so i've a few old gameboys (advance, color, originals), a nes and snes lying around here, and i'm thinking..how cool would it be to turn a gameboy into a pedal for guitar/bass usage (reduce your sound to 8bit, 16bit, some kind of bitshifter pedal..) or into a synth,
i love gameboy music, i admit, but i'd like to take things a little further and combine them with a guitar or bass instead of a keyboard/synth.
i know about special software and cards being available but i'm a cheapass so i can't be bothered buying software.
is there free software that makes it possible to use (for instance) garagebands keyboard as a controller for your gameboy's soundcard (connected to your laptop) ?
also, do you know about any bit shifting guitar pedals ?
Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 2:23 pm
by Tweez
I remember seeing some stuff on a circuit bending site once, I'll try and find it for you.
You planning on recording some Chiptune?
Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 2:52 pm
by kim
would be cool yes, stuff like sidabitball is great, but only for a couple of tunes tho, then it gets irritating..
but those lo-fi computer sounds are amusing to mess around with, music like that has been around for quite some time, dj's hooking up gameboys to their synths and laptops, and rock bands are starting to incorporate them into their setup as well, so it's possible, but it costs money, and i'm always broke, haha
so yeah, that's why i'm looking around for some freeware to be able to connect a gameboy to my laptop (i have an audio program that sounds similar, and i can record sounds with it, but it's just not the same)
then i also heard about certain (boutique..i guess) fx pedals that work like bitshifters..
Most stuff on 8 Bit Peoples is available to download. I recommend Bitshifter and Nullsleep if you dont know them already.
The problem is the Gameboy doesn't actually have an audio input. The soundchip itself is actually only 4bit as well, which 4 channels of sound, one of them being exclusively a noise channel. Anything is going to require hacking of a Gameboy or buying a special cart.
heavium wrote:s
also, do you know about any bit shifting guitar pedals ?
Probably a bit too specialised, and I don't imagine ADA converters are too cheap.
Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 3:54 pm
by euan
I think RG Keen or Tim Inventor of The Uglyface made an analogue cicruit that did something similar.
Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 5:33 pm
by kim
thanks for the links and stuff, did a lot of bookmarking, hehe
i didn't know nullsleep, sounds good.
Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 5:40 pm
by kim
nooo, aple'd again, those plugins are windoze only.
Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 7:52 pm
by Mo Law-ka
learn to play like dragonforce!!!
Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 8:47 pm
by Doog
Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 9:12 pm
by Mo Law-ka
"tell your friends that herman ri is coo or i will shit on your head"
hahahahahahahahahah!!!!
Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 10:55 pm
by JJLipton
nintendo sounds have sparked entire "genres" of music such as "Nintendocore". Examples of this would be the ever so funny, Horse the Band.
Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 11:00 pm
by Doog
My Boss 8track has a "lo-fi box" selection of FX for the phono line inputs, including bit reduction simulation (I'm presuming). Wish it worked on the 1/4" inputs, guess I just need a adaptor to try it out on guitar..
