3 Ways To Make Music On The ATARI 2600

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Having grown up with an Atari 2600 in the house, the unique sound from it, the waveform, is hardcoded in my brain bits. It is kinda frightening to feel how deep it runs. Thank you Sam for rustling those neurons.

As a child of the 1970's, the sounds here are sooooo familiar in timbre, if not in melody.

Still one of the coolest guys in music breaking the mold going against the grain I love the creativeness. Thinking out of the Box and taking every thing and being the master of it that's awesome.

4th way to make music: just smack the system to produce a drum beat.

Did you steal that shirt off my mum's washing line? Great vid as ever mate.

I just realized, one of the big bonuses of making your own music is that you can add it in post production to segments of your vids and it fits perfectly.

09:50 You have a mission 13:48 you accomplished this mission

It's just mind blowing how crazy your channel is I love it!

the Atari 2600 was my first! Hooked ever since.

Santa brought me one in 1983! and a C64 in 1987! Addicted I was!!

You creativity and willingness to share consistently blows my mind!

I love the carsy stuff you do with vintage computers & game consoles. I collect & restore vintage computers & its nice to see you put them to a very diffrent uses to what they were designed for.

Ohh it made me so happy to hear you reference little-scale and his work 💕 such an amazing musician and pretty underappreciated tbh

Jamloopy is quite an innocent name for that wicked synth :D

You sir are a Mad Musical Instrument Genius!! Love dropping into your laboratory to see what adventures await.

The music starting at 13:50 is absolutely incredible. No clue why you wouldn't latch on to that sound and continue forward with it in the video! I'd love a sequel to this if you were to down to give Atari music a second chance.

That was so damn cool to watch! There are some other ways to make music too, which involve tracking on a computer first, then compiling as a ROM image. TIAtracker which uses all the limited range of the TIA chip, a bit clunky but it works, great for making tunes for games and demos. TIAtune which is a tool of some sort that converts XM modules to a compatible ROM image. What is nice about this one is, as the name implies, the tuning is actually pretty good since it is generated by the CPU. Literally all the resources are taken for generating music so no video code is left, but definitely good for more in tune stuff :D

Ooooo, sweet. Love your designs on all your gear ✌

remember playing it as a kid, end of 80's, always loved that RAAAAAAAW sound! and yes, my synthcart arrived today so i'm here to say hellooooooooooo, great video