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By 8GB, on May 14th, 2009 
My favourite and one of the most complete archives of Amiga music, Exotica, has had a pretty significant update. According to my old friend BuZz:
There have been major changes to the various music collection interfaces. The biggest feature addition is that for most of the tunes you can now Ogg Vorbis encoded audio recordings directly from the search interface.
These are created on the fly in real-time, and as such are provided for convenience rather than accuracy, however you may well be surprised at how good they sound. To access the Ogg downloads browse or search for a tune, and a button will be displayed above the results that allows you to show the Ogg download links.
Read more about the new Ogg download feature.
Exotica is not just a file repository, most every file is coupled with a load of other data and also mirrors many collections of other platforms like the HVSC, converting it into an ambitioous database of old computer music.
You can access the different sections of this huge collection clicking here.
via Abime.net.
By Peter Swimm, on April 1st, 2009 Came across this rad thread where game music Programmer Neil Baldwin has a website.
“I wrote my first music on the NES 20 years ago and have recently been amazed to discover that the “chip music” scene is still going strong. So, in a bid to do my bit to keep the history alive and because some of my music is either missing, mis-credited or in some cases never even saw the light of day, I decided I’d put together a little document of my work and experiences.”
He seems to be writting a series of post-mortems about working on various commercial games. Look like one to keep an eye on.
By Peter Swimm, on March 17th, 2009 8BC Dev Goatslacker has launched a new LSDJ Patch Book site. The site is very easy to use, and easy to upload your own patches. One could argue that half the fun is making your own sounds from scratch, but this is a valuable learning tool, and a good way for you old dogs to learn new tricks. The interface is great, and its mega easy for you to transcribe your lsdj patches. More features coming soon, I hope!
By Peter Swimm, on March 2nd, 2009 Chipflip has an excellent write-up on the state of chip-noise.
“8-bit noise music is not very common, which means that good 8-bit noise music doesn’t really have best of compilations (yet!). It is maybe a bit like someone over at 8BC said about breakcore: the certain particularities with a genre that make it so good, are quite tricky to reproduce with an old soundchip and is therefore often completely lost.”
Its a great primer of a little subsection of the chip sound, and features a load of artists you should check out.
By Peter Swimm, on February 27th, 2009 PDF_Format writes:
So for a while now, i’ve been in #pdf_lessons on esper.net, and have given some lessons. Megabass on LSDJ, for instance. This weekend, and following week, i am scheduling lesons every night. Every night, at a time posted in the channel (all times EST, because that’s my time zone), there will be a lesson, on the topic posted in the channel, run by one of the operators of the channel.
Topics:
- LGPT – Rhinostrich/XC3N
- LSDJ – PDF Format + others
- Famitracker – Tristendo
- Goattracker – Zabutom
- Milkytracker – Strobe
- Mssiah/P64 – PDF Format + Firebrand Boy
- Arduinoby – PDF Format + Trash80
- Other trackers – Other people
- Music theory – Rhinostrich, PDF Format, Strobe if he feels like it
and general other information on other things by other people who know about them. I will post a schedule as it is confirmed by the teachers of the lessons. But if you want to learn any tracker, or trick, or skill, come into the channel, and there will be a guided lesson, followed by general Q/A afterwards. Stay tuned, and tell your friends.
For more info
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