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Antique toY #06 - Uses ZX Spectrum sound in usual music

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release date:   04.11.2007


Use chip sound of musical coprocessor AY-8910 in usual music. "Live" remixes chip tunes.

At a microphone - Siril/4D (a.k.a. oisee).

Complexities of coordination BPM both tonalities chip and usual tools. Ways of their overcoming.

Tracklist:

01. Siril/4D rmx Igoval - ZX-SOS
02. Siril/4D rmx Moby^Cosmix - Destination
03. Diver Group rmx Siril^4D - Mad elePHAnT
03. Diver Group rmx Hood^Crazytronic - XLarge

Greetings, on air of the sixth release podcast " Antique Toy ", at a microphone Siril/4D .

This release is devoted use chip sounds in usual music and to remixes ZX Spectrum music on other platforms.

And I will begin with the end. More truly from the end of 2nd release podcast Antique Toy , devoted dreamhouse. In it the composition ZX-SOS , the musician Igoval has sounded. I bring to your attention its live remix. To compare this version to the original, it is enough to download 2nd release podcast. So, ZX-SOS , original - Igoval , a remix Siril/4D .

In live music сршз sounding is used even more often. It is connected by that the generation which has grown on 8-bit consoles and computers - has grown up. Many steels a creative part of community. And others are ready to listen to sounds familiar since the childhood. Receiving a charge of good mood and, partly, nostalgia. But the one who will tell will be wrong that anything except nostalgia behind it is not present, after all such music is more tremendous is beautiful, it is simple another.

Following - track is called Destination , it is written by the musician Moby from Group Cosmix . Which was anybody other as an alter-ego of the known spectrum-musician MIC/Progress . Track has been used in demo " Energy ".

So, Destionation by Moby , Remix - Siril/4D .

The Basic complexity at combination and remixed spectra-music with usual not-chip music in the coordination of speed, (a spectrum music often possesses non-standard fractional BPM). And also in the tonality coordination. The matter is that in different models of a spectrum on the musical coprocessor AY-8910 different frequency moved. In one - as in firm 1,7734 Mgts, and in other domestic clones - 1.75 Mgts.

It is natural, frequency tables of notes calculated for one value of clock frequency from one model did not approach to other model. Sound floated, notes started to be false. It is not appreciable, if you simply listen to music, however if you try to accompany on any musical instrument you simply not can adjust it correctly.

Better all the same correctly to adjust the musical coprocessor, it is very simple. To know enough that musical tracks written for the frequency table ASC or Pro Tracker sound correctly at frequency of the coprocessor of 1.75 Mgts, and tracks written for the table Sound Tracker , at frequency of 1.77 Mgts, however the second table is displaced on 2 semitones downwards. That is that in the editor looks as the note to - actually - a si-flat.

Following track as it is not surprising - I have found casually, ransacking on the Internet. I have simply hammered in Yandex the ZX Spectrum nick (not very well for what it was required to me). What my surprise when on the first place in results I have seen a remix of track Mad Elephant , executed by creative group Diver Group from a city a Slavutich (it is Ukraine) was. Very pleasantly and unexpectedly to come across on such here digital traces.:)

So, Mad Elephant , the original - Siril/4D , a remix - Diver Group .

Certainly I should get acquainted with these surprising people. =) Performance of this problem has facilitated that the remix of mine track has been laid out on their site. I urgently recommend to visiting, they write different music. =) Well and then, we have communicated on ICQ and have got acquainted more close. :) One of participants of group Zinus , has told that "dryness" of compositions some on its expression, is connected by that was originally planned to use also a vocal. I will look forward, more truly patiently to wait. =)

I bring to your attention one more remix executed by them, is track XLarge , the original is written by the Czech musician Hood from group Crazytronic , on ZX Spectrum . A remix - Diver Group . On it 6th release podcast Antique Toy has come to an end.

You can find Fresh releases to the address aypod.russianpodcasting.ru , aypod is written as AY pod .

Thanks for attention. While.



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