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Plugins (VST, AU, RTAS) for 8-bit sound

To use these virtual 8-bit sound synthesizers and effects, you need a plugin host like FL Studio, Renoise or others... For info, SAVIhost is a good free standalone VST plugin host for Windows. Perfect to test VST plugins !

A bundle of experimental GUI-less VST2 plugins for 1-bit sound synthesis and processing. Current version includes two FX (bitcrushers of sort), four drum machines, and seven tone synths. [mp3] audio demo by Shiru

Commodore 64 (C64) soundchip emulation. It emulates the SID (MOS Technology 6581) soundchip. The ZIP archive contains an old version too (yellow skin). [mp3] audio demo by Odo

This is a very compact bit/rate-reducer vst effect with pre- and after cutoff filters. [mp3] audio demo by Virtual Creations

Nintendo Entertainment System (NES/Famicom) soundchip emulation. [mp3] audio demo by e0032

High quality AY-3-8910/YM2149F sound chip (ZX Spectrum 128K, MSX, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST) emulator with VST interface. Capable to load, edit, and play Vortex Tracker II instrument and ornament files. Provides a few optional enhancemens to the original chip capabilities. [mp3] audio demo by n1k-o

Commodore 64 (C64) soundchip emulation. It emulates the SID (MOS Technology 6581) soundchip. Note: I can not share this product here because the licence unauthorised me. (Woolyss) [mp3] audio demo by 8BN

Commodore 64 (C64) soundchip emulation. It emulates the SID (MOS Technology 6581) soundchip. This version is the update to the popular basic64, redesigned from scratch, with many improvements, new features and all new presets. basic65 was co-developed with sink, who also made the amazing presets. Note: I can not share this product here because the licence unauthorised me. (Woolyss) [mp3] audio demo by De La Mancha (DLM)

An 8-bit drum sampler with randomization functions. Over 500 samples from classic arcade games. [mp3] audio demo by Dan Sun (VSTi used: Peach and BiT BOX)

Old consoles soundchip emulation (Noise). [mp3] audio demo by Jikoo

The Bitsmacker is a digital distortion swiss army knife for applying digital crust to your otherwise pristine audio signal. It Can simulate vintage samplers, classic video game systems, and other lo-fi paraphenalia. At extreme settings, it warps your audio with power you couldn't get from a stomp box or full stack.

Bleep is a free VSTi synthesizer plug-in for Windows which inspired by the sound of MOS Technology SID from Commodore 64 (C64). At the same time Bleep is not emulator of this chipset but only partially similar to its architecture. [mp3] audio demo by the official website

It emulates SPC700 (the S-SMP's integrated 8-bit CPU core manufactured by Sony with an instruction set similar to that of the MOS Technology 6502 (as used in the Commodore 64 and Vic 20, Apple II, BBC Micro and the original NES). You can import .spc super nintendo music track and use the instruments contained. [mp3] audio demo by Jimmy52905

This virtual synth produces old school electronical sounds and features a graphical wavetable editor. Chip32 has many midi control options, described in the readme. Additionally, there are an ADSR envelope, a basic filter and a bitcrusher. Good to emulate Nintendo Entertainment System (NES/Famicom) soundchip ! [mp3] audio demo by DjKlzonez

A GUI-less MIDI processing plugin that turns full chords into proper chiptune arpeggios using pitch bend messages. Requires target synth plugin to support pitch bend depth of at least 12 semitones up/down, and instant response to the pitch bend changes (without smoothing), so it does not work with any VSTi. Confirmed to work well with 1bitstudio, VST2413, and VT2i plugins.

A counterpart for ChipWave, drum synth plugin sharing the same concept, but for drum sounds. It is capable to produce a range of sounds between 1-bit, chip tune, classic analog drum machines, and more.

A synth that blends characteristics of many old sound chips, such as AY-3-8910, SID, POKEY, with features of equally old subtractive synths, providing you with idealized versions of classic chiptune sounds and more.

A bitcrusher plugin that emulates specific distortions of the Famicom/NES DMC channel. Useful when you want to make NES-sounding sampled drums.

Decimator is a little effect plugin that consists of a bit quantizer and sample rate reducer followed by a LP/HP filter. Midi-controllable.

Commodore 64 (C64) soundchip emulation. Drumsampler with 320 samples. It emulates the SID (MOS Technology 6581) soundchip. [mp3] audio demo by Raw:audio

Dream 64 is not a sid emulator. It is just a VST plugin that can recreate sounds that are used in chip-music. It is inspired on the SID chip from the old but good Commodore C64. Of course with some extra features for the fun. [mp3] audio demo by Odo

Nintendo Entertainment System (NES/Famicom) soundchip emulation. [mp3] audio demo by Lifter

Simulator of a floppy disk drive that is used to play the old school 'floppy music'. The plugin is sample-based, with samples being exposed as normal WAV files, in case you need them to use with another sampler. [mp3] audio demo by Shiru

Geektronic is a stereo bit-crusher/decimator effect. Simple, efficient. Reshape the audio stream (2 to 24 bits).

Atari 2600 soundchip emulation. It emulates noises producted by the Atari TIA soundchip. Just turn the "sample" and "hold" dials to change the noises. the red buttons on the left (next to those tan rectangles) control the various wave shapes. [mp3] audio demo by Jikoo

Old consoles soundchip emulation. 8-bit/Chip style Mono/Poly synthesizer - Dual Oscillators - 4 Octave per OSC - Osc2 Finetune - Step Sequencer Pitch/Filter - Bitcrusher 8bit, 16bit, 24bit, 32bit - Filter Section - Amp/Filter ADSR - Harmonics Switch - Reverb/Delay - X/Y Pad - Glide and Glide Rate. [mp3] audio demo by Benalmighty (aka Benjamin Bustin)

A VST instrument using the DOSBox OPL2 emulation. The OPL2 is a simple 2-operator digital FM sound chip from the late 80s, used in PC sound cards like the Adlib and original Sound Blaster. This VST instrument allows you to program an emulated OPL2 chip. [mp3] audio demo by theycallmebruceful

Kraken is a mono-synth with two OSCs, of which one retriggers the second for each whole wave. [mp3] audio demo by µB

With LOFI you can easily downgrade your clean sounds to old dirty sounding samples. From just a little dirt, to total destruction of the sound.

Old consoles soundchip emulation. Sound is good to emulate Nintendo NES/Famicom. Note : It has not his own interface : It uses the interface of your plugin host. [mp3] audio demo by 8-BITchin'tendo

Old consoles soundchip emulation. [mp3] audio demo by µB

Commodore 64 (C64) soundchip emulation.It emulates the SID (MOS Technology 6581) soundchip. [mp3] audio demo by Baldrikk

Commodore 64 (C64) soundchip emulation. It emulates the SID (MOS Technology 6581) soundchip. The waveforms are sampled from a real 6581 SID chip and the arp gives that retro gamer effect. Note: I can not share this product here because the licence unauthorised me. (Woolyss) [mp3] audio demo by De La Mancha (DLM)

monomate is a monophonic synth designed to create retro sounding basslines and shrill leads. [mp3] audio demo by Aaron Rutledge

The Multiband Bitcrusher effect is a 4-band bit reduction / downsampler vst plugin. The 4 frequency bands can be operated independently and processed through the bitcrusher and the downsampler.

Neochip is a simple subtractive synth beginning by emulating the 2A03 chip used in the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES/Famicom), and ending with an effects chain which allows you craft more modern sounds. Neochip is best suited to creating deep grimey basslines and bold retro stlye leads and pads. [mp3] audio demo by J.G. Harding

NeoRetro DX (DX = deluxe) is a synthesizer designed to create sound reminiscent of SID (Commodore 64) or 8-Bit Nintendo music, combined with features designed to enhance these traditional sounds beyond the hardware limitations of their era. [mp3] audio demo by JackDark

The NES VST is designed to emulate the 8-bit sounds of the Nintendo, remaining faithful to the specifications of the 2A03 chip. [mp3] audio demo by Matt Montag

Also known as 'NES VST Pack'. Nintendo Entertainment System (NES/Famicom) soundchip emulation. [mp3] audio demo by Damien Sturdy

Nintendo Entertainment System (NES/Famicom) soundchip emulation.

This plugin allows to create the oldschool monophonic PC speaker music, with arpeggios and stuff, in a modern DAW. With proper configuration the result can be then exported to be used in actual MS-DOS programs.

peach is a synthesizer based on the classic PSG processor of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES/Famicom). More than 30 waveforms from many memorable sounds and tones have been meticulously deconstructed and tamed. [mp3] audio demo by Aaron Rutledge

Nintendo Gameboy soundchip emulation. [mp3] audio demo by Tontonchaos

Sega Megadrive/Genesis soundchip emulation. It emulates the PSG soundchip of Sega Megadrive/Genesis. 8 voices polyphonic PSG. 2 OSCs and 1 NoiseGenerator. 1 Envelope Generator. [mp3] audio demo by g200kg

Commodore 64 (C64) soundchip emulation. It emulates the SID (MOS Technology 6581) soundchip. 12 mono voices, 1 oscillator + ADSR , Mod/12 step Arpeggiator, 1 LFO pitch + pulsewidth, 1 filter low/hi/band, 1 noise gate (for drums and effects). [mp3] audio demo by Riot Robotico

Commodore 64 (C64) soundchip emulation. It emulates the SID (MOS Technology 6581) soundchip. 1 OSC + 3 Stage Wavetable (sine, saw, ramp, triangle, pulse, noise), 1 RingModulation Section + ADSR, HARD-OSC-SYNC, 1 Filter (LP/HP/BP/BR), PWM Controller, Arpeggiator in 4 steps. [mp3] audio demo by Riot Robotico

Quantum 64 is a harsh and aliased digital synth with single DCO and multimode filter. It is inspired by Commodore 64's SID sound chip but it definitely is no emulation. The two special ingredients that make the soul of Quantum 64 are the arpeggiator and the degrader/quantiser unit.

It is a bit reduction effect using a very cool control set up that allows you to morph between five presets at a time. By assigning a midi controller you can get some really interesting automation effects in realtime. [mp3] audio demo by the official website

Nintendo Entertainment System (NES/Famicom) soundchip emulation. [mp3] audio demo by Bumpy

Retro Boy is a virtual analog chiptune synth/emulator. Chiptune or otherwise known as 8-bit music is music or sounds synthesized by the sound chip of computers, video game systems, and most handled gaming systems. [mp3] audio demo by vincenzo

Equipped with a hyper-speed mod envelope for punchy basslines and leads. Also good for frequency modulation effect and circuit bent sounds. [mp3] audio demo by Hello Robot

SE64 is a monosynth that makes retro computer game noises.

Commodore 64 (C64) soundchip emulation. It emulates noises producted by the SID (MOS Technology 6581) soundchip. [mp3] audio demo by Jikoo

Commodore 64 (C64) soundchip emulation. It emulates the SID (MOS Technology 6581) soundchip. [mp3] audio demo by L-Day

Sega (SG-series, Master System, Game Gear, MegaDrive/Genesis) machines soundchip emulation. It emulates the Texas Instruments SN76489 soundchip. [mp3] audio demo by Ben Anderson (aka Benjamin Lee Anderson)

Soft PSG is an AY-3-8910 emulator (MSX). It can emulate the PSG soundchip of Sega Megadrive/Genesis and others soundchips : Intellivision, Atari ST, Vectrex and ZX Spectrum. [mp3] audio demo by Taezo

Nintendo Entertainment System (NES/Famicom) soundchip emulation.

TAL-Bitcrusher is a common bitcrusher with some useful additions. There is a low- and highshelf EQ and a noise cross modulator included. Its maybe useful on drums, especially hats and for distorted leads.

thrummaschine is a 3-band distortion effect with independant, LFO-driven filters. Make your bass, mid and high frequencies oscillate at different speeds, shapes and pan, with whatever flavour and level of distortion you dial in for each band.

TimeMachine is a VST plugin that provides accurate reproduction of the characteristic sound of vintage samplers, such as the Commodore 64, or older Akai samplers. The (virtual) sampling rate can be varied, as well as the number of bits used for digital representation. furthermore, aliasing distortion can be generated individually for AD and DA conversion.

toad is a drumkit based on the classic Nintendo Entertainment System (NES/Famicom). Excellent quality percussive bits are here in abundance. [mp3] audio demo by Aaron Rutledge

Nintendo Entertainment System (NES/Famicom) soundchip emulation. There are only three wave types: square, triangle, and noise. There is also a simple arpeggiator for making classic 8-bit sounding tunes. [mp3] audio demo by Aaron Rutledge

Unicycle is an 8-bit wav-synth with 300 four-cycle waveforms to choose from, inspired by Niffla's Four Cycle Synth. The awesome filter is by Rick Jelliffe and there's also sample-rate and bit-rate reducers and a great decimator by Antto.

Old consoles soundchip emulation. [mp3] audio demo by Ace music

Commodore 64 (C64) soundchip emulation. It emulates the SID (MOS Technology 6581) soundchip. [mp3] audio demo by IJS

It emulates the OPM (Yamaha YM2151) - FM synthesis emulator. Excellent for Sega Megadrive/Genesis soundchip emulation ! The ZIP archive contains Windows and Mac versions, banks, manuals in English, 9500 OPM files (presets) and tools. [mp3] audio demo by Louis Gorenfeld

A GUI-less FM synthesizer based on YM2413 (OPLL) sound chip emulator. The well known low-cost FM sound chip was used on Sega Master System, FM-PAC sound expansion cartridge for MSX, and as one of Famicom sound expansion chips (VRC7). [mp3] audio demo by Keijiro

A GUI-less AY-3-8910/YM2149F sound chip (ZX Spectrum 128K, MSX, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST) VST emulator. Capable to load and play Vortex Tracker II instrument and ornament files.

This is a VST that uses code which emulates the sound chip found inside of the Sega Genesis/Megadrive systems. It's the closest you can get to the real thing currently without actually circuit bending a Genesis. If you don't know/care what a Genesis is, this VST is basically a 4 operator FM synth. [mp3] audio demo by the official website

Atari ST soundchip emulation. It emulates the Atari YM2149 soundchip. [mp3] audio demo by IJS

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