Radiomorrow, station 1 of 6
Brick Hopper
Bouncy side-scroller runs
Brick Hopper is the bright, fast station. Its tunes run at 132 to 164 beats per minute and come out in a major key most of the time, so the mood stays sunny.
A square-wave lead carries the melody over a bass line that bounces, jumps in octaves or walks from chord to chord. The second voice answers with short chord stabs, parallel thirds or an echo of the lead, and a bright kit made from the noise channel keeps time.
Every tune gets a two-word title of its own, such as Breezy Hills or Candy Boardwalk, and when it ends the station composes the next one.
The button opens the radio on this station with a fresh seed. Tempo, scale, energy and the number of notes can be changed while it plays.
The other stations
- Castle Keep: gothic action in a minor key
- Star Lanes: home-computer space shooter
- Pocket Town: slow handheld lullabies
- Sixteen FM: 16-bit brass, electric piano and slap bass
- Chip Classics: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven on four channels