I see myself as the inventor of Chiptune Schlagers, but this actually is the first time I did create one running
directly on the CHIP of an old retro system, the PAULA chip of the fascinating Commodore Amiga, to be precise.
This is a self booting disk which starts my music using "minimod" by Harry "Piru" Sintonen from Finland who btw.
helped me among others from the Amiga scene (shouts go also to Richard Körber and PNDC - all from the lovely
Fediverse Amiga crowd) to create this selfbooting version.
If possible, try to play this with around 20-30% stereo separation (possibly only doable on an emulator?) on an
Amiga 1200, which sounds slightly "sharper" than the Amiga 500/1000/2000.
Some data about the .mod: File Size: 508K / Sample Size: 460k / Sample Size without singing and robot: 33K
Techniques used to make it sound like "more" and save space:
ADSR faking
Filter faking
Echo on the same channel
time stretching
double speed
no drum loops
Most of these techniques are common with l33t musicians on the Amiga; often they are even much more efficient than me (in this track).
This is not only showing the mod file being played in its original environment — the
Amiga Pro Tracker 2.3d from 1993 — but it's a full blown, quiete elaborated music video as well
You may also use this as a reference about HOW this should naturally sound
This is the link to the .mod file itself on the mighty "The Mod Archive"
The Mod Archive player plays it correct, but if you download the mod, use a decent Player that respects the Amiga with its chirping aliasing 8bit low Khz integer mixing.
Do NOT play this with VLC or Mplayer derivates. They interpolate anything down to a muffled muffle. This is NOT how I want this track to be presented. On Cubic/ocp use backspace to switch off sample interpolation and get that crispy sound.
Chances are it sounds right™ is to play this disk on an Amiga emulator like fs-uae. Notice: PUAE on Retroarch uses a stone old
code base and is NOT up to the task :(
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