More 8-bit goodness with Garageband

Pixelgun

YMCK.net is a Japanese (band?) website that offers the Magical 8bit Plug, a free 8-bit component plugin for Garageband. It does old NES style synthesis really well. I grabbed a MIDI copy of the Super Mario Bros. theme off the net and with some minor tweaking it sounded exactly like the old game. This would be a great tool for creating Chip Tunes for games.

Here's a video on how to use the plugin with a link below the video to download it.
http://techuniversity.com/items/garageband-chiptunes

scitunes

This is a great find! I have been searching everywhere for something like this and I never thought about using garageband. This seriously makes my day!

Sparkyidr

If you are using something which uses vst plugins (cubase/logic/ableton etc)

http://woolyss.com/chipmusic-plugins.php

LOADS of retro sound boxes are available

perfectanswer

Great find Sparkyidr. Great site with tons of vst plugins.
Thank you!

MarkOnTheIron

Thank you very much for sharing this. I can't wait to try it! I was searching for a similar way to do the soundtrack for my TOTB4 entry and now maybe I found it! Thanks!

Pixelgun

@scitunes glad I could make your day with that.
Happy music making everyone! ^_^

Clouds

Logic's Bit crusher is pretty good, makes everything sound like it was made in 1982.

Pixelgun

Garageband has a bit crusher too though I haven't gotten it to produce anything I like.

ADSentertainment

Do you know if it works with the latest Garageband (garageband 10.0.1)? I heard that magical8bitplug is 32 bit and Garageband 10.0.1 only supports 64 bit plugins...

tatiang

It worked for me using GarageBand '11.

ADSentertainment

It worked for me using GarageBand '11.

I have the latest one that came out in like...october of 2013

KillerPenguinStudios

@ADSentertainment and @tatiang were you guys able to still download this just recently??? I just tried but when going to the page it says the account has been disabled.

Thanks in advance!

ADSentertainment

@ADSentertainment and @tatiang were you guys able to still download this just recently??? I just tried but when going to the page it says the account has been disabled.

Thanks in advance!

Garageband? Yeah, I got it for free with my laptop

tatiang

@KillerPenguinStudios Yes, right when I posted above. I went to this link and clicked on the Download Universal-Binary button at the very bottom of the page. The direct link to that button is http://www.ymck.net/download/magical8bitplug/magical8bitPlug_for_macUB_ver0.3.zip.

DDJW Studios

I ain't got a Mac so I can't try it out but can someone try it with the Back To The Future theme? I need it for a platformer.