Electric Cow Sound Chip Synth (aka MiniMOO) for Atari STE/STFM/TT/Falcon - features and sound demo

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Also see the Electric Cow EC909

NOTE: this is the first demo to feature the MiniMOO on MATRIXSYNTH. The only other post to featuring the MiniMOO dates back to this screenshot in 2007. The site linked there, Church of the 16th bit, is still live!

"Quick look at the Electric Cow Sound Chip Synth (aka MiniMOO) for Atari STE/STFM/TT/Falcon - including it's features and sound demos. This programme lets you access and edit parametes of the Yamaha YM soundchip to create sounds and play them back via MIDI. It's fairly decent synth tbh - the oscillator has various detuning, sub osc / 'stacking' options, capable of some nice chorus-y sounds, a noise source, amplitude modulation and LFO for pitch modulation as well as an envelope that can either be used for pitch or amplitude. The latency is useable with MIDI data that does not have too many notes per bar, and you can play it in real time, but if you throw too many notes at it, it gets a bit latent and/or seems to buffer notes and play them back after a delay. Judging by the name, I guess it was meant to be a MiniMoog emulator if sorts - but that's dubious at best despite that it's a really solid bleep bloop machine!

Download the programme from Electric Cow's archive here: https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/atari/mi...

Track from sound demo 1: 𝖜𝖍𝖆𝖙𝖊𝖛𝖊𝖗 𝖍𝖆𝖕𝖕𝖊𝖓𝖘, 𝖉𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍 𝖎𝖘 𝖓𝖔𝖙 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖊𝖓𝖉 [video below]



Track from sound demo 2: Deepforest [video below]



00:00 - intro
00:39 - overview of the parameters basic fucntions
01:53 - using with midi: lag, latency and other quirks
03:34 - the oscillator
05:39 - VCA (mixer)
06:16 - noise generator
07:36 - Amplitude modulation
08:42 - LFO
09:59 - Envelope Generator
13:19 - saving and loading patches
14:52 - portamento
15:10 - setting MIDI chanel
15:30 - what do I like using it for
16:07 - sound demo 1: bass sound (link to the track in description)
17:26 - sound demo 1: all synth sounds made with the soundchip synth (link to the track in description)

ako - 𝖜𝖍𝖆𝖙𝖊𝖛𝖊𝖗 𝖍𝖆𝖕𝖕𝖊𝖓𝖘, 𝖉𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍 𝖎𝖘 𝖓𝖔𝖙 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖊𝖓𝖉 [vaporwave / hardvapor / horrorvapor / dungeon'n'bass]
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MIDIeval - Deepforest ( ako 16bit remix) [ dungeon synth / chiptune]

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