Month: April 2009

  • 2PP Ups Four More From Blip ’07

    Also:

    Get more on the 2007 Dvd

  • YM2151 doc’d, Other Odds ‘n Ends

    herzeleid3” The YM2151 is an FM sound synthesizer that is very popular in Japan. It was used in many arcade systems, including the CPS1, and was also in the MSX and X68000 home computers” . Also check out this teaser of a new tracker for it:

    Via

    Neil Baldwin updates us on his music driver:

    I had a pitch-bend function in my old drivers but it was clumsy and most of the calculations were done in macros. For Nijuu I wanted portamento like it should be done. You just turn it on on a track and specify the number of frames over which the pitch sweep should occur and then just continue entering notes into the sequence like normal. All your notes will be smoothly pitch-swept from one to the other, forever, until you turn Portamento off again. It also only works in Legato mode, kind of like old mono synths where if you play without overlapping the notes, the portamento has no effect.

    “The Mysterious H” has uploaded two new releases on his site, The Spacegod 7, and The Battle Makes My Blood Boil“, for fans of power prog-punk chip insanity.

  • DuckSlinger Appeared!

    screenshotDuckSlinger is a new Tracker for the Nintendo DS that was announced at BlockParty. The interface looks a bit spartan, but the website has demos from Coda and Virt, so you already have no shot at being the best composer for it.

    VIA

    EDIT:  Forgot to mention this appears to be a PSG based tracker. This means you use the Internal DS sounds instead of samples to create your sounds!

  • Quick Bits

    Glomag has covered the title track of a new New Order Tribute Comp “Ceremony”. Stream it on Myspage.org.

    Stevens has a new Podcast on Tiga’s label.

    Ahead of my release for Tiga’s label Turbo Recordings
    and also that of my remix for him, I was asked to do a podcast
    selecting some of my own tracks. I’m not just posting this here in the
    slight possibility people are interested – I also play two of my
    favourite pieces of video game music, namely ‘Hydrocity Zone 2’ from
    Sonic 2 and ‘Inside the Deku Tree’ from Zelda OoT.

    http://www.sidlovesturbo.com/

    What the fuck is this??

  • Chipflip on Other uses of Computer Hardware

    Not being a huge Queen fan, i’ve avoided posting this:

    [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ht96HJ01SE4" width="425" height="344" allowfullscreen="true" fvars="fs=1" /]

    But leave it to goto80 to make the subject fresh with this excellent post on chipflip.

    An excerpt:

    I just found a version of Bohemian Rhapsody performed by an Atari800XL, 8? floppy drive, TI 99/4a, 3.5? floppy drive and four HP ScanJets. It’s apparently the hottest youtube-clip in Canada right now, yip yip! The same author also has Funkytown performed by C64/modem/printer and TI99/4a. Mentioned as his inspiration is James Houston’s Big Ideas (Don’t Get Any) which had a slow start of its Internet career, but has received lots of internet attention by now. It’s James’ final project for design school, so the visual aspect is also well worked through. A very special clip. It’s a ZX Spectrum with scanners, harddrives, and printers that performs a Radiohead-cover. James “placed them in a situation where they’re trying their best to do something that they’re not exactly designed to do, and not quite getting there”.

    Fun reading! Rock the Matrix!