What are Chiptunes? (wikipedia)
Chiptune or chip music is music written in sound formats where all the sounds are synthesized in realtime by a computer or video game console sound chip, instead of using sample-based synthesis. The "golden age" of chiptunes was the mid 1980s to early 1990s, when such sound chips were the only widely available means for creating music on computers. The medium gave composers great flexibility in creating their own "instrument" sounds, but because early computer sound chips had only simple tone generators and noise generators, it also imposed limitations on the complexity of the sound; chiptunes sometimes seem "harsh" or "squeaky" to the unaccustomed listener. Chiptunes are closely related to video game music.
In short, it is classic computer music that I love to listen to while coding.
Some of my fav Composers/Groups
- Rebels
- Razor 1911
- Void/Reality
- Ghidorah
- JosSs
- 1869
- Neo Software
- Wayne Kerr
- RCN
- The Hamster Alliance
Downloads
- My Fav Chiptunes - 56 of my Fav Chiptunes/Mods (960K Zipped)
- Adplug - Plugin for Winamp/XMMS to Play All Sorts of Chiptune Formats
