1 Topic by Shiru

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

I see some of my VST stuff has been mentioned in the forums, so with recent update of the plug-ins to support x64, I thought to drop a list, in case someone is interested.

1bitstudio - a bundle of 14 synth and processing plugins focused on the 1-bit sound synthesis;
ChipArp - MIDI arpeggiator to work together with all of my plugins, creates chiptune arps from regular chords (can be used in realtime play);
VT2i - AY-3-8910 emulator that supports Vortex Tracker II instrument files, so called samples and ornaments;
Flopster - sample-based simulator of a floppy disk drive that is used to play music notes;
PCSPE - PC Speaker emulator plug-in that can be used to create music for actual old PC hardware. It is the tool that powered up System Beeps;
CrushDMC - bit crusher that simulates NES DPCM encoding to get authentic distortions;
ChipWave -  synth plug-in that blends characteristics of many old sound chips (AY, SID, POKEY) with features of old subtractive synths;
ChipDrum -  a counterpart to the ChipWave, sharing the same concept for drum sounds,  capable to produce a range of sounds between 1-bit, chip tune, and analog drum machines;
FTplug - NES APU emulator that supports FamiTracker sequence-driven instruments, including loading and saving *.fti files.
EVALUA - a math expression based synth

There is always more in the works. You can find latest updates, as well as support my audio developments, at my recently launched Patreon page.

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2 Reply by Shiru

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

As far as I remember, FMDrive does not actually export VGM, it has an external toolset to convert MIDI and patches into VGM, then join it with SPSG output.

My PCSPE plug-in exports PC Speaker music into a dump, but there is no standard like VGM for Speaker music, so it is all custom.

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3 Reply by Shiru

(6 replies, posted in Releases)

Wrote an in-depth 'making of' article: https://habr.com/en/post/439192/

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4 Reply by Shiru

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Yes, PC Speaker has just one channel of pure square wave without volume control, that's all you hear in this album. Perceived polyphony here is just an advanced music arrangement trickery.

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5 Topic by Shiru

(6 replies, posted in Releases)

PC Speaker was one of earliest and most primitive sound devices of personal computers, intended to produce very basic system beeps. It is only capable to play single voice of square wave without any volume or timbre control. This album reveals some hidden potential of this little device that remained pretty much unexplored due to rapid progress in the computer technology back in the day.

Listen at Bandcamp: https://shiru8bit.bandcamp.com/album/system-beeps
Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/tUy1MEpqbvk
Run on your MS-DOS machine (also check out sb.txt for some insights): http://shiru.untergrund.net/files/system_beeps.zip
Get all sources and project files: http://shiru.untergrund.net/files/system_beeps_src.zip

One of unusual qualities of this release is that it has been produced in a modern DAW (Reaper), yet targets real PC Speaker. You can achieve the same using my free plugins and stuff: http://shiru.untergrund.net/software.shtml#daw

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6 Reply by Shiru

(50 replies, posted in General Discussion)

A short video, Memories under the Christmas tree. Translations for the latest large videos will follow some time later.

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7 Reply by Shiru

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

A tracker is basically consist two very different parts: UI, which is normally a larger one, and sound code. They aren't overlap too much, so you may start to learn how to do them separately, then combine them into one fully functional thing.

Sound part takes data in some format, interprets it, then plays somehow, sort of through virtial low level commands. If it is a cross tracker, it produces register data for emulated chip, if it is a sample based one, it produced commands like start sample, stop, change channel pitch, change volume. In my opinion, easiest way to learn how to make sound part for a cross tracker is to write a simple VGM format player, the one that is for Sega Master System - the format is very simple, the chip is very simple, so you can easily write your own emulator, and get all kinds of ideas how the stuff work.

UI part of a tracker is kind of specialized text editor that implies certain limitations on the input. You may make one that will just produce a text file formated in certain way. You may start from a N-column editor that allows to enter numbers into each column, navigate, copy/paste, etc.

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8 Reply by Shiru

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drunken bullshit removed

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9 Topic by Shiru

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An instrumental synth rock album, released under the CC-BY license. The only synth here, besides the drums, is VOPM, so technically it is just a processed chiptune.

Listen or download

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10 Reply by Shiru

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11 Reply by Shiru

(70 replies, posted in Sega)

Now I'm always bitch at the people. Thanks again.

Now I'm fed up with this thread and quit.

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12 Reply by Shiru

(70 replies, posted in Sega)

Sorry, I don't see how telling someone who isn't much yonger than you how he should live and what he should do, in a public place, in front of other people, could be considered respectful.

Anyway. Everything is extremely simple: I don't do things that I don't like. It is beyond me why some people think I should ignore my negative experience and continue no matter what and that it would be a good thing for me. I did that while I had some reasons, now they are all over, and I don't have a single smallest reason to continue. However, I have tons, no, TONS of other interesting and positive things to do.

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13 Reply by Shiru

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I have emotional security issues now. Very nice, thanks again.

I certainly have a different vision of what the respect is, though.

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14 Reply by Shiru

(70 replies, posted in Sega)

Forget about TFM MM and VGM MM.

VGM MM was discontinued 3+ months ago, but only now it was noticed by someone. Did he asked me? No, despite having all my contacts (mail, ICQ, Facebook etc), and being contacting me directly before. This thread is two weeks old, did anybody else asked me directly or linked me here? No. That shows.

I wasted years on the project, implementing requests that are useless for me, writing 100K docs in foreign language (had to learn it in process) that nobody reads, providing support through answering questions that are answered in the docs, and what I get is 'interface never improved much' and things like that. Great, thanks.

The never improved interface of the first version, by the way.

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15 Reply by Shiru

(14 replies, posted in Constructive Criticism)

It sound more like noise music.

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16 Reply by Shiru

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

I have the same problems under Windows XP in Psycle.

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