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Where you can listen to all the Chip tunes and/or
KeyGen music you want too! You can Listen in converted MP3
format or download in their original formats. Go to Downloads for one
big pack with music from keygens and chip tunes. To play these files
you will need a player like XMPlay, MODPlug Player, WinAmp, DeliPlayer etc. More will be explained on the Downloads page.
"What is a Chip Tune?" You Ask:
For those of you that are new to this, here you go .
A chiptune, chip music, or keygen 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 most common method for creating music on computers. Chiptunes are closely related to video game music, which often featured chiptunes out of necessity. The term has also been recently applied to more recent compositions that attempt to recreate the chiptune sound for purely aesthetic reasons, albeit with more complex technology.
Early computer sound chips had only simple tone and noise generators with few channels, imposing limitations on both the complexity of the sounds they could produce and the number of notes that could be played at once. In their desire to create a more complex arrangement than what the medium apparently allowed, composers developed creative approaches when developing their own electronic sounds and scores, employing a diversity of both methods of sound synthesis, such as pulse width modulation and wavetable synthesis, and compositional techniques, such as a liberal use of arpeggiation. The resultant chiptunes sometimes seem harsh or squeaky to the unaccustomed listener.
But those that are here are accustomed to the great Chip Tune sound RIGHT! It's not the "Squeak" its the Technique that makes it great.
Where you can listen to all the Chip tunes and/or
KeyGen music you want too! You can Listen in converted MP3
format or download in their original formats. Go to Downloads for one
big pack with music from keygens and chip tunes. To play these files
you will need a player like XMPlay, MODPlug Player, WinAmp, DeliPlayer etc. More will be explained on the Downloads page.
"What is a Chip Tune?" You Ask:
For those of you that are new to this, here you go .
A chiptune, chip music, or keygen 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 most common method for creating music on computers. Chiptunes are closely related to video game music, which often featured chiptunes out of necessity. The term has also been recently applied to more recent compositions that attempt to recreate the chiptune sound for purely aesthetic reasons, albeit with more complex technology.
Early computer sound chips had only simple tone and noise generators with few channels, imposing limitations on both the complexity of the sounds they could produce and the number of notes that could be played at once. In their desire to create a more complex arrangement than what the medium apparently allowed, composers developed creative approaches when developing their own electronic sounds and scores, employing a diversity of both methods of sound synthesis, such as pulse width modulation and wavetable synthesis, and compositional techniques, such as a liberal use of arpeggiation. The resultant chiptunes sometimes seem harsh or squeaky to the unaccustomed listener.
But those that are here are accustomed to the great Chip Tune sound RIGHT! It's not the "Squeak" its the Technique that makes it great.
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