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Monday Mixes 3 ( Radlib + Maxo)

A short but special mix this Monday, a pure-chiptune mixtape from Radlib (also known as OxygenStar, among many other aliases). These are some pure .mod files played off two Compaq laptops running Impulse Tracker into a Vestax PMC-37PRO mixer. Long live lo-fi!

Trackslist:
01. ADT of Absolute – Scotty
02. Cerror – Atari Close Call 3
03. Daverd – Laid Back in Cairo
04. NAGZ – Slow Motion Breathing
05. lizardking – Art of Chrome
06. Loonie – back2k
07. Jereon Tel – Wave
08. Wire – Prehistoric Tale
09. Vhiiula/Analogik – The Adjectives
10. Sinny – Sky Sunday
11. Norfair – Falling Flakes
12. Decibelter – Where’s Space?

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UPDATE: Maxx Plus just posted this new mix from Maxo, so I decided to update this post!

Tracklist:
0:00 – Seashore – Kazumi Totaka – Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
1:06 – System Configuration – Masanao Akahori – Final Stretch
2:14 – Muteki 22 Gou – Hitoshi Sakimoto – Hourai Gakuen no Bouken!
3:24 – Credits – Daisuke Shiiba – Excitebike: World Rally
5:35 – Flipper Tipper (Hard) – Hirofumi Taniguchi – Snowpack Park
7:00 – Promoted Attack – Motoaki Takenouchi – Shining Force II
7:30 – Change of Ends – Hayato Matsuo – Let’s Smash
7:35 – Midna’s Desperate Hour – Koji Kondo – LoZ: Twilight Princess (Maxo Flip)
9:29 – Half Time – Koji Nakagawa – J-League Soccer Prime Goal 2
9:45 – Mode Select – Koji Nakagawa – J-League Soccer Prime Goal 2
10:16 – Good Fighter – Yuki Iwai, Hideki Okugawa – Street Fighter III New Generation
12:16 – From Birth – Hudson Sound Team (unspecified) – Sonic Shuffle
13:16 – Open Space – Hudson Sound Team (unspecified) – Sonic Shuffle
14:06 – Lightning & Psychic Club – Ichiro Shimakura – Pokémon Card GB
15:24 – Stage 5-3 – Konami Sound Team (unspecified) – Rocket Knight Adventures
16:44 – Lake Side – Shinobu Amayake – Stunt Race FX
18:10 – Select – Naofumi Hataya – Virtua Racing Deluxe
18:52 – Records – Naufumi Hataya – Virtua Racing Deluxe
19:26 – Under Construction (Angry) – Naofumi Hataya – NiGHTS Into Dreams
21:08 – Megalopolis – Soyo Oka – SimCity
22:40 – Flickering (DS Version) – Daisuke Shiiba – MaBoShi’s Arcade
24:12 – The End? – Konami Sound Team (unspecified) – Ganbare Goemon 2 (Maxo Reharm)

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Amiga DJ software are like CDJs for Chiptune

It may not have the feel or polish of a new pair of Pioneers, but this old Amiga computer can still knock out some boss beats. Check out this demo video, and for more info check out this article from Create Digital Music.

cTrix’s gAtari – chipmusic project at blip 2011

Artist at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/cTrix/118258328189500

The “gAtari” was my excuse to do something a little silly after I discovered that the Atari 2600 was more limiting than I realized! (31 pitches, minimal waveforms and only 2 channels!) I needed an EQ which could take a high voltage and drop it down to line level (Boss bass EQ) plus a way to hold loops between tracks and parts (Boss delay). So rather than have it “DJ” style config, I thought I make something a little more creative. It uses my atari-x-mod converter software which compiles binary files for Atari. You can find a little video about it here: http://vimeo.com/23589320

Big ups to Celsius / Trash80 / nf / Lazerbeat for the audio recording. Massive thankyou to sebastienvd81 & JDD3J for shooting additional video footage. Thanks to Wing / Celsius / Abrasive for their assistance and filming. Mega-thanks to Paul Slocum for the maco asm code for 2600 that I based my software around interfacing with :-)

Come to Blip Festival Melbourne 2012!

ps. You can download a similar set to the one I played here at http://www.freemusicarchive.org/music/cTrix/Blip_Festival_2011-cTrix/cTrix_-_Live_at_BLIP_NYC_2011

Powerglove Shows us How to Make Music with Guitar Hero Controller

Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a synth instrument! It’s not as hard as you might think. And your old friend Powerglove will show you how!

You’ll need the following:

Guitar Hero Controller

Ps2 to Usb Converter:
http://www.netpcdirect.co.uk/joypadconverters_ps.php

Nostromo Gamepad or other game controller with buttons
Here’s the newer version:
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=157024

A computer with Direct X

Visual Studio (or SharpDevelop):
http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/

Some programming knowledge

Guitar Pro (or another midi program, or just a sample set of notes):
http://www.guitar-pro.com/en/index.php

effects and an amp (optional)

Have fun, and check out Powerglove while you’re at it:
http://www.vgmetal.com