beautiful, I really enjoyed, I want such cool tunes!!!

This tune made me fall out of the window. More, plz.

Great :). Sheets does not exist, does it?

Heh, the main theme here reminds me of Showtime from Homestuck! But with cooler chords.

the plural of that title would be even funnier for a chip musician ;) xD

wow, first time stumbling upon this track and im floored. Do you have more in this style?

electro-classical

J.S. Bach's fugue in C Sharp Minor from the Well Tempered Clavier book 1 reimagined in vocals using just intonation. Also new is legato and breathing. The only tools I used were csound, and vim.

Bach C# Minor Fugue in Just Intonation

MMC May 2023. A remake-remix of my old tracker song from 1994, which was also featured in Bejeweled and Penguin Command.

MMC May

Data Jack 2023

Malmen - Nightmare Come True

Life Through A Window

This track was written to demonstrate the harmonic possibilities of using higher harmonics freely whenever the composer wishes, without the bounds of a traditional scale, but within the bounds of major/minor/seventh harmony. It is also quite funky!

Harmonics of 11ths, 13th, 23rds etc are prominent in this composition, without being overwhelming in their unusualness. The highest prime harmonic used was the 127th harmonic in the final melody! E#''' was also used (125th harmonic)

It was written using a new notation system which has been devised to make accessing higher harmonics as intuitive as possible (it still takes a bit of getting one's head around!). Please contact me if you would like to see the score written in this notation system, or for details about how this notation system enables interesting harmonic composition outside of the bounds of the Western 12-note scale to be realised.

It qualifies for chiptune since although it is (much to my shame) 16-bit 44100Hz audio instead of the pure 8-bit, the sounds were synthesised from scratch using modified sin/saw waves, with a bit of band-limited noise thrown in for good measure. The synth took as input CSV 6xN matrices as sequence files, and processed in Octave/MATLAB to give MP3 output which you hear here.
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update 10th Apr 2015:

Here is a brief description of how the MP3 track was generated:

Just Intonation Notes (1/1 4/3 7/4 etc) <-> New Notation System (C F `Bb~7 etc) which is easier to read than pure numbers and where the letter corresponds (roughly) to the position in the 12ET scale
-> Excel block of chords and melody notes for visual presentation to composer (.txt)
-> Excel long (~1700 columns) of calculated note letters, frequencies, note lengths, etc
-> Excel final sequence file with 6 columns: channel, start time, frequency, note length, loudness, stereo position (.csv)
-> Octave/MATLAB code to take the 6 columns and turn them into chiptune (.mp3 or .wav)
-> Sometimes extra post processing in Audacity for final .wav

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See also:
- https://arxiv.org/a/ryan_d_1 (arXiv) for a list of my academic paper pre-prints, including my writing on music theory and Just Intonation
- http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4785-9766 (ORC ID) for my academic profile
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidryan59 for my LinkedIn profile

Sonata 1 'Cheery' - Chip Synth, Justly Intoned

The official soundtrack album of Action Henk, available on Steam. Published by Ragesquid , developed by Ragesquid.
credits
released 11 May 2015

Compositions by Alexander Wiklund
Track 2: Vocals and guitar by Niklas Sjösvärd
Track 17: Guitars by Hans Olofsson
Track 24: Guitar Cover by Hans Olofsson
Track 25: Remix by RoccoW

All tracks mixed by Alexander Wiklund
All tracks mastered by Kristoffer Malmgren 

05. Throttle Wide Open

Malmen - Washout

A sketch in Superpyth[12], 6 steps down, on D. Tuned in 27edo.

Casey Hale's Album

More than three over two

Download for free on Forest = WIN: https://forestlabel.bandcamp.com/track/minstemann
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This track is a part of my album "Utelat" https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/fark/utelat


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This one goes out to all the "attpåklats" out there ;)
The youngest one in the herd.

Kubbi's done an impressive job mastering this track, there were a few elements from the composition that I haven't heard this clearly since earlier versions of this track :D

The chorus is heavily inspired by one of my favourite musicians: Mosaik and his wonderful "Leandi".

"Minstemann" Review by Bronx Kuma: http://chiptuneswin.com/blog/kuma-v-forge-and-chris-ks-resplendent-forest-вин-review/

Featured in DJ Cutman's "This Week in Chiptune" # 159 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWm_lfAurjg&feature=youtu.be&t=2273&ab_channel=ThisWeekInChiptune

Forest = ВИН!

Minstemann

10-tet Cadence (Nonuniform String)

This track has been created using an L-system, which is a type of fractal where large parts are comprised of smaller parts that look like reduced copies of the large parts.

As an example, a melody going up by a Just-Intonation perfect fifth (3/2 frequency ratio) could be comprised of three smaller copies going up 3/2, down 3/2, then up 3/2. This simple example would not be musically very interesting, however the idea is there.

In this particular track, the following mappings were used:

1 beat 1/1 --> 1/2 beat 4/3, then 1/8 beat 1/1, then 1/8 beat 9/8, then 1/4 beat 3/2 (inverted)
1 beat 3/2 --> 5/4, then 6/5 (both 1/2 beat)
1 beat 4/3 --> 10/9, then 6/5 (reversed)
1 beat 5/4 --> 9/8, then 10/9 (reversed)
1 beat 6/5 --> 4/3, then 10/9 (inverted)
1 beat 9/8 --> 1/1, then 9/8
1 beat 10/9 --> 1/1, then 10/9

Reversed means the smaller copy is played back in i) the reverse order and ii) the smaller copies are themselves reversed
Inverted means that the frequency shifts are inverted, e.g. f --> 1/f. So 10/9 inverted means ‘go down by 10/9’ or ‘shift by 9/10’

So an L-system melody has a set of melodies (in this case one each for 1/1, 3/2, 4/3, 5/4, 6/5, 9/8, 10/9) and each has its own set of ‘daughter’ melodies.

Each daughter has:
- an associated frequency shift
- a timescale, here they are all 1/2, 1/4 or 1/8 beat
- optional inversion and reversing operations, giving 4 possible orientations in total.

Rules include
- product of daughter frequency shifts must equal parent frequency shift
- sum of daughter timescales must equal parent timescale of 1 beat
- continue iterating until maximum timescale of (iterated) daughters is 1/2^n.

In this particular track, the three parts were:
Bass: reference freq 100 Hz, max timescale 1/32
Alto: ref freq 200 Hz, max timescale 1/64
Treble ref freq 400 Hz, max timescale 1/128

This gave a 3 part invention! Due to the fractal melody/harmony, the different parts were consonant with each other.

One extra option is pre-tuning or post-tuning.
- Pre-tuning means ‘take the note frequency to be from the start of the fractal block’
- Post-tuning means ‘take the note frequency to be from the end of the block’

In this track, post-tuning was used, which means that at the end of blocks the tuning tends to be in 1:2:4 (octaves) ratio. Pre-tuning could just as easily be used, meaning that blocks start off on octaves and change to other chords during each block.

Enjoy! Dave

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See also:
- https://arxiv.org/a/ryan_d_1 (arXiv) for a list of my academic paper pre-prints, including my writing on music theory and Just Intonation
- http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4785-9766 (ORC ID) for my academic profile
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidryan59 for my LinkedIn profile

Example Just Intonation Fractal 3-part Invention

Unreleased demoscene project, 2014.
I'm working on a new Atari ST album, real chiptune, maybe for the end of the year. Stay tuned !

Unreleased project (2014)

Bridges is my first single of 2018! I spent a lot of the end of 2017 trying to balance my life with music. I found it hard to make time for new song writing. Bridges was really my breakthrough, my bridge in between fitting music and my life :) Hope you like it! - Jam

Bridges

Original by Matt Simmonds (4mat), SID by Flex.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r5gcu_0f8Q

Using two 8580 SID chips giving it mighty 6 channels to use. 
Recorded on original hardware by Cris "Xiny" Ekstrand.

4mat - Eternity (Flex's 2SID C64 version)

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/R7BeqvbOvP0

Here's a little track I made from only Nintendo 64 Sound Fonts - in other words, just samples and sounds from the old classic N64 games. It's a challenge from one of my fans on Youtube, 
Allen Husch, who said: "I really want Anders to make a song with a primitive video game SoundFont. Super Mario 64 for example."

So here we are! I've been a sucker for many of the soundtracks on this platform, especially Wave Race 64, Mario Kart 64 and Pilotwings 64, so these are the main SF2 files I used, but I found that some of the others like Blast Corps, Diddy Kong Racing and a few other N64 extractions also were good, so this is a huge mix with a little from everywhere. But no other sounds or samples were used, only effects, EQ, compression and good old MIDI tracking in my DAW.

Think of this as a homage to the good old times and the eminent works by Kazumi Totaka, Koji Kondo and all the others (too many to mention with the fear of forgetting some). 

Thank you Nintendo for all the fun hours in front of the console in the 90s. :)

Retro Grooves Vol. 4

N64 Love

"Evening Workout" is the first single from my upcoming retrowave-inspired EP.

Evening Workout

hi i occasionally post bits of ""music"" here.
also anything labelled with another artist name is definitely by that artist, and not by me.

◙▒◙♫♩♬ simply too cool for a bio

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