Hubbard ? Galway ? Jeroen Tel ? SID ? Watch this video !

[jonnection]

If you know the meaning of "SID chip", this is pure chiptune porn.

SID chip was the legendary sound chip of the legendary C64 computer designed by the legendary Bob Yannes. The reason why it was so legendary was because Bob Yannes, unlike his contemporary peers, was a real musician and knew what the hell he was doing. The SID chip was easily the most powerful and artistic chiptune generator of its day.

These videos are an oscilloscope view of the 3 SID channels, courtesy of a customized java SID player.

This guy has 34 videos of the ancient masters (Rob Hubbard, Jeroen Tel, Martin Galway, Reyn Ouwehand) at work.

Makes you really appreciate the amazing SID chip and what was done with it (pity its not a real SID though).

I have never seen "inside" chiptunes quite like this.

Reyn Ouwehand's "Last Ninja 3 - Tune 6 - Water Level"


"GRG in cyberspace"

[kerunaru]

That drum box on the Water Level track just blown me away.

Here in Andalusia, Spectrum was quite popular. I think I must be the only one of my home town with a Commodore 64 but I remember all my friends enjoying the loading screens' outstanding music the C64 had when they came to play at my home.

EDIT:

For Mac users, checkout SIDPlay. You can synchronise the songs library with the HVSC website and it has a built-in oscilloscope.

I recommend you to watch the waves of the Hades Nabula's gameplay theme. The guitar solo is really impressive!