General Instrument AY-3-8910 / AY-3-8912- soundchip of ZX Spectrum (then Yamaha produced it under a licence, as YM2149 used in ATARI ST).
The chip provides stereo sound in 3 channels (left, right & stereo-base in the middle). It generates square waves & white noise (it gives 4 channels of sound on ZX Spectrum BUT then white noise hasn't its own volume and must take volume from one of square waves).
I managed to play 5 channels of sound on AY (WITHOUT any CPU's activity) only by proper synchronizing (or should I say _desynchronizing_) AY's 'buzzer' effect.
Instead of synthetix, the AY chip is able to give us 3 channels of digital/sampled sound in quality of 4-bit (check out the "tape-recorder" player on the right side of this page; songs: "DIG IT!" and "INDUSTRIAL F*CKING part 2").
Music
I play micromusic / chiptunes / lo-fi / low-tek.
Movies
SF, fantasy, horror. And ANIME of course. And also idiotic cartoons, like Cow & Chicken.
Television
yes, I remember that stuff. Kinda cubic thing. With antenna or sommit. Or maybe it was hair...?
Books
SF, fantasy, horror. And manga. Obviously.
Heroes
Heroes...? Well, I know several of them - Superman, Batman, Spawn, Punisher, Lobo, Cpt. America, Spiderman, Ghost Rider... ENUFF!?!?
But the greatest hero *ever* is undoubtedly - Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Federation StarShip ENTERPRISE! :) :) And Doctor Who. :) Dunno who of them both is better. :) Pick one.
About me: I'm YERZMYEY - a chiptune composer (and low-tek graphician).
In this purpose I use ZX SPECTRUM and its AY/YM sound-chip.
I started to compose chiptunes/micromusic in 1989/1990.
I'm very upset that in English language most of sentences begin with "I".
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HEY! MY NEW CHIPTUNE EP-ALBUM IS HERE: http://yerzmyey.i-demo.pl/ :)
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Thanx for somebody who made a profile http://www.myspace.com/zxspectrumisalive - with my song "CUB" in it. :)
****IMPORTANT INFO****
A norwegian "band" caled 'Fitts for Fight' STOLEN many micromusic/chiptune songs of many micromusic artists including my song "Space travel" which they add some crap vocal to, and given a title "crash burn destroy".
More about these thiefs:
http://nl_hq.micromusic.net/stolengoods/
****IMPORTANT INFO****
In 2002 year I founded, with my friends [Gasman (UK), Factor6 (CZ), TDM (CZ), Megus (RU), C-Jeff (RU), X-agon (CZ): the best ZX SPECTRUM musicians] an international chiptune-band called AY-RIDERS (brother-project to YM-ROCKERZ band, great guys from ATARI ST).
We published 3 full albums (2002, 2003, 2004) and some singles/EP-albums.
You can find all the albums (free-downloadable!!) here:
http://ay-riders.speccy.cz/
On the player below (THE TAPE-RECORDER! ;) ) You can find my various chiptunes and digital 4-bit songs. (Press "rewind" and "forward" to change traxx!!) All of them made with ZX SPECTRUM 48Kb (American/Portugal version) and AY sound-chip. Some of them (the gabber/hardcore ones) are additionally mixed with real synthesizers: it was made for my project SPECTRUM OF TERROR where we (Yerz & Moran) were playing ZX based techno-hardcore stuff.
My music for ZX SPECTRUM 48Kb with AY interface (chiptunes and digitals):
My AMIGA 500 / ATARI ST / ZX SPECTRUM 4-channels MOD music:
AY-RIDERS' concert in 2008 in Prague (Czech Republic).
Who I'd like to meet: The best ZX SPECTRUM music composer - Tim Follin.
SOME OF MY PICTURES MADE ON ZX SPECTRUM 48Kb:
THIS IS MY IDIOTIC ANIMATION/COMEDY (my anim, music, screenplay etc) entitled: "LITTLE GREEN MUTHAFUCKA". IMPORTANT: The Green's text at the end of the film means: "HE-HE, FUCK!!! I'M SO FUCKING SMART!!". :)
It's my the newest idiotic animation for ZX Spectrum 48Kb, made in mighty BASIC coding-language, hahah. ;)
Trinacria 02 12" Red Vinyl Out Soon !!!! Side A1 : Format C (Dropping By) Side A2 : Teknoseeker (Painkiller) Side B1 : Hesed (Apocalyps) Side B2 : Tecne (DMWSS) mp3 preview on www.atm23.net and http://soundcloud.com/analog-tecne-model
Many thanks for all the great music tracks you have provided the Speccy community! We are proud to stream your songs at cvgm.net !! Keep up the EXCELLENT work!
Dzienkuje bardzo (...or something like that. Haven't written polish in years:3) Your music is amaaazing though *.* Hope I'll see you live next time I'm in poland d{>.<}b
Hi Yerz, Congratulations you are my very first listener. I can't believe it someone listens to my station....:-)) I will download some tracks and put it into my playlists. Thanks and keep on listening... Markus
General Instrument AY-3-8910 / AY-3-8912- soundchip of ZX Spectrum (then Yamaha produced it under a licence, as YM2149 used in ATARI ST).
![Hesed [Tecnè]](http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/84/s_0811a8d62ab14826bf5530ea9530d5f0.jpg)
