More cool retro C64 type synths coming your way – introducing Raider
Raider is a 2 oscillator modulation sequencer based synthesizer. Raider allows you to modulate pitch and filter cutoff via two step sequencers. Each sequencer allows one to simply draw in their own pitch and filter modulations or use one of the pre-configured templates. Both sequencers are tempo synced and the filter sequencer can be switched on or off. Raider makes sounds suitable for techno, electro, house, breakbeat, glitch and many other styles. Sounds are remanecent of the 303 and 8-bit game sounds of the 1980’s and one can produce a wide range of sounds from FX and screaming acid leads to Arps and house grooves to percussion and a whole lot more.
Features:
- 2 oscillators (sine, saw, square, triangle)
- 1 step sequencer pitch control
- 1 step sequencer filter control
- 1 ADSR Amp envelope
- 1 State Variable Filter (Lowpass,Highpass,Bandpass)
- 32 presets
Listen to it:
Raider Audio Demo (Raider + drum kits)
Blipfestival in NYC this week !
Blip Festival 2011 by BlipFestival
8bitpeoples & The Tank team up for the fifth anniversary edition of Blip Festival NYC, taking place May 19-21 at Manhattan art & technology center Eyebeam. Featuring 30 musicians and visualists from around the world, Blip Festival promises three nights of pulse-pounding chipmusic, showcasing the full array of the movement’s astonishing stylistic breadth.
This year’s lineup includes:
Anamanaguchi · Beastmode · Bit Shifter · Bubblyfish · Chipzel · cTrix · enso · exileFaker · 4mat · Henry Homesweet · knife city · minusbaby · M7Kenji · NNNNNNNNNN · NO CARRIER · Noisewaves · Nullsleep · Party Time! Hexcellent! · Tristan Perich · Ralp · Stagediver · Starscream · Peter Swimm · Talk To Animals · Ten Thousand Free Men & Their Families · Ultrasyd vade · visualicious · Wet Mango · Zen Albatross
…with additional daytime presentations & workshops, official afterparties, and satellite events all over the damn place. Bookmark http://www.blipfestival.org for the full run-down.
Chip guys – 8GB – Live in Tokyo 2010
Official statement:
In his first time in Japan (and Asia), 8GB delivers a mighty blow to an unsuspecting Tokyo crowd at the fantastic first installment of Blip Festival Tokyo in Koenji High, Tokyo, Japan, September 5th 2010.
Free download at Bandcamp:
The future of the NES synth
Here is what the author has to say about it:
I am prototyping, designing and assembling a special cartridge called Chip Maestro which can be used in any Nintendo Entertainment System. This cartridge will accept a MIDI input from any instrument, and by passing the MIDI notes through the NES, the cartridge will make the NES synthesize 8-bits of awesome in true NES squarewavey goodness. See the video for more details!
Most chiptune artists today use ‘software synths’ to try and recreate the sound we grew to love. By providing artists with a low-cost and easy to use hardware solution, they can use a real NES to compose their music, and even play it live on stage! And if you don’t have a MIDI instrument, don’t worry; you can use your PC with an inexpensive USB-MIDI converter, or create your own instrument using Arduinos or other microcontrollers that can output MIDI, so you can turn anything into an 8-bit instrument!
Getting this cartridge into the hands of musicians takes a bit of funding. All the money raised will go towards finishing the prototype, a thorough debugging, and beginning production. This entire project will be showcased on Kickstarter as well as my site, and every backer will get backdoor access to my build logs. And, best of all, it will all be open source! Yes, even though there is money involved, I am still putting all my schematics and code on the internet! This way people can improve on my design, and remix it into their works. These remixes come back to me, and I can improve the original product based on those works. It’s an endless cycle of creativity, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Background on the NES:
The Nintendo Entertainment System (also called NES or Nintendo) is an 8-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America during 1985, in Europe during 1986 and Australia in 1987. In most of Asia, including Japan (where it was first launched in 1983), China, Vietnam, Singapore, Middle East and Hong Kong, it was released as the Family Computer . In South Korea, it was known as the Hyundai Comboy and was distributed by Hyundai Electronics. In Russia, an unlicensed clone was manufactured called Dendy (Де́нди). A clone that was popular in Eastern Europe in the 1990s was the Super Design Ending-Man BS-500 AS, also known as Terminator. Similarly in India, clones were popular by the names of Little Master and Wiz Kid, in Poland there also was a clone produced, called Pegasus. in Argentina, the clone was called Family Game. It was succeeded by the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
As the best-selling gaming console of its time, the NES helped revitalize the US video game industry following the video game crash of 1983, and set the standard for subsequent consoles of its generation. With the NES, Nintendo introduced a now-standard business model of licensing third-party developers, authorizing them to produce and distribute software for Nintendo’s platform.In 2009, the Nintendo Entertainment System was named the single greatest video game console in history by IGN, out of a field of 25. 2010 marked the system’s 25th anniversary, which was officially celebrated by Nintendo of America’s magazine Nintendo Power in issue #260 (November 2010) with a special 26-page tribute section. Other video game publications also featured articles looking back at 25 years of the NES, and its impact in the video game console market.
Technical details:
I am exploiting the 2a03 chip inside the NES by keeping it in an infinite loop, and injected note addresses and data using opcodes derived from NES note tables. The internal circuitry inside the cartridge translates MIDI note data into NES note opcodes, and sends that to the 2a03 APU, which synthesizes the notes on the appropriate channel. Full technical details will be up in a week, and all backers will receive a link to a secret page with all the details!
Shared by Kickstarter
Missing SMS – the old SEGA Master System, then here´s a chip treat for you
CWP for SEGA Master System / SEGA Game Gear is a simple tool for playing custom waveforms in real time using the control pad. Works in an emulator and on hardware.
The Master System (マスターシステム, Masutā Shisutemu) (abbreviated to SMS) is a third-generation video game console that was manufactured and released by Sega in 1985 in Japan (as the Sega Mark III), 1986 in North America and 1987 in Europe.
The original SMS could play both cartridges and the credit card-sized “Sega Cards,” which retailed for cheaper prices than carts but had less code. The SMS also featured accessories such as a light gun and 3D glasses which were designed to work with a range of specially coded games. The Master System was released as a direct competitor to the Nintendo Entertainment System in the third videogame generation The SMS was technically superior to the NES, which predated its release significantly, but failed to overturn Nintendo’s significant market share advantage in Japan and North America. In the European, Oceanic, and Brazilian markets, this console launched Sega onto a competitive level comparable to Nintendo, due to its wider availability. It enjoyed over a decade of life in those territories. Due to strong international support, the Master System became the second best selling Sega console. With 13 million units sold worldwide, only the Mega Drive sold more. The console was redesigned several times both for marketing purposes and to add features, most notably in Brazil. The later Sega Game Gear is effectively a hand-held Master System, with a few enhancements. In 2009, the Master System was named the 20th best video game console of all time (out of 25) by the video gaming website IGN.
Features:
– 8 customisable waveforms
– Handy pre-loaded waveforms including sine, triangle and everyone’s favourite, square
Controls:
– Directional pad up / down / left / right: trigger a waveform
– Button 1 and directional pad up / down: change currently-selected sample
– Button 1 and directional pad left / right: change current cursor position / sample
– Button 2 and directional pad left / right: change currently-selected waveform
Credits:
– Thanks to Maxim for his Hello World tutorial / source code, which can be found here: http://www.smspower.org/maxim/HowToProgram
Download:
– ROM: http://milkcrate.com.au/_other/chipmusic_software/sms/CWP_20110508.sms
– Source Code: http://milkcrate.com.au/_other/chipmusic_software/sms/CWP_20110508.asm
Mister Beep
Newest album containing 10 multichannel 1-bit chiptunes , all recorded from REAL HARDWARE.
MISTER BEEP – “A thousand furious bees” 1-bit multichannel chiptunes made on ZX Spectrum 48K (beeper).
via COUCOU NETLABEL: FREE DOWNLOAD – COUCOU13 / Mister Beep.
8-Bit Friday – thanks Rebecca Black
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6TRV1TJfyk
8 – Bit Friday Rebecca Black Realization.
Yeah … it’s Friday so I thought I would post this up for today.
Pink Floyd goes 8bit
Pterodactyl Squad – a video game music netlabel – has released The Dark Side of the Moon – The 8-bit Album.
38 years ago today Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon was released in the UK, and Pterodactyl Squad are marking the date with their 30th release, The Dark Side of the Moon – The 8-bit Album.
After the success of Weezer – The 8-bit Album in 2009, the Squad assembled an “all-star cast of chiptune talent” to create a VGM-inspired tribute to 1973′s, The Dark Side of the Moon. All 9 tracks have been filtered through an 8-bit lens, and while each artist brings a different sound and creative angle to each track, the album flows seamlessly together, just like the original.
Pterodactyl Squad says:
Although attempted numerous times before, Pterodactyl Squad have finally done the original album justice with the definitive 8-bit interpretation of Pink Floyd’s progressive rock classic.
Produced as an 8-bit mirror of the original, the music on this release was created using sounds from various old games consoles including the Sega Mega Drive and Nintendo Game Boy.
Featuring tracks from Bit_Rat, EvilWezil, khades, Rabato, sergeeo, Videogame Orchestra, Jason Vincion, echosignal and Brad Smith and Temp Sound Solutions, the album is free to download.
Via SH
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Dot.AY – Ceratopian Society (Kittenrock)
Dot.AY wanted to be a paleontologist, instead he makes music on gameboys. This is an EP of dinosaur themed Chip Bass, an exploration in wonky beats, wobbly bass and all in all a LARGE sound. Created entirely using a single Gameboy to try and make the biggest fiercest least Video Game related sounds possible.
1. Bambiraptor
2. Dayglodocus
3. Dandyceratops
4. Shit Drop
5. Thumpasaur
Download now
Also check out the new Website designed by Entter
This post was submitted by Dot.AY.
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