Category: Atari ST
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TCTD Links for 2010-03-22
- James Kochalka on Wired: Last Day of his kickstarter for Glorkian Warrior: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/03/sxsw-james-kochalka/ #
- Malaysian Chiptune Comp is out: http://mychiptune.blogspot.com/2010/03/hey-its-malaysian-chiptune-compilation.html #
- Jam the multiformat musicplayer for Atari and Windows Released 2.1: http://www.creamhq.de/jam.php #
- 4mat – “Decades” album teaser http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9xgw75BwRg #
- Photos from March Pulsewave: http://thetanknyc.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/photos-from-march-2010-pulsewave/ #
- Crionics on the Amiga in TV 1990 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T9g8xAtF5o&feature=autofb #
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Plogue chipsounds 1.0 appeared
The long awaited Chip emulating vst from Plogue is finally out. Having had a chance to play with this, I can tell you the sound is up to snuff, surpassing other similar products, and its usuability gives real hardware a run for its money. You can read a healthy overview about the process behind the recreation over at CDM, or check out this blurb from the Plogue site after the jump.
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gwEm interview pt 2
This is the second part of our interview with gwEm, you can find the first part here.
LB – In the maxYMiser FAQ you make the comment that the other trackers available for the machine lacked in some way, I was curious which limitations encouraged you to start on maxYMiser.
gwEm – Well, there were 3 different trackers all doing something different, I wondered why.. then I read a deeply inspiring interview (note: links to myatari.net zip of May2003 issue which contains the interview) with the legendary Tao, which went into details about his techniques. I decided to put all the effects into one tracker.
LB – Did you develop maxYMiser in secret for a while or were you getting input from other Atari experts?
gwEm – I make most of my projects secret, since I don’t want to disappoint, maxYMiser was a big secret though. I got input just from Dma-Sc on the interface – he tried all the early versions, from the very first mock up. I asked him, since I am a big fan of his music style, he seemed interested in trying a new tracker out, too – he was one of the first to move to Triplex. After the first couple of releases I got advice from 505 instead, since Dma was busy. Except for those two guys, I didn’t really listen to anyone else. But they are, in my opinion, the best two musicians on the Atari ST demoscene.
LB – How did the ST community react to maxYMiser?
gwEm -Well, I released some stuff – firstly the song ‘maxYMise’ as a compo tune. ‘maxYMise’ didn’t do that well, which effected motivation. I realized then, its not all about fancy effects. Next thing was ‘The Phatt Demo‘
