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(From Wikipedia:) ''A '''chiptune'''This page is a stub, it may contain some inaccuraciesor chip music, is music written in sound formats where all the author apologies for this, yet you can contribute if you find such oddities or simply knows sounds are synthesized in real time by a lot on the matter.computer or video game console sound chip, instead of using sample-based synthesis''

Chip Tune It is both a continuity from the haydays of music on old 80's personnal computer/consoles and a part of the retroalso an underground electronic sub-computer mouvementgenre, or an inspiration in various musical performances.

It is also an underground electronic subgenre, or an inspiration in various musical performances.  It started as because most computers and consoles featured some sort of sound-chip.

Amstrad 8 bit computers are part of the [[AY]]-family, along the ZX spectrum, most MSX and the Atari ST (which use a YM variant), but also Oric-Atmos.

It is also to note that many arcade systems or home consoles also included an AY-family chip, as it was cheap and easy.

Atari ST (with its YM) is notable for its built-in Midi port, enabling music programation with Q-Base and spawning an entire generation of electronic home-musicians thx thanks to the power of the 16+ bit, and the fun of a decent GUI.

 The ZX Spectrum 128 and the amstradAmstrad's Spectrum range (+2 and +3) also feature a Midi compatible port thanks to their RS232/Midi port.

Compaired Compared to ZX spectrum 128 specs, the amstrad Amstrad clearly failed to impose itself on the AY-scene. Perhaps because it was less popular worldwide, perhaps because it lacks a built-in Midi Port.

*It lacks Also it is to notice that Amstrad CPC's AY soundchip has a built-in Midi Portlower clock than most of its competitor, running @1mhz while Atari ST is @2mhz or ZX spectrum128 @1.77mhz

as a result, To have MIDI on an Amstrad an external peripheral is needed, being somewhat less reliable than a directly built-in connector.

*It has heavier Perhaps Amstrad's tunes were not as complex because the computer needed more space for graphics, therefore there was less for music.(The 10KB differences in needed graphic RAM between Speccy and CPC makes a lot of difference.)

the 10Ko differences in needed graphic RAM betwen Speccy and CPC makes Of course you could manage a lot better Ram/CPU ressources by disabling the screen display or reducing it's size, yet this can't allows the use of differencethe computer as a direct Musical instrument/mixing station.

Of course you could manage a better Ram/CPU ressources by disabling the screen display(But, yet this can't allows the use of the computer as a direct Musical instrument/mixing station.there are PLAYlist utils see AYCplayer -[[AYC]]-)

As a result, no not a lot of Chip-Tune bands actually use an Amstrad computer for live performances (but the ZX spectrums from Amstrad...). Worth of notice is the french [[Ultrasyd]] who may uses an Amstrad CPC6128 alongside Atari ST and Nintendo Gameboy and actually produced some tunes for the CPC scene as well.

Here some exemples examples of AY live performances.

*The following exemples examples are live performances of computer's game classics, yet played on more traditionnal instruments and mostly inspired by C64 versions (yet you may recognise the songs from CPC too...).

Some cartridges and softwares allows software allow to use most of Nintendo's portable consoles as live instrument or Remix effects generators.

The so-called world famous Timbaland (american succesfoul American successful musical producer) was part of a controversy the day he was suited by a finnish Commodore-scener for having ripped entire parts of of one of his song into a Nelly furtado hit. I knew he was a talentless overrated robber.