hi,

the upgraded ppsg tracker is out now. For more Infos visit: https://ppsg-tracker.blogspot.com

Available for Windows 32bit and 64bit.

A bunch of examplesongs are included!

cheers, silok

What about iOS apps?
Apart from the obvious nanoloop are there any other chiptune related apps?

please try the new version:

https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.nanoloop

thank you.

Hi, I just finished making an iPhone tracker. It's called SquareBeat, and is capable of chip tunes. You should check it out.

https://www.sonickitten.com/squarebeat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqgNnpRGNhA

Post links to your favorite sample resources.

Don't post:
- Movie/TV/Cartoon/VG speech or sfx
- Silly sound effects
- Drum Loops
- Huge random libraries like http://www.freesound.org/ *)
- Stuff that Google spits out by the million
(Don't get me wrong, all that can be pretty useful, but is ultimately easy to find)
- Memes, unhelpful comments

*) If you find something noteworthy inside a random archive, post it. Just don't link the whole thing.

Do post:
- Single hit (clean) oldskool synths, toys and drums
- Outlandish and interesting things
- VGM instruments are ok
- Specialized libraries
- Stuff you had to dig for
(Think of it as the internet user's equivalent of crate digging)

Essentially we're looking for things that are either good for universal use or make great one-shots

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Drums & Drum Machines

Drum synth samples, old and new (my pick for drum synths)
http://samples.kb6.de/downloads.php

More drum synths, some synth voices as well
http://machines.hyperreal.org/samples.html

Yamaha DD-8, extra cheese 80s drums
http://bedroomproducers.wordpress.com/2 … maha-dd-8/

Scooby feet beat
http://8bitcollective.com/wiki/index.php/Scoobycore

A collection of good oldskool drums and beeps. Note the NI FM7 drumkit (needs freesound.org account).
http://www.freesound.org/usersViewSingle.php?id=19852

WDUWSTS' drum samples: Casio MT-45, Roland TR-66, Hing Hon EK-001, Yamaha PSS-795, FM2 (TFM maker)
http://encowell.tumblr.com/post/1575542 … qus_thread

Link hub to a whole lot of acoustic drum samples. Note the 600 MB Open Source Kit
http://bedroomproducersblog.com/2010/06 … full-kits/

Selection of 'classic' drum sounds, quality varies, but very decent stuff in there
http://bedroomproducersblog.com/2010/09 … e-samples/

Fully sampled TR-626. This pack is as complete as it gets.
http://www.illuminatedsounds.com/?p=956

Neatly sampled Roland TR-606, as with the 626 above
http://www.illuminatedsounds.com/?p=1420

godinpants' stabs for breaks
http://www.chkdisbrk.com/111.aiff
http://www.chkdisbrk.com/222.aiff
http://www.chkdisbrk.com/333.aiff

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Instruments & Collections

ST-XX Disks, classic Amiga tracker samples
http://www.archive.org/details/AmigaSou … Packsst-xx

Tracker samples, from modules for modules
http://www.kiarchive.ru/pub/misc/sounds/samples/ft2/

More tracker samples, from the demoscene's Hornet Archive
ftp://ftp.scene.org/mirrors/hornet/music/samples/

Big fat D&B bass stabs, some loops
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CMYJW13Z

Royalty free orchestra instrument samples
http://slib.soundex.co.uk/

Ukulele
http://little-scale.blogspot.com/2010/0 … t-and.html

Thai Khene
http://little-scale.blogspot.com/2009/0 … -pack.html

Woolyss' sample links (some free, some comercial)
http://woolyss.com/chipmusic-samples.php

Pianos, E-Pianos, Toy Pianos
http://bedroomproducersblog.com/2010/07 … oy-pianos/

Very nice Hammond Organ samples, neatly organized folder structure
http://www.illuminatedsounds.com/?p=635

4300(!) single cycle waveforms, perfect for making those 4k or 8k modules
http://www.adventurekid.se/akrt/wavefor … waveforms/

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Consoles & Vintage Computers

Atari

little-scale's chip samples
Atari POKEY Noise Sample Pack
Atari 2600 Sample Pack

Commodore / Amiga

little-scale's SID 8580 Sample Pack
http://little-scale.blogspot.com/2009/1 … -pack.html

C64 MSSIAH default drums (8531)
http://bedroomproducers.wordpress.com/2 … -drum-kit/

Whole lot (320) of C64 samples are included with DR-SID (by the same people who made the Unknown 64 VSTi)
http://www.odosynths.com/vst.htm

Nintendo

Nanoloop sounds & drums
http://www.infradead.bagger288.com/samples

LSDJ kits as .wav
http://inactivex.bp6.com/lsdjdrums.zip

little-scale's LSDJ kits
http://chiptech.milkcrate.com.au/#kits

GB Pocket Music Voices
http://little-scale.blogspot.com/2010/0 … k-rom.html

LSDJ kits on littlesounddj.com, nitro2k01 recommends rex42's kits
http://share.littlesounddj.com/list_files.php

LSDJ group file area. Kits as well as other stuff like instruments, savs and more. Requires a Yahoo account.
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/lsdj/files/

Bucky's instrument rips from classic NES games
http://www.hotdogstorm.com/bucky/samplepacks/

The 2a03 DMC archive, FamiFood
http://2a03.free.fr/?p=pub&type=dmc

Sega

little-scale's chip samples
YM2413 Sample Pack
YM2413 Drums Sample Pack
Sega SN76489 Sample Pack
Sega Mega Drive Sample Pack

Other

little-scale's chip samples
SPO256-AL2 Sample Pack
Phillips SAA-1099

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Vintage Synths

Synth voices & drums. Check the Odyssey and Rogue.
http://machines.hyperreal.org/samples.html

Casio VL-1 stock voices and rhythms, single hit drums and some ADSR voices
http://www.milkcrate.com.au/ub/casio_vl-1.zip

Casio SK-1 stock voices
http://www.milkcrate.com.au/ub/casio_SK1.zip

Casio SA-10 stock voices, as wav and sf2
http://bedroomproducers.wordpress.com/2 … and-loops/

Korg Electribe ER-1 mkII Drums And FX
http://bedroomproducersblog.com/2010/10 … ms-and-fx/

Korg Electribe A1 mkII, sampled in iff format. Protracker, goooo!
http://aminet.net/package/mods/smpl/EA1mkII

Yamaha PSS-470 FM blips (needs freesound.org account)
http://www.freesound.org/usersViewSingle.php?id=35839

Farfisa Professional (damaged so certain keys glitch out, packs includes both clean and glitch samples!)
http://www.illuminatedsounds.com/?p=1304

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Toys & Bent Hardware

Speak & Spell samples
http://www.milkcrate.com.au/ub/speakandspell.zip

Two no-name toy keyboards, multi-sampled
http://www.lesproductionszvon.com/Freebies.htm

Misc bent hardware recordings, check their S&S flashs
http://www.roilnoise.com/bending.htm

Sample packs of several rare vintage toys ($$$)
http://www.miniorgan.com/home.php

Two Toy Keyboard packs ($)
http://www.prokits.co.uk/search.asp?opt … Submit.y=0

Link hub to lots and lots of bent hardware samples
http://bedroomproducersblog.com/2010/06 … -glitches/

Pianos, E-Pianos, Toy Pianos
http://bedroomproducersblog.com/2010/07 … oy-pianos/

Bent Casio CA100 1 & 2
http://www.illuminatedsounds.com/?p=1363
http://www.illuminatedsounds.com/?p=1449

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Exotic stuff

Telephone signals and announcements
http://www.payphone-directory.org/sounds.html

Radio Interval signals (including vintage ones)
http://www.intervalsignals.net/

AT&T Text to Speech
http://www2.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php

The Conet project, recordings of Number Stations
http://www.archive.org/details/ird059

NOAA underwater recordings of natural, man-made and mystery sounds. Great ambiance.
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/acoustics/sounds.html

Recordings of Northern Lights EM
http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/mcgreevy/

Sounds of vintage arcade cabinets (need creepy voice samples? go here!)
http://arcadearchive.com/

EM Sounds recorded in space - stuff like lightning on Saturn or Sun plasma
http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/space-audio/

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Acapellas

Search 'Tracks' for '[artist] acapella'. Requires registration for download.
http://www.jamglue.com/

Pretty sizable archiv of acapellas/filterpellas, various genres
http://acapellarchives.blogspot.com/

So I have tried trackers before but I always fail with learning them because I come from a modern DAW I guess.

I have reached quite a good level in my modern DAW when it comes to my other genre that I’m into.

Anyways to me Renoise looks the best so I have decided to learn it for chiptune. Only problem is I don’t know how to make the sounds at all. I have tried loading a VST but then all the effects commands doesn’t seem to work and I guess it’s because it’s a VST.

So my guess is that people that make chiptune in Renoise create the sound inside Renoise as a native sound so all the effect commands work.

Am I right? And if I am how do I make these sounds?

Thanks!

EDIT:
www.alyjameslab.com
Coming next >> VGM conversion
Go to the download section, under FMDrive you will find among other tools a link to the MIDI 2 VGM conversion pack (Convert your FMDrive or/and SPSG track to a .VGM format. (Win Only), info and how to included.

https://www.alyjameslab.com/download.html

FMDRIVE is a VST SYNTH that emulate the SEGA GENESIS/MEGADRIVE FM sound chip and adds a lot of extra features

FMDRIVE is not another YM2612 emulator it is a WIN VST instrument with live control in mind. Extended features add the full FM power underneath the original concept...Feel free to ask if you have questions

AUDIO DEMOS : https://soundcloud.com/alyjameslab

I learn a lot from documentations and all the nice people who documented the YM2612 on the web.
you know who you are
It turns out to be quite nice so I decided to make it public in exchange for a small donation for the large amount of work I put into this.
Package can also control the Little Scale GENMDM midi interface for those who have one or be converted into a VGM file for hardware play.

ABOUT FMDRIVE 2612 VST

This emulation uses a totally new core that I started from scratch a few months ago and was almost fine tuned by ear
so minors differences with the hardware could appears sometimes.(improved in 1.23)
The goal was on one hand to reproduce the hardware distortion of the sega megadrive and features of the YM2612 chip
and on the other hand to expand further the original capabilities and create a high resolution processing mode for perfect sound quality.

I tested the not well known CSM "illegal mode" usage, designing custom roms to investigate further
and finally include a way in FMDRIVE 2612 to use it for modern music production.
All and all the YM612 EXTENDED emulation turns out to be a fantastic synth suitable for chip music
and FM nostalgic pleasure and also a powerful tool for modern production.

Fact is that the Megadrive had a very characteristic and cool sound, -much- cooler than Nintendo's
I grew up playing some great games on the genesis.
So, I thought the Genesis / Megadrive also deserves that kind of attention and its own project.

You may think, the YM2612 chip is basically another 4 Operator YAMAHA FM synth but there is more...
DAC, SSG Envelopes and Special operating MODES like CSM speech synthesis.
On top of that the SEGA had a distinctive distorted sound, more or less present, depending on revision models.
FMDRIVE add many extended features and huge user friendly GUI!

You can design a vast range of sound on top of 33000 instruments presets already available from Games ROMS.
Go further with extended controls, and even midi control a real sega genesis with a special hardware add on interface:
GENMDM designed by Little Scale.(see the thread)

DONATION start at 13 $ (10€)  and PACKAGE  INCLUDE
45 PAGES USER MANUAL
FMDRIVE 2612 Standalone with nice BIG SIZE GUI 1296 x 787
FMDRIVE 2612 Vsti with nice BIG SIZE GUI 1296 x 787
FMDRIVE 2612 Vsti with smaller SIZE GUI 1037 x 630 (coming soon : for lighter configurations)
VGM2TFI 2.0 with GUI (extract tfi patches from VGM with "corrected DT parameters" and create a folder with the name of the VGM)
HUGE FULL SET OF TFI PATCHES (round 33000!) from game ROMS etc...

TUTORIALS will also be available soon:
-DIFFERENT WAYS TO EXTRACT SAMPLES FROM A GAME
-FROM DAWS TO THE SEGA GENESIS HARDWARE (compose a song with fmdrive and play it on the real hardware)
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There is already some vids on youtube that I made during the development process. however final version got quite some changes, improvements and accuracy.
For example some fun with the CSM mode...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1OUGzeD … LXug3hdhnA

++ AJ

UPDATES LOG

V1.23
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- Rewritten envelope cycles system
- Improved accuracy over volume tables
- New SSG selection method
- Adjusted PCM DAC ladder noise
- Corrected DAC on/off register not being saved with patches
- Solved Program change memory BUG causing certain YM2612 registers not being updated
after closing and re-opening the plug-in interface.

V1.22
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-Pitch Bend range can now be set (1-12 semitones)
-Glide Mode can be set to Portamento or Glide behavior

V1.2
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- Rewritten Fast & Accurate distortion emulation "ladder effect" of MD model 1
- PCM sample data DAC filter improved (now also benefit from the ladder effect too)
- New DAC PCM data read LOOP function (can loop the sample data with start and end point for nice fx)
- New DAC PCM wav files can now also be browsed & imported via windows native explorer (with no location limitation)
- New Polyphony up to 6 voices
- New  optional frequency FREEZE (fixed frequency) for SPECIAL MODE
- New solid or line view for the envelope generators display with release stage highlight
- Improved CSM mode implementation
- CSM mode now respond to Release rate (RR) and handle external MIDI channels correctly
- Glide is now available in polyphonic mode too with time and slew rate control!
- Improved MONO mode
- Init state will all operator pre-activated

I've begin to write a nanoloop clone.
it is available on github.

It is not as good as 1.6, 2.7 or the iOS/android apps.
The idea is to have a opendingux, gp2x, gcw zero apps for this kind of music apps.
Someone had try to use it yesterday, and I think it is clean enough to let you dig the source.
Unfortunately I have not the skill to implement good FM or good VA today...

Don't hesitate to grab the source and tweak it.

https://github.com/yoyz/audio

Johann

Features:

- Low-bit envelopes
- LFO for pulse-width modulation, FM, and Granularity
- Vibrato
- Pitch Attack
- Arpeggiator with basic chords
- Volume keyscaler (Volume decreases with increasing pitch)
- Note glide
- Key velocity
- Pulse, Sine, Triangle, Saw, and Pseudo-Noise (NEW)
- FM Mode for Sine, Triangle and Saw (NEW)
- Granularity for Pseudo-Noise (NEW)
- Monosynth Mode (NEW)

So, here she is, in her second (actually third) incarnation. You will note that the interface hasn't changed much, but the goal was always to keep it simple. Here's a run down on the new features:

Clicking on the Medusa picture will now change the OSC mode between square, sine, triangle, saw and pseudo-noise. Each has it's individual bit-depth, based purely on what I thought sounds good (excuse my egoism here). The OSC mode also controls the attribute you change with the 'Pulse' slider / LFO.

Mode       Bits   Pulse effect
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Pulse        4*   Pulse Width
Sine         8    FM
Triangle     6    FM
Saw          4    FM
Noise        5*   Granularity

*) The waveform is 1-bit but uses an envelope of the respective depth

The FM effect is very simple and just increases the amount of a +1 octave modulator on the carrier. It mimics the sound of a decreasing pulse width to some extend, so it goes nicely with the familiar PW modulation in pulse mode.

For the pseudo-noise mode, the Pulse slider affects granularity (how 'dense' the noise will sound). Medusa will also interpret the note input as sample rate in this mode, which means you can shade the noise higher or lower.

Finally, Medusa now has a Monosynth mode. It's activated automatically if you up the Glide slider. If you set it to a very tiny amount, the portamento isn't noticeable, and you can use her as a simple Monosynth.

Enjoy, leave a comment & suggestions!

Download:
http://www.milkcrate.com.au/ub/Medusa2.zip (1.5 MB)

Once again thanks to iLKke for the new graphical elements and little-scale for the hosting.

And a special note for ant1:
I'm really sorry the custom arp mode didn't make it in. It was glitchy as hell, it will need a lot more time to figure out how to convince SynthEdit to do this properly. Sorry

Hello,

I love lgpt but it crashe a lot when using many severals midi track on my 2 raspberry pies. So I wonder if it exist an other tracker which has midi, CC, + be able to be used with a gamepad? Which is so awesome for ergonomy and saving space.

I'm on raspberry pi OS / raspbian and ubuntu linux

Edit : the crash of lgpt : the playing stop, unable to start it again if no restart of lgpt

Sound Track

https://st.1up.org/

A fully-featured web tracker inspired by Protracker, Future Composer & Buzz, effort has been made into replacing hexidecimal numbers with colors and icons and keeping the interface very simple.
There is a MOD importer, effects (Compressor, Filter etc.) and generators (Tracker, Synth, Perlin Noise etc)
As time goes on, more features will be added. My favourite: plug in a gamepad, to control machine sliders with D-pads, buttons and triggers in realtime!
The file format is a zip containing the tune data (json) plus mp3/ogg samples; IFF waves can be imported too.
Share & Enjoy

Alright.  I have a strange scenario now.  I haven't been back to my place for weeks now and I'm not sure if I'm going back there any time soon.  I'm at my girlfriend's house and she has a MacBook.  I've obtained root access on it and SchismTracker, MilkyTracker, and DefleMask now work on it.  However, the MacBook is missing essential keys like insert, delete, etc.  DefleMask currently doesn't map all Mac keys properly for Mac OS X and I've submitted a bug report to Delek's forum.

Does anybody currently track on a Macbook and what are their experiences?  Are there any good ways to make chip music on a Macbook other than using emulators for older computers that have tracking programs?

I'm not installing Parallels on this thing.  I'm trying to do my best to not take over her laptop entirely and keep it resembling a comfortable environment that she's able to do her business, schoolwork, etc.

Just found this on the web, figures some of your might find it interesting:
https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Marabu
binaries here:
https://hundredrabbits.itch.io/marabu

They also make a generative music environment called ORCA, which seems pretty interesting.

https://hundredrabbits.itch.io/orca

Great news guys

http://truechiptilldeath.com/blog/2011/ … s-support/

Hello,

I am making a tracker in Python, which at the end, is suppose to work on raspberry pi, and be usable with a gamepad (but also with keyboard).

The idea is to make an alternative of LGPT, maybe not as good as (because LGPT is soo great...) but something which should not crash too often (LGPT crashes too many times...) and if not too hard which can make synthesis sounds (sample + synthesis) and MIDI out (at the end maybe also MIDI CC but if we arrive until here that would be good enough lol).

I thing it is more easy to do that for beginners in python or tracker making than modifying LGPT code (which is open source)

I already made the main navigation style (dirty coded and dirty looking, but basic things working). But I don't have a lot of time to work on it, and i'm new to Python so if people are interested buy working together it will be really more fast (and fun!).

There isn't a link yet, I have to upload the project somewhere. Maybe github but I also want to look alternatives because I already use github for work and, for confidential purposes I should prefer somewhere else.

Is there some people interested in that?