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(135 replies, posted in Sinclair)

I spoke to Lyndon Sharp yesterday on facebook (he is currently working on music for the Spectrum Next).

I told him about the bubble dizzy engine being extracted and incorporated into 1tracker 0.26.

He says the bubble dizzy music was actually music reused from a game called rally cross but with 2 re-sampled drums, although he says he likes the drums but can't actually remember doing the tweak smile

Anyway he said to tell Shiru to keep up the good work smile

And if he fancied adding these newly found drums to the main kit it would be good smile

Not sure if he means his original engine?

227

(7 replies, posted in Sinclair)

Wow, missed this post about the new squat engine.

Just tried it on 1-tracker and compiled the two demo songs to .tap versions.

Excellent engine, love the sound, drums and noise capability smile

228

(135 replies, posted in Sinclair)

Recently came across a game with a nice engine I'd not heard before.

Bubble Dizzy (1991) with music by Lyndon Sharp.

Sounds 2 channel plus digi drums

smile

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(20 replies, posted in Sinclair)

I'm in, already working on a track smile

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(166 replies, posted in Sinclair)

Thanks Shiru.

Just tested on my laptop running Windows 10, runs fine.

smile

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(22 replies, posted in Sinclair)

Thanks utz smile

Definitely sounds cleaner on fuse and the real hardware recording.

On Spectaculator I think I still prefer the first version of the engine as the parasite tone is lower pitched and doesn't seem to interfere with the tune as much imo

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(22 replies, posted in Sinclair)

Thanks utz, sounds great.
Much clearer than on emulators.

Excellent synth on this engine smile

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(22 replies, posted in Sinclair)

Wow, love it mate.
Great sound, don't think I've heard Beeper synth like this before.
Even the slight interference sort of adds to it, makes it seem more live.

smile

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(22 replies, posted in Sinclair)

Haha, I knew you wouldn't be retired from beeper engine creation for long mate smile

Sounds interesting, I'll check it out later, when home from work smile

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(20 replies, posted in Sinclair)

http://dihalt.org.ru/index_eng.html

Anyone up for entering a ZX Beeper tune ?  smile

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(135 replies, posted in Sinclair)

Cool sound utz smile

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(25 replies, posted in Sinclair)

Sounds awesome! I've backed the next too, hope they leave the sid in (think it was just a test).

How do you think 1-bit engines like zbmod will sound on it?

Will port contention still be there if selecting 48k mode ?

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(135 replies, posted in Sinclair)

Hi guys

I think this is a great idea. As you know, I've always liked to try and include voice-like sounds in my Beeper tunes,
1-Bit Mechanistic, Mechanoid etc.

An engine I'd love to hear is a rombeep one that converts voice sounds right down to basic beeps. Almost like the effect used sometimes on synthpop music where a vocoder effect is turned up to the max.

I've thought of trying to analyse the waveform of some allophones and manually work out a 'beep-set' myself which could be used in a Beeper tune.

I tried it on my cover of 'Difficult for Weirdos' right at the end.

Another Beeper engine idea is QChan+
A hybrid engine with an AY bass channel (buzztone etc.)

I thought maybe one of the channels could be played as standard QChan but also the same notes as AY bass?
That way the song data could be used and exported from Beepola and incorporated into the Qchan+ engine .asm ?

What do you think utz????

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(4 replies, posted in Sinclair)

These drums are something pretty new too, sampled?

Can two SID voices be used at once??

The more I listen, the more impressive this engine becomes!

Particularly the start of the demo tune.

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(4 replies, posted in Sinclair)

Wow, another amazing engine and original sound smile

Love the volume control (particularly at the beginning of the demo tune).

Is the low buzz bass at the beginning coupled with volume controlled lead really all beeper or is this a hybrid engine??

Brilliant smile

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(2 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Happy New Year fellow 1-bit music fans.

Let's make 2017 a good one for 1-bit  smile

242

(19 replies, posted in Sinclair)

I was thinking exactly the same thing Garvalf !

Roll on Winterchip, time for some fresh sounding Beeper tunes smile

243

(1 replies, posted in Sinclair)

Hi Guys

Here are some new ZX Beeper tunes from our friends over at Battle Of The Bits smile


http://battleofthebits.org/arena/Entry/ … tap/23400/

http://battleofthebits.org/arena/Entry/ … tap/23398/

http://battleofthebits.org/arena/Entry/ … tap/23399/

http://battleofthebits.org/arena/Entry/ … tap/23397/

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(3 replies, posted in Sinclair)

he he, that sounds very intriguing Garvalf! Can't wait ????

245

(3 replies, posted in Sinclair)

Hi Guys

I've not posted for a while but just wondered what projects people were working on the moment?

I'm still working on my latest 1-bit album but it can be hard to motivate myself at the moment. Space Beeps will be about 15mins long!

There will hopefully be about 13-15 tracks and I'm trying to use a selection of engines this time to vary the sound and not just Qchan as before smile

1-bit Mechanistic got a good review here:
lofi-gaming.org.uk

...and I even managed to persuade industry legend Mel Croucher to take a listen smile

So what are you guys up to?

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(2 replies, posted in Sinclair)

AER has released a new Beeper album


Download it here:

https://zxaaa.untergrund.net/view_demo.php?id=9310


Great stuff as always, in his own distinctive style smile

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(5 replies, posted in Sinclair)

Cheers mate

Very nice synthy sound to this one smile

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(136 replies, posted in Sinclair)

I thought all three tracks were great.

Couldn't guess which engine utz's track used and I actually thought 'Road Song' used the Savage engine when I first heard it. Certainly sounds cleaner than other tritone engined tunes!

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(136 replies, posted in Sinclair)

I look forward to listening to your Squeeker Plus tune and the other two.

Only 3 entries?  I must admit, I didn't have time to write anything myself. Oh well.

I actually have a Russian guy sitting next to me at work which is great as I often ask him to translate text from forums etc.

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(3 replies, posted in Sinclair)

Hi Guys


I've had some CDs made of my 1-bit Mechanistic album smile

If anyone would like to add this unique little 1-bit oddity to their chiptune collection, they're now available to buy on my bandcamp page. I've tried to keep the postage costs down.

Once again, HUGE thanks to utz, who's coded the ZX Spectrum demo version. Available on the bandcamp download or here:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/112 … c_demo.zip


Hope you like it smile