VGMetal/Chip crossover rocker SHAWNPHASE played MAGfest with his beefed up TEMPSOUNDSOLUTIONS lineup. You can catch the awesome Alex Mauer cover at youtube, or the entire set at the following:
The POKEY has a variety of ways that you can tune the chip, including using 8 bit or 16 bit data for the pitch, as well as choosing a direct division of the master clock, a division of 28 (which the eight bit data below is based on) and a division of 120.
I have started working on a Multi POKEY MIDI setup. This Atari chip is one of my favourites and has some nice distortion type noises on it, as well as some other interesting things.
Current features include:
• Control up to all 16 channels of up to 4 POKEY chips via MIDI
• POKEY 1 appears on channels 1 to 4
• POKEY 2 appears on channels 5 to 8
• POKEY 3 appears on channels 9 to 12
• POKEY 4 appears on channels 13 to 16
• Select the distortion / noise for each voice (set via MIDI CC)
• For each chip, clock it using 15.3 Khz instead of 65.8 Khz (set via MIDI CC)
• For each chip, use ch 2 as a high pass filter, clocked by ch 4 (set via MIDI CC)
• For each chip, use ch 1 as a high pass filter, clocked by ch 3 (set via MIDI CC)
• For each chip, use channels 3 and 4 together in 16-bit mode (set via MIDI CC)
• For each chip, use channels 1 and 2 together in 16-bit mode (set via MIDI CC)
• The 16-bit mode increases the frequency resolution and range of the ganged channels of the chip.
• For each chip, clock channel 3 using 1.8432MHz instead of 65.8 Khz (set via MIDI CC)
• For each chip, clock channel 1 using 1.8432MHz instead of 65.8 Khz (set via MIDI CC)
• For each chip, use 9 bit poly for noise instead of 17 bit poly (set via MIDI CC)
This is fresh fresh fresh from Berlin, you mothathumpers!
Shake your booty to these block rocking Atari XL beats (with a bit of C64 percussion help :))
Herr Galatran of COMPUTADORA brings us this megamix made with some tunes from the ASMA Collection. He certainly has chosen some of the most dancefloor-blasting tunes I have heard in the last days and all coming from a “lowly” Atari 8-bit computer. “Using sounds no one else can get”? Suck on that, Crystal Castles, and shove it up your ass.
COMPUTADORA is part of the crew of the new wave of Bleep Street Records, Johan Kotlinski-founded label, now based in Berlin. The roster includes superstars like Stu, Goto80 and new additions are to be announced soon, as well as more exciting news. STAY TUNED.
“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.