+CharlieChaplin Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 Well, I mean artists, musicians or programmers, not music-editors or programs. Thinking of many fine A8 music makers in the past, these are the ones I still remember today: Germany: - Kemal Ezcan: not one of my favourites, but author of many old music tunes (mostly pgm.ed in Atari Basic), - Spüli-Soft: also author of quite many old music tunes (pgm.ed in TB XL) - HU-Soft: made quite some nice music with Benjy Soundmon. and later with CMC - Armin Stürmer: author of some musix of AMC games (Pyramidos, Mike`s Slotmachine, Snap, Jinks, etc.) - Thorsten Karwoth: very good soundtracker and cool musix and samples... - Benjy: nice soundmonitor and some cool musix - Pegasus: also a very nice soundmonitor - author of Black Magic Composer (sorry, forgot his name) and many cool sounds composed with it - The BSS-Crew: did some nice sample demos... - Uwe Loos of The German Chaotics and later The Chaotic Crew (Das Omen, Studio Dream, Music Hall 1988 and 1989, ABBUC Intros, etc.) to name just a few... GB/UK: - Adam Gilmore - Rob Hubbard - ... Whitaker - author of Milk Race soundtrack - author of Feud soundtrack - Richard Munns - Archer Mc Lean (if he is also the author of IK soundtrack) and many more USA: - author of Ballblazer soundtrack - author of ... Fractalus soundtrack - author of Mission X soundtrack - author of Blue Max 2001 soundtrack - author of ... soundtrack - Thomas Lieblich (Master of the Lamps!) and some more Poland: - Thomasz Liebich - Jakub Husak - J. Pelc (author of CMC) - author of MPT - Cedyn - X-Ray - Greg - author of TMC - author of Miecze Valdgira soundtracks (= author of Soundtracker ?) and many more... Czech Rep.: - Raster / Radek Sterba (author of RMT) and some others Slovakia: - Fred Brooker and some others Hungary: - HARD Maybe you can tell me your favourite (top 10) musicians on the A8... greetings, Andreas Magenheimer. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted January 16, 2006 Author Share Posted January 16, 2006 Ooops, author of ... soundtrack meant author of Necromancer soundtrack (and this also seems to be Bill Williams)... -Andreas Magenheimer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 Hard were no musicians, they simply played sid files in a pokey environment. Thomasz Liebich still is the best, even if he didn't really outpower pokeys abilities. Jakub Husak (Wodospadem Czasu) X-Ray Gamemusic : Richard Munns, David Whittaker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrodegang Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 Uwe Loos (Das Omen Demo), David Whittaker (Amaurote, Panther) Gary Gilbertson (Alternate Reality), Rob Hubbard (International Karate, Warhawk, Jet Set Willy, Ninja), Composer of the Shake!-Demo tune, Richard Wagner (Rescue on Fractalus ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 Dont know the names but the following games had excellent music IMHO: Ultima III/IV Alternate Reality Drol Boulderdash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plastron Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 Well i would say Richard Munns but then i would as he wrote the music for my games :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 Brad Fuller and Robert Vieira Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pseudografx Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 Just a correction: Fred Brooker (real named Filip Oscadal) is also Czech.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rpc9943 Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 my fav songs i think were eidolon title song and the ninja master title song RonC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
576XE Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 David Whittaker (Red Max) Rob Hubbard (Warhawk) Fred Brooker (Cygnus Lyrae) Lat. (Swan and Lyra Constellations). And ... Where to find atr's with their covox music? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poison Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 Marek Pešout (Cyber City) Poison (Damned Worlds) Marek Pešout (Circus Bizzare) Poison (Epic Fail) Marek Pešout (Who Lost The Wallet) Raster (Imagine demoversion) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bunsen Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 Miker, stRing, Caruso, Poison, Hilton Theissen, Triace, Raster, PG, Jakub Husak 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bunsen Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 (edited) 505, Wieczor, Greg, Der Luchs, sOnar, BeWu, LiSu and finally, not really composer, but good sound designer: emkay Edited June 22, 2015 by Bunsen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kr0tki Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 All names mentioned to this moment are, no doubt, talented chaps, each having created lots of great tunes, and I don't want to depreciate their talents - but for me, only two sound designers hold a special place in my heart. Bill Williams, master of sound effects. Look what he did in Alley Cat, and without sampling! Richard Munns, for his music somehow fits the mood of the games. Especially the title screen music of Black Lamp has this unique quality of setting the mood for the whole game. Lots of newer games incorporate soundtracks made by talented musicians - all being technically advanced and/or catchy little tunes - but the soundtrack's main function is to set the proper mood for the gameplay, and for me, Munns reached this goal in Black Lamp better than anyone. I wonder what he'd achieve if he was still active on the Atari scene. Oh, and his sound effects are also great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdefabri Posted July 20 Share Posted July 20 (edited) Tomasz Liebich (incredible - some of the best work on the Atari) Dariusz Duma (also incredible results with POKEY) Analmux - enough said @pseudografx @Poison Makary Brauner - of late, my favorite A8 composer, really pushing what can be done with POKEY @VinsCool - pushing RMT forward and really exploring POKEY synthesis I'm forgetting some folks, a few active here on the board such as @Synthpopalooza. Bill Williams (noted above) was fantastic at getting sound effects out of POKEY, not so much a composer, but a legend. Edited July 20 by rdefabri 4 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted July 21 Share Posted July 21 @miker is one of my most favorite a8 composers, and next to that also one of the most friendly guys in the scene I know. I wished I could learn some more tricks. I am a professional musician, but somehow I can not get the best out of a8 music. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthpopalooza Posted July 22 Share Posted July 22 @analmuxmay he rest in peace. His experiments helped me. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetboot Jack Posted July 22 Share Posted July 22 Richard Munns and Orall Cornelius - both did amazing work for games I was developing/publishing... sTeVE 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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