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AY Riders

Started by delta on 21 June 2009 • 7,244 views

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#5447321 June 2009

while looking for a program i could use to write my own Spectrum Music on a PC (anyone know of one?), i came across a little group called the AY Riders.

They make their music not using instruments or modern PCs, but using Spectrums. Consequently thier music sounds exactly like the kind of thing you'd hear in a spectrum game. The 'AY' is the sound chip in the
Spectrum.

They have SEVEN albums released! check them out here:

https://ay-riders.speccy.cz/ you can download all the songs from the first 5 albums for free, and a couple from the last two albums.

i especially like this album cover:

http://ay-riders.speccy.cz/img/004.png

#6573021 June 2009

Wow - that stuff is really good - they've even managed to cover pop songs!

Challenge:
I wonder if anyone can take the AY Riders Spectrum version of Madonnas Hung Up and make a dizzyage music video using dancing yolkfolk?

#6574023 June 2009

while looking for a program i could use to write my own Spectrum Music on a PC (anyone know of one?) I don't know much about Spectrums, but would a Commodore 64 synth be close enough?

If so there's a magazine available in shops called Computer Music. On every cover DVD there is a software suite called The CM Studio. It contains, amongst other software, Computer Muzys (an audio and MIDI sequencer) and a VST plugin called 'Odo Synths Unknown 64'.

If you plug the synth into Computer Muzys (or any other VSTi compatible sequencer) you can play away to your heart's content!

EDIT: It appears that you can get the synth from here without having to but the magazine!

#6580328 June 2009

how in the name of god do AY Riders expect anyone to contact them? i can't find ANY contact info at all. :sad:

#6605212 July 2009

I can think of something similar, with Amiga, MOD Archive If only they had one like that for Atari ST {yolkfolk}:scratch:

#6607115 July 2009

Misters, I look you not in a course that in Russia and neighbouring countries with might and main write music on ZX-Spectrum. Here a site with huge archive of AY-melodies. And here, it is possible to listen to AY-music in a player, directly on a site of one of musicians.

Sorry for my English, I write by means of the translator.

#6684926 October 2009

does anyone know how to contact any of the AY Riders?

#6685127 October 2009

after a little browsing - I found their myspace page which has a link to contact them
http://www.myspace.com/ayriders

I also found a pic of one of their old flyers, which appears to have another website address on it - but youd need very good eyes to work it out (bottom right of pic - in orange)

#6687127 October 2009

There are other projects like this, such as the back in time CD's which are toured by a live band of old Commodore musicians!
They even tour with a band, check them out...