Apps tagged with 'chiptune'

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  1. DeaDBeeF icon
     199 likes

    DeaDBeeF is a lightweight graphical music player created for easy playback of music and management of playlists. It supports major audio codecs and tags, global hotkeys, gapless playback, streaming audio, command line control, and has an 18-band equalizer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • KDE Plasma
    • Cinnamon
    • GNOME
    • MATE
    • Xfce
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    4.3
    Very Good13 reviews
  2. Bintracker icon
     12 likes

    Bintracker is an advanced, cross-platform chiptune music editor. Bintracker supports many different sound routines on a wide range of 8-bit and 16-bit systems as it uses Mame as an emulation backend. So you can compose for SID, AY, FM, Beeper..

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    28 alternatives
  3. OpenMPT icon
     50 likes

    OpenMPT (short hand for Open ModPlug Tracker) is a popular tracker software for Windows. OpenMPT is completely free and allows you to create and play back some great music on your computer. Based on the original ModPlug Tracker written by Olivier Lapicque, OpenMPT is free...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    43 alternatives
  4. MilkyTracker icon
     38 likes

    MilkyTracker is an open source, multi-platform music application for creating .MOD and .XM module files. It attempts to recreate the module replay and user experience of the popular DOS program Fasttracker II, with special playback modes available for improved Amiga ProTracker...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Flathub
    • Haiku
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    Layout configuration with open instrument editor
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    Copying samples/instruments between modules
    30 alternatives
  5. XMPlay icon
     86 likes

    A tiny and portable audio player. With a size of about 280 KiB it plays OGG, MP3, audio CDs, WMA and several less used formats like XM, IT, MOD, UMX and others. Furthermore it supports a wide range of plugins, skins and visualizations, works with tags, creates media library from...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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    112 alternatives
    4.2
    Very Good6 reviews
  6. Cave Story, or Dokutsu Monogatari, is a Japanese freeware Metroidvania side-scrolling Metroidvania platform-adventure game developed by Studio Pixel . It has been translated into English by Aeon Genesis Translations.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • RetroArch
    • Internet Archive
    • Haiku
    • AmigaOS
    • Playstation
    • Lakka
    • Nintendo Switch
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    41 alternatives
  7. PICO-8 icon
     16 likes

    PICO-8 is a Lua based fantasy console for programming, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs. The app boots to a shell prompt with easy access to scores of game building tools.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Raspberry Pi
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    30 alternatives
  8. Magical 8bit Plug 2 is a VST plugin that synthesizes the sounds of 8-bit gaming consoles like the NES including modular pulse waves, pseudo-triangle waves, and 4-bit random and 1-bit pseudo-random noise.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    Magical 8bit Plug 2 GUI
    2 alternatives
  9. BeepBox icon
     7 likes

    BeepBox is an online tool for sketching and sharing chiptune melodies. Its simplistic interface keeps more advanced tools hidden until they're needed while empowering users with accessible scale and key settings to help get ideas recorded fast.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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    7 alternatives
  10. NES VST icon
     1 like

    The NES VST is designed to emulate the 8-bit sounds of the Nintendo, remaining faithful to the specifications of the 2A03 chip.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    NES VST's UI
    10 alternatives
  11. Prototracker icon
     7 likes

    Prototracker is a fakebit chiptune tracker that uses a single-oscillator synth with 256 preset waveforms. Macros are used to create instruments and keyboard shortcuts are similar to the familiar Protracker.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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    21 alternatives
  12. Picotron icon
     1 like

    Picotron is a Fantasy Workstation: a self-contained creative environment built for imaginary hardware. Create cute Lua apps that can be run inside Picotron as windowed userland processes, shared as cartridge files, or exported to stand-alone HTML apps.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Raspberry Pi
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  13. 1BITDRAGON icon
     2 likes

    1BITDRAGON is a music composition tool with a die-hard focus on simplicity, using a very familiar, pattern-based interface where users doodle shapes on a piano roll to create melodic tunes. The app includes 255 instruments and 275 drum samples so you can make a ton of music...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    6 alternatives
  14. Klystrack icon
     6 likes

    klystrack is a chiptune composing tool that uses klystron. It is comparable to AHX on the Amiga, using a tracker interface with a powerful sound engine.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    9 alternatives
  15. GoatTracker icon
     7 likes

    This is a crossplatform C64 music editor. Supports output via Dag Lem's reSID engine, the HardSID 4U USB device & HardSID soundcards or CatWeasel MK3.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  16. Chipmachine icon
     2 likes

    Chipmachine is a fullscreen demoscene/retro Jukebox/spotify-like music player. It uses instant incremental search to locate songs in it's song database -- meaning you don't need to download or add music files yourself.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    13 alternatives
  17. Dn-Famitracker is a fork of 0CC-FamiTracker that incorporates numerous fixes and features. The meaning of the name "Dn" is "Derivative n", which alludes to this fork being the nth derivative of the original FamiTracker program.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    7 alternatives
  18. BZR Player icon
     4 likes

    A small music player that can play more than 640 file formats! even the retro & old game console's music files like c64 (sid), atari &... with lots of good features like archive formats support, Pattern viewer, Normalizer, Reverb, Pitch, Visualizers &...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    44 alternatives
  19. Droidsound icon
     2 likes

    Droidsound is a free multi-format music player for Android devices, made by Swimsuit Boys. It is available for free and can play several old and new formats, including MOD, SID, XM, MP3, SNDH, S3M, IT, NSF and VGM/VGZ.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
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  20. ZXtune icon
     2 likes

    Player of computer music from ZX Spectrum, Amstrad, Sam Coupe, PC, Amiga, Atari, Acorn, C64, SNES, Nes, Sega, GameBoy, TurboGrafX, MSX.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Raspberry Pi OS
    • Raspberry Pi
    • Haiku
    4 alternatives
  21. LSDSNG Swap icon
     2 likes

    LSDSNG Swap is a common location where 8bit chip musicians can get together and swap source files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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