If there wasn’t reason enough to love the Parallax Propeller, now you can listen to chiptunes with your own pocket SID audio player. This chiptune audio player uses the very unusual and very ...

The Music Tech Master Stroke software is instead designed for Nintendo’s popular follow-up, the DS ... Free DS Chiptune Software Available from Pixelh8. screen capture images by Pixelh8 ...

Back in the day (the 1990s) the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis consoles included a full on FM synth to produce their musical sounds. In a fortuitous turn of events software developers Inphonik decided to ...

It's gotten easier and easier to make chiptune music (or at least, music that sounds like chiptune music), but for the most part, you'll still need to have some sort of digital audio workstation ...

This is no ordinary electric organ, my friend. Swedish software engineer Linus Åkesson loves chiptune so much (don't we all?) that he felt the urge to convert this old-school instrument into an 8 ...

Chiptune music itself is based on early video game music and is all about capturing the classic tones found in games consoles ...

Source your software. Chiptunes are written using trackers -- spreadsheet-like apps where notes are edited line by line. "FamiTracker and MilkyTracker are good ones to start on," Davis suggests ...

Japanese artist and developer Riki Iwasaki last month released 8-Bit Music Power, a chiptune album that as of now can only be played on Nintendo's original home console.

Although it can be composed through high-end software and synthesizers, much of chiptune music is still made on old consoles like the NES, Commodore 64 and the Game Boy.

Chiptune music, or chip music, ... And tech-minded musicians use third-party software to tap the machines' sound chips to produce original forms of output through the devices.