BEN DAGLISH - SUPER SPORTS (ZX SPECTRUM beeper music)

Z80-chip music from ZX SPECTRUM 48Kb.
Many people think that attaching AY chip into ZX Spectrum was a regress. AY has only 3 channels of sound and pretty simple square-wave-based synthesis, whereas music generated by Spectrum's native sound-source: Z80 chip (with help of ULA chip) was expandable to even 8 channels (software mixing) and it was able to generate really interesting envelopes.
This music has been written by Ben Daglish. It's in style of kinda art-rock/proggressive rock (also called progrock). I strongly doubt it would sound so good on AY's simple square-wave synthesis.
Also please note that emulation of Z80/beeper sound isn't ideal.

More infos on: http://z80.i-demo.pl/

More downloads/infos about ZX Spectrum 48K scene: http://zxspectrum48.i-demo.pl/

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[telemetry9]

I'm just amazed you could get all this from the "beep chip".

[yerzmyey]

@telemetry9 That's actually an old-school song from 80s, from a game. However contemporary BEEPER musicians can do such or even better things. :) Take this, for example :) 8bc.org/music/MISTER+BEEP/Gree­tings+to+C64/

[Minyatov]

стоп зэ тэйп))) я загружал игры с кассеты))) очень весело когда почти всё, а тут оп! и перематываешь))

[yerzmyey]

Wlasciwie to C64 tez uzywa software'owych trickow, bo gra z predkoscia 4x, a AY na Spectrum gra z predkoscia oryginalna (1x).

Znacznie pelniejsza moc AY mozesz uslyszec na Atari ST (tez z predkoscia 4x) lub w Spectrumowskim demie "DigiSid" (rowniez 4x).

Tak czy inaczej - ten akurat utwor nie jest grany przez chip AY, lecz przez Z80.

[amigaknight]

the channel mixing is surprisingly clean for channel mixing!