Is 1-bit enough?

WARNING: this video contains flashing lights that may cause discomfort and may not be suitable for photosensitive epilepsy.

Technical: GTIA 1-bit sounds.
Recording: real hardware, a stock Atari 130 XE.
Tracker: Milky Tracker, Tritone engine by Shiru; Atari port of engine and converter by @atari8xxl

If you're interested in 1-bit music and related stuff visit @shiru8bit

#chiptune #atari #1-bit

[deano]

The PC speaker is often referred to as a 1-bit music device and it's absolutely incredible what some programmers made that thing do.

[omegahaxors-]

POV you just clicked an exe you got from a discord DM and hear this song coming out of your motherboard speaker.

[afractalchild]

The music that plays when you discover a colony of 90s desktop pets living together in harmony, long after their redundancy

[LordOfDegeneracy]

"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations"

[nj]

Perfect music if you want to win the loudness war!

[pitchvantablack]

This is actually really nice to listen to, surprisingly.

[starcrashr]

Pokemon Yellow has an arguably discernable recording of "Pikachu!" in 1 bit by modulating the volume.

[Cup_]

with a high enough sample rate, one bit is plenty.

[SyntaxDaemon]

Hell yeah, when I realized it was Teardrop, I knew you were on to something.

[skeleton_tea]

Well, I guess you could say this is a bit of a banger.

[SockyNoob]

Imagine this playing out of a PC speaker.

[LethalChicken]

Massive attack? More like massive heart attack, no doubt caused by lupus

[G.D_ADDICT]

The music that play when you finally found your dad's old laptop after 23 years, filling you up with nostalgia.

[kuzonai]

you know you've made a great song when it even sounds great in 1-bit

[ваняМалий-гт]

I'm going to set this as my alarm clock and ringtone

[billkendrick]

Massive Attack! And really good for just a single bit.

[patg]

It's enough for me to recognize Teardrop by Massive Attack the second the melody cones in, thats for sure.😮

[mcmoozack]

we getting the Vicodin with this one boys

[kumquaaat_]

I swear this would be a perfect song for a house MD game on the game and watch

[HyperCodec]

As someone who forgot my AirPods for the bus ride and is watching this without audio, I can confirm that 1-bit is, in fact, enough