MISTER BEEP

Hello. I'm Mister Beep. My 'musical beginning' ;) was in mid 80s, possibly a bit later, like 1987, I cannot remember so well, as I was a child back then. :) I was making synthetic music (chiptunes) on Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K (not mine - borrowed :) ). First I was just typing "BEEP" commands in BASIC :) (yes, I was : ) ) but later I was using mostly The Music Box editor (as it was the only reasonable choice then. If not the only). Then I thought everybody forgot about ZX Spectrum machines. However, in 2006 I got back to Spectrum (and - to be exact - I got back with its America/Portuguese clone: my beloved TIMEX COMPUTER 2048) and that's how I started to make ZX music again. I record my chiptunes and digital songs from real hardware every time. NO EMULATORS! Since the 2006 I published several albums. You can find my stuff here: http://mister_beep.republika.pl/ So, as you have probably already figured out ;) I make micromusic/chiptunes but it's not typical micromusic. As opposed to 16-bit chiptunes (PC), 8-bit chiptunes (Amiga) and 4-bit chiptunes (Atari XL, ZX Spectrum 128K, C64), I make ONE BIT music using the mentioned TIMEX 2048 (a clone of ZX Spectrum 48Kb) and its BEEPER. The BEEPER sound is generated by Z80 chip which is - with help of ULA chip - sound-source of SPECTRUM/TIMEX hardware. By default, the machine has only 1 channel of of square-wave 1-bit sound. But Z80 is also SPECTRUM/TIMEX' Central Processing Unit so due to its 3,5Mhz activity (software mixing) Spectrum 48Kb has finally: - from 2 to 9 channels, - various modulations and envelopes, - drums & noises, - digital sound, - speech synthesis, - volume (it's impossible to make various volumes in 1-bit sound actually so even this is impressive) etc... Still only 1 bit of course. I could say that everything mentioned above is theoretically impossible to make on this computer. But... it still works! ;) Like I mentioned before, I started to make 1-bit music in 80s but - shame on me - some time later I though nobody listened to 1bit sound anymore because AY chip appeared on ZX Spectrum. And then I though nobody remembers ZX Spectrum at all. ;) Hence, I got silent for many years but since 2006 - I'M BACK! ;) I hope you enjoy my chiptunes and digital (MOD-like) music. My DOWNLOAD SITE is here: http://republika.pl/mister_beep/music.html Remember - THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE. Bit. ;) Kind regards, MISTER BEEP

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