Cool Hunting interviews Bitshifter about making music with Gameboys.

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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.

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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 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.

Artists announced so far include:

• Bit Shifter
• Chromix
• Disasterpeace
• failotron
• Fighter X
• I, Cactus
• Je Deviens DJ En Trois Jours
• Leeni
• little-scale
• Nullsleep
• Rainbowdragoneyes
• The Hunters
• The J. Arthur Keenes Band

via truechiptildeath

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.

chipsounds simulates the following sound chips:

• 2A03
• AY-3-8910
• DMG-CPU
• P8244
• POKEY
• SID
• SN76489
• TIA
• UVI
• VIC-I

chipsounds reproduces the idiosyncrasies of the most sought-after classic sound chips, including their most well-known variations, as sonically accurate as possible without adding any non-authentic aliasing or DSP artifacts. Research and analysis for this project has been made in house on Plogue’s large collection of cartridges, modified consoles and classic computers and also on the chips themselves using custom made circuit boards and low level 8 bit software code.

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

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Nanoloop 1.5 (Game Boy) Synced to Ableton Live. Game Boy music by Gutterkisser.

Denj Sano’s keynote speech introducing the new product KORG DS-10 Plus.

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Click here to view the embedded video.

TRAINing 2 – Fast And Crazy is a stop-motion music video, with a Korg DS-10 soundtrack, by Synthtopia reader JohnLRice:

This was actually going to be my second YouTube video but I kept putting it off because time lapse and stop motion video can be hard to do without the right equipment and experience. Then I discovered www.pond5.com recently when making my Monster Man video so I decided to abuse my credit card again . . . I mean . . . stimulate the economy to make this video!

The music is all done with one pass of Korg DS-10. Audio EQing etc done in WaveLab5. Video editing done in Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum.

See John’s YouTube page for more music videos and MOTM modular synth demo videos.

This is a quick demo of microtonal Gameboy synthesis – 18-TET Tuning with NanoLoop (Hacked ROM).

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18-TET = 18 divisions of the octave instead of 12 (which is standard for western tuning). Special, special thanks to Abrasive for his help and his idea with this – all of the credit goes to him of course. On left, the original ROM with its frequency lookup table intact, and on the right the edited ROM with the 18-TET lookup table.

Demo 2

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RanKirlian demonstrates some cross-platform ambient fun, with Nintendo DS, Kaoss Pad 3 and a custom Doepfer cabinet.

Patch details:

Nintendo plays Electroplankton Lumiloop over the XP filter module, while a Doepfer oscillator does first a drone and later a sort sequence through the Xtreme filter. The result gets some delay with kaoss pad 3 and then is recorded to minidisc.

Nanoloop 2.3 Kit for LSDJ!

Download it here.

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WiiToMidi is a free application that lets you convert signals from a Nintendo Wii controller to MIDI signals.

It is a Cocoa application for Mac OS X and uses the DarwiinRemote WiiRemote framework to decode Wii controller signals. It also supports the Nunchuk controller.

KORG DS-10 : Nintendo DS Software Synthesizer – synchronized play

Nanoloop Synced to Trippy H Game Boy Camera Music Sequencer

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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.

The Evolution Control Committee have invented a rear-projected infrared-activated faux-touchscreen mashup controller…hacked from the Nintendo Wiimote.

It’s a bizarre McGyver – but you got to love the giant screen and the “insanely overloaded Ableton Live” running on it.

According to the ECC, the Mashup Controller is ”the secret sauce that makes The ECC’s Wheel Of Mashup live mashup shows possible.”

If you’re not familiar with the ECC, they claim to have been to have been “creating illegal music since 1986, when copyright infringement was done the hard way.”

When they aren’t creating McGyver’d music controllers, they’re coming up with new euphemisms for sex. As if “doing the mashup” wasn’t good enough. 

Let me know what you think of this 4′ wide Mashup Controller!

This video captures RubixsQube’s impressions of the Korg DS10-Synth.

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I play some techno-style music from my Nintendo DS.

Also, I stick my tongue out when I think that nobody can see my stupid face.

“Do you think this is just yet another toy synth?” asks Denkitribe. “I don’t think so. This is a very serious virtual analog synth.”

Looks pretty cool from the demo.

This is the E3 Trailer of Wii Music for Nintendo Wii.

Unfortunately – it looks like this is a music game with the emphasis on game.

At this morning’s Nintendo media briefing in Los Angeles, announcements included new Wii Sports, Wii Music, and the Wii Motion Plus Controller.

Remain Calm

1. bliptracker – a drum machine & sequencer
2. dsmcu – MCU-compatible mix controller
3. Protein[DS] – sample looper, scratcher, glitcher
4. nitrotracker
5. kaosDS – converts touchscreen data into midi over wifi
6. sampling keyboard
7. dstep v2 – a visual sequencer
8. glitchDS – a cellular automation sequencer
9. repeaterDS – stuttering sample player
10. midipad – a DS Kaoss pad clone
11. toypiano – a sampled piano
12. dstar – MIDI sequencer
13. monome ds – an open-source Monome emulation
14. soundcells – cool looking virtual synthesizer
15. ukulele – a virtual ukulele
16. dssynth – an open source DS synth
17. MIDI Jammer – a graphical MIDI tool
18. AXE – move the stylus around on the touch screen to create simplistic music
19. pulse dsi – a MIDI synth
20. drummers v2
21. FUDI Kaos DS
22. knobs and sliders
23. drum me – virtual drum kit
24. strum me – a virtual guitar

Check out the Remain Calm site for screenshots and more info.

If you’ve tried these or other DS music apps, let me know what you think in the comments.

WiiJing is the use of Nintentdo’s Wiimote to control DJ software. This is a demonstration of Wiijing, presented by DJ ! for the website www.djwiij.com.

This is a proof of concept demonstration video of Wiij Scratching with a Nintendo Wiimote and using Traktor DJ Software.

A closer look at DJ Wiij’s approach to WiiJing.