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 | Two guys from Paris. Fond of vintage synths and computers, video games music and 8-bit culture. We make chiptune on the hardware we love: Nintendo Game Boy, Sega Megadrive/Genesis, Commodore 64. We compose and record them from the real stuff, plain and pure, just for your ears. | Website: http://theotherdays.net Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/other-days Facebook: facebook.com/theotherdays Google+: +TheOtherDays Twitter: @The_OtherDays |
Showing posts with label chiptune. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chiptune. Show all posts
Apr 14, 2015
Live concert 2015/04/26 in Le Creusot for the Nostalgeek-End!
See you at El Loco Café for some good chiptunez!
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Local news here (French)
Sep 13, 2014
The Other Days Live @ Glazart on 28/09/2014 during Paris Electronic Week
As part of the 2nd edition of the Paris Electronic Week, and thanks to Technopol, we will perform live in Paris at the Glazart (Paris 19e) during the "disquaires à la plage" event, on Sunday, 28th of September!
Links:
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/700175430051920/
Le Glazart: http://www.glazart.com/
Paris Electronic Week: http://www.pariselectronicweek.fr/
Technopol: http://www.technopol.net/
| The event starts at 12:00, entrance if free, and it will feature photographic exhibitions, vinyl record sales, and ... live concerts. Our gig should begin around 16:00, and last one full hour! See you there! 
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Links:
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/700175430051920/
Le Glazart: http://www.glazart.com/
Paris Electronic Week: http://www.pariselectronicweek.fr/
Technopol: http://www.technopol.net/
Oct 5, 2012
Retrotaku: credits by The Other Days
Hi chiplovers!
Do you know Retrotaku? It is a French-speaking retrogaming portal, most reputed among French nostalgic gamers.
They just started a monthly broadcast about retrogaming and guess what?
They hired us to do the soundtrack of the credits! Oh yeah!
And boy, that was an adventure.
We started it all from scratch with an early version of the credits. This preview was mute and incomplete, merely a work-in-progress.
Then unlike free composing, we realized this job was crippled with constraints. Like:
- find a theme that matches the passion of retrogaming (not that hard, since the gameboy is our tool and gameboy IS retro)
- give voice to visual FX and animation, including games teasers on TV
- keep everything in sync and in the mix
- do it all in 25 seconds!
Also, It was the first time we couldn't do everything by our rules. Instead, we had to constantly adapt to evolving requirements and directives of the Retrotaku team.
So needless to say, It was a nice challenge for us! In the end we just loved doing it and we're kind of proud of the result!
But let's stop talking. You can see what it looks like just below. This is an advanced WIP version of ours, with a bit of voice synthesis:
(Yes, audio is a bit late on Youtube for some reason. This is a pity as we took extreme care of making all SFX in sync with pictures)
And here the final result from the very first edition of Retrotaku show (in french):
Not bad, isn't it? Especially the NG:DEV.team, an independant NeoGeo development studio :)
Oh, one more thing: this was also broadcasted live on lmtv.fr, a French local terrestrial TV channel. So cool!
Again, many thanks to Retrotaku for choosing us. We really enjoyed their collaboration and we're just super eager for more! We also hope this new show will meet the success it deserves!
Cheers and keep listening, more news pretty soon! :)
The Other Days
Do you know Retrotaku? It is a French-speaking retrogaming portal, most reputed among French nostalgic gamers.
They just started a monthly broadcast about retrogaming and guess what?
They hired us to do the soundtrack of the credits! Oh yeah!
And boy, that was an adventure.
We started it all from scratch with an early version of the credits. This preview was mute and incomplete, merely a work-in-progress.
Then unlike free composing, we realized this job was crippled with constraints. Like:
- find a theme that matches the passion of retrogaming (not that hard, since the gameboy is our tool and gameboy IS retro)
- give voice to visual FX and animation, including games teasers on TV
- keep everything in sync and in the mix
- do it all in 25 seconds!
Also, It was the first time we couldn't do everything by our rules. Instead, we had to constantly adapt to evolving requirements and directives of the Retrotaku team.
So needless to say, It was a nice challenge for us! In the end we just loved doing it and we're kind of proud of the result!
But let's stop talking. You can see what it looks like just below. This is an advanced WIP version of ours, with a bit of voice synthesis:
(Yes, audio is a bit late on Youtube for some reason. This is a pity as we took extreme care of making all SFX in sync with pictures)
And here the final result from the very first edition of Retrotaku show (in french):
Oh, one more thing: this was also broadcasted live on lmtv.fr, a French local terrestrial TV channel. So cool!
Again, many thanks to Retrotaku for choosing us. We really enjoyed their collaboration and we're just super eager for more! We also hope this new show will meet the success it deserves!
Cheers and keep listening, more news pretty soon! :)
The Other Days
Jun 9, 2012
The Joy Of MSX
After several attempts, we finally did it!
We soldered a DIN 8 to SCART video cable for our mysterious CX5M-II. A CX5M-what, you say? Please don't tell me you don't remember?
So we started it and suddenly, we saw a dark pink screen with light pink letters:
MSX system
Version 1.0
Coryright 1983 by Microsoft
We just SCREAMED WITH JOY!
Obviously there is something fishy with the blue channel in the video cable. Looks like we didn't solder it appropriately but that's good enough already. The reward was worth the skin burns!
So right after that, we saw this new screen :
MSX BASIC version 1.0
Coryright 1983 by Microsoft
28815 bytes free
Ok
color auto goto list run
Aww, what a nice way for this machine to tell us that it is working, 100% perfect!
Happiness never comes alone: the machine came with a cartridge embedded in Slot A.
This is the YRM-301, short name for YAMAHA MIDI RECORDER.
We ran it with a simple:
CALL MR
And we saw it popping on screen, just like the almighty Internets have predicted. O glorious day.
But wait, we don't want to record midi, do we? We rather want to hear something!
So we tried something like:
CALL FMV
And boom, here shows FM VOICING PROGRAM II!
Yup, this CX5M-II integrates the YRM-502 ROM for tweaking the integrated SFG-05 FM synth and create custom FM sounds. Yay, how nice!... But we'll leave that for later, cuz what we want now is:
HEAR SOMETHING!
So we ultimately ran this last command:
CALL MUSIC
And somebody up there definitely heard our call:
30 years old machine, alive and popping FM corn via MIDI! Ain't it just awesome?
Well, we know what we're gonna use for our next tunes!
Later fellow bleepers!
Cheers,
The Other Days.
Apr 28, 2012
Look what we've found! A MSX with MIDI!
Look what we've just found in a galaxy far far away...
We were wandering in a huge garage sale in south of Paris. A perfect sunny sunday afternoon.
All of a sudden, without a warning, it was right in front of us, sitting on a table in the last corner of a street!
It looked so dusty and abandonned, we couldn't guess what it was. Somehow, we had the feeling this poor silicon beauty was already resigned meet the cruel fate of the dumps...
But as passionate of vintage audio chips, WE COULDN'T LET THAT HAPPEN! Especially after seeing that the beast had MIDI connectivity and RCA audio output!
So we decided to take it and give it a chance for a new musical life.
We inspected the package, we saw the video cable was missing. So we don't know yet if it works.
Still, it is garnished with a nice embedded SFG-01 midi expansion card, with a lovely YM2151 on the top.
But what is the YM2151 you may say?
Well, nothing much or should I say, nothing less than the preferred music chip in almost all mid-80's arcade games! I'm sure you know how it sounds...
What? Don't you remember Snow Bros, R-Type, Double Dragon? Really?
OK! Give yourself a favor: click the video on the left to hear some nice Ghouls and Ghost tunes, and educate your ears to early FM synthesis!
Sounds delicious, doesn't it? :)
Well, that's it for now. Or at least, until we're finished with the soldering of the A/V cable.
Will it be mute to death or bursting in glory with cool FM tunes?
We'll let you know the outcome soon!
Ah, garage sales, how much we love them!
Stay tuned folks!
Yup, that's right! An authentic Yamaha CX5MII from 1986!
We were wandering in a huge garage sale in south of Paris. A perfect sunny sunday afternoon.
All of a sudden, without a warning, it was right in front of us, sitting on a table in the last corner of a street!
It looked so dusty and abandonned, we couldn't guess what it was. Somehow, we had the feeling this poor silicon beauty was already resigned meet the cruel fate of the dumps...
But as passionate of vintage audio chips, WE COULDN'T LET THAT HAPPEN! Especially after seeing that the beast had MIDI connectivity and RCA audio output!
So we decided to take it and give it a chance for a new musical life.
We inspected the package, we saw the video cable was missing. So we don't know yet if it works.
Still, it is garnished with a nice embedded SFG-01 midi expansion card, with a lovely YM2151 on the top.
But what is the YM2151 you may say?
Well, nothing much or should I say, nothing less than the preferred music chip in almost all mid-80's arcade games! I'm sure you know how it sounds...
OK! Give yourself a favor: click the video on the left to hear some nice Ghouls and Ghost tunes, and educate your ears to early FM synthesis!
Sounds delicious, doesn't it? :)
Well, that's it for now. Or at least, until we're finished with the soldering of the A/V cable.
Will it be mute to death or bursting in glory with cool FM tunes?
We'll let you know the outcome soon!
Ah, garage sales, how much we love them!
Stay tuned folks!
We (will) get a GenMDM for megadrive!
GenMDM is a usb interface to hook a Sega Megadrive/Genesis to a computer.
It will enable us to use a traditional audio sequencing software to send notes directly to the Megadrive, and to make some new tunes!
Look at this:
isn't it pretty?
Unfortunately we don't know when we'll receive it, as it is only a preorder.
More info at http://little-scale.com/.
Stay tuned!
It will enable us to use a traditional audio sequencing software to send notes directly to the Megadrive, and to make some new tunes!
Look at this:
Unfortunately we don't know when we'll receive it, as it is only a preorder.
More info at http://little-scale.com/.
Stay tuned!
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