Blurb:
ChipdiscoDJ is a twin-deck MOD/XM/S3M player, set up like DJ software and with many of the same features. Needless to say, because modules are much better than MP3s, WAVs and other rendered audio files, you can do very cool stuff by digging into the notes as they’re calculated and played on the fly by the player engine. Adjust speed without adjusting pitch! Change pitch without altering speed! Mute individual instruments or channels! Trigger sub-pattern loops (a la Ableton Live) with pinpoint timing accuracy! Also, because modules are usually very small, you can roll up to a party with ChipdiscoDJ and a bunch of tunes on a floppy disk and kill that shit dead. No floppies? Don’t worry – you can queue up files from other websites by copying the URLs. Aaaawesome.
For those already familiar with Chipdisco, v0.21 represents a slight crawl forward in terms of features but a gargantuan, chasm-spanning leap forward in terms of stability and reliability – even though it’s still done in Java! It also looks a hell of a lot prettier now, and I think it’s sort of found itself visually after all this time (though there’s still scope for refinement…)
Feedback most welcome, either here or in the blogpost comments. It seems to work well on Windows and Linux (as long as Java is installed, natch) and - as usual - there are some problems with MacOS...but I'm working on them. Bugreports from Mac users are particularly welcome at the moment.
Cheers!
Last edited by syphus (Dec 11, 2010 5:19 pm)
