The cheapest MIDI home-studio of 1988

Take an Atari ST, 4 budget synths from 1988, and spend months seeing how far they can go - all while staring at a black-and-white CRT! I took me over a year to make this given most of the equipment was DOA and keeping in mind there’s another part coming later this year. Massive thanks to mu:zines and for their incredible collections. This led me to all the cheapest gear that people were actually using back in the day. Thanks also to all those I reached out to who verified most of the findings and gave me amazing insights to the gear of the day. Gear used: Atari 520ST (mostly), Roland MT-100, Yamaha MusicStation PSS-580, Kawai K1, Yamaha EMT-10, Dr T MIDI Recording Studio, Cubase 1.5 and Rotel mini system. 00:00 - Intro 01:10 - Atari’s Sound and finding your first synth 02:40 - Synth - Yamaha MusicStation PSS-580 05:02 - Atari - DR T’s MIDI Recording Studio (demo) 08:32 - DEMO - MusicStation & Monitor 11:13 - Synth - MT-32 Intro 14:00 - Atari - Cubase 1.5 (demo) 17:56 - DEMO - MT-32 Solo & Polyphony discussion 19:52 - Synth - Kawai K1 Intro 21:50 - Synth - Kawai programming and MIDI assign 23:12 - DEMO - Kawai K1 and Guitar Jam 26:00 - DEMO - Yamaha EMT-10 MT-32 27:45 - Conclusion and End tune (demo on the Kawai K1) Please do not copy this entire video to your own channel without permission. Using 45 or 60 seconds as a quote (fairuse, etc) is fine. I’d love to see your video if you are making similar content, @CTRIX64 on twit :-) LGR video on MT-32 : Lestyn demos Roland: Finally, don’t be fooled by the badge, the Atari is an ST520 not an STe - we’ll explore this more in part 2 when I open up the case!