GRG and his crew were making three claims: sampling, performance rights, producer rights. The court did however only consider one of these: the performance rights. According to them GRG’s cover was not unique enough to grant him any kind of authorship rights, so the case was basically lost. This meant that they didn’t have to consider whether the song was sampled or not.
Hopefully they can work out some kind of compensation from the douche who exclaimed “it’s a video game, jerk”.
“What kind of music do you make when the coder has used almost all the computing power, the designer had his/her go, and there is not even enough CPU-power left to play sounds? You make zero cycle music!”
4bit Synths
4bitsynth is a MIDI-controlled digital synthesizer that uses the Atmel AVR ATMega48. Inspired by the NES, the sound is 4-bit. The digital output is put through an R-2R resistor ladder to get the analog waveform.
Due to space considerations, the jellica centerfold was cut.
Written the the Scene’s own Nathaniel Adams, Techno and etc music journal xlr8r touches on the recent amount of chip theft that has plagued the perhaps too trusting nature of the scene. The article is a good starting point, but if your curious there are deeper articles on the topic here and here.
