Grayscale Project - "Euglena Zielona" (Euglena viridis) -- Chiptune Visualization / Atari SAP
166*** PLEASE, WATCH IN HIGH QUALITY FOR PROPER AUDIO! ***
So, I decided to take a look at all the separate channels of some chiptune music at once. Thought it might look cool, since those waveforms are usually so pretty. I quickly put together a script to create this video.
We see here 8 channels. Each channel has a pan value (left or right), and I chose their position accordingly.
I suggest you watch this in high-quality mode, at least for proper audio.
This video has a lame naive timbre-capture algorithm: it just finds the first zero-crossing and locks it to the left side of the screen. This way you see waveforms aligned to each other - at least most of the time. A decent algorithm is trickier than I thought. Until then, have another one. YouTube needs more chiptune anyway.
"Euglena Zielona" (literally, green euglena) is the Polish name for Euglena viridis, a species of green, algal protozoan. The beginning of the song was clearly inspired by this microscopic watery world. Nice theme for a tune, I say.
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The Grayscale Project is an awesome Atari 8-bit music collaboration from Poland. Members are:
Grzegorz Kwiatek (Greg), Łukasz Sychowicz (X-Ray) and Bartek Wąsiel (BeWu).
http://grayscale.scene.pl/en_index.php
You can find their work, along with tons of other great Atari music, on the Atari SAP Music Archive (ASMA) at:
http://asma.atari.org/