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Showing posts with label Chiptune. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chiptune. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 04, 2025

Midweek MIDIPan Minijam : Plus first look at MIDISID for RC2014


video upload by MIDI IN

"This is a looper jam on the MIDIPan and also a show & tell about a project I'm working on right now. For 8-bit music fans!"

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Mega Man X CHILL PENGUIN (Synth Cover)


video upload by Jeff Black

"Hi, my name is Jeff Black and I'm the keyboardist for the Intergalactic Power Metal band GLYPH. The Mega Man X series has some of my favorite music ever written--pure nostalgic bliss. Enjoy this modern take on CHILL PENGUIN using some analog synths in my home studio.

GEAR:
Oberheim TEO-5 (leads, arpeggios)
Sequential Prophet 6 (brass/strings pads)
Dreadbox Erebus monosynth (bass)
Alesis SR-16 drum machine
Arturia Keystep Pro (Sequencing)
GFI System Specular Tempus reverb/delay
RME Fireface UFX1 Interface

Mixed using Baby Audio, SSL, Brainworx and Isotope plugins."

Wednesday, January 08, 2025

X1L3 - YM 300 - Sanxion 🕹📺 - YM2149F - eurorack module


video upload by X1L3

"Brave attempt at the Sanxion loader music from the C64 by Rob Hubbard.

Chip used - YM2149F.....

Lots of modulator abuse and tracking to get it where it is. I even almost managed to nail the DJ record scratch just before the chill melodic part kicks in 🤣

YM 300, a 4XVCF and a 4XVCA set up for amplitude control, additional filtering and mixing of the three sound channels. The filters give the AY/YM an almost SID character. Especially when you sweep them on a channel with the on chip modulator active.

Very tricky one to cover on the YM due to the limited sound palette of the chip. It's incredibly hard to do anything with a long melodic structure without it sounding square wave basic, as is the vanilla nature of the chip. With the filters and some creative use of the modulator tracking things you can work around this. Without the additional filters this would have been impossible to do without it sounding too cute or like a dogs dinner.

The set up with filters is basically how an Atari ST or ZX spectrum might have sounded back in the day if their sound chips had filters.

Not a bad attempt. Not as neat as the C64 original. As close as i could get for a bit of fun with what i'm using. If only the AY and YM could do PWM 🙂"

X1L3 - YM 300 - Sanxion - oscilloscope view

Sunday, January 05, 2025

picoTracker v2 - sampler, plugin synths and MIDI tracker / sequencer - walktrough and tutorial!


video upload by Floyd Steinberg

"picoTracker V2, a tracker-style sequencer with 8 MIDI, sample and synth tracks is here with some cool new features, and here's a video explaining how to get it and how to use it. https://xiphonics.com/

Table of contents:

00:00 intro
00:08 hello
00:30 new features!
02:19 installing the new firmware on older trackers
02:49 transfer some samples
03:09 creating a track: UI basics
04:10 songs, chains and phrases
05:22 instruments: loading and auditioning samples
06:28 create a simple drum beat
07:42 deleting notes or commands
07:51 adding another track/chain
08:27 the SID synth!
09:33 transposing notes / changing values
10:04 using tables
10:36 arpeggiators
11:28 filter envelopes
12:12 volume changes
12:39 adding more phrases / arpeggiator chord progressions
13:11 playing both tracks together
13:20 navigating tables (using more than one table)
13:37 OPAL, the fm synth - creating a bass track
14:18 synth parameters
16:25 some deep notes ;-)
16:40 adding phrases for a bassline
17:20 using MIDI instruments
18:12 adding MIDI commands (CC, program changes ...)
19:06 conclusion
20:29 bye + jam

HÄLP ZIS CHANNEL
https://www.patreon.com/floyd_steinberg
https://floydsteinberg.gumroad.com/
https://floydsteinberg.bandcamp.com/"

Friday, January 03, 2025

A Brief History of 80s Synths - SynthForceAlpha!


video upload by Memetune Studio

"Some prep for the next episode of The Memetune Programme.."

Thursday, January 02, 2025

🎮 Mario Bros Theme Remix | Live Jam with Sonicware Liven & Novation Circuit Rhythm


video upload by Blossom Bisquits

"Who says the classic Mario Bros theme can't be turned into an epic electronic live jam? 🎵✨ Watch as the Sonicware Liven Mega Synthetis and Novation Circuit Rhythm reimagine the legendary Mushroom Kingdom tune with lush synths and groovy beats. A must-listen tribute for Mario fans and electronic music lovers alike! 🍄🎹"

Update:

🎮 Mario Bros Theme Remix | Live Jam with Sonicware Liven & Novation Circuit Rhythm
video upload by Blossom Bisquits

Sunday, December 29, 2024

X1L3- GT 300 - Cybernoid 2 - oscilloscope view


video upload by X1L3

Follow-up to this post.

"Cybernoid 2 theme from the C64 by Jeroen Tel.
Covered with the GT 300 eurorack module.

GT 300 runs into a bank of three low pass filters. One for each channel. It's what the Atari ST or ZX spectrum might have sounded like if they had filters on their sound chips like the SID in the C64.

You can get a basic SID voice by using the modulator, but it lacks the finesse of having the real thing. It's a real shame that these chips were never capable of PWM without hammering the volume registers.

Lots of nice mellow to spicy wave action with plenty of modulator abuse to be seen."

Thursday, December 19, 2024

ULT-SOUND DS-1 FM modulation and percussion sounds


video upload by Korablove Roman

"ULT-SOUND DS-1 is the eurorack version of a single voice from the DS-4M. DS-1 consists of all the possibilities of all 3 versions of the DS-4 machines made by Toyo Gakki. Additional functions include LFO speed and amount controls, LFO RETRIGGER, SWEEP amount, MIX between VCO and NOISE sources (yes, all 4 noise types are included), MIX control and EXTERNAL INPUT. There are 2 versions of panels: "classic" black and white and 'custom' yellow blue.
Pre-order is open here: www.ult-sound.com/product-page/ult-sound-ds-1"

Wednesday, December 18, 2024

X1L3 - AY 300 + YM 300 + GT 300 - comparison - eurorack modules


video upload by X1L3

"Side by side comparison of the three flavours of the '300' chip tune module.
👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾

Busy chip tune composition to hit them hard with lots of micro note hopping, and the modulator running 1voct on channel 1 to generate the 'SIDvoice' on the bass line, and to create the drum/percussive sounds when hit with fast CV spikes instead of using the noise channel. Demoscene tricks that i wanted to include in the modules from the start through a sense of completeness in having them behave as close as possible to if they were tied to a CPU.

There's very little difference between the three. The YM is a superior chip and addresses the low level audio channel cross talk that the AY and it's direct clones exhibit. It makes little difference to the sound in a loaded 3 channel composition like this though. The YM is maybe ever so slightly cleaner than the AY and WF.

If you're a masochist like me then you basically get to relive turning your telly up full blast in the 80s to hear the same strident bit of chip tune three times, while pissing your parents off and being told to turn it down, for no other reason than becasue you can 🤣🤣

AY 300 - General instruments - AY-3-8910
YM 300 - Yamaha - YM2149F
GT 300 - Winbond - WF19054

The AY3 was released in 1978 and used in tons of home computers like the ZX Spectrum, Vectrex and Amstrad CPC.

The YM2149 some time in the mid 80s i believe. I remember it well from the Atari ST. And how disappointed i was with the sound of the ST compared to the SID chip in Commodore 64.

The Winbond AY clone is as far as i know still made today for use in slot and pinball machines."

Sunday, December 08, 2024

SonicWare Mega Synthesis Demo Compilation!


video upload by sushiboots

"Here's a compilation of all the tracks I've produced on the Mega Synthesis so far. Hope you enjoy. More to come!"

Sunday Jam #60 : Drivin' again - with guitar


video upload by MIDI IN

"I've decided to take an existing piece of music, my Music for an Imaginary Driving Game, which I've published a few times in different forms, most recently for dual SIDs, I'll link to that video, and enhance it with real guitar and realistic drums.

The stop-motion driving clip is thanks to Mike Bird:
https://www.pexels.com/video/time-lap...

The most recent pure dual-SID version of this tune is here:"

Latest version of 'Drivin' SID tune, plus new SwinSID design

video upload by MIDI IN

"I've just received these in the post this morning. I was unable to make edits to Tolaemon's 'nano SwinSID b' design and so I made a new board design using the SwinSID schematic. This is a demo, (apart from the looks, and easier manufacture for me, they're the same as the nano SwinSID b)
https://peacockmedia.software/midisid"

Best Ambient Synth Shootout #140: Mega MIDI - Song 3


video upload by Christian's Sonic Spaces

"This is the third song with the Mega MIDI by Aidan Lawrence. It's an FM synthesizer based on either the YM2612 yamaha chip (used here and in SEGA Genesis / Megadrive home consoles and various SEGA arcade game systems, including the Mega-Play, System 18, and System 32) or the cleaner sounding YM3438 chip without the crossover distortion in the output. Both sound chips has six channels with four operators per channel.

In contradiction to the Kasser DAFM Synth you can program the sounds only via Midi CC but it can load via SD card opm-file game sounds from the SEGA Genesis / Megadrive games (currently more than 9500 opm-files available). The game music composers did a great job to programming the best out of the 4 OP FM synth. So it's a lot of fun to dive through all the game sounds.

I used for the recording the following FX pedals:
Line 6 DL4 MkII, Pigtronix Echolution² Deluxe, GFI System Specular Reverb², OTO Boum.
Depending on the recorded track some FX are deactivated.

The signal went through a Presonus StudioLive 16.0.2 into the PC via USB for recording. To create the complete song I recorded consecutively several stereo tracks. On some tracks Compressor and EQ where added in Cubase 13. The final song was then mastered using iZotope Ozone."

Sunday, December 01, 2024

Mega Synthesis Demo 15 [Sega Genesis Music Machine]


video upload by sushiboots

"Writing some more Sega Gensesis/Sega Mega Drive music. Please enjoy."

Sunday Jam #59 : 8th wonder


video upload by MIDI IN

"Since it's BF/CM, how about a twofer? You get two tracks for free instead of one for free!

0:00 introduction
0:33 Showing the ES2 instruments I used
2:24 How I used MIDISID
5:16 ES2 version
9:18 SID version

Library video used:
courtesy cottonbro:
https://www.pexels.com/video/side-vie...
https://www.pexels.com/video/low-angl...
courtesy Magda Ehlers:
https://www.pexels.com/video/string-o..."

Thursday, November 28, 2024

Mega Synthesis Demo 14 [Sega Genesis Music Machine]


video upload by sushiboots

"Writing some more Sega Gensesis/Sega Mega Drive music. Please enjoy."

Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Forbidden Forest | C64 music played on vintage synths


video upload by 86xwQMjniqQ

"One of my all-time favorite C64 games with what IS my favorite C64 music on it. I've always wanted to remake this with some of my synths. Not a cover as such, but more a note for note remake, but with other sounds.
If this becomes a fairly popular video I might do more like this and I have bee thinking of an album with C64 themes recreated. It all depends on the popularity of the video really.
Doing this was great fun and a relaxing way of taking my mind off daily tasks and chores. Nothing more.

Find my music here:
Bandcamp: https://espenkraft.bandcamp.com/"

Monday, November 25, 2024

GND-1T Speech Chip Synthesizer Tutorials 0. Introduction and quick start


video upload by GND-1

"Available directly from https://richardvanhoesel.com/gnd1t

Here's an introductory and quickstart video for the GND-1T speech chip synthesizer released in 2024. You can find more short topical GND-1T tutorials on this channel. Over 5000 hours in the making, it's a beast of a synth with a highly unique architecture. Like its predecessor the GND-1, the 1T is based on an accurate emulation of the speech chip inside the popular Speak and Spell game, but goes way beyond anything that's possible in hardware.

The design of the new version is heavily geared towards hands-on performance without necessarily needing a computer, and includes a USB host port for minimal setups. But it's equally well suited to a DAW setup with its full parameter set available over MIDI. It now also includes built in effects and drum kits, assignable encoders, a touch screen, and full analog and USB audio I/O.

Everything you hear in these demos is a direct stereo stream recorded from the GND-1T, without any additional processing or effects.

For more information I recommend you download the user manual from the website. Any questions, feel free to leave them as comments here, or get in touch with me via the website."

Mega Synthesis Demo 13 [Sega Genesis Music Machine]


video upload by sushiboots

"Writing some more Sega Gensesis/Sega Mega Drive music. Please enjoy."

Saturday, November 23, 2024

X1L3 - AY300 / YM300 - Sanxion demo - Eurorack modules


video upload by X1L3

"A valiant attempt from the humble AY3-8910 and YM2149 at pulling off part of the Sanxion loader music from the Commodore 64. Written in 1984 by Rob Hubbard for the SID chip.

Quick demo of a couple of new modules built around the relics that are the AY and YM. With support from some real SID drums to drive it. It's not a bad attempt.

Two three voice stacks. No vca/vcf support modules.

AY does the bass and additional noise percussion.

YM runs the melody and hops over to the bass line to follow the AY and prevent it from droning when it would be technically idle if i had a vca in line..

The internal modulators can be used to generate a kind of 'SID voice', but in this limited hook up they're not used here.

Will probably revisit it when my rig is free and i can be bothered to figure out all the bendy bits of the lush melodic part about a third of the way into the original 🙂🕹📺🔥"

Friday, November 22, 2024

Mega Synthesis Demo 12 [Sega Genesis Music Machine]


video upload by sushiboots

"Writing some more Sega Gensesis/Sega Mega Drive music. Please enjoy."
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