As some of you may have noticed the Software page from my blog has been removed. The Music Tech Software of the past will no longer be distributed from these pages. I have recently had the good fortune to do a project called the “Super Chip Tune Samba Band” which encourages large groups of people to come together to create and perform music. The project has attracted a lot of attention from both big companies to the people who the software is intended for, and for this I am grateful. It has also changed my focus from primarily instrument maker to more educational related software.

It has also now made me change the way I do things, no longer will I reverse engineer / hack computers to learn about them, it’s all gone, all of it, destroyed (much to my friends and colleagues despair). From now on it will be official development only. Developing for several hand held platforms with the intention to create small but useful music related software. With iPhone and Android development already underway, and with the intention of developing for DSiware, PSP Go and Symbian in the future. I feel going the legitimate and official route will allow those who are unaware of the music making on these devices more aware of their potential, and by “their” I wholeheartedly mean the individuals.

This is by no means an attempt to legitimise chip tune music, it is something I feel I need to do as an individual. I love chip tune music, I have always striven to push it as far as I can take it, from making software for all to projects like Obsolete? and this is where it has lead me.

I hope you”ll join me on my new adventure.

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New double album “The Schematic” out soon!!!

Today was good fun, I did a Super Chip Tune Samba band workshop at the BBC Blast event in Bury St. Edmunds with a local school group. They did really well, so well I rewrote song of the patterns during the lunch break and even let them come up with some themselves for the rest of the group to play. They were little troopers managing to play for four hours in total, which is incredible especially considering the temperature today.

The event was full of other activities like photography, stop frame animation and sound design, I ended the day with a performance and Q&A and good fun was had by all.

You can find out more details of the event and BBC Blast in general here.