Archives of Genesis8 Amstrad Page from 1999 to 2020 about music
WAV2AY by Roudoudou, an interesting audio utility
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Edouard Bergé wrote on CPCWiki about his newest utility : WAY2AY. It's an audio utility to transform a wave file to directly AY registers using fourrier transform to lower the file size output.
Mod Master XT beta 22 for your PC XT, listen to musical modules files
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A new version of Mod Master XT beta 22 by FreddyV is available on Vogons. It lets you hear a lot of music modules formats on any PC under msdos even a PC XT (CGA), for example an Amstrad PC 1512/1640 or a PPC 512/640...
New features are :
Fixed one bug for the Tandy Port config
Added OPL3LPT Support
Changed in the way the mixing buffers are managed
Added the support for the Tandy DAC output (DMA)
WARNING: Don't use Pause, it does not work.
The source code of Soundtrakker 128 is released by BSC
He is working on AY³ aka AYcubed, a new SID engine which emulates some parts of the SID sound like:
3 independent voices
synthesized square and sawtooth wave forms
variable duty cycle on square waves Stereo!
Amstrad CPC music composed with the Playcity (9 channels) by Stéphane FRANCOIS
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I recommand to listen to the Amstrad CPC music by Stéphane François which is composing music with a Playcity (made by ToTO), which means 3 AY sound chip for 9 channels.
Mod Master XT beta 21 for your PC XT, listen to musical modules files
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A new version of Mod Master XT beta 21 by FreddyV is available on Vogons. It lets you hear a lot of music modules formats on any PC under msdos even a PC XT (CGA), for example an Amstrad PC 1512/1640 or a PPC 512/640...
The Voice 2020 : JB le Daron singing Sapiens with piano
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If it was possible, I would vote for JB Le Daron singing with piano. To be listened to religiously.
Two musical remixes of International Karate
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For the pleasure of your ears, here are two musical remixes of the game International Karate :
Audio Overload v2.2.1, a VGM player by Richard Bannister
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Richard Bannister was the maintainer of a MacOS port of the Arnold emulator, now maintained by Kevin Thacker. But he is also the author of the Audio Overload utility which lets you play VGM music files, including .AY and .YM Amstrad music files. This utility runs on MacOS, Windows and Linux.
9th alpha of the soundtrakker for PC Arkos Tracker by Targhan (Arkos)
An Amstrad PPC640 computer with only a beeper is not good at all for sound, except if you use a parrallel adaptator such as the Covox4 or the OPL3LPT. I will test it later when Mod Master XT par FreddyV will support it.
But there is still a possibility to have the best sound possible for a msdos computer by using the DB25 serial port (with a DB9 adaptator) and a DB9 to Mini-DIN 8 pins cable (DBK-103 by Hosa Technology) connected to a SC-55st Roland expander presented by LGR on Youtube.