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goto80
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 138 |
SAM in pop-culture?
I stumbled across a track by Model-500 that made me think... Let's hear what SAM has been doing!
Time Space Transmat by Model-500:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_dRRg9JUC0&e
Das Boot by U96, of course:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwc0shJ2aYc
(...but is there anyway of knowing if it's made with Atari's Speech or C64's SAM? Are they 100% similar?) |
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Angel of Death
Registered: Apr 2008
Posts: 210 |
The first video is most probably SAM because the tune is full of SID-like sounds. (he could be cheating as a lot of other people used to do. the AMIGA standard workbench speech engine sounded almost the same as SAM but only higher bit-rate. interpreter was just as simple.)
Second video could be the speech-engine that was available on the ATARI 1040 (not standard) which was the ultimate MIDI control computer at that time. As far as I know they more or less used the same phonemes and control-routines. Both developed by Tramiel and co. and both using 680x0 family processors it is very likely that they used the same software... |
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Frantic
Registered: Mar 2003
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Dunno about Das Boot. It does not sound precisely like C64-SAM to me. Sounds more like the engine used in "Audio Sculpture" on Amiga, whatever that is... Perhaps related to the same "family" of engines as mentioned by Angel of Death here.
:) |
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Adam
Registered: Jul 2009
Posts: 321 |
The first track by 'Model 500' sounds a hell of a lot like SAM. 'U96 - Das Boot' well im not sure! The Amiga speech was nothing like SAM or what the Atari produced. Thanx for posting the links - Ive never heard of Model 500 before! What awesome music!! I remember the U96 track from when i was a kid.. =-)) |
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iopop
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 317 |
The Model 500 track is from 1985 which would limit the options of machines to use. Unless the youtube link is a later remix, I have no audio here. |
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dalezy
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 475 |
christensen said it was done on his atari. and if my memory serves right, an old interview i've seen with him in 92/93 showed his trusty atari as well. |
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goto80
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 138 |
okay, not really sure what i was thinking, sorting out head now:
the Atari speech synthesis is the same as the one in Audiosculpture that megafrantic mentioned.
so U96 is not using SAM, and i bet you are right dalezy, that it's Atari. U96 always seemed a bit atari-lame to me. :)
here's a great use of SAM, for sure:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO9sBqd5ch4 |
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Zyron
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 2381 |
Definitely SAM:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TIxRUSDzRI |
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Mermaid
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 335 |
Zyron: haha, awesome |
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KM
Account closed
Registered: Oct 2008
Posts: 2 |
Heh, made a Tom Waits remix using SAM.
This is a pure c64 tune, no effects added:
http://home.no/bust/downloads/Kristian_Myklebust_-_Whats_He_Bui..
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clonK
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Registered: Aug 2008
Posts: 65 |
So, what is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZHiURcbGG4&feature=related made with?
out of interest... obv it aint SAM :P |
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Adam
Registered: Jul 2009
Posts: 321 |
Nope, It ain't SAM - that's for sure!
What a shit song that was ... I could make better with my eyes closed while being tortured by those "US" military morons at Guentunemo Bay. =-) |
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linde
Registered: Jul 2006
Posts: 47 |
Good one, Kribust! |
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linde
Registered: Jul 2006
Posts: 47 |
Bump!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdlS5ss8xMM |
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SIDWAVE
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Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2238 |
Well, the speech dude in Windows is called Microsoft SAM.
Either SAM is a general term developers use, or MS has something to do with creating SAM for C64 ? |
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Zyron
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 2381 |
S.A.M. = Software Automatic Mouth |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5017 |
automated |
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Zyron
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 2381 |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5017 |
you are right. |
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Axel
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Registered: Apr 2006
Posts: 42 |
Hipnosis - Astrodance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UNfdqV1Jqc
I think that this is C64's SAM voice |
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goto80
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 138 |
good stuff! axel, i think the one you posted is the amiga/atari speech synthesis. just like in this good ol' aphex track: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpH7cone5lA
hm, but the italo track is from 1984 i just noticed. am i mistaking? again? i have to take a course in SAM. where is the professor? stephen hawkeye?
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Ben
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Registered: Feb 2003
Posts: 163 |
Jean Michel Jarre also used a SAM, but not the C64 one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BCtK3dnatE |
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Hate Bush
Registered: Jul 2002
Posts: 453 |
SAM in a thrash metal song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkVjxEzSIhI
(2:36-2:43) |
