Jakub Husak - "Ucieczka w Nicosc" ("Escape Into Nothingness") -- Chiptune Visualization / Atari SAP

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So, I decided to take a look at all the separate channels of some chiptune music at once. Thought it might look cool, since those waveforms are usually so pretty. I quickly put together a script to create this and other videos.
This video has a lame naive timbre-capture algorithm: it just finds the first zero-crossing and locks it to the left side of the screen. This way you see waveforms aligned to eachother - at least most of the time. A decent algorithm is trickier than I thought. Until then, have another one. CZcams needs more chiptune anyway.
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You can find this tune, along with tons of other great Atari music, on the Atari SAP Music Archive (ASMA) at:
asma.atari.org/

[@ChipXTV]

Jakub Husak is genius
Softsynth is amazing soft on the world
Atari is The Best !;)

[@handlesareanunfortunatefeature]

That bass line my fucking god

[@Eric-lr5ur]

This ls amazing. The Atari 8 bit was SO underrated. Pokey>Sid

[@bartomiejdominikowski8777]

Ta muza jest ze mną od dzieciaka. Wychowałem się na tym. Do dzisiaj pamiętam jak wracałem z Wawy do domu z Softsynthem. Siła !! Husak Rulez !!!!

[@vuurniacsquarewave5091]

I know pretty much nothign about this system, including the sound. So are those non-square waves done like PCM, (quick modification of channel volume by the CPU) or is this a wavetable-chip by nature?

[@przemekkobel4874]

+za909returns This feels like a Softsynth. It was a music program for 8-bit Atari that originally was designed to operate from floppy, so it was not that popular, as most people had only casette decks for storage. It forced a standard POKEY chip to play samples. Maybe not the highest quality sampled sound on that computer, but not bad for a 'tracker' program running on 8-bit 1,79 MHz CPU without hardware support for that kind of audio.

[@1ucasvb]

+Przemek Kobel Husak was a big user of Softsynth, yeah.

[@d4t4b4s3f4c3]

where does the flanger effect on the bassline come from?

[@1ucasvb]

These are all digital samples.