502 files included – 8-bit game ready audio assets, over 30 minutes of pure 8-Bit epic-ness! All the awesome classic sounds you need for your 8-Bit Arcade Game! Retro Game is here to offer you the ultimate sonic stock pile to turn your old school 80’s vintage production or idea to life! All the awesome classic sounds you need for your 8-Bit Arcade Game!
LIL BIT is a sample instrument for Kontakt recorded directly from a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).
miniVerb is an 8-bit/chiptune and lofi reverb effect inspired by the sound of 80s game consoles and retrocomputers. Early consoles didn’t have much power for DSP effects, so the video game composers at that time had to improvise. The most common way to add a sense of space/reverb to the sound was to sacrifice one of the internal tracks to play a delayed version of the original sound, essentially using a slapback echo to add depth. The technique evolved and eventually, consoles started to take advantage of more power for real internal effects. miniVerb recreates that classic digital echo/reverb sound, made famous by iconic consoles such as the NES and SNES, topping it with two flters (post/pre), vibrato, and crusher (bit crusher, downsampler, pitch shifter).
A retro sound designer’s dream, featuring 251 video game sound effects in an 8 and 16-bit style. All sounds crafted lovingly with authentic sources, tools, and techniques. No ‘real’ foley effects! Everything has been designed from scratch to lovingly emulate the charm of legendary games such as Final Fantasy 6, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana and other classics of the 90s.
The golden age of video game music has inspired more than just nostalgia, It has also spawned one of the most interesting and exciting genres in electronic music: Chiptune, 8-bit, or as it is known by many, simply “chip music.” Relying heavily on legacy chips and hardware from gaming and computing systems of the past, modern artists have not only recreated the feel of music made on these early chips, they’ve brought these sounds into the present and future.
Atari-bleeps, retro modded synths and classic circuit-bent sequencing clash with Grime, Electro and Synth Pop in Chiptune. A nostalgia fuelled collection of lo-fi melodics, bit glitched drum sounds and neon-hued arpeggios harking back to the glory days of Computer Music. Take a trip back to video game nostalgia with an epic 200 drum-shots and chord stabs in custom Kontakt Instruments, we’ve gone all for ease of use and flexbility in creating your very own old-school beats and melodics in the style of Transylvania and Super Mario Bros. Inspired by the likes of synthpop pioneers like Crystal Castles and the Klaxons as much as the urban grime sounds of Kano and Boy In Da Corner, expect a solid 400MB+ of the best loop, samples, MIDI and Kontakt instruments a vintage rompler can produce.
One of the reasons people go back to playing old video games is the pure nostalgia it brings. There’s something about the 8 bit look and feel that makes people excited and intrigued once again. Included in that is the phenomenal 8-bit musical scores. Composers like Koji Kondo, David Wise and Nobuo Uematsu didn’t have programs like Ableton Live or FL Studio to write some of the most memorable scores in video game history..
