Instrument · Multi-chip synthesis
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Spores
An impossible multi-chip instrument for strange, beautiful and authentically digital sounds.
AY-3-8910/YM2149, MOS 6581/8580 SID, YM2612 and YM2151 synthesis in one resizable instrument. Each chip opens as its own editable mini-synth, then layers with a fictional Ghost ASIC, a drawable wavetable, a chord system, polymetric sequencing and decaying video-memory effects.
Five engines, one instrument
Layer them into a single patch
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AY-3-8910 / YM2149
AY / YM
Free programming plus ZX Spectrum 128K and Atari ST profiles — clocks, mixer behaviour, envelopes, noise, stereo options and live R0–R13 register data.
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MOS 6581 / 8580
SID
Both personalities across three voices: pulse width, combined waves, ring modulation, hard sync, routing, and model-specific filters and envelopes.
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YM2612 / OPN2
FM — OPN2
Four-operator algorithms with feedback, detuning, key scaling and LFO behaviour, including the characteristic DAC colour.
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YM2151 / OPM
FM — OPM
A separate arcade-side FM voice with its own algorithm set, scaling and modulation character — not a preset of the OPN2 engine.
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Fictional silicon
Ghost ASIC
A feedback-and-memory engine with no hardware ancestor: evolving residue, spectral leakage and unstable texture.
Tools the originals never had
Beyond chip emulation
- Wavetable Draw and reshape your own, with bit depth, folding, warping and playback controls.
- Chords Tuned chords, inversions, voicings and octave structures from a single note.
- Sequencing Three independent polymetric lanes animating pitch, level, morph and chip behaviour.
- Sprout A musical randomiser that lands on playable starting points instead of noise.
- VRAM decay Decaying video buffers, bitplanes, nibble swaps and register interference.
- Finishing Delay, reverb, speaker colour, saturation, filtering and protected output.
- Displays Reactive CRT and demoscene-inspired visuals, including a live register-bus monitor.
- Presets A factory library covering basses, keys, arps, percussion, pads and drones.
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Authentic retro tones, ambient, glitch, leftfield electronics, cinematic sound design and imaginary hardware.