Chipmunk is a chiptune sound tracker for Windows, MacOS and Linux.

Music for retro systems like Commodore 64, MSX, Game Boy, Sega Genesis, etc. can be composed using Chipmunk from a Windows, MacOS or Linux desktop computer.

Chipmunk emulates the original sound hardware of retro systems. Music produced can be exported as a wave file or as a VGM file to play it directly using original hardware.

Project status

Chipmunk is in an early development stage, no public build is available yet.

Some of the planned features

  • Solid and friendly UI
  • Classic retro systems sound chips emulation
  • Instruments macros
  • Full do/undo functionality
  • Plugins support for third party sound chip core emulations
  • Real-time multi user remote collaboration
  • Public format song files specs
  • Export songs as WAV and VGM
  • MIDI in controllers
  • Audio APIs: WASAPI, ASIO, DirectSound, Core Audio, Alsa, Pulse, OSS, Jack

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