James Vontor Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 I was wondering if there are any free programs to make chiptune music either new or maybe an old abandoned program from yesteryears. I am thinking Midway early 90's arcade, Sega model 2 or model 3, Amiga, or maybe even Jaguar or Namco Tekken 1 arcade machine type chip tune music. What kind of programs do you recommend to make comparable chip tune music? I can only find maybe C64 or NES level programs but I need much more than that. Something not a pain to set up too, but maybe that's asking too much lets do one at a time haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikebloke Posted September 18, 2021 Share Posted September 18, 2021 Sounds like you need to check what system you want to emulate (as in, sound like) and find a relevant tracker for it. Beepbox.co is an interesting site I've been using randomly for the last few weeks, I even do it on my phone. Slightly impractical but a bit of fun when I have a few spare moments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonGrafx-16 Posted September 18, 2021 Share Posted September 18, 2021 DefleMask Tracker 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted September 18, 2021 Share Posted September 18, 2021 For that matter, about 90-95% of Amiga music is sample based, not generated as synthetic waveforms. Modern alternatives to Fast Tracker would be OpenMPT or MilkyTracker. For more FM/PSG like stuff like the arcade systems you mention, DefleMask as suggested above probably is a good choice. Personally I've tried to understand what is head and tails in Arkos Tracker 2 and Vortex Tracker, but those tend to relate more to earlier systems which you are lesser interested in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turboxray Posted September 19, 2021 Share Posted September 19, 2021 2 hours ago, carlsson said: For that matter, about 90-95% of Amiga music is sample based, not generated as synthetic waveforms. I mean fundamentally it's no different than typical PSG. It's a simple period base waveform output.. with the exception that the Amiga isn't limited to a looped 8 sample pulse square, etc. Meaning any mod influenced tracker will work for prototyping PSG style music.. and people have been doing it for years on trackers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted September 19, 2021 Share Posted September 19, 2021 Absolutely, me too. But if one wants to make real Amiga music, the program should handle instruments based on longer samples as well as PSG/FM based. Of course I'm assuming that the music would come to use in some production, not just composed and played back for the sake of it. In the later case it is terrifyingly easy to go for chip music-esque solutions instead of something that would work on the original hardware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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