PCSPE VSTi - create oldschool PC Speaker music with a DAW (Page 1 of 2)

Also, Peter Sovietov just said that he did a similar thing in the past, that plays sound through the actual PC Speaker, using WinAPI's Beep function. Too bad that newer Windows (7 and above) does not use actual speaker for this anymore. Anyways, download here.

ah, I like this very much! It works fine with LMMS. But the sound is strange if we play several instance / channels together (maybe because I'm using the wine "emulator"):

http://picosong.com/WBP2/ (the exported version sounds a bit different from the one during replay, but it's quite similar anyway).

Here is this lovely tune with only one voice: http://picosong.com/WBCd/

oh, I've tried several things, but didn't realise it was because of the output level. It works perfectly now, thank you!

Logging format has been changed a little bit, more formats added, and whole exporting thing is impoved in general. For one, you can export specified part of the song, or the whole song, without need to cut out the silence inbeginning and end, by marking beginning and end of exporting area with any change for controllers 20 (begin) and 21 (end).

thanks Shiru!

Nice one!

Can you show a screenshot of how it looks in your DAW? I'm interested to see if my readme explains the intended workflow clear enough, and how you arranged the things.

Updated a little bit, fixed the annoying GUI flickering during plugin load.

Also a shameless plug, just released ChipWave, a synth plugin that has many characteristics of old sound chips such as AY, SID, POKEY, as well as some features that come from 1-bit synthesis. You may find it interesting.

do you think it would be possible to compile it on Linux for getting a native vst? But it looks there are some windows only calls in this one...

amazing... I managed to remove the references to the GUI and compile it on Linux!!
Basically I've added #include <cstdlib> at the beginning, I've downloaded the SDK from https://github.com/steinbergmedia/vst3sdk (there is the link to steinberg's website), and I've followed the help there: http://teragonaudio.com/article/Buildin … Linux.html

Then I've run those commands:
g++ -fPIC -c -I/tmp/VST_SDK/VST2_SDK -D__cdecl="" chipwave.cpp
g++ -shared  -o chipwave.so *.o

and got the chipwave.so VST in Linux format!

And the best part is it's working in Ardour (which cannot load VST in windows format, unfortunately, but as a workaround I was using the Festige app which can load windows VST in .dll and it can be rerouted to Ardour using Jack)

I've put my binary there if someone is interested: http://garvalf.online.fr/var/upload/temp/chipwave.so

In case anyone interested, I also released a drum synth counterpart to ChipWave - ChipDrum. It is capable for some1-bit'ish sounds too.

I've started a new track with ChipWave, and ChipDrum as well, here is the WIP: https://instaud.io/2wyP

I've also finished my previous track, but I might expand it in the future: https://battleofthebits.org/arena/Entry/The+Ride/29099/

Very cool. Considering the popularity of bytebeat & co has only been growing over the years, I imagine this could become quite popular.

Also yup, I guess 32-bit is on its way out. Not a big fan of this development, but I don't have 32-bit compatibility on my main machine anymore either, as it mainly just increases the number of packages that need to be updated. Then again you should just come over to the dark side and develop for *nix Guess in a few years Microsoft will to switch to a Linux kernel for Windows anyway.