8BitWeapon has announced a new Apple II Digital Music Synthesizer: The DMS is the only wavetable synthesizer for the Apple //e, IIc, and IIc+ computers that is suitable for performance use. It supports up to 8 voices, which can be selected from the 10 on disk, and played (monophonically) from the Apple II keyboard. It… Read More WTF? A New Digital Music Synthesizer For The Apple II! With Banjo!!
More Free Music Software – Odo Synths has released version 4.0 of 38911 Bytes, a free virtual synthesizer plug-in for Windows that’s based on the classic Commodore 64. See odosynths.com for 38911 Bytes and some other interesting free software synths.
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Aussie chiptune guru Sebastian Tomczak is looking for submissions for an upcoming microtonal chipmusic compilation: Microtonality is a field that seems to me to be a little overlooked when it comes to chipmusic. That’s why I thought it would be fun to do a microtonal compilation. More information about microtonal music can be found here,… Read More Submissions Wanted For Microtonal Chipmusic Compilation
Ubiktunes has released autumntunes – a chiptunes compilation of ecletic electronic music as a free album download. The album is currently available as 256kbps MP3s. Other formats are promised. You can preview the entire album online. via truechiptildeath
If you like chiptunes or old video games, you won’t want to miss Rush Coil’s 8-Bit Christmas, an album of holiday music inspired by the golden age of video game music. You can stream the entire album online. Don’t miss the 8-bit Deck The Halls. There’s no plan for a CD release, but Rush Coil… Read More 8-Bit Christmas Features Classic Video Game Sounds
[blip.tv ?posts_id=2889708&dest=-1] This is too much fun not to share – Thriller (Saitone 8bit tribute), directed by Raquel Meyers. via TCTD
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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… Read More Blip Festival 2009
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… Read More PetSynth Turns Commodore PET Computer Into A Synthesizer
