Wow, real blast from the past.
Where did 10 years go since I stumbled on the forum and was inspired to make my first beeper tune
26 2024-07-12 20:06:38
Re: The old forum : http://1bit.i-demo.pl/ (2 replies, posted in General Discussion)
29 2024-05-01 10:12:38
Re: upcoming beeper compos (135 replies, posted in Sinclair)
Ooh yeah. Anything with samples gets a thumbs up from me
Tbh I never realised the squidgy sounds in your track were samples utz.
Squat seems to play samples really well, in my ‘into the black’ track I didn’t bother to downgrade the quality so the samples were pretty big but the clarity was great
30 2024-04-30 17:47:49
Re: upcoming beeper compos (135 replies, posted in Sinclair)
Well done on the win utz. Brilliant track again.
I’ve made some yt vids of some of the tracks on my channel as usual
31 2024-04-27 18:50:11
Re: upcoming beeper compos (135 replies, posted in Sinclair)
Managed to finish an old tune too. I'm in
32 2024-04-26 14:50:56
Re: upcoming beeper compos (135 replies, posted in Sinclair)
That’s good news Shiru.
Not sure I’ll have anything finished in time
33 2024-04-23 20:58:22
Topic: Octode 2k16 Tracks (1 replies, posted in Sinclair)
Hi Guys
Came across this channel a few weeks ago.
The guy is churning out a load of converted XM files into Octode 2k16 format
I've always liked this engine and it's great to hear new tracks using it
34 2024-04-23 20:32:29
Re: upcoming beeper compos (135 replies, posted in Sinclair)
Ooh, completely forgot about this one
35 2024-04-23 20:06:11
Re: Cesare The Somnambule - new tune (3 replies, posted in Sinclair)
Well that's it UTZ ! Our friendship is over and I shall never speak to you again
Seriously though, I see what you're saying but what actually happened was I used a load of unfinished tracks and strung them into a sort of overture-like track hence the different styles and tempos.
The track plays before the game starts and never again. It also has parts of 'Bela Lugosi's dead' and 'I'm in love with a German film star' to go with the goth theme of the ingame AY music (cure tracks). I also chucked in a bit a 3/4 haunted amusement park type music as that reflects a particular part of the game. There's also some Numan near the beginning, just because I liked it
36 2024-03-29 14:40:01
Re: Cesare The Somnambule - new tune (3 replies, posted in Sinclair)
Game is now finished and can downloaded here:
37 2024-03-23 00:40:33
Topic: Cesare The Somnambule - new tune (3 replies, posted in Sinclair)
My latest beeper track for this new game.
Bit of an overture
Game is based on the 1920s b&w horror film 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'
38 2024-02-21 21:58:00
Re: ZX Touch console (2 replies, posted in Sinclair)
Haha hipster middle aged nostalgia nerds more like
I thought you'd say something about a low-pass
I'm just happy the gadget seems to play our beeper stuff OK now
39 2024-02-20 23:14:26
Topic: ZX Touch console (2 replies, posted in Sinclair)
The fw has now been updated on the new speccy handheld, the ZX Touch. The release notes say it now enables beeper scanning every 4 clock cycles aligning with the execution time of a single z80 instruction. The carrier frequency now exceeding the human audible range on pwm engines again.
Ofcourse I tested a Pytha tune first as I find these the hardest to play correctly (still can’t get Spectronica to play properly on my next with frequency drops in places).
Here’s the ZX Touch in action
https://youtu.be/dYW8df6W56s?si=QXQHXu9c5lCcbAnJ
40 2024-02-06 19:59:58
Re: new engine: PhaserF (5 replies, posted in Sinclair)
Another great new engine. Very cool sound
41 2024-02-04 22:41:45
Re: new engine: ulasyn (9 replies, posted in Sinclair)
Really love this engine utz.
I've created a little yt vid of your demo track on my channel:
https://youtu.be/Yd1G_9fHj5E?si=u55jtwybfNOOBbzD
Do you think it will get included into 1tracker/bintracker or a convertor made?
I've had a look at the asm and the song structure doesn't seem too complicated so I could possibly create a simple track in asm.
I've been listening to this album a lot recently and I think a drone synth tune would be perfect on the ulasynth engine
https://youtu.be/jegp-ObgKNQ?si=1pV1OXimRPVcsfbt
42 2024-01-31 23:19:56
Re: new engine: ulasyn (9 replies, posted in Sinclair)
Oh wow !
Utterley amazing. Don't think I've heard another beeper engine sound like this !
Wasn't expecting a new engine at all
Congrats utz
43 2024-01-16 00:23:40
Topic: Quad tone engine (10 replies, posted in Sinclair)
Hi guys
Came across this tune on YT which it says uses the 'quad tone' engine.
https://youtu.be/hZtP6VBQIXs?si=xeBR8OXDCJQD51aU
I've not heard of this. Is it a real ZX Beeper engine that can be played on real hardware or one of these ones from packages like furnace tracker?
Good composition
44 2024-01-07 22:30:33
Re: upcoming beeper compos (135 replies, posted in Sinclair)
Some great 1-bit Beeper tracks as always
Congrats to AER on the win
[ ZX Spectrum Beeper Music ]
1. 6.76 Veselaya by AER
2. 6.65 LA-5 by AER
3. 6.03 Beep Machine by Tufty ^ 1bit Forum
4. 5.91 Into the Black by Tufty ^ 1bit Forum
5. 5.68 from the woods by utz ^ irrlicht project
46 2023-12-26 16:26:39
Re: Christmas Beeps (4 replies, posted in Sinclair)
Hi xxl
I've emailed you the source .bbsong file
cheers
47 2023-12-24 23:25:01
Topic: Christmas Beeps (4 replies, posted in Sinclair)
Happy Christmas everyone
Here are some Christmas Beeps:
https://youtu.be/TRqmTRXSxdk?si=aQe4rT8d63WvPgtE
48 2023-12-12 00:24:19
Re: My IBM PC Speaker youtube playlist (4 replies, posted in Other Platforms)
Wow, massive list there.
Started listening to some of them.
Sounds like a few spectrum-like engines in there - Predator 2 for instance
I did a few PC Speaker tunes myself which actually got me into writing speccy 1-bit music
https://tufty1.bandcamp.com/track/bonus … pc-speaker
This was recorded from dosbox and written using monotone on an old Toshiba laptop
I've written a few more PC speaker tunes but never recorded them
49 2023-12-10 00:35:50
Re: Superhair 2 Title tune (3 replies, posted in Sinclair)
Recording from real hardware now on streaming platforms and my bandcamp site:
Recorded from a real 48K Spectrum as always
50 2023-12-08 19:34:35
Re: upcoming beeper compos (135 replies, posted in Sinclair)
Cheers Vinnny. Always a good motivator for me to compose new 1-bit tracks