Author Archives: Philippe Neron

The Amiga Studio provides the character, workflow, and sound of a classic 1990s production environment. Bars & Pipes, Studio 16, and the AD516 hardware become creative tools in their own right. The Mac Studio provides modern reliability, editing, synchronization, backup, and final production via any modern DAW (Digital Performer, ProTools, Logic or StudioOne).

Modern DAWs are master clock to SunRize Studio 16 and Bars and Pipes.Amiga synchronized with Mac via SMPTE.Dr.T’s Phantom allows legacy Amiga MIDI to coexist with modern USB MIDI. Recording Options:1) Amiga controls all synths2) Mac controls all synths3) Both: Can record/playback MIDI and Audio to Amiga and Mac same time

The key is getting Sunrize Studio 16 properly synced with your DAW (in my case, Digital Performer). I plan to test this later in the year with Pro Tools, Logic Pro, and Studio One.

My deepest condolences to the Loy family. Gareth was always kind enough to answer all my questions about technology and music. It didn’t matter whether it was about equations, Lucasfilm audio, music composers, or computer music—he always wrote back, detailing the important connections and historical facts on these subjects. I often felt that he was …

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A day off from work means extra studio time! Tracking guitars on my trusty old Amiga, locked in sync with my Mac Studio Pro. Vintage tech still gets it done! My goto DAW, Sequencer and tech resources

A small improvement on the cable-management side—good enough for now until I finish the basement and install furniture to better hide everything. This is the entry point for my network, which supports all of my local, cloud, and NAS backups for my Amiga, Mac, and Windows machines and my DAW backups. I also had an …

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Dealing with ZuluSCSI drive issues on my Amiga this month. I need to go under the hood and hope it’s just minor problems—not trace-route issues or bad capacitors. Time to back up the SSD drive (backups can take a long time!) On ZuluSCSI for the Amiga, the .hda files are hard drive image files. Each …

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The Sunrize Studio16 was a professional-grade digital audio system for the Commodore Amiga, created by Sunrize Industries in the early 1990s. It was a unique solution for its time, aimed at bringing high-quality 16-bit digital audio recording and editing capabilities to the Amiga platform—effectively turning the Amiga into a digital audio workstation (DAW). I am …

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