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These guys do this with real vintage hardware: http://theotherdays.net/ http://theotherdays.net/

wdfx 2y ago
*shameless self promo* Me too: https://doug.lon.dev/fourays https://doug.lon.dev/fourays and I have 2 units for sale here: https://reverb.com/uk/item/83277820-doug-lon-dev-fourays-polyphonic-chiptune-oscillator-module-2024-black-red0 https://reverb.com/uk/item/83277820-doug-lon-dev-fourays-pol...
- 082349872349872 2y ago
  Not exactly chiptune, but I feel the Floppotron ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-WakfBNHD0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-WakfBNHD0 ) is more or less in a straight line of descent from the ancients: https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2015/06/102657988-05-01-acc.pdf https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20... Tymes: ...I found that if I gave a write command to the tape unit and then aborted the write command before it got past the interrecord gap, I could start and stop the tape as often as maybe 300 times a second, which is in the acoustic range. So you could make a lot of noise with those things. Hardy: He got them to play music. Tymes: So I wrote the Stars and Stripes Forever. I used the console speaker for the piccolo. It had a drum printer, which I used for the percussion. And I had a row of tape units all synchronized so that they were all pulsing together for the trombones. ... Tymes: We put the doors to the tape unit half way down so that they would radiate the sound really good. And you could feel it in your chest. It would go bom, bom, ba bam bom. The whole building would shake when that program ran. EDIT: a picture of this "expensive tracker" (~USD 30 million in 2024?) may be found in http://www.cap-lore.com/Hardware/steam_42-43.pdf http://www.cap-lore.com/Hardware/steam_42-43.pdf
  - Eiriksmal 2y ago
    Treewave used something similar, to great effect, on his Cabana EP. Prominently here on Sleep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byKx8bZ5eq8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byKx8bZ5eq8 He hacked up the firmware of a dotmatrix printer to send it commands from his Atari 2600 or 80286 Compaq to make music. "Sound is generated by the print head pins striking the paper and the sound is picked up by a tie-clip mic on the print head. By adjusting the frequency of the printing process in software, different pitches can be played (with about a two octave range.)" He thoughtfully includes all the source you need to do this to your own Epson LQ-500! https://www.qotile.net/dotmatrix.html https://www.qotile.net/dotmatrix.html

wdfx 2y ago

*shameless self promo* Me too: https://doug.lon.dev/fourays https://doug.lon.dev/fourays and I have 2 units for sale here: https://reverb.com/uk/item/83277820-doug-lon-dev-fourays-polyphonic-chiptune-oscillator-module-2024-black-red0 https://reverb.com/uk/item/83277820-doug-lon-dev-fourays-pol...

082349872349872 2y ago
Not exactly chiptune, but I feel the Floppotron ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-WakfBNHD0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-WakfBNHD0 ) is more or less in a straight line of descent from the ancients: https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2015/06/102657988-05-01-acc.pdf https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20... Tymes: ...I found that if I gave a write command to the tape unit and then aborted the write command before it got past the interrecord gap, I could start and stop the tape as often as maybe 300 times a second, which is in the acoustic range. So you could make a lot of noise with those things. Hardy: He got them to play music. Tymes: So I wrote the Stars and Stripes Forever. I used the console speaker for the piccolo. It had a drum printer, which I used for the percussion. And I had a row of tape units all synchronized so that they were all pulsing together for the trombones. ... Tymes: We put the doors to the tape unit half way down so that they would radiate the sound really good. And you could feel it in your chest. It would go bom, bom, ba bam bom. The whole building would shake when that program ran. EDIT: a picture of this "expensive tracker" (~USD 30 million in 2024?) may be found in http://www.cap-lore.com/Hardware/steam_42-43.pdf http://www.cap-lore.com/Hardware/steam_42-43.pdf
- Eiriksmal 2y ago
  Treewave used something similar, to great effect, on his Cabana EP. Prominently here on Sleep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byKx8bZ5eq8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byKx8bZ5eq8 He hacked up the firmware of a dotmatrix printer to send it commands from his Atari 2600 or 80286 Compaq to make music. "Sound is generated by the print head pins striking the paper and the sound is picked up by a tie-clip mic on the print head. By adjusting the frequency of the printing process in software, different pitches can be played (with about a two octave range.)" He thoughtfully includes all the source you need to do this to your own Epson LQ-500! https://www.qotile.net/dotmatrix.html https://www.qotile.net/dotmatrix.html