1 Reply by witchspace

(38 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Part nostalgia, I grew up with various home computers, with their respective video game musics and demoscene demos. Chiptune also tends to have a nice adrenaline videogame rush feeling to it. On the other hand I just like weird and eerie soundscapes, whether they're generated with some modular synth monstrosity or ancient computer hardware.

Also I have a lot of respect for 80's chip design. They were sure clever with the limited resources they had and given that they had to do everything by hand, they achieved a lot.

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2 Reply by witchspace

(15 replies, posted in General Discussion)

egr wrote:

Look up Solid State Disaster. He's just what you're looking for.

Edit: here ya go https://solidstatedisaster.bandcamp.com/

Oh wow thanks for that suggestion. I love their style.

ZEN ALBATROSS (http://music.zenalbatross.net/) may be another band to mention here, they combine industrial, punk and chiptune influences.

pselodux wrote:

My new project might do exactly that.. but it'll probably only get released if I can get the interest of a label; and maybe not a chip label because it doesn't really sound like anything on any chip labels I've heard

Any luck?

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3 Reply by witchspace

(21 replies, posted in Bugs and Requests)

I'd be happy if the youtube embed links were at least clickable without flash. Currently the only way to view embedded youtube or vimeo videos seems to be to inspect the source, get the video id, and copy it into a youtube or vimeo link. A lot of hassle.
I cannot run flash because it is hardly supported on my OS (Linux), flash's terrible security track record, and because every time I've used that plugin it degrades browser performance (one reason being common abuse of tons of flash applets by advertisers).

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4 Reply by witchspace

(13 replies, posted in Motion Graphics)

Awesome effect, makes me think of oldschool ASCII rogue-like games (or new variations on that like brogue).

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5 Reply by witchspace

(82 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)

*accidental double-post*

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6 Reply by witchspace

(82 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)

Anforium wrote:

Schism tracker is also in the repos, although I haven't spent much time with it.

I've never even tried to run it, but there's a linux version of Adlib Tracker

I can confirm these work great on Linux. There's also klystrack.

Some others that I play around with regularly:

- qtractor - an Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application. I really like this one, it's easy to use, looks great, and has support for plugins of various kinds for softsynths

- Carla - Audio plugin host (VST, LV2, LADSPA etc) from KXStudio

- DISTRHO - A bundle of VST and LV2 plugins, including dexed which is a FM synth and can be used to make chip-tune-ish sounds, as well as TAL noise maker which is also an awesome softsynth for this kind of stuff

- Helm - Another fav free software VST synth

- Munt - Emulator for the Roland MT-32 series synth

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7 Reply by witchspace

(41 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)

Matej wrote:

BSA can you make standalone tracker for WIN,MAX and LINUX?
There is unfinished port of OPL3 Adlibtracker2 to WIN32. But OPL2 will
be very interesting too.

Adlibtracker 2 SDL should work well on windows: http://www.adlibtracker.net/downloads.php . At2 is awesome, I don't think there would be much value in turning this into another stand-alone adlib tracker.

A OPL3 VST is awesome though. Great work bsa.

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8 Reply by witchspace

(21 replies, posted in Other Hardware)

Warez Waldo wrote:

Roland MT-32 *under $100!*
-8 voice, 9 parts

Love this one! Still sounds very nice (though a lot of people seem to resent the factory presets for sake of being used too much), tons of retrogames that can use this, tons of instrument presets available.
There's also a decent open source emulator for it, munt

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