Atari ST used by Michael Cretu creator of Enigma

[amiman99]

Here is a link to Youtube video showing Michael Cretu using Atari ST for his music in 1992.

 

I also found Fatboy Slim using the ST, I think I posted that before.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHoHzNZjdzc#t=01m54s

 

[MrMaddog]

Nice... I really like that Enigma song when it came out in 1990 and that's when I wanted to get an Atari ST for a graduation gift. Should have known with the perfect mix of synthesized beats and vocal samples, it would be done on a ST.

Edited May 14, 2017 by MrMaddog

[amiman99]

I still have the original cassette tape, somewhere...

[lp060]

I have all of his Enigma albums, a couple of Sandra's (his wife) and one from another of his projects "Trance Atlantic Air Waves".

(Axel F. remake)

 

Had no clue he used an Atari ST back in the day. Awesome.

[Greenious]

You guys have just no idea how big the Atari ST were with musicians late 80's and the 90's. It would be a bigger surprise to hear someone NOT using Atari at that time.

 

Even after Atari folded I had plenty with business around Sweden repairing their Ataris. Many refused to quit the Atari and only went PC once HDD recording became the norm.

 

Many musicians using midi-equipment still use Atari.

[lp060]

This might be a later video. Looks like he has an Atari monitor built into the wall. As Sandra walks through the door, it's on the left.

 

I'm aware that Atari was pretty popular among music people, but in those days I was just an ordinary user banging out GFA code oblivious to the world. I didn't bother reading CD liners either.

Edited May 17, 2017 by lp060

[leech]

I remember seeing quite a few advertisements in Music magazines back in the day for the Atari ST. It really was king in those days, it was one of the strokes of genius to include the MIDI ports with the systems.

[Ayreon]

 

Armin van Buuren in his better days

[amiman99]

 

Armin van Buuren in his better days

Nice!

 

I bet young musicians those days got started on Atari and Amiga.

[Foebane]

Enigma? That song that mixed Gregorian chant with pop music? I HATED it!

[lp060]

You couldn't pay me to listen to Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin, so what.

Edited May 26, 2017 by lp060

[calimero]

What else you could use for MIDI in 80s and 90s?

 

Specialized music equipment something like Korg Trinity?

 

Maybe overpriced Mac? Although I am not sure what kind of MIDI software was available for Mac...

 

Amiga hardware had a bug so every 8 minutes it would drop data (with cheap and simple MIDI adapters):

 

"You see, the early Amiga models had a hardware bug which made the serial port unreliable at high data rates. Basically the problem was that the serial port hardware had only a one-byte buffer, and if you didn't grab that byte before the next byte came in then data would be lost..." https://amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=151#p575

[Ayreon]

Amiga's have been used in the very early Dutch hardcore scene quite a bit. Just as a sound/noise tracker machine though and it shows. Tracks like Poing are very simplisctic but rather succesful at the time. Or Three Amiga's EP. Said to be produced with 3 Amiga's and protacker. Even promoting Amiga on the label of the vinyl record and CD sleeves