Renata C64 Sample Pack #2

Renata C64 Sample Pack #2

Warm and dark: the 6581's filter doing the work, at length.

200 one-shot samples made on a Commodore 64's SID sound chip. Not

recorded off a game, not ripped from a tune, not a neural network's idea of a

chiptune. Every file here was produced by running a real C64 replay

routine into an emulation of the SID and recording what came out of it.

That matters for one practical reason: you can use these commercially without

wondering who owns them.

WHAT YOU GET

  Drums    56

  Bass     32

  Lead     32

  Arps     28

  Pads     20

  Plucks   16

  FX       16

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  200 WAV files, 44.1 kHz, 16-bit, mono

READY TO WORK WITH

Every pitched sample has its note in the filename, so you know the root before

you load it - no guessing, no tuning by ear.

Every file is peak-normalised to -1 dBFS, DC-corrected and faded at both ends.

Nothing clicks when you trigger it.

Every filename starts with "Renata C64 Sample Pack 2", so when a sample ends up

in a folder with three hundred others you can still tell where it came from.

WHAT'S IN THIS ONE

For anything that wants weight and space. Everything here is routed through the

6581's nonlinear filter with the cutoff low and the resonance up, the notes run

long - the bass is 840 ms against pack 3's 360 - and the drums are deep, with

kicks that take almost a second to die. Chords are minor, diminished and

tritone. This is the pack for slow, heavy, filtered music.

    Chip model      MOS 6581

  Bass roots      D1 A1 D2 F#2

  Lead roots      D4 F4 A4 D5

  Chord roots     D2 A2 D3 A#3

  Pluck roots     A2 D3 F3 A3

  Bass techniques filtered, filter sweep, wide pwm, sub, triangle, hollow, fall, soft

  Lead techniques filtered, filter sweep, triangle, wide pwm, hollow, fall, soft, vibrato deep

THIS IS ONE OF FIVE

There are five C64 packs and each is a genuinely different kit - different

root notes, different chip techniques, different drums. No two packs share a

single root note in any category, so the five together cover the keyboard

rather than repeating it. Pack 2 is not pack 1 transposed.

LICENCE

Use them in anything you make - games, videos, tracks, streams, films,

commercial work - for free, forever, in as many projects as you like. Edit

them however you want.

Credit "Samples by Renata - renatachiptune.com" where a credit is possible.

That's asked, not enforced.

The one thing you may not do is resell them as samples - a sample pack, a

sound library, a preset bank or a stock-audio listing. They have to be part of

something you made. Full licence is in the README inside the download.

MADE WITH RENATA

Renata is a chiptune studio - a composer and a set of real chip emulations for

the YM2149, SID, NES, Game Boy and Amiga. renatachiptune.com