parrl896

I recently started to work with sound synthesis, and at this moment I'm

at the point where I can create a subtractive synthesizer in max, but

what if I'm looking for a specific sound? Say an 8-bit like type of

sound, very Blip festival, very old school nintendo. Basically I'm

looking for suggestions on how to deal with creating the sounds I want,

is it better to sample it and the play with it -I guess this is the

easiest path- but what if I want to create it? I understand the question

might be too broad, any recommendations? Any sources?

I recently started to work with sound synthesis, and at this moment I'm
at the point where I can create a subtractive synthesizer in max, but
what if I'm looking for a specific sound? Say an 8-bit like type of
sound, very Blip festival, very old school nintendo. Basically I'm
looking for suggestions on how to deal with creating the sounds I want,
is it better to sample it and the play with it -I guess this is the
easiest path- but what if I want to create it? I understand the question
might be too broad, any recommendations? Any sources?

looking-for-sounds

One avenue would be to check out the Magical 8bit Plug Audio Unit by YMCK, who played at the Blip Festival actually. :) 

There are plenty of ways to build your own 8bit sounds from scratch but I'll leave that to those who know MSP. ;)

One avenue would be to  check out the Magical  8bit Plug Audio Unit by YMCK, who played at the Blip Festival actually. :)  http://ymck.net   
There are plenty of ways to build your own 8bit sounds from scratch but I'll leave that to those who know MSP.  ;)

-----Original Message-----
From: "Leonardo Parra" 
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:10:42 
To:
Subject: [maxmsp] looking for sounds

If you wanna go the easy way, check out the chiptune externals at 

http://www.mmonoplayer.com/mspexternals.php

If you wanna build it yourself, go for lots of arpeggiation(sah~), 

simple waveforms (tri~,noise~,rect~,saw~), and use the degrade~ object 

If you wanna go the easy way, check out the chiptune externals at 
http://www.mmonoplayer.com/mspexternals.php

If you wanna build it yourself, go for lots of arpeggiation(sah~), 
simple waveforms (tri~,noise~,rect~,saw~), and use the degrade~ object 
to downsample into 8-bit quality sound.