Chiptune Sequencer vs J.J.Moon AUv3 Plugin

C.H.I.P. is a Chiptune Handheld Instrument Player: sequence and build four channel chiptune, the sound of a 1989 handheld console. Arrange is your song. Sections stack top to bottom and play in order. Drag one to move it, or drag its right edge to loop it. Pattern is where notes go. Four lanes down, time across. Tap a cell, then play a key or a drum pad to fill it. Effects come from a menu you can read, so you pick Arpeggio, major instead of memorising a code. Sound is the synth. Every control has a plain name, a sentence saying what it does, and a button to hear the result. There is a preset library if you would rather start from something that already works. Song is everything else. Tempo, tuning, the mixer, saving, and export. The whole interface is drawn a pixel at a time, in the style of an early nineties desktop. Have it in grey, or behind a green LCD. Every sound is made as you play. Nothing streams, and there is no sample pack hiding in the background. Two pulse channels, a wave channel you can shape, and a noise channel, emulated at the register level so the controls mean what they meant on the original chip. Plug in a MIDI keyboard to play the instrument you are editing, and write notes straight into the grid. Export a mix as a WAV, or the song as a MIDI file to carry into whatever studio you use. There is a compare screen for the curious. Load a recording of real hardware and it lines the two up to the sample, matches their levels, and tells you how far apart they are and where. You can listen to just the difference. Songs and save files read and write in their original layouts, byte for byte, so something you write here can go back to the device it came from. Whether you want a quick lofi beat or a finished song, it is a music maker for sitting down and actually writing. Made for people who like retro sound and do not want a manual to get going.

Body, air, and string detail — the shape of a well-mic'd acoustic, without a rack of EQ. jj-moon is an acoustic-guitar curve engine in a single AUv3 insert. Four blocks in signal order, each with its own on/off, plus a master strip. SHAPE — A fixed multi-band target aimed at great acoustic recordings: rumble out, body in, boxiness out, soft mid dip, string presence, air on top. Three voices — Steel, Nylon, Flamenco — share the same knobs. One Curve amount for how far you go, Wood for body vs sparkle, Presence for the strings. This is the block the whole plug-in is built around. COMP — An optical compressor with program-dependent release. Soft by design for acoustic dynamics. One Comp knob for threshold, ratio and make-up together, plus Attack and Release. A gain-reduction meter shows what it is doing. WIDTH — Stereo micro-pitch and short delay (the same family of trick as a classic microshifter), with a Focus crossover so the body stays centred while the highs open up. SPACE — A short stereo double with gentle flutter, into a soft acoustic room bloom. Not a spring tank — just a little air around the instrument. FIFTEEN FACTORY PRESETS Default, Fallen Leaf, Fingerstyle, Piezo Soft, Stereo Porch, Close Mic, Moon Room, Strum, Curve Only, Nylon, Concert Hall, Spanish Soft, Flamenco, Rasgueado, Soleá. Save your own from the preset window; swipe left to rename or delete. WORKS WHERE YOU WORK An Audio Unit v3 effect: GarageBand, Logic for iPad, AUM, Cubasis, BeatMaker, and any other AUv3 host. The included app is a working player — six acoustic demo parts are bundled (steel + nylon), or run your own playing through the microphone. The panel is drawn procedurally rather than assembled from bitmaps, so it stays sharp at whatever size your host gives it, on a phone or a 13-inch iPad. Moonlight, Slate, Field Green, or Tweed finishes. FREE TO TRY Seven days free from first launch. No account, no signup, no subscription. After that, one purchase unlocks it permanently on all your devices. If you do not buy it, the editor keeps working and audio passes through dry — nothing you built disappears. jj-moon is an original effect. Preset names point at a feel or a place. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with any artist, label, or other plug-in maker, and does not recreate any particular recording.