Pure output from console (running binary in emulator for this test).  No external mixing.  Just thought I'd post a test output of where I'm at in creating tunes for the Sega Genesis / Megadrive.  This is created for the NTSC model which I find is better for syncopated swung tempos.  Lots of learning for me on this track!  Trying to get sounds at the right volumes  / mixing(because the sounds completely change when you turn them up or down) has been insane.  

Sega Genesis Test #1

Sick of cheery supermarket xmas tunes?  Here's a General MIDI + Emulated FM combo of a Christmas metal special.  Low quality wavetables and bad FM emulation is all you need for this holiday season!

Merry ( minor MIDI ) Xmas

There was a point in 2014 where I stopped giving a fuck about high quality samples and technical show-off stuff.  After a weekend of trying to finish a prog synthpop tune - I gave up and cracked this out in a single all-night Sunday session.  This is a pure end-of-set party track that happily plays on any stock Amiga 500.  Features arcepella by MCDuke.

Rave Miricle (I Believe)- Amiga 500

A bit of fun with a bunch of old and new samples created purely for the Amiga 500 (unexpanded).   This is an expanded verion - with arcepella thrown in.  (There is also a <64kb pockerpaked version created for a demo)

Haus Muzak (Amiga 500)

A bit of fun from with the old Gameboy DMG.  Created a couple of years back the day before a show in NYC.  Big thanks to 8GB for his custom LSDJ image with the "Bomi" samples in it :-)

Blip-N-Derp (Gameboy DMG)

A work in progress track playing entirely off a Sega Genesis / Megadrive.  A bit of Reverb and EQ added from my Yamaha mixer. This track will probably surface during my set at Superbyte  2015 and Square Sounds Tokyo when I battle a Sega and Nintendo with a ton of new material!  This track still needs some work; but it's a fun jam so I thought I'd upload it as is for you :-)

BassDriven(SegaGenesis) - WIP

Just a work in progress of some funky stuff I've been jamming with on the Sega MegaDrive.  Playing off an NTSC MegaDrive (Japan) with rev. VA5 motherboard.   Can't wait to keep taking this track next level!

Sega Funk Jam June2015 (WIP)

cTrix live on 3RRR (To and Fro radio show) November 2009.  Also contains interview (requested by a few people) about chiptune basics and hardware.  Hardware used is 1 x Gameboy DMG (1989) and a DJM600.  There was no DJM800 available on the night unfortauntly!  Recorded from FM radio :-)

cTrix Gameboy Live RRR Nov2009 w/ Interview

2 x Commodore Amiga 500 Computers (1987)... 1 x DJ Mixer...  and years worth of tracking 4 channel MOD files in Protracker!!  A computer less than 8Mhz in speed and with less than 1MB of RAM (it has 512k!)  This is the result, played live for the first time at Synchronicity 10 party. Previous to this I was playing live on an MC505 but it died a few weeks before the show... or else I may never have pulled this set together! 


The recording was a combo of a X/Y mic and a live line input.  I didn't realize that it was still recording in this fashion when I was playing hence you've got all the background crowd too - but I guess it adds to the atmos!  Outdoor party the undercover area up front and a tin roof that rattles occasionally :-)

cTrix - Playing 2 x Amiga500's at Synchronicity 10

A track off an up and coming project (probably 2017!) called "The Stock NES Monster"... I'm 3 and 2 half tracks into writing it... and this is a preview mix of one of them :-D   Playing from a Nintendo NSF file.

Stretch - Of - All - Imagination (Nintendo Entertainment System, Stock)

A test of Matt's awesome Rockit 8bit open source synth module.  I'm just playing live takes with my keyboard MIDI-ed into it at the moment.  I plan on doing some better tunes sequenced in a DAW soon.  Pretty excited about this little module!! :-)

cTrix-Rockit 8bit Module Test #1 (played in live takes)

And oldskool track created for our latest PC MSDOS demo (for pentium 75mhz)... which due to CPU limitations I chose to create as a 4ch MOD file.   Which also means it can play back on an Amiga ;-)  

Rave vs. amiga scene style.  Enjoy!

If you want to hear unprocessed version along with demo then check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX-cepvvQds&feature=youtu.be

Demo Soundtrack for Let Their Be Light 2017 (disasterarea MSDOS demo)

Funki Beat (Amiga 500)

Written the night before the Blip Festival '09 open mic session.  Created on Gameboy DMG (with a drum machine added on the first half).  One of my early tracks, but it was requested that I upload it multiple times so here it is!  High quality version available on the cTrix USB stick available at shows.

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Live at Blip Festival NYC.  1 x Commodore Amiga, a Kaos Pad and an Atari 2600.

Everyone stormed the stage at the end of the show and the DI boxes and shit got trampled! (lol)  Hence it kinda goes into fuzz at the end of the show.  Fun times :-)


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