ON and OFF - 1bit ZX Beeper album (48K ZX Spectrum)

ON and OFF - 1bit ZX Beeper album for the 48K ZX Spectrum
Recorded from FUSE emulator (48K Spectrum)
All tracks by Rich 'Tufty' Hollins except guest track 12 by Irrlicht Project (utz)
Beeper engines used:
Pytha (utz)
Phaser 3 (Shiru)
QCHAN (Shiru)
ZBMOD v2 (utz)
WTBEEP (utz)
Phaser 1 (Shiru)
Lyndon Sharp '91 (Lyndon Sharp)
Download the .TAP version here:
df-design.itch.io/on-and-off-...
Album version recorded from real hardware here:
tufty1.bandcamp.com/album/on-...

[@Ribula1]

This is pretty much eletronic beatboxing. 😮

[@simonmathews5448]

Awesome tunes! 🤘 Track listing 00:04 1.Beeperman 02:35 2.ON and OFF ... Beep 04:14 3.Radio In The Rain 05:59 4.Xenoblast is Go! 07:40 5.Hey Beeper! 09:23 6.Ride the beep 10:51 7.Superhair vs Tron 12:53 8.Will I dream? 14:59 9.Beeper Revolution 16:36 10.The 8 Bit Wars 18:33 11.Pi-Dentity 19:57 12.Transporter (utz) 21:22 13.Down The Pipe 22:47 14.Spectronica Part 2 25:04 15.Electrostatic 26:45 16.Synthetic Kiss 27:21 17.MechWars-Centipede 28:27 18.Beethoven Beeps

[@CoolDudeClem]

Dam, if I'd have head theese playing out of my lil' 48k ZX back in the day, I would have been blown away! Heck I'm still blown away now!

[@Joseph_183]

THIS IS THE TRUE FIRE THEMES 🔥🔥🔥💯💯

[@TheRetroEngine]

Can never get enough of this. Especially round Christmas for some reason (Spectronica was released near Christmas a few years ago, that's why!)

[@kennyjohnson8148]

Awesome space jazz/alien rock!

[@retrorobbins]

Absolute quality unbelievably good fantastic work hope there's more of the same in future 👏👏👏👍👌

[@ataritufty]

Thanks mate 👍

[@nikosidis]

Freaking love it!! Playing in on my real ZX spectrum 128K. Thanks

[@ULTRAWEN7]

крутизна зашкаливает

[@jimmydevesa]

fantastico!!, me encanta

[@chopschoppsta7197]

AWESOME !!!!

[@Wagoo]

Superb work!

[@SquareWaveHeaven]

I hear triangles and sawtooths in the first track, how is this even possible? Awesome opener!

[@ataritufty]

Yes it uses an amazing 1-bit beeper engine called Pytha by Irrlicht project (utz). Which does indeed try to make triangle and saw tooth waves. I also used this engine on will I dream and Spectronica pt.2. Thanks for your comment 👍

[@SquareWaveHeaven]

@@ataritufty I have a rudimentary understanding of how beeper music works and I can't even begin to imagine how these engines produce intermediate values between "on" and "off" so to speak ; ) All I can think of is really high sample-rate PWM like how an engine that can only be on and off will use PWM to generate various levels of output. I can see the result has a lot of artifacting (I looked at the waveform) but it sounds awesome. That noise effect is something else, too!

[@ataritufty]

@@SquareWaveHeaven yes some how utz has managed to incorporate a white noise voice (pitch controllable). All PWM high frequency driven by the z80 processor in the spectrum or emulator

[@MartinGalway]

That is amazing

[@ataritufty]

Wow, thanks. I’m a huge fan of your sid music

[@Atmatan_Kabbaher]

One bit music is all well and good, but what can you do with just one bit and one channel???

[@saltedmutton7269]

this *is* one channel! it just changes really quick so it sounds like multiple instruments - a bit like how if you flash two colours fast enough it looks like a mix between the two

[@Atmatan_Kabbaher]

@@saltedmutton7269 No, it's three channels. Because that's literally just how the ZX spectrum works. It is functionally impossible to get this level of sound mix from a single channel on the spectrum, at a literal hardware level.

[@stuarthparker]

Where's SID?

[@Atmatan_Kabbaher]

In the hands of rich white boys where it belongs. Only real punks are here.

[@fart6407]

if I pay in itch, I can build it into my game. Are you the licensee for this music?

[@ataritufty]

Hi, thanks for the interest. My On and Off demo is free to download on itch with the option to donate. I made all the music except for Transporter which was made by Irrlicht Project (utz). About 9 of the tunes have already been used in games