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neilbaldwin
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Plogue Chipsounds is released.
I'm really surprised nobody has mentioned this yet.
Plogue Chipsounds is a VSTi/AU plugin that emulates several different old systems (including NES/GB/C64/Atari 2600). It's been a couple of years in the making and they seem to have gone to great lengths to make it as accurate as possible.
http://www.plogue.com/?page_id=43
http://ploguechipsounds.blogspot.com/
I've just bought my copy and will be giving it a test soon.
I've been quite excited about this for some time but it raises interesting discussion I think:
- what does this mean for purists who think you should only use the original hardware?
- does it mark the death of the "chip sound", making it available to the masses with none of the limitations/work-arounds we are so fond of working with?
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SIDWAVE
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If you need help with renoise, fire an email. |
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FATFrost
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use buzz as a host it's amazing and free! |
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1BM
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Quote: use buzz as a host it's amazing and free!
and it never crashes. |
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chancer
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Neil, when did mac stop using the vst format then? it's been a long while since I used a mac, I'm surprised to hear that.
the thing about it , a lot of the sid chip or general chip sound things are pc only and weren't ported.. odo synth , errm unknown64 and as someone mentioned the re:fx one.
there has been a few Nintendo NES ones etc also, and an AY one which is around
http://www.preromanbritain.com/ymvst/
for example.
I have a few commerical synths I have, which have c64 inspired sounds, dreamsynth and syleth1 , but I don't think these things are a 100% match for the real thing.. maybe it's like older synths, as the chip heats up a bit the characteristic of the sound changes.hhmm |
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Linus
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Quote: and it never crashes.
LOL LOL LOL |
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FATFrost
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erm yeah buzz crashes but so does my c64....
you can use vst and dx plugins and it has full trackers with effects. |
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Linus
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I know Buzz by heart and it's great and all, don't get me wrong. But I'd never dare to call it stable :) But then again I am not up to date regarding latest native machines, DX and VST adaptors. I vividly remember it to crash like hell on a lot of systems. We had to save our files every 5 minutes and never dared to use it for live gigs. |
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neilbaldwin
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Quote: Neil, when did mac stop using the vst format then? it's been a long while since I used a mac, I'm surprised to hear that.
the thing about it , a lot of the sid chip or general chip sound things are pc only and weren't ported.. odo synth , errm unknown64 and as someone mentioned the re:fx one.
there has been a few Nintendo NES ones etc also, and an AY one which is around
http://www.preromanbritain.com/ymvst/
for example.
I have a few commerical synths I have, which have c64 inspired sounds, dreamsynth and syleth1 , but I don't think these things are a 100% match for the real thing.. maybe it's like older synths, as the chip heats up a bit the characteristic of the sound changes.hhmm
Sorry, I didn't mean to suggest that Mac's had stopped using VSTs.
It's just that I use Logic and it's native plugin/instrument format is AU. You can "wrap" a VST inside an AU plugin and use it that way.
You can, of course, also use a sequencer that uses VSTs natively such as Cubase etc. on Macs too.
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SIDWAVE
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We've run off topic now :D |
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FATFrost
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hehehe, live gigs? meh... i have no shows lined up, but on another note Buzz is being re-coded again by Jeskola and isn't too bad now, but i do get your p0int Linus. ;) i just hate to agree with anyone. ;) |
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