Author: Peter Swimm

  • Cringe in Horror Theater

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    HEY NINTENDO!

    Thanks for :

    • Continuing to be associated with kitschy mario jump sounds.
    • By ignoring all the cool stuff being done without your help (homebrew) and with it (ds-10) and focusing on gimmicky things that no one will use after owning the DSi for more than 18 seconds.
    • For making me learn who Jamie Liddel is.

    That being said I do appreciate the cat sounds.

  • Filing under “Odder Chip Style Instruments”

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    Noah Vawter Writes:

    It is played on two instruments, a bass and tenor ‘eel.’  Based on the Medieval instrument called the serpent, sliding gestures from the body power a microcontroller-based synthesizer and allow the performers to inflect some of the traditional expressive affordances on electronic music.

    Looks more fun than Muddy Gb.. also check out his ONE BIT GROOVEBOX

  • 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:

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    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!