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petsynth

It’s starting to look like old 8-bit computers are the new Roland TB-303.

Petsynth is a free, open source application described as “the only program for rocking the Commodore PET that the cool kids use”:

Petsynth features a two-octave keyboard layout, selectable note length, many selectable octaves, selectable pulse-width, vibrato, distortion, and noise or “drum mode” depending on how you use it.

All this without adding or hacking the Commodore PET in any way. Plus, it’s compiling from C, so it’s FAST – with very low latency.

The drum sounds are also crazy weird. You can also set the vibrato so high it sounds more like a laser gun or alien telephone.

Here’s one, slighty distorted, demo of Petsynth in action:

 
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via RetroThing

 

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This video, for Heart Bake by The Blush Foundation, has a very retro feel – a bit reminiscent of the 80s cult flick Liquid Sky.

 

http://www.vimeo.com/5772619

Video of the new song Eléctrico of Flavio Rodriguez, presented by Little Red Corvette Records and Pressrec productions.

This is either puke-tacular or awesome.

The extreme over-the-top retro cheesiness – combining everything that was bad about the 80s with everything that’s bad with current pop music, along with the gratuitous keytarage, is making me lean towards awesome, though.

Let me know what you think! Awesome or puke-tacular?

 

http://www.vimeo.com/5245067

Simian Mobile Disco’s video for the retronica Audacity of Huge. Read more…

 

Synths In Space

09May09
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Beatkamp Presents “Varga One”

The Church of Solar Colonization’s space launch program is filled with danger and mystery…..

Can you find the synths hidden in the video?

Music from Dada Pogrom + the animation of Kelvin Mason = this short film.

via Sauzeug

 

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