Category: software

  • 1-bit Music on the Atari XL/XE

    And let beep sort it out.
    And let beep sort it out.

    In a followup to our previous post, got the following tip from b00Daw:

    Pwners of the “A8b” — Atari 8-bit — scene, XXL and other Poles, have made demonstation of the GTIA’s abilities to play music from its normal ‘clicky’ nature.  By porting over some Z80 ZX Spectrum routines, the team was able to create a music disk cheekily named “Beep’em All” for the A8b which utilizes the POKEY and GTIA sound chips while still managing display through the ANTIC chip.  GTIA “clicker” sounds almost exactly like Speccy’s beeper with this late innovation.

    MP3s:

    http://atarionline.pl/pliki/beepemall_mp3.7z“

  • 1-bit Music Roundup on Chipflip

    GOTO Dreamy
    GOTO Dreamy

    GOTO80‘s chip theory blog is always entertaining, and he has written a rad overview on making 1-bit music on z-80 based systems. An excerpt:

    Ok, the new thing is 1-bit music made with Z80! Just like with the AppleII-post before, this is me being an astonished newbie. It sounds so nice and data, I can’t believe it’s not a sound chip!

    …

    So yesterday I found this and this, filled with mp3s of Z80-music made with the ZX Spectrum (or clones). This is how it works, according to Yerzmey: “Z80 chip produces all sounds and sends them into BEEPER and AUDIO-OUT connector of ZX SPECTRUM (jack) through ULA chip”. Normally you can play 1 channel square waves, but with the 3.5 MHz of this Z80 you can play samples and get up to 8 channels of sounds! So this is another example of chip music that does not only play sounds immanent inside sound chips, but uses the CPU to create a sort of softsynth.”

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  • MSSIAH C64 MIDI SID Software cartridge Appeared

    Those who have been in lascivious expectation of the release date of this super hyped C64 music software, wait no more: Today, the MSSIAH software is available for purchase from the MSSIAH website in exchange for 49.95 hard earned Euros.

    Pay attention, though:

    Control your C64 through MIDI
    Control your C64 through MIDI

    “Incoming orders that are preordered are prioritized. Cartridge availability for non-preorder customers is extremely limited!
    Unfortunately we need to restrict orders to
    1 Cartridge per customer! (even for preorders!)”

    So if you didn’t pre-order, you best hurry before they are sold out.

    This is a good choice for those who want to use a C64 in their MIDI rig, however, I hope they fixed the serious issues from P64, since besides a quite useless Wave Player module (plays 4-bit samples, why not 8-bit samples after code for such a thing is widely available?), this is pretty much Prophet64 with a MIDI IN plug bolted on.

  • LSDJ Hits v3.9.0

    2008-11-19: v3.9.0

    * remove small lag when pressing START to start song. the lag was accidentally
    introduced in 3.8.2. (thx USK!)
    * reformatted crash screen to make it easier to write down.
    * fix minor visual bug when marking in song screen.

    http://www.littlesounddj.com/lsd/latest/full_version/

  • Sunvox 1.1 Appeared

    Sunvox is a modular synth/tracker. I have used it before, and it gets some cool chippy sounds with very minimal hardware requirements.

    A web of sound
    A web of sound

    Features:

    * Modular interface.
    * Highly optimized synth algorithmes.
    * Flexible architecture: SunVox can working on variuos devices. For example: PDA with slow CPU – 16bit sound (fixed point arithmetic); or big PC with powerfull CPU: 32bit sound (floating point arithmetic).
    * SunVox engine (without GUI) is open source and distributed under the terms of BSD license.
    * Built-in synthesizers:
    o FM synthesizer;
    o Generator (saw,triangle,square,noise waveforms);
    o Sampler (supported formats: WAV, XI);
    o SpectraVoice (FFT-based synth for analog-like pads);
    o Kicker;
    o Stereo Delay;
    o Distortion;
    o Echo;
    o Filter (Low-pass, High-pass, Band-pass, Notch);
    o Flanger;
    o LFO;
    o Loop;
    o Reverb (with DC Blocking Filter).
    o Vocal Filter
    * Supported platforms: Windows, Linux, PalmOS, WindowsCE.
    * Export to WAV.