Category: Chipmusic

Toons from various consoles.

  • Debug Live – Amiga 500 Project (aka cTrix)

    0sideThe Commodore Amiga project is something that I’ve always worked on. It started in 1991ish when I first saw an Amiga at a friends house and was blown away hearing more than a few seconds of digital audio playing from a computer. This was a revolution in it’s day and the Amiga was the first home computer that had stereo audio outputs included as a standard feature! I became obsessed (like many) with a form of composition called “tracking”. Tracking takes tiny snippets of audio (called samples) and plays them back at varying speeds to make a tune. Tracking on the Amiga was limited to 4 samples playing simultaneously. However a sample could be a beat, vocal or sound effect… not just a single note (or “instrument” if you like) so it opened up a world of digital composition only previously available to cashed up studios.

    via Debug Live – Amiga 500 Project (aka cTrix).

  • Mixed Atari 2600 MIDI Sample Playback

    little-scale’s done it again by being crafty as hell to upgrade the capability of his MIDI interfaces; this time for the Atari 2600.  We showed you before that the Atari 2600 was capable of 8-bit PCM earlier via TROGdor.  He’s taken this technology and melded it into his MIDI interface.

    I wonder if he’s also added the capability to speed up or slow down the playrate of the samples yet. ;D

  • Jon Tracker’s Cyber Techno

    Jon Tracker writes:

    I am proud to present my first official album titled “Amiga”.

    All 18 tracks on the album were created on the Octomed tracker app on my Amiga 1200.

    It is now available on iTunes and Amazon MP3.

    These tracks have never seen the light of day in 15 years.  So I am very pleased to finally present them.

    Check out the album at www.itunes.com/jontracker

  • GOTO8O on mixtape

    The Belgian collective Herrmutt Lobby released a mix to celebrate their new album (which includes careful inclusion of FM and SID sounds). It’s hip-hop, off-beat, p-funk, and bleeps here and there. It includes my song Cia Timing (from son of music) and also Dr Vector is in there! Check this out, and don’t be surprised to hear some collaborations with these people in the future. We had some good jamming sessions in Brussels…

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    via GOTO8O.

  • Bit Shifter “Easy Prey”

    Slow summer days are here! In the meantime, enjoy tasty Bit Shifter news, rare video above, rare comp appearance below!

    Out today • Hymen Records releases miwak twelve, a 2xCD, 33-artist compilation celebrating the label’s 12th anniversary. Featuring tracks by Hecq, Mad EP, Lowfish, Somatic Responses, End, Twenty Knives, Bit Shifter, and more.

    Tracklisting:

    DISC 02:

    15. Bit Shifter: Easy Prey

    via 8bc.org