Renata NES Sample Pack #1

Renata NES Sample Pack #1

The core kit: the general palette, in C and G.

200 one-shot samples made on a Nintendo Entertainment System's 2A03 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 NES replay

routine into an emulation of the 2A03 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 NES Sample Pack 1", 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

The one to start with. Squares at three duties, the third waveform, chip

arpeggios, three-channel pads and a full drum kit - the sounds an NES tune is

actually built from, at the pitches most tunes sit at. If you only want one

NES pack, this is it.

  Bass roots      A1 D2 G2 C3

  Lead roots      C4 E4 G4 C5

  Chord roots     C3 F3 G3 A3

  Pluck roots     C3 E3 G3 C4

  Bass techniques square, duty 25, duty 12, alt wave, octave, stack, long, hard

  Lead techniques square, duty 25, duty 12, slide, trill, octave, stack, echo

THIS IS ONE OF FIVE

There are five NES 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 1 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