Hello World, via Bleep Street: Bleepstreet likes 8-bit technology and groovy, filthy and raw data action. After a few years break Bleepstreet is now back to go beyond 8-bit machines as gimmicks. We make gritty electro, playful pop, slow harsh beats, techno, data rock, breakcore and so on, and we don’t see computers as mere slaves under our control.… Read More Hello World!, 8-Bit Style
The construction and installation of the Highly Liquid MIDI2600 MIDI interface board into a fully functional Atari 2600. Features: Translates incoming MIDI notes to joystick or keypad control signals for any Atari 2600 console MIDI-controlled Select & Reset outputs Powered by game console—separate power supply not required User-selected MIDI input channel Power and activity LEDs… Read More Adding A MIDI Interface To An Atari 2600
Sebastian Tomczak (Little Scale) has put together a fantastic tutorial on how to prep samples and create LSDJ kits. LSDJ is an app designed to turn a Game Boy/Game Boy Color into a full-fledged music workstation. To create your own sample kits for LSDJ, you’ll need several apps: Bias PEAK (5.2) Apple QuickTime Pro (7.55) LSDJ… Read More How to Prepare Samples And Create LSDJ Kits
hard plAYer is an DIY 8 bit tunes hardware player, which allows you to listen to the same melodies you could listen to in some of the 80’s home computers and videogame consoles. In future versions, it will also work as MIDI synthesizer. Its audio sound generator porcessor is the General Instruments AY-3891X – the same one… Read More DIY Project Updates Vintage 8-Bit Game Sound
Tokyo-based d.v.d is a trio with two drum players, Itoken and Jimanica and visualiser Takashi Yamaguchi (ymg) on the hardware front. While the two drummers furiously beat two drum kits in front of a huge screen, their sounds trigger geometrical shapes with processing, Pong-style game settings or bizarre drop landscapes that interact, transform or collapse. … Read More D.V.D. Makes Music With Video Game Graphics
Five Step Plan is a free chip music album by Sebastian Tomczak, aka Little Scale. The album contains all of the material he played at a show on the 17th of October in Melbourne, Australia. You can preview one track, Objectives, below. Download the full album at the Little Scale site. Tracklisting 1. Dallas, Four AM… Read More Free Album Of Chip Music
Archaic game and home computer hardware is recast into the unlikely role of musical instrument and motion graphics workstation at the Blip Festival 2008, a four-day event showcasing nearly 40 musicians and visual artists occupying the international low-res cutting edge. The Blip Festival takes place DECEMBER 4—7, 2008 at the Bell House, and is presented by… Read More Blip Festival 2008 Celebrates 8-Bit Music
Nanoloop 2.3 is a 4-track sequencer / synthesizer for Game Boy Advance. It works on GBA, GBA SP, GB Micro, DS and DS lite. A printed manual in CD-booklet size is included. Here’s a demo of Nanoloop 2.3 in action from Flanboy:
DMGMITE-01 is the title a free album of chip music – the Australian Chipmusic Compilation. Track listing: The LOLstralians – Advance LOLstralia, ‘n That Raptorface – Scarlet little-scale – Antarctica Ten Thousand Free Men & Their Families – Trains (Part I, Part II & Reprise) Astro Zombies – Sky Lord (Part 2) Derris-Kharlan – Veracity… Read More Free Music From Australian Chipsters
Cosmic Boy has released Icecream, a freeware VST instrument for Windows. Features: 8-bit/Chip style Mono/Poly synthesizer. Dual Osc’s. 4 Octave per OSC. Osc2 Finetune. Step Sequencer Pitch/Filter. Bitcrusher 8bit,16bit, 24bit, 32bit. Filter Section. Amp/Filter ADSR. Harmonics Switch. Reverb/Delay. X/Y Pad. Glide and Glide Rate. It’s a free download from Cosmic Boy’s MySpace page. via Rekkerd
