ChipTone -- A Beautiful Free Sound Effects Tool (Win/Mac/HTML5)

Inspired by bfxr, which was inspired by sfxr, today we have ChipTone, which inspired me to make this video. At it's core its a straight forward game sound effect generator with a very nice user interface. Oh and it's free, available for Windows, Mac and HTML5.
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[@SFBTom]

Hey, ChipTone creator here, thanks for checking it out, glad you liked it! I do still plan to update - the sampler is nearly finished, and the sequencer is about halfway done, I just got caught up with doing a bunch of console port and other launches this year. I should definitely go fix the mac export soon at least though!!

[@smokeback]

Great job this is so amazing look forward to using it form making retro games as a game dev

[@Uhfgood]

The web version doesn't seem to make any sounds for me, as I'm using Brave browser which is based on chromium

[@alejmc]

Nice man! Glad to have bump into this and the creator taking care of it. Will be using it most likely in not long. EDIT: regarding the macOS save fix, what’s crazy is that on an ipad it works, it saves to a file, it’s flawless… which might be my go to method since it’s nice to detach a bit and just do sounds.

[@danielagustinmorales5696]

Thanks man! you're awesome

[@smokeback]

@@danielagustinmorales5696 will definate be adding in the credits give the software more exposure and developer behind it.whats you twitter handle?

[@andrzejkulakowski]

Just incredible! the amount of free tools and giveaways are like the best fertilizers for the indie dev scene \O/ That's a sign for something :D

[@Retrofire-47]

praise the internet sun \o\

[@blackcitadel37]

Fertilizer. Interesting.

[@gamefromscratch]

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[@Retrofire-47]

This excites me A LOT as someone that is getting into game-oriented audio production

[@MortonMcCastle]

That's awesome. The sounds generated here remind me of the attack and move usage sounds in Earthbound and Pokemon Red/Blue.

[@ChickenDev]

Finally something that I use! I love this!

[@nilsmuller-cleve6769]

I love chiptone and I always preferred it over BFXR simply alone because of the more approachable interface. I also found it quite easy to make my own sounds with it without using the generator function. It's a nice light weight over complex synthesizer software.

[@meancrank9039]

Something i’ve done is to take sounds made in chiptone and plug them into LMMS to convert sounds into instruments. As for an offline app, I saved the page as an html file.

[@my2iu]

One of the nice things with the bfxr UI is that it would remember the settings for all the sounds you’ve created, so you could use the randomize button to create, like, 20 sounds, and then you could easily compare them to figure out which one is better for your game. This UI doesn’t seem to have that functionality.

[@Gnifl]

at least there's an undo button and an export option.

[@artsquirrel]

Very nostalgic, might use this for my videos.

[@AndrewMaksym]

Nice I can use this for my Unity projects

[@GHOZTSHXRKZ]

@Stacy J ???????? why the hostility???? they literally did nothing wrong here why would they need to shut up???????

[@DonChups]

I threw them some cash, just because it's such a fun toy to use and... ¡It's so good at helping you understand how sound works!

[@DonChups]

¡And maybe they'll make a sequencer as good as this is!

[@NEERAJKUMAR-iy9kn]

It is really a very good tool for game sound fx.

[@vodkaru5907]

This will do nicely for memes. What other programs like it are around?

[@generrosity]

Hehe I love your testing process for sound tools 😜 nice, handy💚👌

[@ScaerieTale]

F for the headphone users 😅 But this is actually really neat. I love 2D retro games, and I definitely recognized a few of the base sounds. The mutate and randomize are the stars of the show though. For what it is, it's pretty impressive, especially for being free. I hope the dev (or someone else) pick it back up and iterate on it more.

[@disruptive_innovator]

arpeggio, add it to the foliage list :)

[@JauStudioFR]

👻😵 The ghost of my ears says thank you !

[@arcade_mntra]

Hey Mike, you should check out the free collection of ChipTune vst synths by Socalabs. They have made chiptune emulators based on Commodore 64, NES, Nintendo Gameboy and Sega.

[@vodkaru5907]

Neat buddy. I'm gonna get those

[@MiiDev69]

Hey @Gamesfromscratch, are you aware or do plan on making a video on the new procreate update? You can now texture 3D models. Asking because I saw the one you made about Nomad.

[@gamefromscratch]

Yeah, this is upcoming. Would have actually had it out a few days ago, but I was trying to come up with a better way to capture 4:3 iPad footage for KZbin and its 16:9 format. I thought I figured out a way, but it didn't work. I hate black bars :(

[@paulosullivan3472]

This looks great, no linux version so unfortunately I cannot use it but I wish the devs luck it seems really good.

[@horndude77]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arpeggio In chiptunes it usually means to quickly move between a few notes in a chord.

[@bonehelm]

I've used ChipTone a bunch and I really like it. Sadly all these synth sfx generators always miss a few important parts or sound design. None of them have reverb nor EQ (i realize there's low/mid/high eq in the bottom right of chiptone but it's not fine grained enough). Which is why I just use Reaper for sound design instead.

[@DavidMaclin351]

Wow!!!

[@rewindcat7927]

Oh I like that mutate button 👍

[@smokeback]

This is amazing

[@nisemono9644]

Is there anything like this for non-retro sfx?

[@kgomotso_]

Try Audacity. You can create your own sounds and add effects to them to get them to sound just how you want.

[@alxdrksoul]

@@kgomotso_ I thought it was only used to record audio xD I use it when I make guitar cover videos haha.

[@Aye_Sid]

That's awesome dude. U need to subscribed.. 😀👍

[@upprrdimensions892]

3:07 The real music concert starts

[@aironium]

At first, I thought i am looking at Caustic lol

[@sphixy8577]

THANKS YOU !!!!!!!!!

[@raymk]

0:03 Hey! That's not how I sound !!!

[@LORDSofCHAOS333]

yeah this is a cool tool

[@random_precision_software]

Is it open source, and if it is, what language?

[@kgomotso_]

3:37 sounds very satisfying

[@rewindcat7927]

Cool 😎

I do! 2007? Flash? Pardon me? :-)

[@mapelsiroup]

i still use sfxr ahah

[@ВторойкиборгЧеловек-Сидр]

Finally!)

[@TylerTraverse]

It's hilarious seeing you mess with audio software

[@Dragon20C]

No linux support, why, its easier to build to linux then to mac.

[@rafarodriguez4765]

Handy tool but 16 bit is low-quality sound...very low indeed

[@axtrifonov]

Looks like Jfxr

[@yoruichill2749]

I Miss My Ears

[@snesmocha]

ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh............ i'll just stick to my own sound design lmao, i have millions of synths, might as well

[@rewindcat7927]

but do any of them have a button that says "mutate"? 😜

[@snesmocha]

@@rewindcat7927 yes actually, slam my head on the keyboard until i make a noise 😜

[@rewindcat7927]

@@snesmocha oh that's some next level technique. I stan you 👍

[@Devieus]

This is very much like SFXR and its derivatives.

[@garrettb619]

Are-Pedge-E-O

[@sodakick6884]

Death, taxes, and bleeding ears from Gamesfromscratch demoing a music program.