It’s just so charming when programmers forget about the App Store and universal binaries for a second, blow the dust off that old Apple IIc+ in the basement and code up something new… like this awesome wavetable synth, programmed, compiled and sold by chiptune musicians 8 Bit Weapon.
Called the Digital Music Synthesizer, the application isperhaps the only wavetable synth for Apple’s 8 bit machines, and runs on the Apple IIe, IIc and IIc+, with support for up to eight voices including acousting piano, vibraphone, acoustic guitar, electric bass, trumpet, clarinet, square wave, sawtooth wave, sine wave, and the banjo. You can listen to a sample of what the Digitial Music Synthesizer can do here.
The best part? You can order a 5.25-inch floppy of DMS from 8 Bit Weapon for only $19.95.
True, it’s probably only of real interest to chiptune artists interested in generating the most accurate retro-bleeping sounds possible, but it’s still wonderful to listen to songs performed on software freshly programmed for Apple computers that may be dead, but not forgotten.
[via Technabob]
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
