If you were lucky and had well-off parents in the early 1980s, your home computer had a sound chip on board and could make music. There were a variety of chips on the market that combined in some form ...

Please take a moment out of your busy day and enjoy this video of ‘The Matrix: Reloaded’ with old school 8 bit sound. YouTube user Phillip Raupach created this awesome mashup of fight scenes with the ...

We've seen movies like Kill Bill and Blade Runner turned into 8-bit video games, but YouTube user and San Francisco State University student Phillip Raupach has decided to do something different ...

Clones of Shulgin's MIDI machine are available for $500, bling not included. View Slideshow When Russian musician Alexei Shulgin takes the stage, he does so with a computer keyboard strapped across ...

In the basement of a Bowery Street bar in lower Manhattan a musician was working the crowd like a younger (and geekier) version of Keith Richards. Slung waist high was not a guitar, but a PC keyboard ...

Those who grew up playing video games from the 8-bit era will likely have various of the theme tunes from those early arcade classics – including some of the Atari games now playable on the Web in ...

At a time when many home computers included sophisticated hardware used to generate music and sound effects, IBM's first PC - designed primarily for small business use - only came equipped with a ...

Musical platformer Sound Shapes gets three new sound packs today, expanding the game's rich composing tools with acoustic sounds, drum kits and chippy 8-bit bleeps and bloops. In addition to those ...

Unlike video tech, which seems to change every 10 years or so, audio has stayed largely the same for decades. If you bought a decent microphone and interface a decade ago or more, there’s a good ...

We've rounded up some of the best (and still affordable) products for you to get the most bang for your buck. Read now Encoding has always been part of digital audio. Lossless formats encode ...

Image © aliceazzo [http://aliceazzo.deviantart.com/]. When it comes to audio effects, you have your delay, reverb, chorus, phasing, and the rest that were derived ...

Screenshot of "The Adventures of Benjamin Franklin," featuring 8-Bit Ben. The retro 8-bit video game is designed by the Franklin Institute to accompany its current exhibition, "Game Masters." ...