r/chiptunes

Just a heads up that some how one of the best chiptune albums of all time isn't on Spotify anymore. For anyone who wants to still to listen, it's on his YouTube page as a playlist -> https://www.youtube.com/@bit_shifter

Have a great day and keep the information chase alive!!

This is a short chiptune track in my vault. I experimented with very long pitch swoop effects that carry into subsequent frames. This is for a faux-NES game in development!

I tried to make a song on a single channel, at one volume, like a PC speaker. This song is from my latest album, Does Not Compute, and you can listen to the rest of the album at these links, if you want.
https://marupanda.bandcamp.com/album/does-not-compute
https://www.subvert.fm/maru/does-not-compute

Learning project that became my favourite: a chiptune synth written entirely in x86-64 assembly (Linux, NASM). No libc, no audio library — just computing raw 16-bit samples and writing a WAV header by hand.

The premise is that sound is just a list of numbers (44100/second) describing where a speaker sits. So the whole synth is: generate the numbers, write them out.

It does four oscillators (square/saw/triangle + LFSR noise), polyphony by mixing voices into one buffer, ADSR envelopes, and FM synthesis with a hand-built sine table. Working on effects next (vibrato, delay, reverb).

github.com/whispem/asm.fm

Feedback on the low-level details welcome — especially the fixed-point math in the FM operator.

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I’ve always loved how raw and crunchy the original DMG sounds, and I think there’s a lot inside that machine that never really gets explored beyond the usual cute/chiptune sound.

A lot of “8-bit” plugins recreate the aesthetic with samples and presets, so I wanted to try something different and rebuild the actual DMG sound architecture in code.

It has the 2 pulse channels, wave + noise, sweep behaviour and hardware quirks, but I built a 16-step sequencer around it with per-note slide, an arpeggiator, 8 pattern banks and MIDI mapping.

You can also save/recall individual channels or complete patterns, which makes it pretty fun for live jams.

I called it BäRK BRÜTT.

There is a browser version completely free if anyone wants to mess with it**.**

Would genuinely be interested to hear what people manage to make with it.

there's an annoying dog stuck in my head

Bandcamp: https://victorjockin.bandcamp.com/track/10am-battle

here’s some insight into my track “New Dawn” from my upcoming M8 album “Bad Vices” out 8/28. This one is one of my favorites on the project simply because I had so much fun trying to convey that 80s sound with the instrumentation. Hope you all listen to the full track when it drops!

Here's a link to the PC-88 OST to give a clear listen to the drums, at least the snare sample. Does anyone recognize it?

Back in 2019 I took a trip to Lake Garda with my family. We did pizza and theme parks and lakeside walks. With any downtime I had I plugged my headphones into my Game Boy and wrote the album that was then released as Imperator. It was fun to have a zero-pressure environment in which to write, but with the added tension that whatever got written would be released upon my return. So fun, in fact, that I repeated it in 2023 during my trip to Ynys Mon (resulting in Fortune Favoured), and in 2024 (Netherlands / Every Machine is a Smoke Machine).

So last week I returned to Lake Garda. Same holiday. Same deal. Here's the album.

https://donotrunwithpixels.bandcamp.com/album/bias

AMA, I guess?

So I've been working on this game for about 3 months now, and wanted to show the community my soundtrack for the game :)

It's nothing too crazy, but as a project, I'm very proud of this!

The music in this game will cause reactions in the environment (like how the slime has a 10% chance of singing, or the screen bopping during the chorus).

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Spotify Link (There is a bonus track that I haven't shown named Jumbo the Grand Slime!):
https://open.spotify.com/album/7C4FC0UiSM7WUoIpm7qoXB

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If you are interested in working for the game (in ANY aspect), reach out to me!

No job is too small!

Do you like my song 😢

here’s some insight into the track “Force of Habit” from my upcoming M8 album “Bad Vices” coming Friday, 8/28. i wanted to go for a chiptune rap kind of vibe and I’m excited for everyone to hear the entire track :)

here’s some insight behind the making of my single “On the Flip Side” from my upcoming M8 album “Bad Vices” out 8/28! my single is out now on all platforms. the Bandcamp link is here if you want to support it directly <3

5th reup after encoder battle lol i give up. tried to go for a Mega Man or cliche Video Game sound. does this still classify as chiptune or should the bitrate be higher?