thanks.

Deflemask is really cool, easy to learn and use, and you can also import several instrument formats, among others the opm one. What is cool you can find big instrument packs ripped from games, which you can use for you own music. (search "VOPM Mega Arcade Collection").

Ys is also among my favorite game music. I love especially:
- First Step Towards Wars (Ys 1)
- Feena (intro for Ys 1)
- Sarina village (Ys III on megadrive)
but my favorite among those gems is definitively "Welcome": https://youtu.be/jFVAGO-RTZE?t=6m27s

Two new songs on BotB:

YM2612 + PSG (megadrive), cold rock style (with some folk elements at the end):
http://battleofthebits.org/arena/Entry/Icy+Roads/24083/

PSG only (sega master system), medieval style:
http://battleofthebits.org/arena/Entry/Le+poignard+de+glace/24084/

Some FM songs I've made recently. One for Nec PC-9801 (opna), using the MML language (well, with a midi to mml converter) :
http://battleofthebits.org/arena/Entry/La+torche/23881/

One other for megadrive (ym2612 and sn76489 chips):
https://soundcloud.com/garvalf/simca-2612

I've worked more on the AY shield, but I didn't manage to draw a correct PCB. I think I'll ask a friend for help, he can do this kind of thing. Then I'll start mass production (between 10 and 15 pieces  ).

No new AY music, but I've made a few for the Megadrive / Genesis chips (FM and PSG). I like using this platform because it's easy to compose tunes with DefleMask, and the Everdrive MD makes it quick to replay from the Megadrive console (using a SD card). I'll post something in my music section.

Cool. We need fewer systemd (or more systemd-free) distributions in the world!

The simpson anim is cool.

For the jungle one, in fact it's not really an animation, it's more amazing that that, it's only color cycling! It was made on Amiga by Mark Ferrari.
Check is website, there are more: http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/ (this version is not animated gif so you can't save it unfortunately, it recreates the cycling with html5)

This other thing is very cool too: http://www.effectgames.com/demos/worlds/ (you can change the hour of the day and the pixels will change too)

very cool, can't wait to try this on pico8!

I've seen a video about pizza gate today, with some proofs from wikileaks, it's quite creepy 

thanks. Yes, I'm not super dark myself, it was rather in a melancholic mood.

Picoloop is definitely worth trying, very pleasant to use! 

hey I missed that one. Thanks to people who voted for the SID emulator on Arduino!

Hello,

In this thread I'll post some of my new musics.

This time it's not strictly chiptune but it's related because it was generated by the computer. I've used Picoloop, a free software nanoloop clone.
It emulates several synth, such as the TB303, MOS SID, opl2 (fm),  Twytch/Helm etc.

I've made a tutorial / manual for this excellent tool: https://github.com/farvardin/picoloop-manual/blob/master/picoloop_manual_pc.md

So here is my latest song with it:

https://soundcloud.com/memento-somniare/les-ponts

Thank you.

I've finally soldered a cleaner version on a board last week-end. Damn it was long. There is almost nothing on the board, but under it there are quite many wires. I've put the atmega8 chip under the arduino nano. I'd like to make a PCB for making more boards like this.

Here is a new video with my new toy:


and a picture of the board:



So there is a sd card reader connected to the arduino which read the data, then pass it to the atmega8 which is the sound chip recreating the ym2148.

probably this :

It's quite short and not very well recorded, but here is the avr-ay emulator in action:

I've managed to make the AY emulator from http://www.avray.ru/ work, it sounds really great! I still need to adjust a few things, and I'd like to program it for using midi, if it's possible. I'll post a little video in a few days or weeks.

It's cool if you use an external (arduino) chip for making the music! It can maybe be complicated to make it communicate with the main CPU, can't it?
The arduino sketch can replay some psid files quite accurately, but the psid has to be converted to special data and embeded as .h file from the arduino ide, like this: https://github.com/farvardin/C64-music/blob/master/sid_arduino/sid_player/Alternative_Fuel_dmp.h
And because of the arduino memory, you can't add much music (around 10-15 seconds). But it should be possible to stream the data from sd card or other storage (the only examples I can find are from a read SID, not with the arduino emulator)

There are also other projects using for example the ym2149 chip (AY), for example this one: http://www.avray.ru/
You can use arduino sketches with it for playing Sinclair Spectrum or Atari St music. Look at this: http://www.avray.ru/playing-yrg-rsf-files-from-sd-card-with-emulator/comment-page-1/#comment-205
It could be cool to integrate into your console project.

I've worked a bit more on the Sid emulator. It can handle multi voices (3 like original SID, but it should be also possible to create more register and add more voices), the only problem is on midi I can't separate the voice, i.e. play a voice on channel 1, play another voice (sound) on channel 2 etc, I can mix the voices together but I have to select the midi channel. I've tried to modify the midi part but it's beyond my knowledge, for example I'm using some code which should theorically work, but don't practically (http://arduinomidilib.fortyseveneffects.com/a00025.html#ga4c50a2be0160dfb169126c7d9e6d1458)

I've discovered the "arduino pro mini" are even smaller than arduino nano. You can find some clones for a very cheap price (around 2 €). You only need a programmer / usb interface because they don't have this, so it's not practical for designing, it's more for final stuff. Fun fact: it has almost the same size as a real SID chip.

I'm attaching a picture of the whole family, from left to right: the ftdi programmer, the arduino pro mini, the arduino nano.