The first round of artists for the 2009 Blip festival have been announced. There is also a chance to get some special gifts for donating to the Blip Festival via a new kickstarter page.
The artists announced so far:
Category: Chipmusic
Toons from various consoles.
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Goto80 – Breakfast
Breakfast is a power tune that brings back frenetic old school funky lines and a powerful synth solo. When we first heard the single, what struck us immediately was the clever usage of the Amiga speech synthesis, layers of digital speech that rendered beautiful voice-harmonies like we never heard before. As usual, he used rather crude methods for this, like turning a statement into a question for a different tonality.
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Nagz Presents BEST 100 DEMOSCENE SMALLTUNES
Nagz presents this 100 artist demoscene comp/mix/science droppage. Make it the first thing you listen to today.
BEST 100 DEMOSCENE SMALLTUNES.
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GOTO80 – BREAKFAST (VIDEO BY THE C-MEN)
BREAKFAST VIDEO DOWNLOAD: bit.ly/11elSg
BREAKFAST SINGLE DOWNLOAD: bleepstreet.comGOTO80.COM
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PetSynth appeared
Lest you think we’ve gotten soft with our chipsounds coverage, there is awesome news of a new peformance synth for Commodore Pet computers.
It’s author writes:
[audio:http://truechiptilldeath.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/petsynth_demo_1.mp3]I’ve been sitting on this for a year, and I decided that it was finally time to unleash this puppy upon the world!
It features a two-octave keyboard layout, selectable note length, many selectable octaves, selectable pulse-width, vibrato, distortion, and noise or “drum mode” depending on how you use it.
All this without adding or hacking the Commodore PET in any way. Plus, it’s compiling from C, so it’s FAST – with very low latency.
This computer does not use a SID 6581 music chip at all! This program was designed, tested, and refined on a real life fully working stock Commodore PET 4032 computer, and the sound is heard coming out of the built-in piezoelectric on the PET 4032 . It does not involve hacking the computer in any way, or adding any extra sound cards. It does not involve taking sound from the tape port. It also does not implement a DAC to create sounds.
via PetSynth
