ON and OFF - 1bit ZX Beeper album (48K ZX Spectrum)

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  • ON and OFF - 1bit ZX Beeper album for the 48K ZX Spectrum
    Recorded from FUSE emulator (48K Spectrum)
    All tracks by Rich 'Tufty' Hollins except guest track 12 by Irrlicht Project (utz)
    Beeper engines used:
    Pytha (utz)
    Phaser 3 (Shiru)
    QCHAN (Shiru)
    ZBMOD v2 (utz)
    WTBEEP (utz)
    Phaser 1 (Shiru)
    Lyndon Sharp '91 (Lyndon Sharp)
    Download the .TAP version here:
    df-design.itch.io/on-and-off-...
    Album version recorded from real hardware here:
    tufty1.bandcamp.com/album/on-...

Komentáře • 26

  • @Ribula1
    @Ribula1 Před 29 dny +2

    This is pretty much eletronic beatboxing. 😮

  • @CoolDudeClem
    @CoolDudeClem Před 2 lety +6

    Dam, if I'd have head theese playing out of my lil' 48k ZX back in the day, I would have been blown away! Heck I'm still blown away now!

  • @simonmathews5448
    @simonmathews5448 Před 2 lety +11

    Awesome tunes! 🤘
    Track listing
    00:04 1.Beeperman
    02:35 2.ON and OFF ... Beep
    04:14 3.Radio In The Rain
    05:59 4.Xenoblast is Go!
    07:40 5.Hey Beeper!
    09:23 6.Ride the beep
    10:51 7.Superhair vs Tron
    12:53 8.Will I dream?
    14:59 9.Beeper Revolution
    16:36 10.The 8 Bit Wars
    18:33 11.Pi-Dentity
    19:57 12.Transporter (utz)
    21:22 13.Down The Pipe
    22:47 14.Spectronica Part 2
    25:04 15.Electrostatic
    26:45 16.Synthetic Kiss
    27:21 17.MechWars-Centipede
    28:27 18.Beethoven Beeps

  • @TheRetroEngine
    @TheRetroEngine Před 2 lety +7

    Can never get enough of this. Especially round Christmas for some reason (Spectronica was released near Christmas a few years ago, that's why!)

  • @kennyjohnson8148
    @kennyjohnson8148 Před měsícem +1

    Awesome space jazz/alien rock!

  • @retrorobbins
    @retrorobbins Před 2 lety +8

    Absolute quality unbelievably good fantastic work hope there's more of the same in future 👏👏👏👍👌

  • @Joseph_183
    @Joseph_183 Před 8 měsíci +1

    THIS IS THE TRUE FIRE THEMES 🔥🔥🔥💯💯

  • @nikosidis
    @nikosidis Před 2 lety +4

    Freaking love it!! Playing in on my real ZX spectrum 128K. Thanks

  • @ULTRAWEN7
    @ULTRAWEN7 Před 2 lety +4

    крутизна зашкаливает

  • @chopschoppsta7197
    @chopschoppsta7197 Před 2 lety +3

    AWESOME !!!!

  • @jimmydevesa
    @jimmydevesa Před 2 lety +5

    fantastico!!, me encanta

  • @Wagoo
    @Wagoo Před 2 lety +3

    Superb work!

  • @Atmatan_Kabbaher
    @Atmatan_Kabbaher Před 26 dny +1

    One bit music is all well and good, but what can you do with just one bit and one channel???

    • @saltedmutton7269
      @saltedmutton7269 Před 19 dny

      this *is* one channel! it just changes really quick so it sounds like multiple instruments - a bit like how if you flash two colours fast enough it looks like a mix between the two

    • @Atmatan_Kabbaher
      @Atmatan_Kabbaher Před 19 dny

      @@saltedmutton7269 No, it's three channels.
      Because that's literally just how the ZX spectrum works.
      It is functionally impossible to get this level of sound mix from a single channel on the spectrum, at a literal hardware level.

  • @MartinGalway
    @MartinGalway Před 6 měsíci +1

    That is amazing

    • @ataritufty
      @ataritufty  Před 6 měsíci +2

      Wow, thanks. I’m a huge fan of your sid music

  • @SquareWaveHeaven
    @SquareWaveHeaven Před 9 měsíci +1

    I hear triangles and sawtooths in the first track, how is this even possible? Awesome opener!

    • @ataritufty
      @ataritufty  Před 9 měsíci +2

      Yes it uses an amazing 1-bit beeper engine called Pytha by Irrlicht project (utz). Which does indeed try to make triangle and saw tooth waves. I also used this engine on will I dream and Spectronica pt.2. Thanks for your comment 👍

    • @SquareWaveHeaven
      @SquareWaveHeaven Před 9 měsíci +2

      @@ataritufty I have a rudimentary understanding of how beeper music works and I can't even begin to imagine how these engines produce intermediate values between "on" and "off" so to speak ; ) All I can think of is really high sample-rate PWM like how an engine that can only be on and off will use PWM to generate various levels of output. I can see the result has a lot of artifacting (I looked at the waveform) but it sounds awesome. That noise effect is something else, too!

    • @ataritufty
      @ataritufty  Před 9 měsíci +1

      @@SquareWaveHeaven yes some how utz has managed to incorporate a white noise voice (pitch controllable). All PWM high frequency driven by the z80 processor in the spectrum or emulator

  • @fart6407
    @fart6407 Před rokem +1

    if I pay in itch, I can build it into my game. Are you the licensee for this music?

    • @ataritufty
      @ataritufty  Před rokem +1

      Hi, thanks for the interest. My On and Off demo is free to download on itch with the option to donate. I made all the music except for Transporter which was made by Irrlicht Project (utz). About 9 of the tunes have already been used in games

  • @stuarthparker
    @stuarthparker Před 26 dny +1

    Where's SID?

    • @Atmatan_Kabbaher
      @Atmatan_Kabbaher Před 22 dny

      In the hands of rich white boys where it belongs.
      Only real punks are here.