gAtari - Atari 2600 chipmusic project by cTrix @ Blip Festival Tokyo 2011

Artist at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/cTrix/1...
The "gAtari" was my excuse to do something a little silly after I discovered that the Atari 2600 was more limiting than I realized! (31 pitches, minimal waveforms and only 2 channels!) I needed an EQ which could take a high voltage and drop it down to line level (Boss bass EQ) plus a way to hold loops between tracks and parts (Boss delay). So rather than have it "DJ" style config, I thought I make something a little more creative. It uses my atari-x-mod converter software which compiles binary files for Atari. You can find a little video about it here: http://vimeo.com/23589320

Big ups to Celsius / Trash80 / nf / Lazerbeat for the audio recording. Massive thankyou to sebastienvd81 & JDD3J for shooting additional video footage. Thanks to Wing / Celsius / Abrasive for their assistance and filming. Mega-thanks to Paul Slocum for the maco asm code for 2600 that I based my software around interfacing with :-)

Come to Blip Festival Melbourne 2012!

ps. You can download a similar set to the one I played here at at: http://www.freemusicarchive.org/music...

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[nucleareightbit]

This is honestly the nerdiest thing ever. I love it.

[Kyrie B.]

he should have an album, this was great!

[robloxian5897]

it sounds like dubstep as the first track has "wub" like things.

but it isn't a dubstep machine at all.

[gblcorporation]

awesome



[iliketo trollpeople]

so, you think this thing is like dubstep eh. *click flag as spam*

[GypsyGinger Poop]

correct, Sir.* He is my cousin you sausage I'm just joking around...

[robotub1]

i was joking

[ratelslangen]

Not mainstream ones. Maybe the starters do. I respect the ones who do tweak, but i dont respect skrillex, he doesnt do that.

[EvoG97]

"cause dubstep sucks ass"

That's only a matter of opinion.

[EvoG97]

that's not an actual genre, until it is acknowledged as a (sub)genre.

[EvoG97]

idiot hater. that's all i have to say to those comments.

[EvoG97]

idiot hater. that's all i have to say to those comments.