this is all the really commercial big beat stuff, why don't you have stuff like Bentley Rhythm Ace in your list?
98 Jun 18, 2016 11:45 am
Re: PocketC.H.I.P. and Pico-8 Tracker? (58 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)
99 Jun 15, 2016 1:13 am
Re: PocketC.H.I.P. and Pico-8 Tracker? (58 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)
Wrote this little drum machine but it doesn't stay in sync for long.
100 Jun 13, 2016 12:00 am
Re: PocketC.H.I.P. and Pico-8 Tracker? (58 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)
tried out some fx in pico-8 while waiting for it to arrive.
101 Jun 11, 2016 7:49 pm
Re: Why Chiptune? (38 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Dolby-Z wrote:
I rarely make any full fledged chip tune tracks, but I've been experimenting with using Nanoloop2 in the primarily analog synthpop group that I'm half of. The FM synth in NL2 has such a lovely grainy warmth to it that contrasts nicely to the more smooth tone of my analog equipment.
TBH though, the limitations of chip instruments drive me up a wall. I've been writing songs on guitar and piano for about eight years, so sitting down and programming a pattern on my gameboy is a mind-numbing chore. If I could just play the damn thing with a keyboard I'd use it more
If you're into analog sounds it's probably worth looking at the sid which is like having a mini modular in your computer. (it's designed by an ex-synth designer) Have a look at Retroskoi for an example.
102 Jun 8, 2016 8:51 pm
Re: Comeback Tracker Beta - First Song (36 replies, posted in General Discussion)
IceWolf wrote:
That's neat but why wouldn't we just use milkytracker?
Because all the sounds in this are generated, it has a dedicated instrument editor with frame changeable waveforms and there's loads of extra effects you can do with filters and polyphony. Have another listen to the demo tracks, it's completely different to Milkytracker.
103 Jun 3, 2016 12:44 pm
Re: sid2sid adress second sid at $D420? (12 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
Surely it'd be easier to software patch the tools you want to use than do it in hardware? Sid Wizard has that built-in (press f7) , I've done a bit of code to select SIDs for Goat tracker 2.x exports if that's useful. (used in Jellica's musicdisk) Dunno about synthcart, but anyway patching these drivers a lot of the time is just searching for $D4 in a monitor, noting the addresses and then writing a little bit of code to change them before the program runs. Fairly trivial, though any new software should really have it built-in at this point.
104 May 17, 2016 12:45 pm
Re: defMON (438 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
Yes, don't use the RF port. Get one of those old DIN video cables and use that, but you'll always have a bit of "sid whine" without the hardware fix that's floating about on the net. (but that is authentic sid whine 
) The other thing with the c64 is noise from the display, try and avoid having any bright coloured text on the screen or border/screen combinations when recording. Ideally you'd have border/screen black and the screen switched off (with a POKE 53265,65) but depends how you're recording it. (use POKE 53265,155 to get your screen back )
It's been a while since I did anything on the real c64 but as an example of vic noise try:
10 POKE53280,0
20 POKE53281,1
30 PRINT"A";
40 GOTO 30and have a listen to your output.
105 May 8, 2016 4:46 pm
Re: 4mat's WIP c64 projects (AY/TED/ATARI/REMIX/FM+SID MUSIC) (40 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
FInal POKEY emulation:
106 May 4, 2016 6:20 pm
Re: PocketC.H.I.P. and Pico-8 Tracker? (58 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)
Ordered, might make some visualizers and stuff for fun.
107 Apr 30, 2016 2:27 pm
Re: HTML5 / Ogg Vorbis support for the forums?... (21 replies, posted in Bugs and Requests)
Yeah I tend to agree, personally the only place I use ogg is in gamedev and that's really a size/licensing issue.
108 Apr 30, 2016 12:53 pm
Re: HTML5 / Ogg Vorbis support for the forums?... (21 replies, posted in Bugs and Requests)
I'd wait for Gasman to add more stuff to Cowbell, by the looks of things his goal is to put sensible wrappers around all the format players out there.
109 Apr 29, 2016 5:37 pm
Re: HTML5 / Ogg Vorbis support for the forums?... (21 replies, posted in Bugs and Requests)
Is this any use for some of the formats?
110 Apr 26, 2016 12:25 pm
Re: What headphones are you using? (33 replies, posted in Other Hardware)
DT 990s at home and DT 770s at work
111 Apr 23, 2016 6:16 pm
Re: fm-sid music driver (sid + fm expander cart) (2 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
Thanks. I've just added an FM patch editor for c64 to the page, should make instrument editing a bit easier.
112 Apr 20, 2016 6:03 pm
Topic: fm-sid music driver (sid + fm expander cart) (2 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
I've put up the first public version of my FM-Sid driver. Comes with docs and a couple of (currently windows tools) to convert XM files to the right format , and also Goat Tracker 2 if you want to use an external SID player with it.
FM-Sid is probably the first c64 music driver that lets you use the SFX FM Expander cartridge when composing, giving you 12 channels in total. It allows you to either write songs with the basic stand-alone driver, or use another editor to provide the SID channels while the driver plays back the FM ones. This means using tools with multi-SID support (such as Sid Wizard or Goat Tracker) can give you up to 18 channel songs on one C64. (9 SID channels + 9 FM channels)
As I'm going to be incredibly busy for the next few months I've decided to release the in development version of FM-Sid "as is", until I get time to work on the proper additions for v1.4.
note : If you don't like editing music with external tools and assemblers you won't enjoy using this, it is NOT a standalone tracker and never will be.