lo fi

First 300 (zip) is a free collection of chip music, compiled by Little Scale:

Chipmusic is a big part of my life, and I love the fact that there are places like 8bc that encourage open sharing of all things chip. This work is wholly comprised of the first three-hundred tracks available on the web-site 8bitcollective.com.

I hope that you enjoy this work as much as I enjoyed creating it.

It’s shared with a Creative Commons license, which means you can copy it, use it in a podcast or share it. 

This represents a monumental effort by the musicians involved and by Little Scale in compiling the collection.

We’ve highlighted several free music albums of 8-bit holiday music already this year, but this one gets the prize for best title:

Just in time for Christmas, it’s the full version of 8-Bit Jesus: Classic Christmas Songs in the Style of Classic NES Games.

This full release contains 18 tracks total, including improved variations of a few of the original nine!

Please be sure to check out the amazing cover art for the full release, designed by Jude Buffum.

You can download 8-Bit Jesus here.

Merry Pixmas is a free compilation of lo fi holiday hits. 

It’s a free download, and features perennial holiday classics like Coventry Carol and We Wish You A Merry Christmas, and some unexpected entries, like deck the halls with your anus.

Is that cover awesome, or what?

Download link (.zip)

via Sebastian Tomczak; if you like 8-bit music, make sure you check out Tomczak’s Little Scale blog.

plastique is a new freeware software synth for Windows from de la mancha.

It’s a 2 oscillator subtractive synth, using the 31 waveforms from the Casio HT-700 synth and some enhancements to the originals feature set. It does lofi 80’s sounds but also so much more, with a configurable filter (up to 16 poles), a pitch envelope for percussion, an arp, tempo sync delay & LFO, chorus and some lofi instability.

Features:

• 31 Waveforms from the Casio HT-700
• 2 Oscs with sync and octave / semitone detune
• Configurable Resonant Low Pass filter (2-16 poles with cut-off spread)
• Volume and Pitch envelopes
• Tempo sync LFO with 10 waveforms and note-on sync to modulate filter and pitch
• Tempo sync Arp with 6 modes and adjustable octave range, note length
• Tempo sync Delay
• Adjustable Chorus
• Lo fi options include reduction in quality, distortion and pitch drift
• 64 presets from Tim Conrardy, Ouroboros & Sink

6955 generates lush / minimal atmospheres at the Blip Festival 2007 in NYC on 2007 12 02.

Visuals and motion graphics by noteNdo. Held at Eyebeam; organized by The Tank and 8bitpeoples.