I begin the article with a brief examination of different concepts of interface, and probe how the sound design of games may relate to previous audiovisual formats. Through a media-archaeological approach, I observe how sonic space is organized, especially in the design of digital games in first and third-person perspective, taking part in the construction of playable audiovisual environments. In this article, I observe some of these rearrangements through a tentative probing of the interfacing conditions of gaming established by their sound design projects. The audible dimension of computer games is revealing of contemporary digital culture and the restructuring of the current media ecology. Focusing on the musical dimension of timbre and addressing the practical issues of modern cross-platform development through an analysis of Engmann’s project files for the Commodore 64 music tool GoatTracker, this article shows that Slipstream’s soundtrack is exemplary in effectively harnessing electronic dance music as video game music. Drawing from ethnographic interviews with Engmann and Slipstream’s programmer Stefan Mader, this article demonstrates how techno’s pivotal theme of synergistic existence of humanity with technology resonates with an ecstatic feeling of forward propulsion that characterizes Slipstream. The skills that Engmann developed while exploring the affordances of this versatile chip enabled him to compose a video game soundtrack that is informed by his engagement with the Berlin techno scene from the early 1990s onward. Despite the Commodore 64 being a supposedly obsolete 8-bit platform that had its manufacture stopped decades ago, contemporary composers like Engmann are compelled to use the machine for its SID (Sound Interface Device) chip, which stands apart from the sound chips of other 8-bit home computers and consoles due to its variety of waveform types, filtering capabilities, ring modulation, and oscillator sync effects. The soundtrack, composed by Ronny Engmann, accentuates the game’s futuristic space setting and emphasis on speed by invoking the electronic dance music style of industrial techno, which combines the taut grooves of minimal techno with the abrasive sonics of early industrial music to make for an intensification of the sound that made the club scenes of Detroit and Berlin famous.
Try out the search box in the top right corner, or check out the CSDb main page for the latest additions.Slipstream is a rail shooter developed by the group Bauknecht. People who made the scene (the sceners), but you can also find a lot of the old classic games here. As this website is scene related, you can mostly find demos, music and graphics made by the Here you can find almost anything which was ever madeįor the commodore 64, and more is being added every day.
#GOATTRACKER MANUAL UPDATE#
Great, thanks a lot for maintaining this fantastic tool! And now a Covert Bitops Loader update with Exomizer 3, please :-)!ĬSDb (Commodore 64 Scene Database) is a website which goal is to gather as much information and material about the sceneĪround the commodore 64 computer - the worlds most popular home computer throughout time. Submitted by Claus_2015 on 1 September 2018 Unfortunately my ambitions to properly implement my colorscheme idea are kind of lost on my "eternal ToDo list" atm. Submitted by spider-j on 2 September 2018Ĭool, nice you implemented that. Will push fix to svn, you can get it from there and compile yourself.Ĭheers for the updated version! Perhaps the bug-report (e-mail, ) I sent you regarding the filtermode in the tracker (but luckily not the player) could be fixed sometime in the future too? :)Įxelent!, im use it from the begining, thanks The second frame is just saw and gate (20+121) at the fixed pitch A0.
#GOATTRACKER MANUAL MANUAL#
Looking at the bug now, it's an obvious copy-paste error. The snare drum from the goattracker manual works as follows: The first frame is square and triangle and gate (in hex 40+10+0151) at the fixed pitch 90. Submitted by Yogibear on 6 September 2018 GoatTracker V2.74 by Covert Bitops (2018)Īwaiting 8 votes (1 left) See votestatistics
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