Chipdisco V0.21 Public Release

syphus · December 5, 2010, 4:17pm

Blurb:

ChipdiscoDJ is a twin-deck MOD/XM/S3M player, set up like DJ software and with many of the same features. Needless to say, because modules are much better than MP3s, WAVs and other rendered audio files, you can do very cool stuff by digging into the notes as they’re calculated and played on the fly by the player engine. Adjust speed without adjusting pitch! Change pitch without altering speed! Mute individual instruments or channels! Trigger sub-pattern loops (a la Ableton Live) with pinpoint timing accuracy! Also, because modules are usually very small, you can roll up to a party with ChipdiscoDJ and a bunch of tunes on a floppy disk and kill that shit dead. No floppies? Don’t worry – you can queue up files from other websites by copying the URLs. Aaaawesome.

For those already familiar with Chipdisco, v0.21 represents a slight crawl forward in terms of features but a gargantuan, chasm-spanning leap forward in terms of stability and reliability – even though it’s still done in Java! It also looks a hell of a lot prettier now, and I think it’s sort of found itself visually after all this time (though there’s still scope for refinement…)

Feedback most welcome, either here or in the blogpost comments. It seems to work well on Windows and Linux (as long as Java is installed, natch) and - as usual - there are some problems with MacOS…but I’m working on them. Bugreports from Mac users are particularly welcome at the moment.

Cheers!

Oh, P.S. If you happen to have a Korg NanoKontrol plugged in, with the default scene set, it should control ChipdiscoDJ (even the browser-based version). If not, have a glance at the MIDI implementation further down the page to see what the CC values are.

Cie · December 5, 2010, 10:08pm

Man, this is awesome!!!

Wow, what a great fun, thx!

syphus · December 7, 2010, 3:54am

Thanks Cie!

I’ve made some updates since last night - it’ll now load from LHA, GZ and ZIP, it’s got some on-screen pitch (transpose) controls, the GUI has been improved and some OSX/Linux errors have been fixed.

niNja_pWn · December 13, 2010, 6:54pm

hmm nano control eh? So would this work with the Kontrol49? How would one set this up to a midi controller or… something to control it? I’ll have at this when I get home FORSURE!! Actullly heard about this first on Jenoki’s site… KILLER!!! you rock Syph!

_o0m

syphus · December 13, 2010, 7:30pm

Cheers ninja! Kontrol49 - it should work fine. Further down the page (the page with the applet on it) is a list of MIDI CC numbers; I’m guessing Kontrol49 has a program similar to the NanoKontrol config app…where you customise the controllers and write the data to the hardware. If so, you just need to set the values to your desired hardware controls, choose the MIDI device from the dropdown menu in ChipdiscoDJ and you’re good to go!

niNja_pWn · December 14, 2010, 5:14am

F U C K Y E S ! ! ! !
You have NO IDEA how much this complements whats going on here in Winnipeg atm. This will benifit and help evolve my personal work anyway!! Thanks man!

niNjAH!