Category: software

  • Bad Snake Hair Day and Medusa VSTi appeared

    Bad Snake Hair Dayy.jpgµB created a fancy square wave VSTi called Medusa. BotB then hosted a competition where BotBrs were only allowed to use that as a sound source in their favorite software. The use of effects were encouraged but sampling was discouraged.

    There are 10 entries.
    Check them out and vote to help decide the winner.

    Two days ago Medusa got reskinned by iLKke. Read more here

  • 8Bitone Tutorials

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    For those on the fence about the new 8bit iphone app, there are a number of tutorials online.

    8Bitone(ja): http://www.yudo.jp/music/ei…
    8Bitone(en): http://www.yudo.jp/en/music…
    yudo music: http://music.yudo-games.com/

  • Herzeleid Update

    You need to build it yourself, but this YM2151 tracker for OSX seems to be coming along nicely.

    Did a whole fuckton of stuff. Added a player (plays the tracks without the UI), added PatchGen (generates patches from a website), and did a fuckton of stuff to the tracker, including: Adding effects, making Volume controls work. Now you should _really_ be able to make great music. All patches and tracks since the big change should still work. I also redid all the patches, and added some drums patches.

    via SquidMan’s herzeleid at master – GitHub.

    UPDATE

    EDIT: Also, since my hosting changed, the old link to the documentation is gone. The location that should be used is

  • On the Japan Tip..

    kami68k writes in with the following updates:

    The NSF Player for the Gameboy Color has been updated (the last version was from like years ago)
    http://www.geocities.jp/submarine600/html/nsfv2.html

    YMCK updated their Magical 8-Bit Plugin for the Mac:
    http://www.ymck.net/english/index.html

    NRTDRV, the MML Compiler / Driver for the Sharp X1 has been released to the public (+ they posted a new demosong today):
    http://nrtdrv.sakura.ne.jp/index.cgi

  • New Pixelh8 DS Program Previewed.

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    Sounds like this is the first Pixelh8 program that really has lots of useful live performance tools. As someone who has been mostly disappointed by the DS offerings, this looks like it will be a very useful program.

    The Pixelh8 Music Tech Master Stroke DS is a real time synthesizer for the Nintendo DS system it allows for extensive sound design and is the natural evolution of the Music Tech Series allowing for the classic chip tune sound on a modern device.

    The new system allows for keyboard style play by pressing “X” to bring up the 2 Ocatve Xylophone or classic Music Tech mode by using the directional pad to control the sounds in the same way as the Music Tech Game Boy and Pro Performer Game Boy Advance.

    via Pixelh8.