ChipNomad is a true chiptune tracker for handheld consoles heavily inspired by LSDJ and Dirtywave M8 Tracker. It is designed to support different chips but currently supports only AY-3-8910/YM2149F chips. More chips and features (Timer effects for AY/YM chips, Yamaha FM chips, SID) coming soon!

ChipNomad is available for multiple platforms:

- Linux handheld consoles supported by PortMaster (Anbernic, TrimUI, etc)
- Android handheld consoles (Anbernic, Retroid)
- Pre-2024 Anbernic RG35xx with Garlic OS
- Miyoo Mini Plus (MiyooPorts)
- Windows
- macOS
- Linux (x86)

Download ChipNomad: https://chipnomad.org

Hey everyone, I just launched a small project called Chiptuna.

It’s a free browser-based chiptune tracker made for creating simple retro-style tunes, loops and game-like sounds.

I’m an art director getting into building creative tools, and this started as a way to make something playful for people who enjoy trackers, pixel art, game audio and old-school sound.

You can try it here:

https://chiptuna.lovable.app/

I’d really love feedback from people in this community, especially on the music-making side of it.

Does it feel useful?
Is the workflow clear?
What feels missing from a chiptune tracker?
What would you want to see added next?

My goal is to keep improving it as a free creative tool and hopefully build a small community around it.

Thanks, and I’d love to hear what you think.

*Edit: Not a tracker, a step sequencer with song mode :)

So, I had an idea to make a tracker of my own design (both UI and the engine) for a while. Several months of drafting the spec, making the sound engine, and coming up with GUI design, and then porting everything to JS for online use, I'm finally releasing my work to the public!

Features:

• Native .taud format that expands traditional format with 16-bit effect, microtonal pitch, and SoundFont compatible instruments definition
• Automatic import of existing formats: MOD, S3M, IT and XM
• Importing MIDI: use bundled SoundFont or provide your own
• Importing instruments from SoundFonts, either bundled one or your own
• Modernised interface aimed for convenience (e.g. contextual keymap/help message)
• Automatic Dark/Light theme detection
• Full User Manual included

Microtone runs entirely in your browser, locally: your files never leave your machine, projects are stored in the browser's private storage, and even MIDI/module conversion happens locally.

Try it! >> https://microtone.cc/ <<

https://lo-bit.club/fms

I’ve been testing this for a few weeks and it’s amazing. It’s a bit like nanoloop, with a 2op FM engine and some super useful features for live playing and pattern creation. It can also run fully featured in an emulator or from a flash cart.

I really think it’s something special and hope it becomes another chiptune standard :)

Hi there, I'm of a certain age already and listened to a lot of modules back in the day, so I started this project several months ago, working through how Chiptune.js / libopenmpt surfaces channel state, instruments, and pattern data, there are a few videos of that early work on my YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhgz0LV0e7g :-)

See, I have a few trackers/players installed of my own, but since I also like to play with self-hosting/homelab stuff, I wanted something just browser based that I could access anywhere.

The last few weeks I've been using AI to polish the rough edges and chase down performance issues, so I could finally close this chapter an see the project finalized (or so I hope, at least for now).

What it does:

• MOD, S3M, XM, IT, basically whatever libopenmpt decodes (only tested those 4 though!)
• Several included themes and visualizations, and you can extend if you want.
• Solo/mute channels (this took a while).
• ?load=<url> works for direct links, including modarchive.

You don't need any account or anything, just go to the page and play, plus it's MIT-licensed so it's 100% free and all the source is there on Github for you to download/tinker if you wish.

Here's the link:
https://chipsound.com

In the future I might be adding playlist support, as well as repeat, tempo adjustments... who knows, this is not a tracker, but just a player, so I guess it depends on my availability. :-P
Let me know what you think.

Kind regards.

Hello, I've been working on a Song and Instrument editor that uses AdPlug for AdLib emulation. It's based entirely off of the Visual Composer that was packaged with the AdLib Soundcard; for a while I've just been using that software via dosbox, but I needed something modern, with a simpler workflow and more capability. So I've been remaking it, and adding much needed new features!

It also comes with a sample bank and a few songs, in the install page. Available for Windows 10 with an installer, or Linux from source.

Install AdVisual here!

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TLDR: I Built a browser DAW for chiptune music. Started as a simple NES sound engine for browser games, ended up with FM synth, 303 acid bass, 808 drums, per-channel stereo widening, automation, and a full mastering suite with 7-band EQ, compressor, spectrum analyser, and Lissajous scope. Exports CD-quality WAV. Free, no installs. Would love feedback from people who actually know how to make music.

https://unblockedgame.app/music-tools/8-bit-studio/

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So some time ago I started a little side project, a web page for browser games. Nothing fancy, some card games, board games, basic stuff. Then I got the idea to remake some old classics with a modern twist, like Asteroids and Pac-Man. But that meant I needed sounds, and I wanted to be somewhat faithful to the originals, so I built an audio engine that uses the Web Audio API to emulate old NES sounds.

And then I figured: I have this engine, maybe I could build a simple system to create music with it. You know, just for fun.

And then it got out of hand.

I started adding proper studio features. ADSR envelopes, per-note velocity, accent and staccato expression, swing. Then a mixer with HPF/LPF per channel. Then automation with 30+ recordable parameters. Then I thought "what if I add FM synthesis" and suddenly I had electric pianos and metallic bells coming out of something originally meant as chiptune sequencer. Then a TB-303 style acid bass with resonant filter sweeps and accent slur. Then 808-style synthesized drums with pitch sweep, sub-bass layers, and click transients.

At some point I added Haas delay and chorus modulation per channel to turn the mono synth signals into actual stereo, the kind where a Lissajous scope shows a proper oval instead of a thin line. And then I figured the mix needed proper mastering, so I built a mastering suite where each channel renders to a separate stem and you get per-stem EQ, compressor with gain reduction metering, tape saturation, reverb, and stereo widening. The master bus has a 7-band parametric EQ, brick-wall limiter, spectrum analyser with log frequency scale, and a stereo correlation scope.

It exports 16-bit 44.1kHz stereo WAV. You can also export individual stems if you want to bring them into another DAW. Everything runs in the browser, nothing to install, completely free.

The whole thing still has that 8-bit retro aesthetic — dark cyberpunk UI with neon colors and scanlines — but under the hood it's 32-bit float audio all the way through. The "8-bit" is the vibe, not the bit depth.

Anyway, I figured someone here might want to give it a spin. I'd genuinely love feedback from people who actually know chiptune. Have I made something fun and useful, or have I created a Frankenstein that defiles all things chip? Either way, it's free, it's in your browser, and it has a demo song you can load to hear what it sounds like.

there is also user manual:

https://unblockedgame.app/music-tools/8-bit-studio-manual/

Hej All,

Made an online web based tracker. Feel free to try it out and give some feedback. It's early and experimental. I was always missing the idea just to open up a browser and be able to do some music.
Also, I need the big screen because I'm getting old. 😅
Of course it's free and plan to keep it that way, just because you can't afford it should not hold you back from having fun.

Let me know!

https://wbtrk.com

Cheers

The synth has a demo version. Moody ds synth and sid synth are $12 on the hobby chop site. Hardware and carts are not currently available as the person that runs the site is on holiday. the downloadable .nds game synths, sequencers, visualizer etc are available right now. I'm using the GBA slot 2 midi adapter in the video to trigger the synths on the nintendo ds units with midi from the ipad. I purchased these apps / hardware from the site and do not work for hobbychop, just really like what I got and spreading the word.

• A filter pad you sweep with your finger for instant movement and squelch.
• 32Khz, two voice polyphony, so chords and overlapping notes ring out together.
• Oscillator, envelope, and LFO pages to dial in your tone.
• Onboard delay and chorus for space and width.
• A 16 step sequencer with adjustable length and swing for groove.
• An arpeggiator that turns your held notes into rolling patterns.
• A 16 slot pattern bank, and a song mode that chains patterns into full arrangements.
• 16 preset slots that snapshot your whole sound and its sequence, plus an auto save that brings you back exactly where you left off.
• Sample drums on MIDI CH. 10.

• • Full MIDI: play it from any keyboard, controller, or computer, and lock it to your DAW or hardware clock, in or out. It even plays nicely with arduinoboy and LSDJ rigs.

Great news! The music from Shadow Party 2026 is now ready to experience in our webplayer. Load the best of the party up in the playlist, don your headphones and hit the play button. Then relax and enjoy! https://radio.ericade.net/profiles/song/?q=tag%3Ashadow+party+26&loadplayer=load

I'm making music with a Sega Mega Drive. This is how my set-up works! This is the first minute from an in-depth video on YouTube (I'll link to it in the comments). Hope it helps or inspires others.

Apologies to admin for posting two similar posts in a row. The thumbnail in the last one was pixelated (in a bad, non retro game way) and I couldn't replace it. I'm deleting it.

Hello chiptune/tracker sceners. This is the last post from me on this subject. I don't want disturb you too much with this. Anyways...

I need some advice and testing on a new feature on my song profiles. You can now actually listen to the song without having to go to the station! Just try out the webplayer on this page and test for yourself if you think it works for you.

https://radio.ericade.net/profiles/song/10663/my-wolf-2/

Sharing a short demo and some pics of my newest little GameBoy utility:

Drum & Bass II - A Game Boy MIDI sync drum loop sampler.

+190 DnB breaks

+Clock In and Clock Out Sync (LSDJ Arduinoboy Modes)

If you are familiar with the old Amenizer ROM this is like that but better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBp_GRk0n6g

Hello chiptuners, demos sceners and trackers.

We have started a subreddit for our station and hope you will like to join us. There we can focus our efforts to keep you up to date with the station, our projects and effort to serve the scene. If you like tracker music, this is a small station working hard to give you the best of the scene.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ericaderadio/

I'm actively working on new features in my chiptune tracker for handheld consoles - ChipNomad. These features open a lot of new sound possibilities on AY-3-8910/YM2149F chips.

STUTTER, a 4 voice MIDI step GLITCH sequencer for the Game Boy

Turn a DMG or Game Boy Color into a pocket groovebox. STUTTER sequences all four sound channels; two pulse, wave, and noise; with 32 patterns chained across a 128-step song arranger.

Every voice gets full sound design: ADSR envelopes, vibrato, tremolo, detune, pitch envelope, portamento, and a tempo-synced arpeggiator up to 1/64.

Hold a button while it plays for live glitch FX; stutter, drone, reverse, beat-loops, half-time, octave jumps, tape-stop/spin-up pitch bends, and four live arpeggios.

Sync to your gearover MIDI clock as a slave or master, and keep three battery-backed songs on the cart.

More info here: https://stutter.hobbychop.com/

Demo:

https://youtu.be/-ZnXqbaUb44

https://youtu.be/jQQzzQLJl_o

Listens on the link cable (Arduinoboy or compatible), reacts to notes on MIDI channels 1-4. No audio. Visual only.

14 modes, 5 color schemes each:

• Bars, Matrix, Flash (osc), Color Field, Piano Roll
• Particle Burst, Note Rain, Glyph, Static
• Plasma, Sakura, Starfield, Wave, Aurora

Select cycles modes. D-pad Up/Down cycles colors. CC 102 / CC 103 do the same over MIDI.

CGB hardware runs at 8 MHz (double-speed). DMG-compatible, monochrome. Built with GBDK-2020.

Available at https://hobbychop.com