What is a chiptune ? Here is a little description :
A chiptune is a tune made with samples based from sound chips. The samples have ideally a low resolution (8 bits) and could be a set of simple waveforms (see below).
The Chiptunes are often referenced to 8 bits video game consoles like Nes & Game Boy but also to the first personal computers like Atari, Commodore & Sinclair systems.
Composing a chiptune is somewhat quite difficult because you need to use effects a lot to make a good use of chip samples but in the other hand chiptunes are often short in duration.
First chiptunes were limited to few channels small or defined samples due to chip & tracker limitations. But now you can find chiptunes in less restrictive ways.
Nowadays a lot of songs use chip samples, mostly in pop and techno kinds of music.
C64
The Commodore 64 (C64) is one of the most famous platform for chiptune music... and one of my prefered ;)
It uses the 6581/8580 SID (Sound Interface Device) as a programmable sound generator chip.
The chip has 3 channels (16 Hz to 4 KHz) which can play 4 kinds of sound waveform (sawtooth, triangle, pulse, noise)
Examples of C64 songs:
So what about making music from defined oscilloscope views ? ...
