The 1-Bit Forum — What hardware equipment I need to make 1bit chiptune?

Re: What hardware equipment I need to make 1bit chiptune?

2016-03-14T01:34:09Z

Vega is a software emulator on ARM SoC, though.

Re: What hardware equipment I need to make 1bit chiptune?

2016-03-13T22:33:49Z

Yes the Vega 1-bit sound is very accuate.

There's the Vega Plus handheld coming out in September too

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the- … -console#/

Re: What hardware equipment I need to make 1bit chiptune?

2016-03-13T21:02:55Z

I guess you can build those AVR synth (hope the code is still functional). It's very cool.

Vega should be ok too, but they are not that cheap. The sounds seems to be great:
https://soundcloud.com/mister_beep/mist … ii-zx-vega

There are also other zx clone, such as the ZX Uno (should be cheaper than vega, and with more possibilities)

Re: What hardware equipment I need to make 1bit chiptune?

2016-03-13T10:34:27Z

utz wrote:

there's the 1-bit AVR synth. Also, the famous 1-bit groovebox

Uhm, sadly it seem that they're not commercially available...
On a side note, what about the new ZX Spectrum Vega or similar new hardware, is it ok in order to reproduce beeper tunes or is a totally different thing?

Re: What hardware equipment I need to make 1bit chiptune?

2016-03-08T15:26:40Z

Yeah, there's the 1-bit AVR synth. Also, the famous 1-bit groovebox has some very crude means of syncing to a midi clock. There might be others as well.

Re: What hardware equipment I need to make 1bit chiptune?

2016-03-08T07:08:20Z

Thanks,
I'm also interested in the Houston tracker for the TI eighties. Out of curiosity, are there any 1-bit hardware synth or midi modules? I mean anything that I can sequence from external gear.
Something like the AY3 from Twisted Electrons that I purchase yesterday, but 1-bit

Re: What hardware equipment I need to make 1bit chiptune?

2016-03-06T18:29:37Z

Hey gensek, welcome aboard! Yes, as garvalf said, you actually only need a Speccy (and perhaps a mixer/amp so you can boost the signal a bit when loading wav files created from .taps). However, tape/wav loading is slow and tends to fail frequently when doing it in loud environments, so if you plan on doing more work with 1-bit and/or playing this stuff for live shows, you might want to get a divIDE or divMMC for faster, more reliable loading. (The page I linked to is the original manufacturer, but there are other sellers/manufacturers as well, just google it).

Re: What hardware equipment I need to make 1bit chiptune?

2016-03-05T22:53:55Z

> what equipment I need to make 1bit tunes with a zx spectrum

only a zx spectrum, as 1-bit music is made from the beeper. You can convert your .tap files to waveforms and send the data to the zx through a monophonic jack cable so it can load the music.

What hardware equipment I need to make 1bit chiptune?

2016-03-05T10:21:04Z

ALERT typical noob thread!
Hi all,
I recently discovered 1bit music and then I found this forum. I'm a total noob in this thing and I'd like to have some informations 'bout what equipment I need to make 1bit tunes with a zx spectrum. I'm a guitarist but I'm not new to chiptune as I realized a bunch of tracks with nanoloop for the gameboy and the gameboy advance, that you can hear at my soundcloud page.
https://m.soundcloud.com/gensek80