- Brilliant remix by glomag – Always really dug his laptop based work. Grab “The Axis And The Alloy” if you don’… ? http://blip.fm/~k77ta #
- Oxygenstar’s “Thy Name is Adventure” is now free: http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/571/thy-name-is-adventure-is-now-free/ #
- Actionscript3 VGM Player updated to v1.14: http://shiru.untergrund.net/code.shtml #
- NRTDRV SHARP X1OPM+PSG appeared: http://nrtdrv.sakura.ne.jp/index.cgi #
- Chiptronic: a new chip night in sheffield: http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/36/uk-sheffield-030210-chiptronic/ #
- Rosa posts some more Blip Festival Videos: http://rosa-menkman.blogspot.com/2010/02/some-more-registration-of-blip-festival.html #
Category: software
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TCTD Twitter Posts for 2010-02-02
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TCTD Twitter Posts for 2010-02-01
- Rosa Menkman, Cracked Crack Intro to the Glitch Studies Manifesto, 2010, modified C64 software. – http://tinyurl.com/yf4taj3 #
- covox: Ok, new try! WAVE EP out in japanese stores now! Download remix kits here: http://www.covox.net/wave/ #
- littlegptracker: new win ghetto: note delay, groove in tables, IRTG, Clone bug fix -> https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=320141508501&id=83974478283 #
- Keygen music updated for January: http://keygenmusic.net/?page=news #
- SynthGBA synth project appeared: http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=16948 #
- Mario Coin Sounds Dissected: http://nesdev.parodius.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=5937 Please do not use this in actual music. #
- Animal Style killing it at the TCTD gala: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JErISRGh5I&feature=autofb #
- And Oxygenstar too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Nf2PVzrCDc #
- Akira’s 48 pixel challenge graffito tag: http://chipmusic.org/forums/post/8200/#p8200 #
- RT: @garrylee: A new flash cart for Game Boy, the Infinity Cart! http://nonelectronics.com/infinitycart.php #
- Oh Bung how I miss you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs2iN1U2HVE #
- RT: @blipfestival: Official Blip photog Marjorie Becker posted stunning artist portraits: #blip09 #
- James Kochalka Superstar Live at the TCTD awards: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqXmDn-JjFs #
- Golden Eagle too (my favorite): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1gxXQV9IKo #
- Little Baby Kitten: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjw9Bz0vTOc #
- And an interview! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExzmyXwF1Mg #
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Plastik – OPL FM synth for Reaktor appeared
Plastik is an FM synth or more accurately phase modulation synth inspired by the Yamaha OPL chips found in Ad Lib and Sound Blaster soundcards in the 80’s and 90’s, renowned for its plastic sound. It should be noted, however, that even though Plastik was made to produce the same overall qualities as the OPL chips, and even has some of its unique features the waveforms, the fixed vibrato and tremolo frequencies it makes no claim whatsoever to be a complete or accurate OPL emulator.
via Gameboy Genius
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VegaPlay appeared
Along with scrollnes, NO CARRIER is creating quite a suite of software tools to take advantage of NES hardware more easily than ever before.
He writes:
Back in 2007 I created Vegavox, the first NES music album on a cart, for Alex Mauer. Now you can do the same. VegaPlay is an open source multi-song NSF playback ROM.
via no-carrier.com.
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TCTD Awards 2009: Best Software
Now this category was a bit more difficult for me and staff to work through, as we saw lots of updates to old software as well as new products that allowed the creation of amazing new works of chip art and music. Ultimately what TCTD considered was new features, current functionality, and importance to the scene’s growth and development.
Here are your nominations for Best Software of 2009:
LittleGpTracker – The little LSDJ clone/son/replacer that could just kept going, with ports to the PSP and Dingoo platform, new features like soundfont support and an overall great rapport between its developer and users of one of the best up and coming music applications for portable systems.
Famitracker – The best all around Nintendo tracker got support for additional expansion sound chips, and with the ability of the Powerpak to emulate these chips, it became even more useful as a tracker that can realistically and reliably enable playback on real hardware. FT will have to watch its back, however, with the release of Neil Baldwins NTRQ upcoming in 2010.
XPMCK – MML is slightly arcane for most of the composers in the international chipscene, but XPMCK’s developer has added bug fixes and new features to this stable and encompassing platform for developing music on various chip platforms.
Chipsounds -I can hear the sphincters of dozens of chiptune purists clenching in anger. However, Plogue and his staff need to be commended for their academic, accurate yet respectfully designed suite of sound chip emulators. Still early in its life, and not yet perfect, Chipsounds is a significant step forward for the chip music community in that a company would place so much effort in a venture seeking to balance commercial viability and easy of use with accuracy and authenticity.
LSDJ – Perhaps responsible, more than any other current application, for the current wave of chip music popularity, Mr. Johan Kotlinksi’s LSDJ saw in 2009 many fixes and features added to what many thought was already a finished stable product. Still highly influential and incredibly usable, here’s hoping for even more growth as the program marches past the 4.0 milestone
