Nostalgia in Square Waves: The Rise of Online 8-Bit Music Creators
There is an undeniable magic to the bleeps, bloops, and square-wave melodies of classic 1980s and 90s video games. Long before hyper-realistic orchestral scores and spatial audio graced gaming hardware, sound designers had to squeeze symphonies out of tiny sound chips with as few as three or four channels.
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