8-Bit Sound Digitizers

That would have been awsome if he said that:)

I thought this was a really awesome video. I do think that, even today, these devices are pretty cool. I am looking it from the perspective of what they were able to do with the technology of the time. The only thing I WISH you would have said in the video was, "another visitor, stay a while, stay forever!" :)

CubicleNate

… I actually recorded it back then via audio tape, cut the tape and glued it back again with nail polish, to test it :)

Oliver Baumann

There are some good backward speech samples in the old Twin Peaks series and movie. The actually had the actor (the dwarf) speak backwards rather than manipulating the audio.

Oliver Baumann

I believe the Red Dwarf "Smeg Ups" tape reverses that scene too.

I still remember using 8-bit stereo sampler for Amiga, made by Elsat. https://bigbookofamigahardware.com/bboah/product.aspx?id=1711

DoktorNo

Thanks very interesting To watch this episode! It is funny, when i was that age i used a philips msx audio, i was never aware such things could be done an a c64 as well!

Edo van Zanten

The 8-bit daughter sings very well. Too bad the software wasn't up to the task 🤷‍♂️

Hugo Cardozo

Very interesting to see such hardware I probably dreamed of as a teenager. I really don't know if these interfaces were available in Europe at all. I think all this was inspired by the very early sampling synthesizer Fairlight CMI. But on C64 with 4 Bit sample depth and memory limitations it was just a fascinating just for fun thing for the home users. Later on the Amiga it was more useful and of a course affordable way to make digital music - in a time when professional sampling synthesizers were still extremely expensive (Akai S1000). Thanks for this exciting review! Fairlight CMI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOlPCpSmhRM

Alexander M. Korn

Funny how crappy that all sounds to "modern ears" ;-). I remembered the TechnoSound Turbo for the Amiga you showed, I was pretty unimpressed at that time by it's poor audio quality... But yes, I liked playing with the effects the software offered.

MrHammond

Fantastic stuff. Looking forward to seeing more of these. :)

DeepestBlue