8-bit music
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This is too much fun not to share – Thriller (Saitone 8bit tribute), directed by Raquel Meyers.
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Filed under: Electronic Instruments, Interviews, Synthesizers
Cool Hunting interviews Bitshifter about making music with Gameboys.
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In our third installment of the 8-Bit series, we interview Bitshifter (Joshua Davis) about creating music with a pair of Gameboys. The interview takes place at ‘Barcade’ in Brooklyn and also features Mike Rosenthal, Experimental Music Director at ‘The Tank.’
Blip Festival 2009
The Blip Festival, a three-day music and arts festival, returns to New York City this year at Brooklyn’s Bell House December 17th, 18th, and 19th.
The festival showcases the use of the former heavyweights of computing such as the Commodore 64 and Amiga, the Atari ST and 2600, and the Nintendo Entertainment System and Game Boy to create arresting music and visual art. Read more…
It’s starting to look like old 8-bit computers are the new Roland TB-303.
Petsynth is a free, open source application described as “the only program for rocking the Commodore PET that the cool kids use”:
Petsynth features a two-octave keyboard layout, selectable note length, many selectable octaves, selectable pulse-width, vibrato, distortion, and noise or “drum mode” depending on how you use it.
All this without adding or hacking the Commodore PET in any way. Plus, it’s compiling from C, so it’s FAST – with very low latency.
The drum sounds are also crazy weird. You can also set the vibrato so high it sounds more like a laser gun or alien telephone.
Here’s one, slighty distorted, demo of Petsynth in action:
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Plogue today released its new soft-synthesizer, chipsounds.
“Quite simply put, it beats the s*** out of any other single chip emulation VST currently available,” says 8-bit artist nitro2k01. “chipsounds is a must-have for anyone who’s seriously interested in chip sounds but don’t have access to the real hardware.”
chipsounds is designed to faithfully reproduce the sound and style of vintage video game music and sound effects in plugin format, usable inside any sequencer or DAW, or as a standalone virtual instrument.
Plogue chipsounds will be offered at an introductory price of 75$ until November 1. Read more…
