ZX Spectrum 1-bit music: Startip 2 (Tim Follin, 1987)

ZX Spectrum 1-bit three channel music by Tim Follin. Recorded from the real hardware.
Came out in the Your Sinclair magazine issue 20/1987 page 55 as a type in program listing.
www.worldofspectrum.org/showma...
Yerzmyey says about 1-bit music:
Many people think that attaching AY chip into ZX Spectrum was a regress. AY has only 3 channels of sound and pretty simple square wave based synthesis, whereas music generated by Spectrum's native sound-source, the Z80 chip (with help of ULA chip) was expandable to even 8-10, even 12 channels (software mixing) and it was able to generate really interesting envelopes.
This music has been written by Tim Follin. I strongly doubt it would sound good on 3 channels only and simple square-wave synthesis.
What is interesting, he has never made such great songs for any other music-chip or other platforms.
And I say:
TIM FOLLIN IS A GENIUS!

[@iloveesr]

Tim Follin was an absolute genius. I can remember loading this up for the first time sitting with the beeper pressed against my ear. Thankfully it's a little less painful to hear well these days.

[@danielwang7793]

Born December 1970, 16 yrs old when this was published. Wild.

[@antjarvis]

Yes indeed, Tim Follin is awesome.

[@JonathanZigler]

You can do a lot with 1 bit it turns out.

[@Plasmariel]

Tim can do anything

[@trashbird8526]

you can't. tim can

[@tornadoman6373]

@@trashbird8526 I can.

[@bloodyidit4506]

​@@trashbird8526 tim is no legend, he is just someone who says "I can", unlike you lol

[@lowmax4431]

Pulse width modulation will get you there.

[@pixelraster9588]

FOLIN
YOU ARE BECOMING TOO POWERFUL

[@madspiral]

Been searching for this for years!!!!!! Typed it in myself back in the day

[@RichBoardman]

Likewise. Blew my mind when I finally RANDOMIZE USRed it :D

[@dancingdude32]

This is a chip tune masterpiece

[@FukiMakai]

The most Coltrane-like tune by Tim Follin. Also with a mix of excerpts of many previous ZX musics by him.

[@djungelskog2654]

if you don't believe this is one of the coolest things on Earth, you probably don't like technology that much

[@m_5373]

*Tim Follin Legend!*

[@danielwang7793]

Tim Follin at age 16.

[@unknown6390]

Biblical. Think about this being a long lasting relic of humanity. Technology is magic

[@frenchman8820]

What the bee starts playing in order for me to spare its life

[@mikeynma]

So many memories...I believe this was in YS along with that rainbow thing by dominic robinson :)

[@4nna5]

sublime

[@jamesfmackenzie]

Really nice

[@novostranger]

Drum and bass sample

[@rdctd7549]

oh wow

[@alnX99]

🙏

[@aki_128]

[@waffielz3106]

nice

[@corptrek]

Where did you hear/read that "Yerzmyey says about 1-bit music" what you attribute to him here?

[@dusseldorfkrakow]

Cool

[@pcandremf8282]

Legal essa musica

[@JohnPaulBuce]

🔊

[@cookiebinary]

yeah

[@NOWSYOUR]

Just 3 littile beepers make this sound..

[@SuperXzm]

8 bit? What am I gonna do with all those bits? Do I look like one of them fancy "multibit" guys?

[@luisangulo5332]

how

[@robotwrench]

That’s Tim Follin for ya

[@risingrevolt]

Im scared.....

[@exetone]

What were you paid to promote?

[@dickheadrecs]

when a byte is a whole album