort plugin, thanks for the rec
Large up for the shout out TF!! Seriously game changing VST from the Stekker. Wicked vid :)
and potenzadsp/ilchef 😉
@@dariopotenza3962 Yes yes biggup!!
"amigo is so hot right now"
This is the VSTi of the year!
I love this thing, made working with samples in a DAW so much more fun. Please make a tutorial on how to make 90s breakbeat rave/hardcore, Amigo Sampler is so perfect for that genre :)
ive been on an oldschool jungle kick for a year or so now
this is EXACTLY what i need
love thiss im gonna get it!:)
Instant buy. Thanks for sharing. Although the last thing I need is another sampler vst. But I love the style, the sound, and it has native Linux.
Blown away by how good this is for just 13 bucks. Really quick and fun to use and fantastic sound! Could get the same results through other means but it wouldn't be anywhere near as fast or as musical. Having the "Akaizer" built in it's a game changer for me. And a fun chord memory mode built in?? 10/10 full stop.
Bought this at the weekend, and have enjoyed it a lot - it does everything I hoped. I do have my old Amiga (and software) in my loft, but I can't see it ever being used again, so this plugin was a great option for me. It sounds great!
Bro, the buzzy effect it gave that pad was amazing
100%! Great sounding tool
Funny, i just got back into using music trackers a few days ago. I love that crispy sampled sound!
this is gnarly, thanks
Great video mate, getting nostaligic❤
This looks super cool and came out just in time for me to make my Autechre-inspired techno and ambient album...I even got a Realistic Concertmate-500 (the Radioshack reskin of the Casio Sk-1) to do it!
Sounds interesting mate, big into techno and ambient and used to love my SK1 🙂
Link us up to your bandcamp or whatever when you're done! 👍
Havent had a chance to play with it yet, but seeing this in action on your channel makes me even more proud of the purchase!
You're going to love it, such a solid tool at an insane price
I'm glad I watched this. Very kool plugin and worth the try. thanks.
Can't wait to use this :)
🔥🔥
Not only is this plugin super rad, this is perhaps the most entertaining video to watch on all of TH-cam.
Amazing video, as usual ❤
this is awesome, sounds great on drums.
crazy! such great vst :) thanks mate! cheers
this is cool i deffo gotta pair this with renoise
That's so Flipping cool!
Two words.
Hell. YES!
I've been getting by using an old freeware sampler plugin called Helios for my Amiga sound needs.
It can do linear and no interpolation modes along with some minor chopping and sample manipulation. But since it's so old and outdated, it has many bugs. Especially in the ADSR department and some stereo samples just don't work correctly even when it's supposed to combine the two channels.
This is an instant buy for me especially with the ability to chop samples similar to Fruity Slicer, (FL Studio is my DAW of choice as you can see) emulate the Amiga sound interpolation, AND do old Akai stretching effects.
Wow, my subwoofer really loves that low kick sample.
And from the other end of the spectrum, my phone speaker could only reproduce the aliasing of the bass sample. Original: silence, I think? Amigo version: little sparkly sounds twinkling in the distance, LoL.
@@CatFish107
Well, yeah, that's the whole purpose of the plugin, really.
@unduloid I get it, I was more laughing at the pitiable frequency response of my phone.
@@CatFish107
I never understood people who listen to music on a loud volume on their phones. It sounds like utter crap.
@unduloid I'm just watching vids while I have a coffee. I can check out the actual sound quality on my computer, or put some headphones on.
This is great, as an amateur bedroom producer who had a secondhand S950 and an old MSQ700 trying to make rave music in the 90's recording onto my stereo VCR not doing that great at it, only wished I had known about making this music on Amiga's with trackers and samplers as I guess that is how many did it back then, still would love to try this out.
Man this is so good
oh my god i neeed this plugin in my life right now
this is so coooollll
I had an Amiga a bought a sound interface for it. I overloaded it the first week. My dads mate who designed electronics for weapons technology fixed it and added overload protection. Still miss that crunchy percussion.
LOL love it. I bet that Amiga was a weapon itself after that
@@Thought-Forms sound tracker and later octamed. Pro sound for editing then musicx when I got a midi keyboard
i literally have no idea what this is but its really cool
awesome plugin! such a cool vibe
instant purchase, this is amazing
This is pretty awesome!!!
I love it. Going to buy a copy.
Hello Amigo! Many thanks for sharing this!
thanks for letting us know, gettin old skool vibez
The time stretch algorithm is pretty fly, seems like an Ill sampler, I’m getting it🌻
Besides VST's basically doing full on Amiga emulation, there's also Olav Sorensen's Fasttracker and Protracker clones that run like a dream on 64 bit windows systems.
it sounds really cool!
that pad in the beginning was sampled in genesis by boy 2000!!
Will be making a lot of neo soul & boom bap with this.
gg
Pretty cool vst idea
Love it mane.,!
I notice a folder "Uncanny Dreams - Ambient Sample Pack 2", is that a pack that is coming?
🤫
welp. guess i'm getting it!
Fantastic!
Thanks for this video! You mention TAL Sampler briefly near the end, I wonder if you could dive a little deeper into how they compare to one another?
TAL-Sampler is a big more feature packed overall, really emulating a larger breadth of sampler technology and workflow from the 90s. Amigo is much more lightweight (not a bad thing) Example: TAL-Sampler lets you map samples across your keyboard manually and provides extensive controls / options around the keygrouping process. Amigo automatically maps things starting at C3 and you cant control that. Both are amazing tools & it's worth having the two in your toolbox, imo
To clarify the slight puzzlement to the why there would be an "Akai" timestretch. It wasn't just Akai's that did this and was why everyone making hardcore/jungle back then had a copy of AudioMaster IV for their Amiga. If Amigo emulates the way Audio Master IV timestretches, I'd say that's a major deal for the emulation of the "Amiga sound".
the stretch on Amigo Sampler is akai style :) but you are correct how most amiga sampling softwares had a form of stretch effect too! or how u can kind of "fake" a stretch on trackers using the sample start offset command
@@stekker1Fair enough, the OctaMED fake tracker stretch wasn't that good imo. AudioMaster IV timestretch can be heard on quite a few tracks by Aphrodite & Bizzy B btw, I'm also pretty sure it's used for DJ Taktix - The Way. it's easy to confuse with the Akai one as they both sound similar for the most part being that it was such early days for that sort of thing, but there's that extra crunch to the AudioMaster IV one.
This is great! Just what he doctor ordered. Why do I have a felling that we will see Pete Cannon using this in the near future.
There's a short quote review on the VST website from him
My 8bit ad box was so noisy i used it as a noise generator in combination with an eq and reverb delay on the mixer for some wicked 90tees stoner sessions😂
Well done fella.
As much as I love RNS Redux, this looks tempting :D
Dope video for a cool
AF looking sampler VST. Can the reverse function be automated and does it function like tape or vinyl reversing at current play position (like a spin back effect or scratching like Renoise can)?
instant cop
Very Nice thanks !
Nostalgic
dude was having to much fun with the stretch
LOL had to cut a bunch of footage just messing around, got sucked in 😎
WOW THANK YOU SO MUCH THIS IS INCREDIBLE AND REALLY SICK, IS IT POSSIBLE TO USE IT TO MAKE AUTHENTIC BOOMBAP FROM THE 90S?
ofcourse, it's just a sampler u can make any genre u want with it :)
Please make it available for AAX 🫠
Thanks for the great video! I started using Amigo this week I love it. Question about mapping. I'm using the Alesis VI49 keyboard controller, but I don't know how to get the samples mapped to the pads on the keyboard. I haven't seen a mapping or midi learn feature on the Amigo UI. Any suggestions?
Great that the developer did a Linux build, this was an instabuy :)
The aliasing gave me flashbacks :D
fun :)
Sweet
Just bought it 😊
i use renoise for the same it can also read mod and xm files and use vst as well
Thanks for video. I wish this plugin was standalone (TAL too), it's easier for DAWless jams with a computer
Could you use a vst host that is stand alone? Maybe the Bluecat stuff would work?
This is a brilliant idea!
Wild
ah that Amiga DAC sparkle!
Now I need a FastTracker II for my DAW
This the sexiest fucking VST I ever seen!!
ƒinal thought - complete 90s
Budget vst love it
Looks cool, how does it integrate in a Daw with midi notes and all that shtuff though ?
Perfectly.
Need that
I still regret selling my S 1100 (for $300) 20 years ago. I have yet to find something that makes drums sound as good.
I already got TAL Sampler and Serato Sample, but for this price it's a no brainer.
is this compatible with logic
also sick video
ooooh shit the STREEEEEEEEETCH sold me... yeesh
Bought this today, great piece of kit, cant figure how to automate parameters in FL Studio though with this in the way i would with other vsts, anyone know please?
Looks sick, sounds sick and the price isn't sick!
Wow this is cool and cute.
great plugin! which daw is this in the background?
agreed! and bitwig studio
Probably a really stupid question but… HOW DO I ACTUALLY USE IT??? I don’t like using the piano roll to play specific chops is there any other way to use it? I can’t figure it iut
Another way I guess is dumping each slice to wav then import and arrange as desired
this is awesome, thanks for sharing🫶
Can you change the interface colours? Yeah, retro cool look, but I find that very difficult to read.
Well, that will teach me to comment while watching. You answered my Q at the end of the vid. Nice one.