This is a competition were SID composers have to work together. A composer must use one editor for composing a peace of a tune, then another composer will take that tune and extends it, and so one until a big sid is made. To prevent that the tune is influenced by things like the editor version, multispeed tune, PAL/NTSC frequency, and so on... all composers must use the same tool.
The organizers of X2006 have announced that the well known musician Jeroen Tel will perform on X2006. The date for the 8th X party weekend is; 13, 14 and 15 October. (Hengelo, The Netherlands.) X-2006 will be a pure C64 only event. PC's, laptops and PDA's are not allowed at the partyplace unless you have 'em hooked up as a slave for your superior C64 equipment ofcourse.
New music demo for the 264 series of Commodore computers. 4-Mat made a music pack with lots of color and a massive seven TED tunes Along with the note file, the source code for the music driver and some documentation for it have been included in the archive so that people can,we hope, get a few ideas or perhaps use it to produce their own TED tunes.
Do you only like music when it's sounds the famous SID chip? Then listen to the 8 Bit Mayhem Podcast. Obvious, not so obvious, forgotten and classic Commodore 64 scene music. Download PodCast #5 (31 Mbyte MP3) or 1 to 4 from the site.
More than 600 new SID tunes are added to the High Voltage SID Collection. And about 1000 SID's have been fixed. The current version has now reached 58 MB (zipped) of music.
Here are some of the rules for the Tiny Sid 2 Compo. Tune must be a C64 executable (prg). Size of the prg must be 256 byte, 512 byte or 1 kbyte. You can use all the C64 ROMs code, like Kernal and Basic. Program must be executed with a simple RUN. Look at the website for the complete list. Send it in before 8 April 2006. Voting from 10 to 19 April 2006.
The High Voltage SID Collection is updated. Current version is #44 and is 4 MBytes in size. Adding 600 new SID's to the total of more than 30.000. The complete file is now 58 MByte. You can download the HVSC collection for free and they also provide a SID player for it.
A new track from Lcr. Fkrent Story originally composed by Lcr and remixed by Kuadziw is released. As always downloads are for free. But you can order a CD at production costs.
XMMS-SID is a plug in for XMMS for playing music that is commonly referred as "SID-tunes" aka music from Commodore 64 computer and it's close relatives. This program is written for the Linux operating system. For the actual emulation /playing, XMMS-SID can utilize several emulator engines. Features: 2-8x oversampling support, libSIDPlay v1 or libSIDPlay v2 with reSID-builder and much more.
Liquid Skies records brings you music made on the Amiga. You don't have to have a Amiga to listen to the music because the format is mp3. The latest track is composed by Maxus. It's track number 89. You can download the music from the website or order a complete CD.
This is a friendly competition to squeeze out some interesting music and sounds from one of the most restrictive sound hardware produced. VIC-TRACKER is a full-featured tracker-style music editor for the Commodore Vic-20 programmed by Daniel Kahlin. Requirements are Commodore Vic-20 + 16Kb memory expansion or emulated in VICE and VIC-TRACKER software.
Deadline is 30-11-2005. Voting until at 11-12-2005
TuneNet is a MP3 player and streamer for Amiga OS4. Features: Plays MP3's and MP3 Shoutcast streams. Integrates with IBrowse and AWeb. Playlist. Built in Internet Stream Searching facility. Sound level, Station and Tune display. This is a work in progress, so stay Tune(d) for next versions.
Podcasting is a new way for anyone (from large companies to individuals) to distribute radio programs they have made themselves. Podcasting has rapidly gained popularity, particularly with the recent addition of podcasting support to Apple's iTunes music software. AmiPodder enables you to subscribe (for free) to podcast feeds on your Amiga!
The High Voltage SID Collection is updated. Current version is #43 and is 3 MBytes in size. Adding 750 new SIDs to the total of more than 30.000. The complete file is now 56 MByte. You can download the HVSC collection for free and they also provide a SID player for it.
Big retro music event in Copenhagen. The following bands will be performing. PRESS PLAY ON TAPE, "SID'80s", Visa Röster, Axes Denied. Also the famous Rob Hubbard will be there. Update: The event is sold out!
Anders Carlsson aka Goto80 released another SID album. COMMODORE GROOVES is here, finally! Goto80's first full-length CD-album released on Rebel Pet Set. Including the data-track, there's 2 hours of music,and also videos, pictures, and stuff..
Radium is a new type of music editor. It might remind a bit like a tracker, but its not just another tracker at all. Its a new concept. And unlike probably all commercial programs, this one is not programmed to look nice,but to be fast and functional to use. There is a Amiga, Linux version and if you only have Windows use WinUAE to run the Amiga version.
AmigaAMP is a powerful realtime MPEG audio player for Amiga computers. It is based on the amp decoding engine by Tomislav Uzelac and can do realtime decoding on 50 MHz processors and up. AmigaAMP is a completely free and non-commercial project.
Sidplay 2 is the second in the Sidplay series originally developed by Michael Schwendt. This version is written by Simon White and is cycle accurate for improved sound reproduction. Sidplay 2 is capable of playing all C64 mono and stereo file formats.
PSID64 is a program that converts PSID files into C64 executables. PSID64 is written by Roland Hermans. This program allows users to play PSID files (originally used by the PlaySID program) on a real Commodore 64 computer or emulator such as VICE.
SoundFX (short "SFX") is an editor for digitized audio data (samples). SFX is designed in a modular fashion and has a comfortable graphical user interface. With SFX you can apply digital effects to samples (which are absolutely unique on Amiga), play back and record samples, and finally can cut, trim and edit your samples. SoundFX is shareware. You can register and download the most recent version.
Here are some of the rules for the Tiny Sid Compo. Tune must be a C64 executable (prg). Size of the prg must be 256 byte or 512 Bytes. You can use all the C64 ROMs code, like Kernal and Basic. Program must be executed with a simple RUN. Look at the website for the complete list. Send it in before 25 April 2005. Voting from 27 April to 7 May 2005.
Horny is a midi sequencer in the style of e.g. "Logic" or "Cubase", whose focus is on easy and uncomplicated usage. Up to now Horny is a pure midi program and does not support audio. Features: Midi, up to 16 midi ports usable with CAMD (Lite 1 port). Up to 128 tracks (Lite: 8 tracks) Signature and tempo changes inside songs possible Midi mixer: VU meter, volume, pan, 6 more (Lite: 3) chooseable controller See the website for more.
MPlayer is a movie player for Linux. It plays most audio video files like MPEG, VOB, AVI. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV movies, too. The Amiga port of Mplayer is available for download.
The High Voltage SID Collection is updated. Current version is #41 and is 3 MB in size. Adding lots of new SIDs to the collection. You can download the HVSC collection for free and they also provide a SID player for it.
