Robert Kehrer has written a soundtrakker player in javascript (on github). Sound isnt perfect at the moment due to no AY-3-8910 soundchip emulation, but it's a good start !

Edouard Bergé wrote on CPCWiki about his newest utility : WAY2AY. It's an audio utility to transform a wave file to directly AY registers using fourrier transform to lower the file size output.

You can hear him (french inside) talking about this new utility on Youtube.

Jeroen tel has written a un musical remix of Cybernoid 2.

Targhan has released the finale version of Arkos Tracker v2.0 for linux, windows and mac.

There is also direct support of Arkos AT2 songs in basic with this tutorial !

Vincent GR did mix the Amstrad CPC and C64 music of the game Elevator Action.

Musik100 by BSC is an Amstrad CPC demo of a new sound engine. You will find more details on CPCWiki.

You can see and especially listen to this demo on Youtube. Listen also to this other youtube video using the same sound engine.

Dont be afraid to go to his Soundcloud page.

Cymbob did announce on Twitter the death of his friend : Ultrasyd, requiescat in pace :-( . There are informations that I would prefer not having to write about it... All the things he wrote will stay in our memories.

A new version of Mod Master XT beta 22 by FreddyV is available on Vogons. It lets you hear a lot of music modules formats on any PC under msdos even a PC XT (CGA), for example an Amstrad PC 1512/1640 or a PPC 512/640...

New features are :

WARNING: Don't use Pause, it does not work.

BSC has released the source code of Soundtrakker 128.

He is also the author of AYAY Kaeppttn!a SID player/tracker .

He is working on AY³ aka AYcubed, a new SID engine which emulates some parts of the SID sound like:

• 3 independent voices
• synthesized square and sawtooth wave forms
• variable duty cycle on square waves Stereo!

I recommand to listen to the Amstrad CPC music by Stéphane François which is composing music with a Playcity (made by ToTO), which means 3 AY sound chip for 9 channels.

A new version of Mod Master XT beta 21 by FreddyV is available on Vogons. It lets you hear a lot of music modules formats on any PC under msdos even a PC XT (CGA), for example an Amstrad PC 1512/1640 or a PPC 512/640...

If it was possible, I would vote for JB Le Daron singing with piano. To be listened to religiously.

For the pleasure of your ears, here are two musical remixes of the game International Karate :

• International Karate played with a homemade 8-bit synthesizer : the chipophone by Linus Åkesson
• International Karate (C64 cover) by SynthPeter

Richard Bannister was the maintainer of a MacOS port of the Arnold emulator, now maintained by Kevin Thacker. But he is also the author of the Audio Overload utility which lets you play VGM music files, including .AY and .YM Amstrad music files. This utility runs on MacOS, Windows and Linux.

Targhan has released Arkos Tracker v2.0.0a9 for linux, windows and mac.