Category: software

  • Why aren’t there more things like these?

    discoVia Syphus:

    EDIT from comments: I’m making it in Processing, and will eventually be a Windows/Linux/Mac executable AND a web-based Java applet.

    I might tidy it up and cobble together a Processing library so that other people can use the IBXM replayer system (by Martin Cameron) in their Processing sketches.

    This will be my principle means of releasing mod/xm musicdisks in the future, with the possibility of releasing web-based versions of old Amiga/etc musicdisks. For the native executables, I may see about building in a ‘render to mp3? function, so I can distribute small disks from which people can build large mp3-player-friendly albums.

    I’ve been asking for similar DJ type players for other chips for years.. especially for my Hardsid!

  • MDX Player for the PSP appeared

    p9220003Thanks to the following tip from kami68k:

    An MDX Player for the PSP appeared, its made by BouKiCHi:
    http://clogging.web.fc2.com/

    more about MDX:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X68000%27s_MDX

    And on a sidenote, Naruto has announced a new Sound Driver for the Sharp X1 (why is everyone doing new Soundrivers lately?)

    There is nothing to see yet though:
    http://www.rootnyanplus.com/user/naruto/

  • YM2151 doc’d, Other Odds ‘n Ends

    herzeleid3” The YM2151 is an FM sound synthesizer that is very popular in Japan. It was used in many arcade systems, including the CPS1, and was also in the MSX and X68000 home computers” . Also check out this teaser of a new tracker for it:

    Via

    Neil Baldwin updates us on his music driver:

    I had a pitch-bend function in my old drivers but it was clumsy and most of the calculations were done in macros. For Nijuu I wanted portamento like it should be done. You just turn it on on a track and specify the number of frames over which the pitch sweep should occur and then just continue entering notes into the sequence like normal. All your notes will be smoothly pitch-swept from one to the other, forever, until you turn Portamento off again. It also only works in Legato mode, kind of like old mono synths where if you play without overlapping the notes, the portamento has no effect.

    “The Mysterious H” has uploaded two new releases on his site, The Spacegod 7, and The Battle Makes My Blood Boil“, for fans of power prog-punk chip insanity.

  • DuckSlinger Appeared!

    screenshotDuckSlinger is a new Tracker for the Nintendo DS that was announced at BlockParty. The interface looks a bit spartan, but the website has demos from Coda and Virt, so you already have no shot at being the best composer for it.

    VIA

    EDIT:  Forgot to mention this appears to be a PSG based tracker. This means you use the Internal DS sounds instead of samples to create your sounds!

  • Duty Cycle Generator Creates a new NES sound Driver?

    Via an update on the essential Duty Cycle Generator blog, Neil Baldwin writes about news of his new NES sound driver. Sounds Drool!

    I figured I could take the best bits of my old sound driver, improve the stuff that didn’t work properly, throw in some of the flexibility from MML/PPMCK and make my ultimate NES audio driver. So over the last few weeks I’ve actually written a brand new NES driver, from scratch, which I’ve nicknamed ‘Nijuu’

    Gory tech details at his blog. Sounds great!