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Atari TT - a powerful machine for music
Atari TT - a powerful machine for music
by yerzmyey » Tue Jan 27, 2015 6:22 pm
Hi guys.
Lately I bought Atari TT because I wanted to test what are its music capabilities.
Usually, the machine was considered a graphic station, like Atarimania states, but I was always interested in pushing classic computers to their limits and this time I was given this opportunity by Paulo Simoes who programmed the Hex-Tracker 849a.
So this is a test-song I made with standard Atari TT 4Mb. It's entitled "aTTraction", heheh.
Recorded from real hardware, of course:
http://yerzmyey.i-demo.pl/Yerzmyey-aTTraction.mp3
I suspected the computer is very powerful - and I was right.
Hex gives here 16 channels, using the Atari's 32Mhz Motorola CPU. (Can make more but with a substantial sound quality reduction).
What a powerful machine.
Lately I bought Atari TT because I wanted to test what are its music capabilities.
Usually, the machine was considered a graphic station, like Atarimania states, but I was always interested in pushing classic computers to their limits and this time I was given this opportunity by Paulo Simoes who programmed the Hex-Tracker 849a.
So this is a test-song I made with standard Atari TT 4Mb. It's entitled "aTTraction", heheh.

Recorded from real hardware, of course:
http://yerzmyey.i-demo.pl/Yerzmyey-aTTraction.mp3
I suspected the computer is very powerful - and I was right.
Hex gives here 16 channels, using the Atari's 32Mhz Motorola CPU. (Can make more but with a substantial sound quality reduction).
What a powerful machine.
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ZX, Atari, Amiga music: http://yerzmyey.i-demo.pl/
ATARI 520ST digital music: http://ym-digital.i-demo.pl/
ZX, Atari, Amiga music: http://yerzmyey.i-demo.pl/
ATARI 520ST digital music: http://ym-digital.i-demo.pl/
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Re: Atari TT - a powerful machine for music
by mal7921 » Wed Jan 28, 2015 2:28 pm
The TT is a fantastic machine, I've added a graphics card to mine so I can get the TT high resolution modes on a standard VGA monitor. Superb machine let down by Atari themselves.
The collection:
Atari 260ST, 520ST, 520ST+, 520STfm, STacy, Mega ST2
Atari STe, Mega STE, ST Book
Atari TT030, with 2GB Hard drive
Atari Falcon, 14MB, 40GB IDE drive
Atari Megafile 44
The website and the Atari bit
Atari 260ST, 520ST, 520ST+, 520STfm, STacy, Mega ST2
Atari STe, Mega STE, ST Book
Atari TT030, with 2GB Hard drive
Atari Falcon, 14MB, 40GB IDE drive
Atari Megafile 44
The website and the Atari bit
Re: Atari TT - a powerful machine for music
by yerzmyey » Wed Jan 28, 2015 9:18 pm
...which is a shame of course. Although I imagine it was quite expansive back in the days?
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ZX, Atari, Amiga music: http://yerzmyey.i-demo.pl/
ATARI 520ST digital music: http://ym-digital.i-demo.pl/
ZX, Atari, Amiga music: http://yerzmyey.i-demo.pl/
ATARI 520ST digital music: http://ym-digital.i-demo.pl/
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Re: Atari TT - a powerful machine for music
by mal7921 » Wed Jan 28, 2015 10:38 pm
As I remember they started at around $2500, though that was still half the price of the equivalent Apple Macintosh of the day.
To be honest though, worth every penny
To be honest though, worth every penny

The collection:
Atari 260ST, 520ST, 520ST+, 520STfm, STacy, Mega ST2
Atari STe, Mega STE, ST Book
Atari TT030, with 2GB Hard drive
Atari Falcon, 14MB, 40GB IDE drive
Atari Megafile 44
The website and the Atari bit
Atari 260ST, 520ST, 520ST+, 520STfm, STacy, Mega ST2
Atari STe, Mega STE, ST Book
Atari TT030, with 2GB Hard drive
Atari Falcon, 14MB, 40GB IDE drive
Atari Megafile 44
The website and the Atari bit
Re: Atari TT - a powerful machine for music
by yerzmyey » Thu Jan 29, 2015 12:01 am
mal7921 wrote:still half the price of the equivalent Apple Macintosh of the day.
To be honest though, worth every penny
Haha.

So I bought the TT according to the rule "better late than never".

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ZX, Atari, Amiga music: http://yerzmyey.i-demo.pl/
ATARI 520ST digital music: http://ym-digital.i-demo.pl/
ZX, Atari, Amiga music: http://yerzmyey.i-demo.pl/
ATARI 520ST digital music: http://ym-digital.i-demo.pl/
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yerzmyey - Posts: 157
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Re: Atari TT - a powerful machine for music
by yerzmyey » Wed Feb 11, 2015 11:29 pm
By the way, for some time already I was wondering whether it is possible to make symphonic music using only Atari TT.
(I have a standard machine. With 4Mb of RAM).
Well, the final effect isn't very satisfactory, however - here is a song with this kind of music, made entirely for Atari TT (recorded from real hardware of course).
http://yerzmyey.i-demo.pl/Yerzmyey-uTTe ... miTTal.mp3
Well, could be worse, hahaha.
(I have a standard machine. With 4Mb of RAM).
Well, the final effect isn't very satisfactory, however - here is a song with this kind of music, made entirely for Atari TT (recorded from real hardware of course).
http://yerzmyey.i-demo.pl/Yerzmyey-uTTe ... miTTal.mp3
Well, could be worse, hahaha.
_______________________________________________
ZX, Atari, Amiga music: http://yerzmyey.i-demo.pl/
ATARI 520ST digital music: http://ym-digital.i-demo.pl/
ZX, Atari, Amiga music: http://yerzmyey.i-demo.pl/
ATARI 520ST digital music: http://ym-digital.i-demo.pl/
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yerzmyey - Posts: 157
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