M8 Tracker Wavsynth & Gameboy Sound Comparison
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- Mixing between a Gameboy running LSDJ and an M8 Tracker both playing the same song with similar sound design. Forgive my horrible mixing/fading skills. Listen with headphones to hear the differences in detail.
Song is Cheeseburger Avenue by Disposable Planet.
![How I Built My First Gameboy Synthesizer [with LSDJ]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/i3lXi8uRD4A/mqdefault.jpg)
![How I Built My First Gameboy Synthesizer [with LSDJ]](/img/tr.png)
I understand you're doing a sort of scientific comparison but this as a DJ setup is pretty intriguing!
hey that's a great idea!
i'm just impressed by how good that song sounds on the DMG, great job. loved the track
Thanks! I’m proud of that one!
Brilliant! M8 sounds better, but only because the bass is better defined. The Rev1 Gameboy always had better sound than the later models, but the M8 is a ultimately better as it can do so much more. Timothy Lamb is genius. Top tune. Love it!
Good comparsion. I think Trash 80 put a lot of love into the m8, he has probably deep dived lsdj enough to write the wav algorithm enough. btw love those little mixers. Do miss the days of rocking with 2 DMGs and the little gemini mixer.
That's an awesome comparison. Such a sweet track. The Gameboy does keep up with the Dirtywave, it's sweet that both of them are exactly synced and playing their respective parts well. Awesome track!
Great comparison video, sounds like the Gameboy has a deeper bass sound.
Also awesome song man!
"PORT OUR LOO" strike again...lol
Good track, i see a platformer video game with some neon-fluo colors in my mind hearing this at 2 in the night...
cool comparison! was considering doing the same thing but you covered it :)
thanks nmlstyl! trickiest part was trying to get the LSDJ WAV channel crunch to translate to the M8. But we need more LSDJ to M8 translations! I personally wan't to hear an M8 version of "Can't Stop Us" by Chipzel
This song is so good... I'd love to know a bit more of what sounds you get out of which waveform. I know the basics but it's hard to know for me what the limitations of the GB were, so it's hard to create gameboy sounds with the M8! In any case, great great job!
Thank you! The song was first an LSDJ tune then transcribed to M8. I used all wavsynth with very little or no filters to keep that raw DMG sound. On the GB the bass is several instruments being alternated between on the wav channel with some pulse accents to give it some life during the bass solo. The rest is pulse instruments and noise drums with a sample for the snare layered over a noise envelope and a wav kick. The magic is in the arrangement however not the sound design for this particular tune so that’s why I think it translated well from LSDJ to m8
@@DisposablePlanet Ah great thanks so much! Yes I thought so, the arrangement makes it great here too. Truly a great track!
Very awesome sound comparison! Kick ass tune too!! 🤘🐀
Ah fuck sake why didn't I order one.
preorder slots periodically open as some people occasionally cancel. It’s rare but it does happen. Are u in the discord?
@@DisposablePlanet Nahhh I guess I should. I'll get onto that... Thanks! Ordered a Teensy to try out the headless mode in the meantime.
Awesome, thank you very much for this. I definitely prefer the real deal.
whaat? that's impressive. GB seems to be a tiny bit more dirty and has some frequencies in the lower mids that are a bit different and stronger. I think.
yeah the WAV channel on the DMG is hard to reproduce especially that thick low end (but that's not to say the M8 can't be a low end beast as well!)
Either way it sounds dope!
holy cow dude this slaps
Thanks so much! I was digging your M8 music earlier today! Always good to discover any M8 bangers popping up across RUclips
Thanks mate, and yes it's all about the bangers :)
This is all kinds of cool! ❤️
Impressive and good comparison. One question: how did you recreate the noise channel of the game boy on the m8? Is there an equivalent instrument where the same values reproduce the same sounds (more or less) ? That's one of the things i really miss from the original lsdj and i didn't figure out how to recreate it properly. Thx
Yes the M8 wavsynth has two noise oscillator options in addition to the waveforms. Pitched noise (which can be used to create the higher more metallic pitched values of the gameboy noise channel) and just Noise (which can be used to create the white noise). The values are not exactly equal sounding. It’s a sort of thing you need to recreate by ear in a “salt-and-pepper to taste” sort of way. The trickiest part of transcribing my Cheeseburger Avenue track to M8 was recreating the proper bass sound with cutoff automation in table as opposed to using the LSDJ Wav instrument to do that slight growlyness. The pulse instruments were easy to recreate.
@@DisposablePlanet Thx for the quick reply. I will try to figure out what i can do with the pitched noise and noise type oscillators and L/R panning. (I was soooo hoping there was a very convenient way of transcribing the lsdj noise to m8)... Your track is a very lively piece of music. Quite enjoyable.
Damn, that’s some fat bass out the DMG
Awesome thanks, how long did it take you to make the songs twice?!
@@jodybigfoot about a week or two to make the original with LSDJ then a day or two to transcribe to the M8. Thanks for listening!
Awesome video, man. How did you sync the GB and the M8?
Thanks! No sync. Took about six tries but was able to time it just right. MIDI would be another option of course. Not sure about analog sync if that is supported yet.
@@DisposablePlanet oh alright, you managed to sync them perfectly! Good stuff. Can’t wait for my M8.
I'm gonna need another m8 and that mixer 😂
For me sound is more lofi on the original Gc but sounds better. By the way the m8 device is absolutely amazing. I hope to get one in my hand one day. Fortunately there is the headless version.
I'm the opposite - I prefer the cleaner more easily separated bass on the M8 - but also the crunchiness on the DMG bass in this video is partly due to some differences in sound design - it was not possible to do a close one-to-one reproduction of the WAV channel like you can with the Pulse channels.
Actually prefer the m8,slightly less crunch but still crispy with good clarity
this is so sick omg 😳 do you have the tracker files for this available to download for the m8?
I haven’t bundled the M8 project for this but the LSDJ .sav file is available as a bonus download from Bandcamp :) disposableplanet.bandcamp.com/album/kardashevs-brain-ep
Hey - update - I recently put this track’s M8 bundle in the #resources channel of the dirtywave M8 discord. So if you’re still curious you can find it there…
Awesome comparison! I was planning doing the same thing with one of my own tracks as soon as the M8 arrive, re-creating a song on M8! Is there a way to build/buy a cable to sync them together? If so my world would be complete!
i think a built/bought DMG to GBC link cable with an arduinoboy pro hooked up to MIDI cable 3.5mm into M8 would do it - not sure if the MIDI type needs to be converted (M8 is type A i believe). Don't quote me heh - I want to try that setup too
Reppin Kitch-Bent
Those rubber wristbands make good shock absorbers when manhandling gameboys I find
Now do it Chopped & Screwed style!
How is your grey Game Boy so clean? Mine has this constant whine on the audio output : (
Modded to have a line out instead of the regular headphone jack through the built in gameboy preamp. You can search for “internal DMG prosound mod”. It’s possible to install a second jack or just alter the existing one.
@@DisposablePlanet Thank you! That info is very much appreciated! = )
@@rhythmdroid anytime! thanks for watching
Gameboy.
It looks like your high freq eq on the right is slightly higher than on the left channel. And your lows are slightly higher on the left than the right. It’s not a fair comparison unless they are exactly the same. Actually for sound comparison like this you should just leave the EQ flat so it’s not a factor at all…
You’re absolutely right - I probably should have titled this “Song Comparison” or “Sound Design comparison” because what I was trying to do was match the sound quality and feel of the song (which was composed and designed originally in LSDJ and then transcribed to M8 where the process of designing the sound is different). I was hoping if I matched it as closely as possible it would allow for any tiny differences to come to light. That is why the trim, EQ and limiter(on the M8) is different between both devices (those are the usual settings I would send it into my computer with to record)- to allow for the song to sound as close as possible on one device as it does on the other as opposed to comparing both with flat EQs. Maybe this was not communicated in the title or description.
LMAO HOW DARE YOU
"Forgive my horrible mixing/fading skills"
*slams the fader all the time 😂