Live remix of Amstrad CPC "Burnin' Rubber" with Atari ST YM2149 sound chip

In this video, we show a YM2149 chip remixing an Amstrad CPC song in real-time, 💯% in hardware!
TL;DR: We do this with our custom set of live Chiptune DJing tools: ACE, the *Advanced Chiptune Engine*.
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It will definitely help us going forward with new sound chips and features!

We at The Other Days are committed to provide the most authentic Chiptune experience possible on stage by composing and playing tune directly on the real hardware. We started with the Game Boy in 2012. Now we are getting closer to be able to perform and remix chiptunes from various other chips, right on stage, 💯% live, 💯% in hardware !

How do we do that❓
Introducing our WIP in the Art of Chiptune: ACE, the *Advanced Chiptune Engine*.
ACE is an innovative framework we're designing, to allow us playing and remixing other kinds of chiptunes from their actual sound chips, 💯% in hardware, 💯% real-time, 💯% live.
In this video, you can see our current version of ACE playing and tweaking the famous Amstrad CPC song "Burnin' Rubber" live on a real YM2149 (the well-known Yamaha clone from the equally well-known General Instruments' AY-8910).
See the gear list below for details!

In this video, we are able to mute and solo voices, and also change speed, just like a real DJ control deck.
We've spent incredible amounts of work in our spare-time (months and months) to achieve what you see and hear here. And yes, you've never seen this before 👀. So when we say that we ❤️ chiptune, we really mean it ! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

What's next:
ACE opens us a road to new kinds of live chiptune concerts, in which we can play and remix more of the Chiptune songs we all love, live on stage in an unprecedented and innovative way.
Our goal is to deliver a complete and authentic sound chip experience where we can play the widest range of Chiptunes, including ours, with today's technical modernity and creativity. For this:
We are adding new features to ACE to reach the next milestone: cues, loops and jumps.
We are also integrating more chips. Hint: 1982, analog, ring modulator, filters ! ;)

How you can help:
This is where you come to stage with us, this is where you can help us make great, insanely great chiptune performances!

If you like what you see, please consider tipping us some love ❤️ https://theotherdays.net/social/pp
This will let us know that we're going the right way, and encourage us going further, and help us having more time and materials.. such as especially bandages, pretty useful for burn blisters after too much iron soldering! And of course coffee, especially at 2am.
Your contribution will be greatly appreciated!

Looking forward hearing from you, take care,
The Other Days

Bonus: the gear list!
YM2149 Teensy shield from catskull: https://catskullelectronics.com/YM2149
open-stage-control modular controller: https://openstagecontrol.ammd.net
a simple Raspberry Pi 3 for the chip control
a homemade DC offset filter. Both AY-8910 and YM2149 have the nasty feature of outputting 1V DC per disabled channel: not so much a line output indeed! Most sound card can't either filter this DC offset, nor have such headroom, resulting either in saturated or annihilated mix at capture. Long live oscilloscopes for showing us what actually happened.

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