Category: Platforms

  • TCTD Podcast #007 – AHX Favorites Pt. 1

    Abyss Highest Experience, or AHX for short, is a softsynth Amiga tracker which emulates the C64 sound. This week’s episode gives you a selection of some (of its many) masterpieces.

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    Playlist:
    1. JazzCat – Toys in the Attic
    2. Oxide – Aftermath
    3. Gier Tjelta – Blue Mazda 323
    4. Flapjack – Sixtus, don’t sing!
    5. Pink – kustomnized
    6. Pink – Agony End
    7. m0d – children of the pie
    8. Syphus – Last Tense
    9. Mortimer Twang – Amanda
    10. Loonie – Bice!
    11. Jazz – Fucking the Arp
    12. Starbuck – Peaceful Moments
    13. Gier Tjelta – A New Beginning

    All tunes can be downloaded in original AHX format at ftp.modland.com

  • RUBBER PLEASURES – yerzmyey

    AY_interfaceWhile not actually a release per se, I was hurting for some ay goodnes.

    yerzmyey writes:

    This song is actually on the edge of Spectrum’s possibilities, I presume, however I again wanted AY to sound more interesting than normally.I added some bubbling filter-like sounds on the beginning, some other noises on 1:37, extremly hard-to-do playing with two sounds on one oscillator in 2:15 and later pretty funny synthetic sound came out by the way, AY still has its secrets, it seems plus some other various basses and synthetic fluctuating brasses.The most difficult is the ‘2 sounds on one oscillator’ trick. I must DEsynchronize sound to achieve 2 instruments playing in one channel. To tune the melody is kinda torture as only one sound is a real instrument. Another one is only distortion of the original sound but I can make it to play a song, hehe. : However AY has been never designed for that so the tuning is drudgery.

    via RUBBER PLEASURES | 8bc – Online Chiptune Media Sharing.

  • The origin of the chiptune phenomenon

    chiptunes_sidmon_song-editorAnders from Chipflip has linked to an interesting interview he conducted with Metin Seven, one of the developers of SIDMon. In it, they discuss the transition from c64 to amiga, and the retro-origin of the intial use of the chiptune term. Great read!

    AC: Hi Metin. I’m a tracker musician researching the history of chipmusic for a master thesis. Currently I’m looking the epistemology of the word chipmusic or chiptune. Since you were involved with SIDmon the first synthetic Amiga tracker, right? I wanted to ask if you have any memories of this.Hi Anders. That’s the coolest master thesis subject I’ve heard of so far.

    :-SIDmon was indeed the first synth audio editor for the Commodore Amiga. Its name refers to the legendary MOS Technology 6581/8580 SID Sound Interface Device chip, best known from the equally legendary Commodore 64 home computer, the Amiga’s predecessor in terms of Commodore flagships. The “mon” part of SIDmon refers to “monitor” and was inspired by the first music tracker I can remember: Soundmon for the Commodore 64.SIDmon’s interface was primitively designed compared to today’s design standards, SIDmon’s graphics reflected the game-oriented 2D graphics style of those days. It was divided in four parts: a waveform editor for creating synth sounds, a sound sample editor, a pattern editor for arranging the sounds into music patterns, and a song editor where you could combine the patterns into a four-channel song.

    via Metinsevendotcom

  • Chalices Of The Past – LGPT1CH

    kr031 - COTP - Art-LGPT1CH

    For some reason August seems like a nice month for artisanal piggy glitchtechfunk, all lovingly hand crafted in one channel using LGPT. Oh, and we had a nice sunny warm day today in England for a pissy change.

    via kittenrock.

  • Sega releasing Alex Kidd soundtrack collection

    21obqd3The Alex Kidd Complete Album will be released on the 14th for ¥3,100 $32.28. Takenobu “Daytonaaaaaaaaa” Mitsuyoshi will contribute at least one track, and the collection features adorable cover art by Ika-san. Sega is also releasing Sega Motorcycle Music History, with tracks from A.B. Cop, Racing Hero, and Enduro Racer the Master System version of which has great music.

    viaTiny Cartridge