MISTER BEEP MICROMUSIC CHIPTUNE LO-TEK LOW-TECH TIMEX ZX SPECTRUM SINCLAIR 1-BIT MUSIC

 

 

 

THE SOFTWARE

 

Here you can take a look on the software I use.

Everything's written by great coders and it works on TIMEX COMPUTER 2048 (48Kb of RAM).

 

 

 

 

Music Maestro (C) 1988

3 channels, no drums – only tones.

 

 

 

 

 

The Music Studio (C) 1989

2 channels and not the best drums.

 

 

 

 

      

Orfeus Music Assembler (C) 1990

3 channels with really cool drums. Additionaly it has envelopes, non-editable ‘though.

Until now the best in my collection.

 

 

 

 

 

The Music Box (BEEPER version) (C) 1985

You can use 2 channels of tones. The prog has been equipped in drums (you can edit their envelopes)

but when drums are playing, nothing more can play.

 

 

 

 

 

Synthesizer KX-5     (C) 1987

Tone/noise generator. This util has no sequencer, it’s made especially for generating

various interesting tones.

 

 

 

 

Sintetizador De Voz (C) 1985

Simply – 1 bit speech synthesizer (!!!).

 

 

 

 

SoundCom S-Synth (C) 80s

Another 1-bit speech synthesizer!! :)

 

Loop Synthesizer (C) 1987

One more tone/noise generator. Also this util has no sequencer as it’s made especially for generating

various interesting tones.

 

 

 

 

Sampler (C) 1987

As you can guess – it’s a 1-bit sampler.

Timex has audio IN connection built-in, so it doesn’t need any additional hardware for sampling.

It’s enough to load program like this one and… simply sample! ;)

 

 

 

 

ZX-7 Polyphonic Musical Instrument (C) 1988

Although it has no drums (only tones), this program makes from one BEEPER’s channel – 8 channels!!!!

Its sequencer is a bit similar to Roland TB-303’s sequencer, hehe…

 

 

 

 

Virtual Synthesiser (C) 1985

One more interesting tone/noise generator.

You can play in real-time your instruments on Timex’ keyboard.

 

 

 

 

 

 

3 Channel Synthesiser, also called Music Synth (C) 1989

Theoretically it’s impossible to make any envelopes, delays and stuff in case of one-bit sound.

Surprisingly this program allows to make them. Also it has 3 channels (including editable drums / noises).

The problem is, false notes and detuning are everywhere in the prog. Whatta pity.

 

 

 

 

 

       

Music Synth 48K T.E. (C) 2009

This is a new version of above prog but with corrected music-engine and with user-friendly interface (at last!)

Like above, you can use volumes, envelopes, delays, and everything is in 3 channels plus editable drums / noises.

No detune if you use both tone channels at once. Many thanks to Shiru! He's GREAT!

This is a very powerful modern BEEPER utility!

 

 

 

 

 

 

SAMPLE TRACKER V2.0 (C) 1993

Believe or not: real ONE BIT SAMPLES, real digital music from BEEPER!!!

MOD for BEEPER? Almost. :) This tracker has 3 digital channels, it supports ‘D/A 8BIT’ sound-card for ZX/TIMEX,

or regular AY chip (then you have 4-bit sound),

but if you have only ZX/TIMEX with 48Kb of RAM and BEEPER – it STILL WORKS NORMALLY! (With 1-bit quality of course).

You can make MOD-like music for your ZX/TC 48Kb and BEEPER!!

 

 

 

 

 

   

DRUM MACHINE (C) 1984

1-channel program that is able to generate various drum-like noices and put them into an on-board sequencer.

 

 

 

 

 

   

ALBERT EINSTEIN DRUMS (C) 1985

The next 1-channel and 1-bit drum-sequencer but much, much better than previous one (which was Drum Machine).

AE-DRUMS has nicer graphic interface, far better sequencer and also much better synthetized drum-sounds.