Punchpak | The Synth of the Nintendo Entertainment System

Punchpak | The Synth of the Nintendo Entertainment SystemPunchpak is a collection of sounds created from the 8 bit synthesizer chip on the classic Nintendo (NES) gaming console. Puremagnetik sound designers have extracted this collection of blippy waveforms from the internal synthesizer of an NES and reprogrammed them as an Ableton Live Pack, Kontakt Instrument and Logic Library. The NES board supported a total of five sound channels. These included two pulse waveduty cycle (12. 5%, 25%, 50%, and 75%), with

– generate movement automatically

Waveframe is an advanced wavetable synth based on Ensoniq’s unique Fizmo instrument

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Decimation Tools Volume 1 is a collection of advanced bit processors

• Can produce compact clusters of textures or elongated

these in-the-moment

• A set of electronic and acoustic percussion sounds

​Frank​ then processed these through tape loops and his granular Csound program

The Buchla Music Easel was chosen for its Vactrol filter

• Requires Ableton Live 8

It includes Cloudmaster

• Logic EXS version includes channel settings with Logic effects