[Original] Voyager 1 (Atari TIA, Recorded from Real Hardware)

[@puppiesarepower3682]

Mad respect for the 2600 sound engine✌️. - NES gamer.

[@therealwhite]

the oscilloscope view on this is freaking awesome, and so is the tune :0 10/10

[@Liederfuchs]

Love your style Vin! Atari VCS, omg. There's something magical about old hardware

[@CutterCross2A03]

YES MORE TIA

[@русский-рэп-отстой]

вкуснейшая тема. кайфую с каждого бита, каждого машинного писка. божественно.

[@Ninjacat25]

This is super impressive for a system with only 2 channels! Excellent work!

[@DrMackFoxx]

Always impresses me greatly when someone can do so much with such limitations. Fantastic track!

[@AiOinc1]

Voyager 1 & 2 were designed and built in an era where quality and longevity mattered more than they do now

[@VinsCool]

it's honestly really impressive considering when they were launched into space. I have a lot of respect for the people behind the Voyager missions.

[@AiOinc1]

@@VinsCool I've seen cars sit in a barn for 60 years. Pull them out and a few hours later it runs again. Would love to see something like that in half the time with a brand new car.

[@JasonOrmes]

@@AiOinc1 Simpler design also means less things to possibly fail as well.

[@zanegandini5350]

@@AiOinc1 Back then, cars were almost purely mechanical, with not much in the way of electronics to speak of. It's easier to replace mechanical parts than electronic components.

[@AiOinc1]

@@zanegandini5350 Keep in mind that ignition components at that time were considered unreliable. Distributors, points, condensers, and coils. In the case of some very, very old cars, magnetos.

[@ericdobek37]

Love the descending notes, they provide a lot of atmosphere. Great job!

[@VinsCool]

Thanks!

[@nopenadda4415]

When the base hits it hits hard! I love atari, intelivision, and Nintendo old games

[@JXChip]

Nice sound

[@redtruck3020]

This is crazy good wicked neat

[@zerokaizen]

carai véi, tirou onda

[@jasonkmec1589]

💙

[@YoutubePremium-el4eq]

I L,ove it --__--

[@groovingood]

Cool

[@braulioxdp]

increible :D

[@glowbush]

yasssssss

[@redtruck3020]

I feel as if I’m playing video game Mario brothers however, that is 90s no since 911

[@Stuffies2022]

Red Truck🚘

[@XXIIIDrawer]

Why this sounds like future?! WHY THIS SOUNDS LIKE FUTURE?!?!

[@rickytickybobbywobbin7430]

This is cool and all, but will it fit in a 4k rom 🤔

[@VinsCool]

It is fitting and there is plenty of room left even!

[@rickytickybobbywobbin7430]

@@VinsCool there’s no way, that’s amazing. I’m learning 6502 assembly to make Atari 2600 games and was starting to think I’d have to drop music and only use sound effects since I want to stay at 4k, but you’ve given me hope

[@VinsCool]

@@rickytickybobbywobbin7430 The TIATracker music driver was designed to be as compact as possible with the music data, I have been able to fit much bigger tunes in 4kb before and rarely ran out of memory unless I did a poor job optimising the tune to make the patterns smaller and recycled.

[@wigwagstudios2474]

it sounds like it’s maqam or something

[@VinsCool]

There is a nice microtonal quality to it, that's for sure! It's always nice to find a way to make the music sound good regardless of the limitations.

[@albdamned577]

I am fascinated by this. Which program did you compose the music?

[@VinsCool]

TIATracker 1.3

[@albdamned577]

wait if this was recorded on real hardware how did you connect the atari to the pc? I am totally on board for rocking out the atari. I got sythcart and while I can make something sound similar to this (If I were inclined to tap the keypad like a piano key lol!), it would cool to feed the atari with computer output.@@VinsCool

[@VinsCool]

@@albdamned577 my 2600 has modified output that is separate from the original RF modulator, separating audio signal from video signal, so it is crispy clean. Video is both S-Video and Composite, and the sound is Stereo due to the TIA Audio Out pin being output directly without being mixed together, greatly reducing the noisy output that would get distorted at high volume otherwise. For playback I built the Atari .bin ROM files with the TIATracker ASM export data, then ran the binaries using my Harmony Flashcard on the console, and simply recorded the sound using a USB capture card using Audacity on my computer. Finally I amplified then mixed the sound in Mono and saved the song in both the original .wav channel streams and the mixed audio, which are then used all at once to generate the oscilloscope visualisation using Corrscope.

[@kovy6447]

2017 in chiptune form

[@Servus.Calvin]

What app do you use to make this music?

[@VinsCool]

I used TIAtracker to make this one, and recorded the sound from my Atari 2600 console that was running the binary file assembled from the music routines data.

[@ふぁるた]

i want to download sap file

[@ozzie_goat]

What time signature is this in?

[@VinsCool]

Should be 3/4 or 6/8 if I understand that sort of stuff correctly.

[@SuperJet_Spade]

I'm mostly hearing a standard 4/4 time signature here. Not a bad thing though. It's a great song regardless.

[@VinsCool]

@@SuperJet_Spade not sure really. Went with the assumption that I used patterns of 48 rows with beats every 6 rows.

[@VinsCool]

Actually I think you are correct. I didn't take in consideration that stuff indeed has 8 beats every patterns. Woops

[@RandomTomatoMusic]

So then it would be 4/4 but in swing rhythm?

[@cfothough]

I was wondering, how do you do hardware recordings? I've been wanting to do the same with my Atari 2600 Jr, but I don't know how to split TIA music (in other real hardware recordings, I just split modules to only play one channel, record, and then rinse and repeat)

[@VinsCool]

Hey there, I can record each TIA channels because my console has been modded to output stereo sound, and got rid of the RF output, so the signal is incredibly clean.

[@diegocrusius]

I wonder how many clock cycles something like this taekes

[@VinsCool]

Not a lot, surprisingly. The TIATracker music routines can handle everything in only a few hundred cycles, from my previous tests, it has been a very long time so I don't remember exactly how much it used.

[@kovy6447]

Dubstep.

[@ふぁるた]

i want to download sap file

[@VinsCool]

There is no SAP file, this is a Atari 2600 ROM image