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 
1 Yesterday 20:58:22
Topic: Octode 2k16 Tracks (0 replies, posted in Sinclair)
2 Yesterday 20:32:29
Re: upcoming beeper compos (113 replies, posted in Sinclair)
Ooh, completely forgot about this one
3 Yesterday 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
4 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:
5 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'
6 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
7 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
8 2024-02-06 19:59:58
Re: new engine: PhaserF (5 replies, posted in Sinclair)
Another great new engine. Very cool sound
9 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
10 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
11 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
12 2024-01-07 22:30:33
Re: upcoming beeper compos (113 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
14 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
15 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
16 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
17 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
18 2023-12-08 19:34:35
Re: upcoming beeper compos (113 replies, posted in Sinclair)
Cheers Vinnny. Always a good motivator for me to compose new 1-bit tracks
19 2023-11-08 00:04:26
Re: EBT - ESPboy tracker (16 replies, posted in Other Platforms)
Wow really impressive. Sounds great
20 2023-10-02 19:39:28
Topic: Raw Spectronica - TAP (0 replies, posted in Sinclair)
Nothing new tune-wise but I've packaged the tunes from my Raw Spectronica album into a .TAP format and added some art.
21 2023-10-02 19:36:51
Re: Tutorial: How to Write a 1-Bit Music Routine (56 replies, posted in General Discussion)
This is great
22 2023-10-02 19:33:11
Re: Commodore PET music (5 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Hmmm, yeah, I thought it was maybe a bit too good to be true
Seem to be a few 'Spectrum' tunes made with Furnace on YT too. Will be good if they do manage to export files that can be played on real hw to authenticate the tunes.
23 2023-10-01 20:36:17
Topic: Commodore PET music (5 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Have you guys seen this?
Brilliant version for the PET
https://youtu.be/n1TeOIhWPuQ?si=trYgsnXUjT2oKw5X
Don't know what engine/software was used to create it.
Be great to hear it playing on a real PET
24 2023-09-25 22:09:32
Re: Loading music sound (3 replies, posted in Sinclair)
Thanks guys.
Yeah it was the manic water recent demo that prompted my post
25 2023-09-25 12:13:54
Topic: Loading music sound (3 replies, posted in Sinclair)
Just wondered if anyone knew of a utility/converter doc to create loading music (written to screen ram) ?
I’ve seen examples of it with the Star Wars imperial March and I think utz included a couple of bonus tracks done in this way on his dat fuzz cd
Cheers