the chiptune mix from 2015-03-27 at Metaware Vienna, enjoy :)

Blibb Blobb Live 2015-03-27 Metaware

Broken roller-skates? Strap a pair of cybernetically enhanced turbo-ferrets to your feet. Problem solved!

I make mostly simple upbeat bleepy chiptuney tracks with the KORG M01D music workstation 3DS app (with a little help from Audacity).

My thanks to the sound folks who've given my naff tracks the thumbs up, reposted those tracks, and who're crazy enough to follow my daft self.

Cheers and have a nice day!

demo scener working in games, chiptune fanatic

Hi all, I'm Emanuele Ballasina, I was born in 1975 in Cremona, Italy!
I'm a civil engineer and I love synthesizers and softsynths.
In this soundcloud profile you will find some music that I compose with Renoise, Reason, SunVox... for compos like SDCompo, kvrOSC,  kvr Music Cafe, SunVox...
My nick name is ballacr75!
In the "emanuele-ballasina" soundcloud's profile you will find my music (not compos).
In the "acadballa" profile you will find music and samples that I create with math equations into AutoCAD.
If you like my music you can support me on https://emanuele-ballasina.bandcamp.com/
enjoy



The Pulpy Principle - videogame sound designer and producer of various genres. https://linktr.ee/thepulpyprinciple

Hello. I'm Mister Beep.

My 'musical beginning' ;) was in mid 80s, possibly a bit later, like 1987, I cannot remember so well, as I was a child back then. :) I was making synthetic music (chiptunes) on Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K (not mine - borrowed :) ). First I was just typing "BEEP" commands in BASIC :) (yes, I was : ) ) but later I was using mostly The Music Box editor (as it was the only reasonable choice then. If not the only). 

Then I thought everybody forgot about ZX Spectrum machines. However, in 2006 I got back to Spectrum (and - to be exact - I got back with its America/Portuguese clone: my beloved TIMEX COMPUTER 2048) and that's how I started to make ZX music again. I record my chiptunes and digital songs from real hardware every time. NO EMULATORS! Since the 2006 I published several albums. You can find my stuff here: 
http://mister_beep.republika.pl/

So, as you have probably already figured out ;) I make micromusic/chiptunes but it's not typical micromusic. As opposed to 16-bit chiptunes (PC), 8-bit chiptunes (Amiga) and 4-bit chiptunes (Atari XL, ZX Spectrum 128K, C64), I make ONE BIT music using the mentioned TIMEX 2048 (a clone of ZX Spectrum 48Kb) and its BEEPER. The BEEPER sound is generated by Z80 chip which is - with help of ULA chip - sound-source of SPECTRUM/TIMEX hardware.

By default, the machine has only 1 channel of of square-wave 1-bit sound. But Z80 is also SPECTRUM/TIMEX' Central Processing Unit so due to its 3,5Mhz activity (software mixing) Spectrum 48Kb has finally: - from 2 to 9 channels, - various modulations and envelopes, - drums & noises, - digital sound, - speech synthesis, - volume (it's impossible to make various volumes in 1-bit sound actually so even this is impressive) etc... Still only 1 bit of course. I could say that everything mentioned above is theoretically impossible to make on this computer. But... it still works! ;)

Like I mentioned before, I started to make 1-bit music in 80s but - shame on me - some time later I though nobody listened to 1bit sound anymore because AY chip appeared on ZX Spectrum. And then I though nobody remembers ZX Spectrum at all. ;) Hence, I got silent for many years but since 2006 - I'M BACK! ;) 

I hope you enjoy my chiptunes and digital (MOD-like) music. My DOWNLOAD SITE is here: http://republika.pl/mister_beep/music.html

Remember - THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE. Bit. ;)

Kind regards, 
MISTER BEEP