Jehst's production.

anyone heard of UK mc/producer Jehst? his album return of the drifter is really great. but he did his beats on it using 2 s950's hooked up to an old atari running cubase. to me that sounds almost impossible! i read he was gonna start using the 60 though. extremely ghetto production! haha.

check him out at
www.lowliferecords.freeserve.co.uk

Fat Boy Slim made hundreds of tracks with the 950, atari combo.

The Atari has software is arguably an easier to use sequencer than the 3k/60.

Plus, the timing is tighter than anything. A dedicated midi timing chip on the motherboard! and it forces you to get on with it, it's always like "OK! What's next?!)

I don't own one, but it was a huge advance and still has many dedicated users, one program a client uses has everything on the screen, no different screens or menus really. I think it's notator.

I'm gonna check this dude out.

the atari can be turned into a mad 12bit sound module. its has a whole of 1mg operating memory.

wow i didnt know that! but yeah definetly check this cat out. all the artists on low life are awesome!

mystro has some good tracks...
ima check more out

i got the atari st with the midi outs on it in the garage. my brother worked for atari in the early 80s as a game tester, i found it in my parents basement and snatched it up just in case.

that track Move Back from jehst actually kicks ass.. i think he sampled it from an old computer game or something...

Not sure if I'd swap the mpc for an atari sequencing wise, but it would be fun to mess with for a bit.

check it out dove.

yep alot of popular pop songs were made this way, computer sequencers go back far.

a studio staple...we even used an atari to track audio projects at uni despite also haveing cubase- tight as you like...

greg

its not ghetto at all ...like dude said the atari is tighter timing wise then even the MPC. and you can record 85 hours of midi data in cubase if you really wanted to my boy has one that he uses..so really how much polyphony does it take to make a hip hop beat?... 2 s950s is probably OVERKILL in my opinion...one should be enough

DjChronoBeats wrote:yep alot of popular pop songs were made this way, computer sequencers go back far.

Yup, I posted Bob Power interviews in the 3K/60 section (engineer/producer of Tribe Callled Quest/De La/Wu Tang) and I was tripping, I had no clue half those old songs were sequenced or processed on computers.

Still seems like to much drama to fuc with, I wouldnt mind paying some body $100 to bring over and install all the software on the one I got though.

I gotta check that interview!

yo dove if it works, and it's a 1040 or so, I know someone who may want to purchase.

But I hope you check it out. If I was in your area I'd take that hundred!

lets see whats up mac, ima gonna hook it up and make sure it powers on and all that. i know it was sitting in storage for like 20 years now. no one used it even when it was new.

oh and you of all people didnt peep that interview, bob breaks sh!t down. someone asked him how they got the snares so crackin on Low End Theory, he talks about merging the attack envelope of a cow bell with a snare on the computer, stuff like that.

if u could link to that interview id be super interested in reading it, i searched but no luck..