You’ve got to love that 8-bit sound. Blips and bloops and beeps magically merge together to create choppy, nostalgic melodies that remind us how far we’ve come since the first personal computers.

Learn how to create pixel-perfect retro 8-bit animation visualizers in After Effects! This tutorial guides you step-by-step ...

The chiptune music scene grew out of the original hardware, and to recreate those sounds and deliver authentic chiptune in your DAW you need some understanding of the original hardware and its ...

Because Create Digital Music has discovered a plugin for Garageband that turns your Mac into an 8 ... Check out the tutorial and leave a link in the comments to any 8-bit tracks you create ...

Nevertheless, the limitations inherent in 8-bit music (and the artists’ sometimes amazingly complex workarounds) are exactly what makes the form so fascinating. And Nullsleep is right—the ...

The Very Best's "Let Go" isn't your standard-issue 8-bit-inspired music video. While it has all the fun and side-scrolling action of an 8-bit video, the clip also has something else: It was made ...

There’s also a music filled with 8-bit Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl, Alice in Chains and Stone Temple Pilots banging their digitized heads alongside Donkey Konkey and Super Mario, with plunger in hand.

8-bit umbrella prototype makes music out of raindrops. German developer and musician Alice Zeppa has created an umbrella that uses Piezo sensors to detect rainfall and turn it into chiptunes.

Like a relentless swarm of Space Invaders, retro videogame graphics have marched into music videos over the past decade. Directors, never immune to the nostalgic allure of the pixel, have injected ...

Adding to the genre of 8-bit minigames that are as emotionally resonant as great films, Rich Vreeland’s “January” uses blocky pixels and MIDI music to conjure up the wistful nostalgia of a ...

In this tutorial we turn our attention to the more lo-fi 8-bit sounds of the NES and Game Boy and look at how to recreate them in a modern DAW. To achieve this we’ll be using Vital, which is a ...