S-DSP chip (responsible for all synthesis).S-SMP (aka SPC700, ≈ 6502+timers and ports).What makes the NES/Famicom sound like that
(Sega fans, what you want is last year’s chipsynth MD – so yeah, the console wars of the 80s and 90s can live on.) The main chipsynth SFC UI – with drag-and-drop ease and straightforward controls.
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That’ll please game soundtrack lovers, but anyone can take advantage of the unique instrument here – and there’s a full sample library there to get you going. Go to for instance, drag and drop, and individual samples will appear pre-configured in the sampler. That’s the nice twist here – you just drag and drop samples, even whole songs, and the song player here will just match the result. In this age of recreations – Moog to Roland to Buchla – a first may be Donkey Kong Country composer David Wise chiming in to say that it’s “really funny” how much easier it is to use this plug-in than it was to compose for the original hardware. I mean, you only do this for love, basically.) chipsynth SFC is special in that it’s both a more modern, complex architecture, and that they’ve done an uncommon amount of work to make actual production easy. (Developed David is regularly sending over pics of complex test rigs that he’s used to exactly match each detail. Montreal-based Plogue have made a specialization of producing intricate recreations, bit-for-bit, of these kinds of systems. And there’s a specific architecture – 8-voice multitimbral, with sample playback, FM synthesis, and modulation, all layered together. This is a 16-bit digital sampling system, but also contains analog components. The sound of the SNES soundtrack era is the result of talented game composers adjusting to several factors. Original hardware photographs courtesy David Viens, Plogue. But it’s also there in the 16-bit sampler architecture. It’s there in that slick gray sheen on the plastic in these glamor shots reproduced here. It somehow feels more modern with time, like great design. But the Super Famicom (branded Super Nintendo Entertainment System outside Japan) is something else. Some things sound old, but bring back a wave of nostalgia.
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Here’s an album of just-released music, made not on that classic Japanese game console, but this authentic new software recreation. Now, just shy of 30 years later, that spirit has taken plug-in form.īefore talking about the SHVC-SOUND chip and architecture of the Sony-built S-SMP audio subsystem, it’s better to just listen to the kind of music this produces. And the voice of its new Super Famicom (SNES) console is about to open a window to a world of lush, glossy sound. Nintendo has just leaped into the 16-bit age.