I made it in Ruby, as that’s my scripting language of choice as of recent. I’m really only a web developer, so it was the best language for me to do it in, and I’d never used Rails, so I decided that making it a web application with Ruby on Rails would be the best for displaying all the information neatly. (more…)
“What kind of music do you make when the coder has used almost all the computing power, the designer had his/her go, and there is not even enough CPU-power left to play sounds? You make zero cycle music!”
4bit Synths
4bitsynth is a MIDI-controlled digital synthesizer that uses the Atmel AVR ATMega48. Inspired by the NES, the sound is 4-bit. The digital output is put through an R-2R resistor ladder to get the analog waveform.
VOPM Universal Binary
Sam’s great FM synthesizer plug-in VOPM is now available in a Universal Binary form. The plug-in emulates an OPM– the sound system found in the Sharp X68K home computer and similar to the one found in the Sega Genesis (Megadrive). Many thanks to Sam for allowing me to post the OS X port. I have also written an unofficial English manual for VOPM.
reVisit is a VST plugin that seeks to easily add tracker composition to any VST host is offering free versions to those helping with his Uni project. More info:
After uncountable hours, weeks, months and years of coding and testing,
I am proud to present reViSiT Professionalto you. Not only is this new
release the most powerful, most feature-rich, most stable version ever;
it is also the best value… as you can now ‘go Pro’ for free, through the reViSiT Experiment. The what, the why, and the how are detailed below.
It only remains for me to give thanks to all of you for your help in testing
and shaping reViSiT during its formative years. reViSiT is what it is today
because of your support. Thank you!
If anyone has any questions, feel free to pose them on the forum, and I’ll
try to answer you as quickly as possible. For further information, see the
reViSiT Experiment website @ http://experiment.nashnet.co.uk.
As 2008 comes to a close, the staff at TCTD takes time to take stock and acknowledge the best and brightest achievers in the International Chip Community. TCTD is pleased to announce that we are accepting nominations for the following Categories.
Please email all one paragraph or less nominations to: