Since the Game Boy has some of my favorite DCO based sounds in the whole library (not to mention that it was Nintendo’s first system with support for rudimentary 3-position stereo panning), I would suggest that you download it right away to get your feet wet before buying the full library. So if you have the full version of Kontakt 5.5.2, Impact Soundwork’s you can get Super Audio Boy for free, which has all the Game Boy sounds from the full Super Audio Cart and all the same GUI features. Whether you’re looking to make authentic chiptune within the original limitations (the manual gives several helpful notes for those looking to go that route) or want to bring the sounds into an entirely new context (many of these sounds work great in a mix alongside modern libraries or run through filters like Cytomic’s The Drop) Super Audio Cart gives you the chance to do it all from your DAW.īefore I get into a bit of backstory and delve into the full library, I should note that Impact Soundworks recently released a small part of the library for free. You’ll find digitally controlled oscillators, FM synthesized sounds, Famicom disk station wavetables, SNES samples (not entirely unlike a more rudimentary version of Creative Labs SoundFonts) and even some of the SID sounds that filled the C64 demo scene. This isn’t “kind of the sound” or “meant to sound like” or “glossy version” of the sounds – you can actually work with the raw, unvarnished sound if you want to. It covers the sounds of the Atari 2600, Commodore 64, Sega Master System, Ninentendo Entertainment System, the Famicom (the more expandable version of the Nintendo Entertainment System for the Japanese market), Sega Mega Drive/Sega Genesis and the Super Nintendo. Super Audio Cart ($149 USD from ) is Kontakt Player library (for full Kontakt or the free Kontakt Player versions 5.5.2 or higher) that samples (in great depth) eight different video game systems from the 1970s through the early 90s. If you’ve ever wanted the authentic musical sound of video game systems from the 70s to the 90s, then take a deep dive into Super Audio Cart.
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