ChipdiscoDJ is a twin-deck MOD/XM/S3M player, set up like DJ software and with many of the same features. Needless to say, because modules are much better than MP3s, WAVs and other rendered audio files, you can do very cool stuff by digging into the notes as they’re calculated and played on the fly by the player engine. Adjust speed without adjusting pitch! Change pitch without altering speed! Mute individual instruments or channels! Trigger sub-pattern loops (a la Ableton Live) with pinpoint timing accuracy! Also, because modules are usually very small, you can roll up to a party with ChipdiscoDJ and a bunch of tunes on a floppy disk and kill that shit dead. No floppies? Don’t worry – you can queue up files from other websites by copying the URLs. Aaaawesome.
Category: Platforms
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Chipdisco updated to 0.2
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Today – freezedream now available digitally
The IDM chipmusic-on-chip album ‘Today’ was released as a physical 16-bit cartridge for the Sega Megadrive/Genesis video game console. The sound is generated at playtime by the Yamaha YM2612 FM synthesizer chip that is built into the console.
The concept is to do away with the conventional audio recording which is the standard format for practically all music now released.
Breathing new life into this obsolete Sega console in 2010, ‘Today’ aims to reinvigorate interest in old hardware and the idea of listening to music where the sound is generated each time you listen.
This music has now been captured from the real hardware and made available for purchase.
credits
released 02 December 2010
Music, Artwork, PCB Design & Assembly: freezedream (Nathan Stanley)Coding/Testing: Alex Cichowski – Thankyou so much for your long hours working out bugs and optimizing things. :)
Player Code: Shiru & Alone Coder
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Wizwars – Telstar Arcade
released 01 December 2010
All songs by Kevin Hagge
Mastered by Bit_Rat (Josiah Tobin)
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little-scale: My Head Is A Punching Bag
A collection of four EPs, each written in one hour. 17 tracks in total, made using SEGA Master System, Nintendo Entertainment System, SEGA Mega Drive and Apple iPod. Thanks to Lauren Tomczak for the amazing artwork
via little-scale: little-scale: My Head Is A Punching Bag (2010).