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The Chipophone – A homemade 8-bit synthesizer (2010)

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Post by jamescgrant » Sat, Feb 06, 2016, 6:50 PM UTC

The Chipophone – A homemade 8-bit synthesizer (2010)
linusakesson.net

Re: The Chipophone – A homemade 8-bit synthesizer (2010)

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Post by Nr7 » Sat, Feb 06, 2016, 8:05 PM UTC

This is the same guy who won the Underhanded C competition earlier this week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11032542

Edited: typos

Re: The Chipophone – A homemade 8-bit synthesizer (2010)

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Post by b6 » Sat, Feb 06, 2016, 8:47 PM UTC

I'm really in awe of this guy. He does so much amazing work.

If you like the Chipophone, you have to check out the little synths he made for Teenage Engineering: http://www.linusakesson.net/music/po-2x/index.php

Re: The Chipophone – A homemade 8-bit synthesizer (2010)

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Post by mproud » Sat, Feb 06, 2016, 9:46 PM UTC

This has been around on the Internet for many years.

Re: The Chipophone – A homemade 8-bit synthesizer (2010)

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Post by noir_lord » Sat, Feb 06, 2016, 10:31 PM UTC

mproud wrote: post #4

This has been around on the Internet for many years.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

Re: The Chipophone – A homemade 8-bit synthesizer (2010)

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Post by catbird » Sat, Feb 06, 2016, 10:42 PM UTC

b6 wrote: post #3

I'm really in awe of this guy. He does so much amazing work. If you like the Chipophone, you have to check out the little synths he made for Teenage Engineering: http://www.linusakesson.net/music/po-2x/index.php

Ah nice, I had just seen a video of the Commando theme being played on the new pocket operators[1] and it reminded me of the Chipophone. No wonder it seemed familiar...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihjcUuGttKU

Re: The Chipophone – A homemade 8-bit synthesizer (2010)

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Post by dang » Sat, Feb 06, 2016, 11:27 PM UTC

mproud wrote: post #4

This has been around on the Internet for many years.

Indeed it has: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Chipophone&sort=byDate&dateRan.... We added 2010 to the title.

Re: The Chipophone – A homemade 8-bit synthesizer (2010)

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Post by sklivvz1971 » Sun, Feb 07, 2016, 1:33 AM UTC

This really amazes me, great job. Much preferred to the "live coding" link of yesterday which I found a bit shallow.

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Post by joshontheweb » Sun, Feb 07, 2016, 2:27 AM UTC

b6 wrote: post #3

I'm really in awe of this guy. He does so much amazing work. If you like the Chipophone, you have to check out the little synths he made for Teenage Engineering: http://www.linusakesson.net/music/po-2x/index.php

I had no idea he was behind the new PO lineup. Makes sense. What a nerdy baller.

Re: The Chipophone – A homemade 8-bit synthesizer (2010)

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Post by imaginenore » Sun, Feb 07, 2016, 2:39 AM UTC

Can't you just get any MIDI keyboard, hook it up to a PC and have any sound you want, including chiptune?