Commodore 64
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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…
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…
The Commodore 64 was the best-selling home computer system of all time, and still draws a large crowd of retro-gamers.
Despite its popularity, though, the music of C64 games has rarely been analysed in academic articles.
Karen Collins’ Loops And Bloops: Music of the Commodore 64 Games discusses the technical constraints of C64’s SID soundchip and how this shaped the musical aesthetic of music on the Commodore 64: Read more…
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Let’s get this out of the way up front: The answer is – because it was there.
This video demonstrates an iPod with TouchOSC controlling a vintage Commodore 64 synthesizer (SID Chip), with a home made C64 MIDI interface.
Hacktacular.
Littlescale, we salute you.
This is a two guys, one synth demo of what could be the ultimate Commodore 64 synthesizer, a C64 customized to work with Cynthcart.
via kilobyte242:
fully customized Commodore 64, enhanced for Cynthcart. Features SID2SID installation, Linear/Slider pot for Cynthcart filter, active guitar effects (overdrive and frequency filter) for each SID’s output, an mounted musical overlay, feedback knobs…..for more information check out www.kilobytemodshop.com
