ChipTone
ABOUT
Hello! ChipTone is a free tool for generating sound effects, mainly for games but they could be used for anything you like. I'm currently working to flesh out the sampler and the sequencer. This tool was originally made in Flash, but, uh, yeah, that didn't work out. So now it's in HTML5 instead! And Windows and Mac downloadable versions too.
I hope you find this tool useful, and if you make anything cool using it, I'd love to see!
LICENCE
All sounds created using ChipTone are FREE to use for any purpose, commercial or otherwise, under the CC0 licence.
CREDITS
ChipTone is being built by me, Tom Vian. You can reach me at tom@sfbgames.com or @SFBTom.
The colours, icons and ChipTone logo were designed by Adam Vian. He can be found at @SFBDim.
ChipTone was partly inspired by Increpare's bfxr, which was built on top of my as3sfxr, which was ported from Tomas Pettersson's sfxr. Phew!
ChipTone was built using Haxe and the OpenFL project.
Download
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Development log
- I notarized the macOS version!Jan 04, 2021
- Added a macOS version!Jan 03, 2021
Comments
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"sampler and sequencer coming soon" - two years ago
Stage3D error: Context3D not available :(
Gente como tu se merecen el cielo
Can you add history for this?
thats a better and modern SFXR!
webgl generates audio by few soundfonts, playback, but what is missing:
-playing in loop (checkbox), and optional playing ping-pong (checkbox)
-saving in other formats: mp3 at 48khz avg 128kb/s (using in our games)
This is amazing! Used this for my recent game https://af1fr.itch.io/glowgon.
This tool is soo amazing, i hope you add Ctrl + z and Ctrl + Shift + Z for undo/redo shortcut
Hey, I just downloaded and I'm very excited to get started, but I get a stage Context3D not available on windows 10 64. Anyone else run into that. Is there a minimum on the graphics card etc? Thanks in advance and I look forward to tearing into this cool apparatus :)
Is very nice! No like having to load up daw just to maek bleep bloops, yo. Is the bomb-diggy-bag-o-beez-kneez dawg mans!
That's an amazing tool. Thanks!
I've created my first game using it.
https://antonbakinowsky.itch.io/chickens-and-bats
Thank you for this! We used this for a couple sound effects on our newest game Death Orchestra! Really amazing software!
big sfb fan, and this is a perfect tool, and I recommend using sfxr along with it. Only commenting since my game design class uses this as a resource.
Surprised I forgot to comment! Been using this tool for years because it's probably the best and most easy-to-use chiptune sound maker freely available. What makes it even better is something I found out about this tool a few years ago, it's made by the same creators of Haunt the House and Snipperclips, the Super Flash Brothers! Loved both those games, they're very original!
This is so good, thank you so much for develop this tool!
Nice!! Can you make this for Linux?
Great Tool! Very Neat!
This software is bloody brilliant! Thanks so much for making it :D
There's a plan to integrate the sequencer or the sampler to the program?
Compared to sfxr, rfxgen, bfxr and others, this tool seems better organized, more visually pleasing and also easier to understand. The only thing I missed was having the ability to keep multiple sounds during creation without necessarily needing to export or save them. This is possible in other tools.
I use this tool all the time!!! It's extremely useful for prototyping sound effects. I also love the visualization of sound through the dials and the way you can customize the randomised sounds as well. Really great tool!
Just discovered this. Fantastic tool, thank you Tom ♥
I really love this.
But i can't open on win, after i backup my computer.
Has anyone solved the same problem?
it's really help full i will use it in all our future projects and give you the credits
Oh HEY awesome this is on itch now! We used this for the SFX in CockBlock Hero!
Nice utility, too bad it's not FOSS. The community could have taken it further after the creator stepped away 😔.
Coming soon! ...ish
A FOSS version?
just quoting the samples/sequencer tab, it seems unfortunately soonish is code for neva eva
is this project abandoned?
I sure hope not...
This is an amazing tool. I like to dump them in my sampler for use for sfx or in a sequence. I actually don't want more features, simpler is better for a chiptune sound, more complexity, more complex sound.
No updates since 2021? Is this project still in development?
*since 2022
Don't be an ass, all i seen was a download from 2021 for windows ap.
Why not you be a butt.
Fix?
Ugh.. FFS... any added features would be nice.
I've made suggestions in the past, there's other features they could add.
Very great UI. It's comfortable and easy to use. Great for making Sound effects =D
This is such and amazing tool! I'm a Sound Designer and I've got a shitton of audio equipment and plugins, but whenever i need a 8-bit style sound for a game i Use this. So easy to use and sounds really great!
Great tool. I used it on https://gvaliente.itch.io/varooom-3d
I've been using bfxr for a while now. Had no idea this existed. Really nice UI and great selection of tools!
this is rad
This is incredible. So easy to use that a simple button press can make a great sound (thanks to a great random seeding function that fires on a press) but with a deep toolset for those interested in some old-school chiptune synthesis. Well done. I can’t wait to dump some of these sounds into a sampler. :D
thank you so much, this tool helped me a lot realizing the sound for my Pong Clone
amazing
A fantastic tool that I should have been using for years. Thanks for your contributions! sfxr, bfxr, and this have all been amazing for indie devs!
10.00000000/10 Because it is so useful when you need a sound but you didn't see any good sounds
see you in hong kong
I love it. Do you think you might release a Linux version at some point? Or maybe it's redundant because this might work fine in WINE.