On CSDb, sid musician Fanta has posted an mp3 of his 4 voice MOD track PLUS two voices of sid coming off a real c64. The track itself is relatively unspectacular, but the scene reaction is interesting ranging from grudging respect, to feedback on everything from the style, the results, and the point of doing such a thing.
Listen to the track
Welcome to your weekly little-scale update. My favorite 8-bit mad scientist is at it again with the rare hardware that adds functionality to a software application. He explains:
Introduction
I made a device that generates Nanoloop sync data for two Game Boys. The thing is that the user can set the ratio of sync clock of one of the Game Boys to the other, in the following ratios:
• Two in the time of four (double speed)
• Three in the time of four (three against four cross rhythms)
• Four in the time of four (1:1; the sync is equal)
• Five in the time of four (quintuplets)
• Six in the time of four (triplets)
There are also controls for controlling the speed of sync (via a potentiometer; aka a “knob”) and interrupting / stopping the sync signals for either Game Boy, so that it stops.
Of course I know that this would be easy to make in Arduino or Picaxe or using an Atmel or a PIC – but all of this would require the user to program a chip in some way. The nice thing is that this design only requires three logic chips (which I bought locally for around AU$2.50 in total), a capacitor, a resistor and a pot. No programming or “special parts” are required. A Game Boy link cable needs to be hacked up.
Full instructions and info on this can be found here:
Big-Chip writes in about his chip resources page. Included are tutorials for Nanoloop 1.3 and 2.2, and NES MML utilities for MACOSX users. Very helpful!
Sunvox is a modular synth/tracker. I have used it before, and it gets some cool chippy sounds with very minimal hardware requirements.
Features:
* Modular interface.
* Highly optimized synth algorithmes.
* Flexible architecture: SunVox can working on variuos devices. For example: PDA with slow CPU – 16bit sound (fixed point arithmetic); or big PC with powerfull CPU: 32bit sound (floating point arithmetic).
* SunVox engine (without GUI) is open source and distributed under the terms of BSD license.
* Built-in synthesizers:
o FM synthesizer;
o Generator (saw,triangle,square,noise waveforms);
o Sampler (supported formats: WAV, XI);
o SpectraVoice (FFT-based synth for analog-like pads);
o Kicker;
o Stereo Delay;
o Distortion;
o Echo;
o Filter (Low-pass, High-pass, Band-pass, Notch);
o Flanger;
o LFO;
o Loop;
o Reverb (with DC Blocking Filter).
o Vocal Filter
* Supported platforms: Windows, Linux, PalmOS, WindowsCE.
* Export to WAV.
At last weekends Pulsewave show they announced a hidden guest. Check out the exciting reveal!
Halloween Pulsewave “Mystery Guest” REVEAL from 2 Player Productions on Vimeo.