Nintendo

Cool Hunting interviews Bitshifter about making music with Gameboys.

via coolhunting:

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.’

Cuckoo demo’s the new Plogue Chipsounds.

via cuckoomusic:

I bought this new plug-in called Plogue Chipsounds and took it for a spin. I must say it sounds fantastic. I’m going through a couple of the chips, perform and loop live to see how it all sounds.Best regardsCUCKOOMore on Cuckoo:http://www.cuckoo.noMore on Plogue Chipsounds:http://www.plogue.com

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…

Ableton Live 8: This video demos a Nanoloop 1.5, running on a GameBoy, synced to Ableton Live. Read more…