Making of C=64 Chiptunes MTV live stream show

Latest live stream recordings:

• Emulated Commodore 64 Music (HVSC)
• RAKARRACK, Carla. Playing & Mixing Live emulated Commodore 64 Music (HVSC)
• Live sess. Experimenting With LINUX Real Time Audio apps (Carla, RakaRack) playing emulated SID C64 Chiptunes (HVSC: DEMOS)

Featured

“MilkDrop 3″ – https://github.com/milkdrop2077/MilkDrop3 latest “fork” of original MilkDrop

“MilkDrop 2” (og) – http://www.geisswerks.com/milkdrop/ provides link to download WinAmp audio player with MilkDrop visualization plugin included

“in_sidplay2” 1.5.4 Play Commodore C64 music files (SIDs) https://winampheritage.com/plugin/in-sidplay2-1-5-4/222277 from Winamp Heritage – Legacy resources of Winamp media player

Ultimate C64 SID chip Portrait @ Mobile ChipTunes (HVSC) Experience:

Music videos in vertical (9:16) full-screen with audio visualisation:

• 6hrs:45min music video – vid title: #WEB_Tech_Smart#Atedoga
• 8hrs music video – vid. title: 8 Hours C64 Music SIDPlay & WinAmp Audio Visualization (9:16)

More that 10 years I’ve given up on WinAmp on modern Windows. As I remember since Windows 7 (could be wrong) WinAmp version 5.6xxx was crashing for me in every instance. I just sicked with Media Player Classic from K-Lite codec pack bundle for my multimedia daily requirements.

But, as of today I’m running a stable WinAmp v5.8 Build 3660 (x86) with Winamp SIDPlayer v1.5.4 playing latest High Voltage SID Collection 81 having audio visualisation enabled. As result of recent research on the topics of MilkDrop and WinAmp, and few test installations of it on Windows 10.

My goal was to make more efficient setup for live streaming my retro chiptunes music segment of the live presentation. From initially described in first revision of this post below.

Now, I can stream with OBS and capture “SIDAmp” playback with audio visualisation on the same PC as a base in production in whole of my video content.

Benefits

Using separate and independent OBS sources “Window capture” for MilkDrop or AVS (Advanced Visualisation Studio) and WinAmp with “Application Audio Capture” for WinAmp audio playback. Gives me freedom and simplicity to manage and arrange all these elements for different use cases inside same OBS Scenes Collection using one PC. This way audio is separate and not being duplicated or amplified, from image or video allowing to duplicate or reuse some visual elements.

Meaning that, I can position any of these window capture sources independently in a scene. Unlike case where display or desktop capture source from second PC is being used.

Where, media (video) coming from USB capture or media file source audio and video are in one ans a same container element. Creating duplicate or a clone of a media source in the same scene usually also duplicates the audio making it louder in that way but leaves only one audio source in the audio mixer.

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Setup & architecture

AVIS[MilkDrop] Station:
WinXP,
Intel Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3 GHz,
3 GB RAM,
GPU some ATI from around 2011 512MB DDR?

NotBook (EmuStation):
WinXP,
Intel Pentium III CPU @ 600 MHz,
128 MB RAM,
SIDplayer WinAmp plugin,
Commodore 64 music “High Voltage SID Collection” – https://www.hvsc.c64.org/ (Links for modern SID compatible software players for multiple platforms and other audio formats and sources)

CapStation (composite video capture NTSC&PAL):
Ubuntu Studio 22.04 (lowlatency kernel),
Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q9400 @ 2.66 GHz,
8 GB RAM, GPU AMD TURKS PRO (Radeon 6570/7570/85850 / R5 230),
with 2xPCI composite video capture cards

Tech-Demo: “HIGH VOLTAGE SID COLLECTION”on SIDAmp

Multimedia Audio Visualization DEMO Time:

Primary PC with two OBS instances on Core2 Q9600 , running Ubuntu Studio 22.04 and outputting separate streams via OBS-teleport plugin to second PC.

Captured and live streamed form i5 PC (secondary) using onboard GPU Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600 for encoding on Windows. With OBS v29 receiving both and combining OBS-teleport outputs from “primary” source PC.

And older live session video recordings

• PT.:1 – Live stream: Making of “C64 Chip Tunes MTV”, HVSC on shuffle [Season 3 #mveddylive ]
• High Voltage Sid Collection on SIDPlay & WinAmp Audio Visualization
• pt:4 – High Voltage SID Collection [C64 chiptunes]
• 5hrs random C64music from High Voltage SID Collection [Live #C64ChipTunesMTV @ #SLAedoga]
• 6hrs rand C64 music from High Voltage SID Collection MilkDrop & SID-Amp plugin in WinAmp [Live #C64ChipTunesMTV @ #SLAedoga]
• MUSIC Demos in High Voltage SID Collection [C64 chiptunes] 9 hours music
• Music games – High Voltage SID Collection [C64 chiptunes]