I'm so damn sure you are still one of the bests if chiptunes come in.

Amazing track! Lovely! What a great mood and dynamic - this is what i like :) Respect! And thanx for greetings :)

You dived deep down the rabbit hole of Synth Pop & Space Dance. Great track. Love it!

Nice, completely italo! The ZX is a very italo looking machine, too...

If I remember, it is an older work actually, from the past. Yes, I definately remember it. Great anyway.

So love this POWER n` DRIVY track, Yerz!!

Tracker DNA

Junkie 2149 (Atari ST)

This is a 4-channels MOD written for ATARI 800 XL / 65XE (Pokey). 
4-bit quality.
It came 1st on Glucholazy Atari Party 2015 (XL/XE MOD Compo). 
Recorded from real hardware. 

The full album "DEATH SQUAD" with this song - is here: http://yerzmyey.i-demo.pl

Yerzmyey - Mono Adventures

A concert version 2016, Yerzmyey & Pinokio at Riverwash 2016 party: 
https://youtu.be/qAaCJUdbN24?t=28m43s

An italo-disco chiptune song made with ZX Spectrum 48K with AY-interface. :) 
The song has been made on Sound-Tracker 1.1, for a HOOY-PROGRAM game "Deadly Labyrinth of Lord Xyrx". ;) 
"Chiptunes" album with this song is downloadable from here: http://yerzmyey.i-demo.pl/
The ZX Spectrum game is here: http://hooyprogram.republika.pl/xyrx.zip

Yerzmyey - Deadly Labyrinth of Lord Xyrx

The live/concert version from FOREVER party. :)
https://youtu.be/AkgA6M5a9k0?t=18m37s
Well, theoretically ZX Spectrum (and other computers with AY chip inside) have no sampler - only a digital synthesizer. 
But when the AY is being linked to any CPU chip (Z80 in my case) - it can actually be used as a sampler too. 
With the Z80 power, ZX Spectrum 48K can play 3 channels of digital music through the AY-interface, with 4-bit quality  (btw, it can do it via ULA too, but in 1-bit quality). The SampleTracker software has no volume commands, so - to achieve delays  :) - I have to make the same sample twice: the louder one, and the more silent one, heheh. That takes RAM away, of course, which is crap because I have only 48K of RAM on ZX Spectrum ;) (even less, actually, hehhe). 
Italo-disco for life. :) 

My kind regards & respect to other digital musicians of 8-bit computers: 
- V-12 / Tropyx (C64)
  https://soundcloud.com/v-12_tropyx
- project.GAMA (ZX)
  https://soundcloud.com/granatco/sets/project-gama

ZX Spectrum 48K + AY-interface. 
Software: SampleTracker.
3 channels, 4-bit quality lo-fi micromusic.
Recorded from real ZX Spectrum.

The song comes from "Astral Combat" album, that is downloadable from here: http://yerzmyey.i-demo.pl/

PS: To check out how Atari ST (with its far more powerful Motorola CPU) deals with AY as a sampler, check out this link: https://soundcloud.com/yerzmyey/ym-digital-draconus-a-cover

Yerzmyey - Kaminari

The music has been made for the NES / FamiCom / Pegasus game-consoles. 

They contains Ricoh 2A03 soundchip with 5 channels of sound: 
- two pulse channels,
- one triangle channel, 
- one noise channel and 
- one DPCM (sample) channel.

This is my very first song for the NES. :)

The concert / live version (2018) is here: 
https://youtu.be/vC2TCbz5xc8?t=10m56s

The full album "DEATH SQUAD" with this song - is here: http://yerzmyey.i-demo.pl

PS: Here is the song in a software version, if You want to check it out on the real hardware: http://yerzmyey.i-demo.pl/YERZMYEY-The_Lady_of_Mars.rar

Yerzmyey - The Lady of Mars

A remastered extended version of the song made for the 2006 Candela demo of the same name.

For once I actually have the old project files around, albeit not usable on my current workstation. I instead set up a WinXP VM with all my old plugins and DAW:s so I could export and reference the stuff I used. The MIDI notes and Kontakt instruments were easily exportable to FL Studio, and the only casualty was the Cubase-specific filter plugin Tonic which I had to replicate as well as I could. I also added back some parts that were cut out of the demo for time, and replaced some drums to improve the mix.

A shout-out must go to the z3ta+ VSTi and its great implementation of Hermode tuning. It's what makes the signature sound of this track possible, having such aggressive distorsion without all the mud that comes from equal-tempered tuning.

Jeff

A Comeback Tracker cover of the 'Lemon. Announce' song by Julius aka Martin Schioeler. One of my favourite amiga songs!

Size: 6952 bytes

Announce

Basically xyce chipmusic with synths. lol.
Anyway: openmpt + vst

archon (vst)

Virgill / Maniacs of noise
Amiga 500 module for Nordlicht tracked music competition

Amiga: Insert title here

Elektro Klacz

I started to make chiptunes on ZX Spectrum computer, in 1989. ZX Spectrum 48K has 1-bit sound by default, but one can also connect an AY-interface to the machine (existing since its very beginning in 1982 and even earlier because first AY-interfaces have been built for ZX81 computer - 1981).

Anyway - then Spectrum48 has the same sound-abilities what Spectrum128, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST or MSX have (they use the same chip standard: AY/YM). It means 4-bit sound, 3 channels + white noise generator, square wave and several 'buzzers'. Or - instead of it - I can use 3 channels of 4-bit digital sound with the AY, but then I have to fit all samples in 48Kb of RAM. :)

In case of chip-music, as "standard capabilities" I understand AY/YM working in 50hz (Atari ST can use this chip with 200hz of speed which gives the Atarians better audio effects due to their more powerful CPU - 16-bit, 8MHz. Cry cry!!).
So that's my weapon of choice: ZX Spectrum 48K with AY-interface. 

For making chiptunes I use ZX Spectrum's Sound-Tracker 1.1 and for digital MOD-like music I use SampleTracker 2.0 and 2.1.

In 1994 I started to make music also for Amiga 500 (MOD / MED files) on OctaMED, but they were 4 channels traxx mostly - in 99%. :) We made only several 8 channels tracks on OctaMED but it was pretty hard task for old good A500, so usually I stick with 4ch. :)

In 2002 I founded AY-RIDERS band. We play chiptunes on our Spectrums (48K, 128K and higher models). AY-RIDERS' music can be found here: http://ay-riders.speccy.cz/ (My own music You can find here: http://yerzmyey.i-demo.pl/ ).

Some time later I started to make more music for Atari ST and STe (mostly digital, but also some chiptunes).
That's how the YM-DIGITAL band appeared in 2010: http://ym-digital.i-demo.pl/ - there are 2 albums for all enthusiasts of ym2149 chip and digital oldschool music.

In 2012 I bought an Amiga 1200 and was able to start making full 8-channels digital songs for the platform (with independent volumes). That's how the "RetroBeat" album appeared, for all fans of Amiga, and also for fans of retro-computer-music.

From time to time I make songs for Atari Falcon 030 (10 channels of digital music, on DHS-Tracker). 

In 2015 I bought a British microcomputer Raspberry Pi 2 (smaller than the human hand-palm :) ), and I make some music on it, too. 

So, in short, my software/hardware usually are: 
SoundTracker on ZX81;
E-Tracker on SAM Coupe computer (Spectrum Advanced Machine);
MusicMon on ATARI 520ST;
DigiComposer on ATARI 520ST;
ProTracker on ATARI 520 ST;
Hex-Tracker on ATARI 520ST;
Octalyser on ATARI 1040 STE;
OctaMED on AMIGA 500;
DigiBooster on AMIGA 1200;
Digital Home Studio (DHS-Tracker) on ATARI Falcon 030
MilkyTracker on Raspberry Pi
.............and many others............................

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