BiTBOTiZED, Videogame Orchestra
In BiTBOTiZED, Videogame Orchestra have taken some of their favourite tracks from the 20th century and re-imagined them as if played and sung by old games consoles and computers. Rather than simple, innocent themes of love, these tracks are now bursting with 8-bit sounds and technological innuendo!
Tracklist:
1. Stand By Your RAM
2. No More Wires, Girl
3. Goo Goo Stack
4. Good Glitch
5. Program Me
6. Topless Dancers of Corfu
7. Der Mussolini
8. Feeling Good
9. Peerson To Peerson
Lyrics for can be found here.
Download the individual files and the whole album as a ZIP file fom Pterodactyl Squad
Cubic Audio Releases ProTon VSTi
VSTi Soft Synth For Electro House Basslines, Fidget blips and 8bit arcade style effects, with its 4 oscillators, 4 filter types and several effects its a quick and simple way to get that very large bass sound which dominates in electro, with 128 ready made presets you wont be short of inspiration.
ProTon is a subtractive / Phase Modulation Soft-Synth with 4 oscillators, 2 of which can be used as PM for tonal like sounds. ProTon is aimed for making pure raw Bass sounds along with interesting 8 bit arcade type effects and sequences, this is helped along by 4 step sequencers, Modulation, Filter, Pitch and Amp. ProTon has five main effects, Pitch, Distortion, Chorus/Phaser, sample and hold and decimation along with an in-built EQ and 4 different filter types.
System Requirements
Windows
Pentium III 800 MHz
512 MB RAM
32 Bit / Windows XP/Vista/windows 7
VST 2.0 compliant host
ProTon is available now for purchase as well as a demo version at http://www.cubic-audio.info/…
En jävla massa 8-bit pop on Spotify
Here’s our new playlist for Spotify. We’ve been scanning the Spotify database for 8-bit pop songs and conluded there are 666. It’s just got to mean something!
Today’s chip tune: Amay- Aeriae
http://www.portablefilmfestival.com – 8-bit animated clip for Aussie electronic producer Aeriae’s track ‘Amay’ from the album ‘Hold R1.’ Characters and props were animated with Scott Anderson’s 8-bit software ‘Fantavision’ running on an emulated Apple II computer. Distributed by Tubemogul.
MIDI-controlled 8-bit digital synthesizer & lo-fi audio sampler
Introduction to the “deMIDulator”: my PIC-based MIDI-controlled 8-bit digital synthesizer and audio sampler. That’s a lot of hyphens!
Device generates several different sounds based on incoming MIDI Note On/Off, Pitch Wheel and Control Change messages. Default waveforms are Sine and Square. An audio sampling function is available to record custom waveform samples that can then be played-back similarly to Sine and Square waveforms (think Impulse Tracker or Scream Tracker or any other tracker from 1997). Audio input is switchable between on-board microphone and external 4-conductor headset jack.
Current Features:
* Simple interface
* Sine, Square and audio Sample playback waveforms
* Audio input switchable between on-board Mic and headset jack
* Up to 4 seconds of recorded audio @ 8bit x 3.937kHz
* Switchable mono / 4-note polyphony for all waveforms
* Pitch Wheel (glitch) support
* Sustain support
* Program Change support for switching waveform modes
* All MIDI notes implemented
* Volume and Output Filter Cutoff controls
* Powerful 150mW headphone amplifier can drive headphones or external speaker
* 4-conductor audio jack for use with iPhone compatible headsets (earbuds w/mic)
* Powered by 3 x AAA batteries, DC power jack or ICSP header
* Final firmware written completely in Assembly
* ICSP header for reprogramming PIC
* PCB includes unpopulated MIDI output jack for fun
Interview with Nullsleep
Scion Installation LA presents an exclusive interview with Pixel Pushers artist: Nullsleep
Nullsleep is the alias of Jeremiah Johnson, an electronic musician whose style could best be described as post-cyberpunk. Nullsleep is the cofounder of 8bitpeoples, an artist collective interested in the audio-visual aesthetics of early home computers. nullsleep.com
Featuring the Synthanola
This is my 555 Contest (www.555contest.com) entry. It is an analogue synthesiser based on 555 timers, with three channels and four octaves per channel. It is sequenced with either paper tape (as shown) or by any 8-bit interface with suitable flow control.
“This video demonstrates two paper tapes which play Inventions 8 and 13 by J.S. Bach.
Sorry about the jumpy video. My computer must have been doing something at the time. My hands can’t actually move that quickly.”
More information at .http://kaput.retroarchive.org/555/
TinySID on a 16 bit PIC
Ater successfully getting the TinySID library running on a PIC32 [1] some time ago, I recently wondered, if the 16 bit MCUs from Microchip would also be fast enough to run the code. It turned out, that they are, at least the 40 MIPS models (PIC24H and dsPIC33F).
A big hurdle is the (compared to the PIC32MX) small RAM on these chips. Since the SID tune must be loaded into RAM, only some small tunes will fit into the 8 kB of the MCU used on the Web Platform [2] I had at hand.
However, the source code [3] and binary [4] are available from Google Code. The PWM output is on IO7, and IO8 is used to switch the tune when pulled to GND.
Have fun,
Markus
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNu0-M…
[2] http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/W…
[3] http://code.google.com/p/dangerous-pr…
[4] http://code.google.com/p/dangerous-pr…
Via markusgritsch
Chipophone – chip tunes / live 8bit
The opening theme from Mega Man 3 (original japanese title: Rockman 3). For this tune, I implemented a new feature that allows me to record a loop into memory, and start the playback using a pedal at a later time.
Hexadeci – Alone In The Dark (8bit Amigacore / Vinyl 7″)
Potentially the best Amigacore music in the past 10 years
This music is some of the best Amigacore in the past 10 years – skirting between party music for the post-apocalyptic crowd and a nightmarish take on otherwise light-hearted themes. What’s most remarkable about these tunes isn’t necessarily Hexadeci’s programming expertise (he’s totally awesome), or the creative use of seemingly random samples (Shakira? A Swiss yodeler?). No, it’s how he manages to effectively tear down dance music to shape his own tastes *AND* create tunes that are actually MUSICAL, instead of slipping into the same tired traps of hardcore posturing. It’s a fun record and we promise you’ll get some seriously confused looks when you drop a Swiss Yodelcore track at your next house party. Try it. Film it. Send us the video.
It’s exciting, it’s loud, it’s flawed, it’s idea-driven and it’s how we like it. We know you will too.
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