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I want to think this iteration of the thread will be when I finally break down and succumb to a more pronounced chasing of synths in the form of the means to attempt covers of the various obscure bits of music that have been haunting me since my youth, as opposed to my stalking of various oddities outright and all things FM SYNTH. Until such a moment arrives though, well... https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/evanbalster/imitone-mind-to-melody There's this software...thing. Through "methods", all things audible become MIDI---MIDI you can then mess with all manner of ways. It has actually managed to fund surprisingly early, and may yet reach one or more stretch goals, which is cool if it all ultimately works. For whatever reason, it would seem audio-centric things have yet to make any sort of dent on Kickstarter versus other hobbyist pursuits like miniatures that folks tend to part with vast sums of money over---so perhaps this is a mysterious herald of things to come?
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A bit tangential as it was in the old thread, but still interesting and chock full of history, so here's part 2 of the big Impulse Tracker Post-Mortem and Story Time with Jeffrey Lim with probably more devs due to come outta the woodwork again to respond same as with Part 1: http://roartindon.blogspot.com/2014/03/20-years-of-impulse-tracker-part-2.html
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I'll definitely do so---I've learned quite a lot from The Thread thus far, so what strange bits I can contribute back in turn definitely need to be a thing.
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Mar 28, 2014 13:44
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This is random even for me, and there's a variety of other videos on the channel that I've not yet watched that are also perhaps as good or better than this one, but: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knsR0-vGYYk Motohiro Kawashima, of Streets of Rage 3 fame among others, generally Doing Stuff on an AKAI Professional MPD 32 at a recent event---it was pretty slick I reckon.
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Final 18~ hours call on that freaky Imitone MIDIfier thing I'd linked earlier---has actually managed to hit all but perhaps the final stretch goal for an Android version as luck and effort would have it, and it isn't hard to reckon it just might manage it down at the wire. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/evanbalster/imitone-mind-to-melody
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The Sega Genesis/Megadrive and requisite FM SYNTH chipset will, nay, MUST never die in the hands of crazy and wonderful people. Courtesy of the Watermelon Team for their upcoming Project Y Genesis game(Yes, you read that right, creating games that by all rights should not exist on long defunct hardware is Watermelon's entire schtick for the most part alongside the few other groups in the world that are their fellow travelers) that is intended to be an homage to the work of Yuzo Koshiro/Motohiro Kawashima on the Streets of Rage series and others: https://soundcloud.com/tulioadriano/project-y-sampler2-by Only a small sampling of what is to come, but they've clearly got this thing going in a fine direction.
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Odd timing that, here's a big Korg M01/M01D music 1 hour thing that their main guy threw out on Twitter a short while back: http://gadgetron-sounds.com/?menu=detail&dno=11
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Things afoot: A fresh batch of I think about 30 PreenFM 2 Rev3 boards/kits are actually available for the first time this year and the software side of it has reached something of a v1.00, though with further planned of course: http://ixox.fr/preenfm2/ Relative to the Drum Machine chat from awhile back, Aly James performed a pivot away from FM DRIVE's glorious FM Synth obsession, while corresponding with the original man himself it would seem, to wrangle a comprehensive LINN LM-1 Drum Machine software/VST-thing: http://www.alyjameslab.com/alyjameslabvlinn.html Mass of short demo tracks using it onsite, sounds kind of interesting/nifty to me---though I know slim to nothing about drum machines on the whole save a bit from when you folks get into it from time to time.
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Also in freaky things: a bid at a new instrument via the powers of Pi and Hexagons http://www.raspberrypi.org/joytone/
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Seemingly relevant to folks here: An IndieGoGo project that just barely made their goal awhile back seems to have actually released their intended album---said album being largely wrought from synths both vintage and/or ludicrously expensive/rare(I think nearly every single one in the Equipment infographic has had the requisite lust/hate thrown at it here in the thread) in the spirit of Blade Runner. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/moments-lost#home Pretty sure they'd have met their stretch goals if only they'd thought to have a nice cat or 2 captioned there into the gear pic... Based on the little sampler tune in the recent updates---seems like it turned out to be pretty swell.
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Random semi-relevant videos afoot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzsBu9vx98Q Somebody actually, finally made a short tutorial video on the PreenFM2 after all this time! That somebody...was the creator behind the lot of it. Better late than never I suppose, heh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9AaOkU1WZs Those crazy Plogue dudes are apparently about to launch The Emperor of All Speech Synth Chips---in synth form.
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Looks like it got a mention on the main Plogue site back on July 18, so you must've just missed it. No further details beyond what is there in the little video description though.
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Who wants a cool mini-docu series on Chip/Synth/etc Music in Gaming? It looks like the first episode came out this morning: http://www.redbullmusicacademy.jp/jp/magazine/digging-in-the-carts Fair bit of gear featured, composer behind Pac-Man showcasing the greatest treasure of all while just being an awesome individual in general---just drat good and overflowing with nostalgia.
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If you want a go at the other end, off the retro deep end, Plogue has chipspeech coming out sometime in the future: http://www.plogue.com/ quote:A faithful emulation of all major classic speech synthesis chips of the early 1980′s, and a few surprises.
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Part 3 and 4 of Lim's grand update on Impulse Tracker's history of intrigue may have sneaked by my page refreshing skills and are nowhere near as loaded as the prior 2 from way on back: http://roartindon.blogspot.com/2014/10/20-years-of-impulse-tracker-part-3.html http://roartindon.blogspot.com/2014/12/20-years-of-impulse-tracker-part-4.html But on the other hand: Ancient Nightmarish Source Code under a BSD license! https://bitbucket.org/jthlim/impulsetracker
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There's an oddly specific little SunVox FM Synth compo afoot: http://www.warmplace.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=3578quote:It's time for the new SunVox Song Competition!
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The power of perhaps semi-intentionally sinister narration, and subtitles, compels us all to behold this crazy LYRA-8 FM and such synth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krQGkPufZHs
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A new tracker/piano roll fashioned piece of FM Synth software has manifested out of pretty much nowhere and looks rather cool and promising: http://fmcomposer.org/en/ May well be one of the shinier and user friendly intended projects out there in these wilds---which is even crazier as usually mostly solo efforts on this sort of thing drive folks to some degree of madness before such dragons are tilted at. Imagine if it sees more updates from here~
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Had concerted efforts and timelines not been so utterly bungled, the peak of that generation of FM on Sega hardware would've come from a properly timed and supported 32x---as it greatly unburdened the Genesis outright IF SO USED as otherwise PC-8/9X was the only refuge that could be leveraged as it wasn't like custom arcade setups could be availed. The Saturn then would've marked a proper leap into a next gen FM paradigm...as opposed to the history we actually got where despite it being capable, slim to nobody took any advantage of it as everybody went all in with sampling parity keeping the PS1 in mind and thus meaningful sound/synth tech died in the console space from the DC onward. Key failings in timing and order of operations on top of failures of biz and ambition at SEGA and YAMAHA quite literally changed the prevailing soundscape of the future---saddest death since SID. Nintendo gets a special mention as they could've stopped them from dooming themselves via proper competition to keep them in check had they not smothered their own VRC tech initiative with the latter day Famicom/NES unto the SNES gen to cultivate loathsome sonic homogeneity.
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SunVox has finally seen a decently giant update to v2.0 after a long, long time: https://warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/
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Likely to pay continuing mind to Furnace as their odd saga of back and forth with DM plays out however it does~ https://github.com/tildearrow/furnace
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