Monday, May 09, 2011
Chip Maestro - An NES MIDI Synthesizer Cartridge
"The Chip Maestro is a finished product up on Kickstarter, and it's seeking backers!
The Chip Maestro is a special NES cartridge that turns the NES into a synthesizer. You can play it using a MIDI keyboard or a USB to MIDI converter. By directly manipulating the NES CPU's sound circuitry, all sounds played through this cartridge are authentic NES tones! This is as realistic to the 8-bit era as you can get with live sound. Previous trackers have been able to play music, but all of them required pre-composition. This cartridge lets you do improvs and solos during live shows, or fiddle around with new tunes. I hope to get it into every chiptune artist's hands soon. Thanks for your support!"
Update via Jarek: "The advantage of the Chip Maestro over the MIDInes is its availability and price.
The Chip Maestro will support parameter changes to all sound channels of the NES. If you pledge at any level, you will get first look at the technical documents, and be able to propose changes/improvements that you would like, such as which parameter changes are important, and how they would be best implemented."
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yes, please!
ReplyDeletecool...does it allow parameter changes to the sounds, like midines?
ReplyDeletei'd like to point out that midines does not require sequences to be prearranged or precomposed, one can very much play midines live and in real time with just a midi keyboard.
See the update in the post from Jarek.
ReplyDelete"The Chip Maestro will support parameter changes to all sound channels of the NES."
ReplyDeletethanks jarek, you didn't mention that on 8bc, i'll go update my post there too
parameter changes add so much more to the nes, when you can get so many slightly different timbres out of the same box it makes that box just so much more capable! thank you for the response!