Stefan Niestegge (Beetle) - "Sahara" -- Chiptune Visualization / Atari SAP
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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 and other videos.
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 eachother - at least most of the time. A decent algorithm is trickier than I thought. Until then, have another one. YouTube needs more chiptune anyway.
It looks like this music is a slightly modified Atari POKEY cover of the ancient level (level 4) music of the game "Superfrog", from the Amiga, composed by Allister Brimble.
You can find the original version here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z49VPABB7x4
Personally, I think this Atari version is MUCH better and less repetitive, but I'm biased in favor of the POKEY anyway. ;)
Note: this is probably not a malicious ripoff. Re-sequencing of music by other artists is very common in the chiptune world, and the homages and proper credits are usually lost along the way.
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You can find this tune, along with tons of other great Atari music, on the Atari SAP Music Archive (ASMA) at:
http://asma.atari.org/