When I was a youngster in the late 1980s, I formed an Amiga game dev team with 2 friends.
Before making games, we started by trying to sell game music that used minimal RAM, made with our music editor SIDmon.
To promote our game music, this energetic music module was composed by our musician Ramon Braumuller. The file, including tiny sampled sounds, is only 22 kilobytes.
Alright #GearSquad, I want your thoughts. One of my friends is selling off his synths and pedal collections to get a more focused setup. I'm thinking of nabbing a few for myself to add to my own excessive collection. 😆
What I want to know: what would everyone else choose to grab before he sells them off?
I suspect there's only a very small number of people in my audience who overlap with synth gear YouTube, but let me know if you have any other channels you'd recommend.
If I had to choose a favorite arcade game soundtrack from the 1980s, I wouldn't hesitate for a moment. It would be "Magical Sound Shower" from Sega's classic 1986 Out Run driving game.
Composed by Hiroshi Kawaguchi using FM synth tech, it's such an uplifting tune. I love it, and it brings back childhood memories of spending more cash than I should have in order to race around in a Ferrari with a blonde bombshell sitting next to me. 😎
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I spotted @laamaa's post about his new album 'M8 II' on Friday but only just now had a chance to listen -- it's incredible. If you like chiptune or synthwave at ALL, this is a MUST hear (and his other stuff too). The melodies, and the dynamics, the tracks all flow so well. 🎹 🔥
#synth enthusiasts, what is your take about the #beringher#ubXa ? I'm looking for an option of a single synth to use in gigs as a unique synthesizer, I use digitally emulated synths for production but would like to get something playable and practical for live situations, and this one comes with a sequencer (although the price range is way beyond my yearly gear budget at the moment, even looking only at beringher's options, but dreams must be fed and entertained)
Also regarding the Focusrite – As I see it, in order to listen to things coming from the PC (Youtubes, DAW….) you have to use the Playback (DAW) mix and for things going in like my synths, you have to change it to ‘custom mix’?
Is there a setting that allows both ways? Not that big of a deal, mostly just seeing if this is correct."
Anyone #DAW people know why this might be happening?
I got a new toy over the weekend: the Pittsburgh Modular Taiga! It's a bit like if you took the Cre8audio East Beast and West Pest and combined them, then threw in a bunch of extra things, like a preamp, a delay, and a third oscillator. I wasn't really planning on buying this, but I couldn't resist at the price I got it, so I guess I'm going to sell off the East Beast and West Pest.
Finally there is progress on the polysynth based on my voice card design! I got the control board working and there is control of the basic parameters. Still a lot of fiddling in software to do but now I can think of storing some patches :fairydust: #synthdiy#synthesizer#polyphonic#synth@synthdiy
The FSA #Faircamp site is online! There's a couple tweaks to be made, for example, I seem to have gotten at least one release date wrong (copy/paste strikes again), but nothing I'm worried about fixing right away.
Support is always appreciated, but feel free to just listen or take advantage of the "soft" paywall too.
I frequently listen to 4-channel Commodore Amiga music modules from the 1980s and 1990s, with instruments consisting of short 8-bit sound samples.
One of my favorite Amiga composers from that era is Sami Järvinen, better known as Groo. I love his daring experiments, such as this Free Jazz style track called "Banana and Heaven".
I love this wild, experimental, jazzrock-style chiptune for the Commodore 64 conversion of Bionic Commando (1988), arranged for the 3-channel SID audio chip by Tim Follin, based on the arcade original, composed by Harumi Fujita.
P.S.: If you like this kind of energetic old school chiptune, check out this tune by our own game music composer:
I got a new keytar as a gift yesterday. It's a MIDI controller only. I want to play this thing in band, but don't know what to connect it to. What's your favorite softsynth for playing live? Name presets, if you use them. Mostly classic rock. I prefer poly -- I can't keep myself from playing chords, even in lead lines. MacOS or maybe iPad.
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