Category: Chipmusic

Toons from various consoles.

  • reVisit Pro appeared.. get it for free

    Post Blip, truly great puns will come at a premium this week.
    Post Blip, truly great puns will come at a premium this week.

    reVisit is a VST plugin that seeks to easily add tracker composition to any VST host is offering free versions to those helping with his Uni project. More info:

    After uncountable hours, weeks, months and years of coding and testing,
    I am proud to present
    reViSiT Professional to you. Not only is this new
    release the most powerful, most feature-rich, most stable version ever;
    it is also the best value… as you can now ‘go Pro’ for free, through the
    reViSiT Experiment. The what, the why, and the how are detailed below.

    It only remains for me to give thanks to all of you for your help in testing
    and shaping reViSiT during its formative years. reViSiT is what it is today
    because of your support. Thank you!

    If anyone has any questions, feel free to pose them on the forum, and I’ll
    try to answer you as quickly as possible. For further information, see the
    reViSiT Experiment website @
    http://experiment.nashnet.co.uk.

    Now, what’s keeping you…? Go on! Go be creative!

  • n106 PowerPak Expansion Appeared

    B00DaW reports:

    Loopy has yet again created a monster.  Located here, people are now able to utilize Namco’s N106 8 additional freeform wave channels.  N106 is indeed the holy grail of any and all expansions for the Famicom — now available for the Nintendo hardware!

    To explain why N106 is such a holy grail, we all know you Gameboy kiddies like to use your wave channel, right?  N106 is EIGHT of them.  So, suck it.  (This means sampling and synthesis of any wave one desires.)

    Unfortunately, the only way to interface them at the moment would be to use PPMCK.  It’s not all that much of a limitation since you can use FamiTracker to create your envelopes and browse Japanese sites and old 2ch logs to find many open anon-posted .mml files which show you how to create N106 waveforms — not to mention FDS FM waveforms as well.

    And to further put a nail in the coffin to support that “Daddy knows best” over his little boy (Gameboy), the audio out register $4011 is also known to be able to modulate 4 additional software mixed 7-bit PCM wave channels without any expansion — cited here.  Fortunately and unfortunately, the NSF file format would need to be updated to allow for modulated and synthesized PCM output to play this type of audio.  An example of this can be found by listening to Skate or Die 2’s intro screen on hardware versus a ripped NSF in its current format — but was hacked a while ago to include it too.  The format has already been drawn-up and brought under criticism.  It should work, but since there is no interface for this technology, nobody has made the format.  So, that innovation is between a rock and a hard place currently.  One last note…  Even though one could use 4 additional 7-bit PCM channels, obviously it doesn’t come without a price.  It uses a lot of resources, to put it lightly.  This means if you wanted to create visuals or something else, it may not work with 4 channels, but maybe 1 or 2 additional only.  As for NSF or pure sound, the sky just may be the limit. \o/

    In summary, this makes the 8-bit Nintendo capable of 16 channels of audio — depending on the coding of the engine and tracking of the composer.

    +2 Pulse
    +1 Triangle
    +1 Noise
    -1 DPCM as sacrifice for 7-bit PCM
    +4 7-bit PCM
    +8 N106 freeform wave — documented here.
    = 16 channels of 8-bit domination!

    …BOW DOWN, FOOLS!

    Hyperbole aside, this makes the powerpak a must buy.. oh man we can!

  • New Saitone out Tommorow

    And is available for streaming now at his website. You can also view this trailer:

    Order at VORC RECORDS.

  • Announcing the 2008 TCTD Awards

    Handcarfted using only the finest child labor.
    Handcrafted using only the finest child labor.

    As 2008 comes to a close, the staff at TCTD takes time to take stock and acknowledge the best and brightest achievers in the International Chip Community. TCTD is pleased to announce that we are accepting nominations for the following Categories.

    Please email all one paragraph or less nominations to:

    2008@truechiptilldeath.com
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