COMMODORE 64 SID MUSIC BY VIBRANTS
WORKTUNES BY JCH IN JCH'S NEWPLAYER 1988-91
UPDATED 4 JULY 1998 BY JENS-CHRISTIAN HUUS

IMPORTANT NOTE! If you are using the SidPlay emulator, please turn up the third filter
parameter or you will not get a filter setting the tunes was meant to use!

This package should contain three archives with all the "unreleased" worktunes done by
Jens-Christian Huus in his NewPlayer in 1988-92. All of them were composed in the editor.

Archive         Players                 Years           Tunes

WRK88-89.ZIP   	v04 - v06		1988-89         16
WRK89-90.ZIP	v08 - v15		1989-90		18
WRK90-91.ZIP	v17 - v20		1990-91		18

Total		v04 - v20		1988-91		52

The released tunes and music done in other players have been moved to different archives
especially dedicated to such tunes. Please pay a visit to our homepage if you wish to 
download some of the additional SID music. Of course, you will also be able to download
all our FastTracker II music here, as well as SID music from other members of Vibrants.

To play the music you need a SID emulator called SidPlay. This can be
downloaded from http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/5147/

Note that the old 1,3 Mb package from 1995 which contained music utilities, SID tunes, and
D64 files is no longer supported. The contents of this package have been rearranged and
presented in smaller chunks instead - this archive being one of them. The new archives
are superior to the old 1,3 Mb package because I enhanced many of the tunes in several
ways. Doublespeed tunes uses the CIA timer, digitunes are fixed and the volume settings on
the samples have been adapted. Also, correct and precise years have been applied to all of
them. But most important of all is the fact that I hacked my own tunes and added subtunes
to many of the tunes which normally did not have any built-in subtunes! The reason I did 
this is that some of the tunes includes parts which are totally different from the rest of
the song. In other cases I just did it to reveal a part I liked a lot myself. Under all
circumstances it was really hard work adding these subtunes. I hope you appreciate it! :)

If you are looking for tunes in these archives and are puzzled about their absence, chances
are that I never composed those tunes in the first place. Because so many composers used my
editor and player, some of the tunes contains credits to me which the composer never 
bothered to correct. For example, the tune "Galactix", which everybody believes I did, was
in fact composed by Carsten "Scarzix" Berggreen. Suffice it to say that this tune is not in
my collection. However, you can find this tune in the brilliant High Voltage collection.

The first editor for player v04 was a very strange prototype version where no sequences
existed - all three tracks continued endlessly. It was my original idea that a packer would
compare certain parts of the music and figure out what could be split up into sequences. It
didn't last long until I realized that this would have been too cumbersome. The second
revision worked from player v05 and is basically the editor system which I enhanced all the
way up to v3.04 (with player v20). This was a more traditional editor with sequences.

The tune "Shift" is a digitune and was the very last tune I ever did on the Commodore 64. I
also made a "Crowdnoise" effect after it, which became the last sound effect block.

The music for the arcade game "Zippy Race" (also known as "Traverse USA") was converted 
for fun - I owned the real arcade machine hooked up to an Amiga monitor.

The two "Voices 1-3 (of 6)" and "Voices 4-6 (of 6)" were composed in a period where I owned
more than one Commodore 64. I simply started the two blocks at the same time on each C64.

All the music is copyright (C) 1998 Jens-Christian Huus, Vibrants.


ABOUT VIBRANTS

We are a group who specializes in music for computers. Visit our homepage
at http://www.vibrants.dk for more information about us. There, you can also
download most of the music and programs we have ever done in Vibrants.

Handle		Real name			Email

Drax		Thomas Mogensen			SORRY, NO EMAIL
Jch		Jens-Christian Huus		jchuus@post8.tele.dk
Jo		Poul-Jesper Olsen		jo@ite.dk
Laxity		Thomas Egeskov Petersen		thoege@udd.aardassem.dk
Metal		Torben Hansen			torben_hansen@sja.dk
Msk		Morten Sigaard Kristensen	msk@post8.tele.dk

Together with Jeroen "Wave" Tel, Drax and Laxity also make music in Maniacs
of Noise. Go to http://xs4all.nl/~mon/ if you want to check it out.


