Category: software

  • Cubase64 in action

    I’ll just leave this video here…

  • Cubase64 by Mahoney

    Mahoney, who last time made an MP3 player for a STOCK C64, has now pushed the barriers of C64 sound to levels beyond imagination.

    This crazy dude has managed to squeeze REAL  TIME AUDIO effects out of the stock, 1 MHz Commodore 64.
    It does filter/EQ, echo, tube distortion, ‘Grungelizer’, compression, dithering, VOCODING and TIME STRETCH. Really ridiculous.

    You can download the demo from CSDb and we’re waiting for YouTube recordings of real machines to show you, if they don’t show up tomorrow I’ll make one from my SX-64 (though I wonder if this works on NTSC. We’ll try).

    Emulator’s not gonna be good on this one, maybe except HOXS64

  • RJDMC Updated

    You can get the new version here.

    Changes from 0.01

    -Changed name to “RJDMC”
    -Any .wav input rate is supported and properly conveted to 33144hz
    -Drag ‘n’ Drop is supported
    -Added an Edit->Preferences menu for batch processing
    -Allowed opening multiple files for batch processing
    -Multiple .wav output rates

    Batch Processing: If you want to process more than one file at once, first go to edit-> preferences and choose your output method (this will not work in “manual” mode as that expects one at a time).  After selecting an option (and a .wav output rate for .WAV output if you want), either drag/drop multiple files onto the application or use the File->Open dialog and select multiple .wav files.  They will automatically be created in the same folder as the input files with either “<inputname>.dmc” for DMC output or “<inputname>D.wav” for .WAV output.

    Via ChipMusic.org.

  • New DMC Converter appeared

    Rushjet1 writes:

    I’m doing this for my senior project in school, so I will be releasing new updates to this program weekly.  The premise of this program is that it is a DMC converter that has a UI and several options.  It has no name yet sad

    Description-

    Converts a PCM .wav (16 or 8-bit, stereo or mono) to DMC format.  Only waves above 33144hz will work properly–others will play too fast.  If you have a 22khz wave you want to play, convert it to 44khz (or if possible, 33144hz) in some other program first.  My program converts the sample rate for larger-than-33144 rates but it does a dirty job of it, so the cleanest sound will probably result from you putting it at 33144.

    You can also convert a PCM .wav to another PCM .wav approximation of the DPCM.  This is useful for people who make .it/xm/s3m files and want to have dpcm samples that sound like a NES’s would.  You can also just load full songs into this to play around (warning, large filesizes take awhile).

    Compressed .wav formats are not supported, and they will not be in the future most likely.  This includes ADPCM, uLaw, etc.

    you can get it here.

    Future features:
    -<33144hz conversion
    -multiple quality/pitch settings
    -Graphical DMC wave display (directly editable, copy/cut/paste)
    -Preview for the current DMC wav at given frequency
    -The ability to chop up large wav files so they can be played back as DMCs on the NES
    -Drag ‘n Drop functionality
    -additional filters
    -bit crushing

    via cm.org

  • HTML 5 Chip Tracker appeared

    The recent builds of firefox have included support for realtime synthesis through javascript, and I though I would get in on the fun and build a toy with them. I of course went overboard, and decided to make something that you could actually use to write music with, and implemented a tracker. To note, this is a prototype, and rather than discarding it without showing it to world, I have posted it here for people to play with, and potentially dissect.

    via HTML 5 Chip Tracker.