Game Boy

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…

Judson “Tettix” Cowan demonstrates how he makes “Fake ‘n’ Bake Chiptunes” in Propellerheads’ Reason.

Parts 2 & 3 below. Read more…

Sebastian Tomczak has posted info on a $1 Nanoloop MIDI Sync for Game Boy.

Overview:

So here is a very simple circuit that you can use to synchronise Nanoloop (for the Nintendo Game Boy) to a MIDI clock source (such as a sequencer or a drum machine).

This circuit works and has been tested, but of course I can’t guarantee that if you build it, it will work. At any rate, at least you won’t be wasting much money because the only component that is needed is the 4017 IC, which cost me about $1.

This schematic does not adhere to MIDI hardware specifications (there is no optocoupler, for instance) and there are no filter or bypass caps for the Game Boy power supply. So these are the sorts of things you might like to add (or not). However, I have it working in a very stable fashion ‘as is’.

One thing to note: you can only send MIDI clock messages on the output that is connected to the Game Boy, because other MIDI messages will mess up the synchronisation. Although some may find this a little limiting, I always tend to use a dedicated port for any MIDI clock sources anyway, so it suits me just fine.

Sebastian Tomczak has announced several new free kits for the LSDJ Game Boy app.

Here are links to the demos:

• Mozart Demo
• HAL9001 Demo
• HAL8999 Demo
• Ellington Demo
• Elektron Rock Demo

Download them from here.

Nanoloop Synced to Trippy H Game Boy Camera Music Sequencer

via littlescale:

Nordloef and little-scale proudly present: the Nintendo Game Boy Camera music sequencer Trippy H acting as a master for Nanoloop, which is synchronised to it.