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Neil Baldwin was an NES chiptune maker back in the old days, adding his scores to Eurocom's games, where he was a cofounder, and still works today. Most recently, he's created and released Nijuu, a free audio engine for NES music creation, using only the original 4 channels, "so no DPCM samples," he says. "It does have some pretty sophisticated features though, such as automated single-voice echo, voice multiplexing and a 'wavetable' virtual drum track."
Nijuu is available now at the official website (http://dutycyclegenerator.com/nijuu/nijuu.html). To further describe the software, "It's not a tracker and it's not really MML (music macro language)," says Baldwin. "You do have to type (or copy and paste) the music into text files and compile the binary data using a 6502 assembler. It can output either binary data that you can include in your own project/ROM, or .NSF files if you just want to play back the music in a...