Smithy Posted October 5, 2013 Report Posted October 5, 2013 (edited) Feel free to post your favourite chiptunes here, any platform - the more diverse the better! Only found this track tonight, I never knew the POKEY chip could sound so good: I would really like to see more fine examples of Atari 8-bit music if anyone knows any! Here's a performance I think is very epic, especially the last 3 minutes. A Gameboy with 8 foot controllers + an FXdoctor 8bit fuzz pedal: More to come soon! Edited January 5, 2014 by TK. Quote
Smithy Posted October 5, 2013 Author Report Posted October 5, 2013 Track made by a female artist from Nothern Ireland using a Gameboy with LSDJ: You can stream her album for free on her bandcamp: http://chipzelmusic.bandcamp.com/album/spectra Quote
TK. Posted October 5, 2013 Report Posted October 5, 2013 Spectra is so cool, thanks a lot for posting this! :-) Best Regards, Thorsten. Quote
Smithy Posted October 6, 2013 Author Report Posted October 6, 2013 Spectra is so cool, thanks a lot for posting this! :-) Best Regards, Thorsten. Really glad you liked it! :thumbsup: This is definitely one of my favourite SID tracks of all time. Orcan - Solomatic Fly/edit TK: track starts at t=29m57s Download MP3 + SID: http://fonix.dyndns.org:40000/soasc/index.php?av=0&sb=SOASC&ss=solomatic+fly&sr=React&did=0&#did1 Quote
Hawkeye Posted October 7, 2013 Report Posted October 7, 2013 (edited) Great find! Agreed on Spektra, but the Pokey sound is also very impressive (*mentally hugs his first "real" computer*, an Atari 800XL :-)).Thanks for posting this! Here´s my contribution, a chiptune from Mark Knight - he is a really talented guy: :-) Bye,Peter Edited January 5, 2014 by TK. Quote
Smithy Posted October 8, 2013 Author Report Posted October 8, 2013 (edited) An oldie but goldie! Reformat The Planet Chiptune Documentary - 2008 Uploaded officially in full by the makers, with very insightful annotations. Edit: I can't seem to post the URL without it embedding the video, so here's the Playlist link: [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYHDWc9GPZU&list=PL3FF92D5E85762A75]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYHDWc9GPZU&list=PL3FF92D5E85762A75 [/url] "Reformat the Planet (RTP) is a feature length documentary which delves into the movement known as chip music, a vibrant underground scene based around creating new, original music using obsolete video game hardware. Familiar devices such as the Nintendo Game Boy and Nintendo Entertainment System are pushed in new directions with startling results." Edited January 5, 2014 by TK. Quote
Smithy Posted October 8, 2013 Author Report Posted October 8, 2013 One of my favourite bits of Reformat The Planet is hearing Glomag's rendition of Hotel California by the Eagles. /edit TK: starting at t=2m07shttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoN9QEe0DOs The track is called "Tiere Necken Mit Langen Stecken" and you can download it for free along with the rest of his album here: http://www.8bitpeoples.com/discography/8BP095 Quote
Smithy Posted October 8, 2013 Author Report Posted October 8, 2013 (edited) Holy Crap!If you played this track to me and asked me what sound chip it was, I would definitely have said the SID!At least for the PWM sounds anyway. Can't believe its the YM2149! Edited January 5, 2014 by TK. Quote
Hawkeye Posted October 12, 2013 Report Posted October 12, 2013 Another fav by Purple Motion :-) Quote
m00dawg Posted October 18, 2013 Report Posted October 18, 2013 Satellite One is good, but I prefer the first S3M I ever heard: Aquaphobia Quote
Hawkeye Posted October 31, 2013 Report Posted October 31, 2013 (edited) Does not technically fully qualify as chiptune, but nevertheless, it is one of the most awesome MODs evar, imho :smile: Have a great halloween, y´all! :-)Many greets,Peter Edited January 5, 2014 by TK. Quote
yogi Posted January 4, 2014 Report Posted January 4, 2014 Just bumping for Yerzmyey's XL Digital, or Strange light Under My Bed, or Brutal and Aggressive,... WTF, ALL his tracks are good! http://yerzmyey.i-demo.pl/ Yogi Quote
Smithy Posted January 5, 2014 Author Report Posted January 5, 2014 (edited) Just bumping for Yerzmyey's XL Digital, or Strange light Under My Bed, or Brutal and Aggressive,... WTF, ALL his tracks are good!http://yerzmyey.i-demo.pl/YogiThat music is awesome man, thanks a lot for the introduction to him! So we have all seen piano covers of our favourite video game tunes,but Tom Brier is a little bit different... He has the ability to "sight read" musici.e. he can play a song on first attempt without ever even hearing it before,by reading the sheet music and playing instantly... He can also mix up the sequence and add his own style / remix the song on the fly... Nyan Cat proved to be a bit of a nemesis for Tom, but he wasn't long figuring it out! Plenty more vids of him playing VGMs here:http://www.youtube.com/user/Keeper1st Edited January 5, 2014 by Smithy Quote
Sauraen Posted January 6, 2014 Report Posted January 6, 2014 I saw those videos a long time ago--I wish I had that kind of ability! Damn is he good! Also the ragtime style freshens up almost anything. The chiptune platform I'm most familiar with is the NES, and since I like music that pushes hardware limitations, the takes the cake for me. Koji Kondo was able to get a variety of sounds out of the two pulse wave oscillators by varying the pulse width and envelope and often by having them play similar parts, and the soundtrack featured a range of drums (I managed to sample at least 10) made with PCM in a fifth audio channel. The music for defeating the final boss includes tympani made on that channel and thus manages a brief moment of four-voice polyphony on a system which was barely designed to support three-voice polyphony. Quote
Smithy Posted January 6, 2014 Author Report Posted January 6, 2014 Some really lush Amiga sounds! CTrix - A is for Amiga http://bleepstreet.bandcamp.com/album/a-for-amiga-bleepst24 Quote
Smithy Posted January 6, 2014 Author Report Posted January 6, 2014 I saw those videos a long time ago--I wish I had that kind of ability! Damn is he good! Also the ragtime style freshens up almost anything. The chiptune platform I'm most familiar with is the NES, and since I like music that pushes hardware limitations, the takes the cake for me. Koji Kondo was able to get a variety of sounds out of the two pulse wave oscillators by varying the pulse width and envelope and often by having them play similar parts, and the soundtrack featured a range of drums (I managed to sample at least 10) made with PCM in a fifth audio channel. The music for defeating the final boss includes tympani made on that channel and thus manages a brief moment of four-voice polyphony on a system which was barely designed to support three-voice polyphony. I love the PCM samples in SMB3 also! They add a lot of depth! I'm guessing Koji had to write pages of code to get his music into the games like C64 composers did, before thd days of trackers? I was watching this interview with him in the late hours this morning! That video should have millions of views considering his contribution. Here's a written interview with 1up: http://www.1up.com/features/mario-maestro Quote
yogi Posted January 6, 2014 Report Posted January 6, 2014 YES ++ on cTrix :) He really makes the AMY sing Here is a very cool track by n00bstar on Klystrack, Trinity http://cheapbeatsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/operat0r Just puts me in a cool place, really reminds me of Jean Michel Jarre Yogi Quote
Smithy Posted January 17, 2014 Author Report Posted January 17, 2014 (edited) Yogi i see you're a regular over at Chipmusic! I really need to check that forum out more often. And now its time for some FM funk with the OPL 3 chip that powers our very own MBFM. Really liking these tracks by Diode mA, especially the pad sounds... Mutable Signs - takes about 1 minute to kick in:https://soundcloud.com/diodema/mutable-signs Whimsical Bee:https://soundcloud.com/diodema/whimsical-bee Aquarius - some crazy detune going on in this one:https://soundcloud.com/diodema/aquarius All sequenced in Adlib Tracker 2. Some other great tracks worth checking out on his bandcamp in the original link also. Edited January 17, 2014 by Smithy Quote
Smithy Posted January 17, 2014 Author Report Posted January 17, 2014 Also gotta love this MBFM track posted by midibox user dtg84 on here a few years ago: https://soundcloud.com/demi-batard/discopl3 Quote
yogi Posted January 18, 2014 Report Posted January 18, 2014 Hi Smithy, yea hang out abit over @ CM; there's always something cooking there! Very nice ADT][ tracks, Really like Mutable Signs as well as 1, 2, 3, Crunch Time! and there is a really tight woodblock n Bass line in Dec9 WIP track.hanks, got Diode mA bookmarked :) 1 Quote
Smithy Posted January 21, 2014 Author Report Posted January 21, 2014 Awesome 8-bit harmonica housed in a Famicom cartridge shell! :D http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2014/01/20/this-8-bit-harmonica-is-made-from-an-old-famicon-cartridge/'>http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2014/01/20/this-8-bit-harmonica-is-made-from-an-old-famicon-cartridge/ http://youtu.be/pLpDXkMQmcc Thats a real NES chip too! Quote
yogi Posted January 21, 2014 Report Posted January 21, 2014 I think I've seen that before but thought it was just a harmonica in a cart shell :) Quite a project, but trying to figure out the APU chip they used. It must be from a expansion sound cart, because the Famicom/NES has the APU integrated into the CPU package. Yogi Quote
Sauraen Posted January 22, 2014 Report Posted January 22, 2014 If you pause and zoom in the video where it says "Sound IC", you can see that it's a YMZ284 PSG, not exactly equivalent to what's in the NES (the NES has two pulse waves, a triangle wave, and noise, and both pulse waves have pulse width control and independent envelopes; this chip just has three square waves and noise.with one envelope according to the datasheet). And it looks like there's a custom-programmed MCU next to it, plus some sort of ADC for the mics. Quote
yogi Posted January 22, 2014 Report Posted January 22, 2014 If you pause and zoom in the video where it says "Sound IC", you can see that it's a YMZ284 PSG, not exactly equivalent to what's in the NES (the NES has two pulse waves, a triangle wave, and noise, and both pulse waves have pulse width control and independent envelopes; this chip just has three square waves and noise.with one envelope according to the datasheet). And it looks like there's a custom-programmed MCU next to it, plus some sort of ADC for the mics. Oh Thanks! Even zooming didn't help, your eyes are better ;) After doing a bit of Googling, it's a variant of the AY 3 8910. I think it was used in the Famicom MMC5 carts that had expanded audio channels. Did find a interesting Arduino project using this chip: http://hardchord.org/ymz_shield Some nice samples @ their site. Yogi Quote
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