Ninstrument’s Chris Blarsky contacted us to let us know about the new MCTRL – a MIDI-controlled NES Gamepad.
Why would you want a MIDI-controlled NES Gamepad?
There are many homebrew audio/video titles for the NES that can?t easily be synced with a traditional DAW or MIDI keyboard/device. The MCTRL (pronounced M-CONTROL) incorporates MIDI In, Thru & Out – making it easy to integrate the NES into your MIDI setup.
Reader Zac Bentz let us know about a couple of new albums released by his project The Electric Witch.
On both albums, Bentz makes extensive use of iPad synths, including Animoog, DM1 and Sunrizer, along with some microKorg vocoding.
The albums are available now for $1 or more. You can stream them for free via the links above, and Bentz has released a free track for each album.
You can download a free track from Assassin, the title track, above.
NESynth – a synthesizer that recreates the ’8 bit sound of video games in the 80′s’ – has been updated with MIDI support.
New in NESynth 1.6:
This is a sneak preview of an upcoming NES controller to CV interface.
The NES controller to CV interface will let you control your expensive modular synth with a cheap game controller.
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Here’s a preview of Beatbox – a new cartridge that turns a Nintendo into a playable drum machine.
Features include:
Chip Maestro - a new project to develop a NES MIDI Synthesizer Cartridge – is fully funded and under development.
Here’s how developer Jarek Lupinski describes the project:
I am prototyping, designing and assembling a special cartridge called Chip Maestro which can be used in any Nintendo Entertainment System. This cartridge will accept a MIDI input from any instrument, and by passing the MIDI notes through the NES, the cartridge will make the NES synthesize 8-bits of awesome in true NES squarewavey goodness.
See the video for more details!
The project has 260 backers and has raised $15,045 of a $1,150 goal, demonstrating that there’s a lot of interest in a NES MIDI Synth.
The Chip Maestro is still under development. You can follow development at Lupinski’s Kickstarter site.
via getlofi