One of the best chips' fussion ever - motivates me to create own one - POKEY / SID / YM :)

gee willickers. this is right out. <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

2 computers at once or 2 chips in once machine?

Yeah, that's an 8 bit epicness project! So well done!!!

Nice, nice: well done chip track with a strong beat. Fav+greets:)

Pump up the volume!

Super RobCo Disco Battle started as a Sunday afternoon project in mid-June 2013. The idea was to create a classic arcade battle melody spiced up with a techy Disco groove. It took around half a day to compose the basic melodies and two more studio sessions with Artfx! (https://soundcloud.com/artfx) to pimp it up with a jumpy Sega bassline, self-made arcade sound effects, additional Disco percussions & an awesome mastering.

The name of the track is a reference to the computer/console game Fallout & and is especially dedicated to the legendary “RobCo Industries” corporation, one of the biggest & most influential computer and robotics corporations in the (future) United States of America. Just imagine Mr. Handy & Yes Man fighting a deadly “John Travolta style” Disco battle in front of a Nuka Cola vending machine. Makes perfect sense, huh? :)

An early beta version of the track has been released in issue #14 of the weekly Chiptune Podcast “This Week in Chiptune” by DJ Cutman (https://soundcloud.com/djcutman).

Hitboxx ( https://soundcloud.com/hitboxx ), a Chiptune composer from France created a cool breakbeat remix of an earlier version of the track. You can listen to his version here:
https://soundcloud.com/hitboxx/dualtrax-artfx-super-robco?in=dualtrax/sets/super-robco-disco-battle

Super RobCo Disco Battle was created using Renoise (http://www.renoise.com/) & Cubase (http://www.steinberg.net). The lead and some of the bass samples are from the NES & the Sega Mega Drive. The Chiptune arps have  entirely  been designed in Renoise. 

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For his 30th birthday, Lunar Park (a.k.a. Monodeer), Men of Mega, RoccoW, Ultrasyd and xyce decided to make some music for EINDBAAS' Frans Twisk. With five original tracks and five remixes of one of each others earlier tracks we're pretty sure we've stroked Frans' ego for the next five years !

Get it now :
http://thefranstwiskep.bandcamp.com/

Happy Birthday Frans !

Get it at Bandcamp

Dansen Dronkaards (Atari STe)

Not For The Glory Not For The Fame 2

This is a dubstep/chipmusic song made for the "Weekly Treats" series: 
http://weeklytreats.net/album/29-yerzmyey-gasman

Here is a video from the concert version of the song: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feOqOBTui5g
with live drums and synths. 

Anyway, this song has been made on a pure ATARI TT, a machine released in 1990, with 4Mb of RAM, 8-bit sound quality, with 2 hardware digi-channels only.
The trick is - HexTracker gives 16 channels, using the Atari's 32Mhz Motorola CPU.
(Can make more but with a substantial sound quality reduction).

This song is a MOD format and has all its limitations (8 bit samples, only 64Kb for a sample, only 31 samples in the module, octaves limitation) but the only difference - are those 16 channels in the MOD (software mixing).

Recorded from real hardware (that originally has only 2 digi-channels, haha).

DOWNLOAD ENTIRE ALBUM: http://yerzmyey.i-demo.pl/attraction/yerzmyey-attraction2016.zip

Yerzmyey - Time Machine II

One chiptune made on two classic 8-bit machines from 1982: Spectrum 48 & Commodore 64. :) 
Composed by YERZMYEY (ZX48) & RIO (C64).
Chip editors used: SoundTracker on ZX and DMC on C=. 
Mixed by Rio Rattenrudel. 

Made in 2010.

Yerzmyey & RIO - The rubber breadbox (ZX / C64)

I've just finished a small test of Amiga1200 working with MIDI. 
Hardware: Yamaha QY70 + Amiga 1200 (MIDI).
Software: OctaMED 4.00.

Amiga 1200 - a computer launched in 1992. 14Mhz of Motorola CPU on-board. Mine has 10Mb of RAM. The song surely would work on standard 2Mb, without problems. 

Yamaha QY70 has been released in 1997. It's a very small synthesizer with sequencer (but can also work in MIDI mode), similar in its look to Atari Lynx handheld game-console. 
Sound generation method: AWM2.

OctaMED 4.00 - the series generally has been closed in 1992 (later the program became freeware). 
You can use 16 channels here, in the MIDI mode, however it still works as a tracker, so - for example - You cannot put a chord into one channel: You have to use 3 separate channels to make the chord. 

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

Yerzmyey - Ceres' Pyramid

Going back to the roots,it feels damn good to track.
 Those are Neil Baldwin TR 707 samples by the way check them out on his website http://nes-audio.com/

Cocoon

Cocoon ---Famitracker 2a03+VRC6---

Finally! My first album 'Fragments' is here! It's a real bouillabaisse of mixed genre and style.

http://hanseemusic.com/album/fragments

Safari bombers

Upbeat song for this year's summer holiday with the dogs I babysit.

As a patreon supporter, you'll gain early access to videos, instrumentals, downloads and stem mixes/MIDIfiles of this song: https://www.patreon.com/eoxstudios

Video: https://youtu.be/gVT55OoMXY4

Retro Grooves Vol. 3

Borderline

A Cover of this beautiful track created with my Roland FA synthesizer workstation.

Roland FA-06 - Cerror & Xylo - Dans La Rue (Tracker Module Cover)

Single from the upcoming sound track to a new retro point and click game, The Last Goddess:  https://www.thelastgoddess.net

Both versions available for purchase at Bandcamp:  https://eoxstudios.bandcamp.com/album/tamaras-theme-the-last-goddess-ost

Youtube:https://youtu.be/vOWyFHGwhVo

The Last Goddess OST

Tamara's Theme (Radio Edit)

Tamara's Theme

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............................

Yerzmyey & RIO - The rubber breadbox (ZX / C64)

YERZMYEY

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