CHIPFORGE

A neon-soaked music workstation built natively for Linux and PipeWire.

CHIPFORGE combines a tracker, synthesizer, drum machine and reactive visualizer into one fast, strange little machine. Generate a complete theme, mutate it, reshape it and let it evolve while keeping the original musical idea intact.

Built for chiptune, filthy 808s, classic hip-hop, vaporwave and lo-fi beats.

Features

• 28 musical styles across chiptune, 808, vaporwave and lo-fi banks
• Six synthesized tracks: drums, bass, keys, lead, percussion and atmosphere
• Flow Lab for controlled randomness, harmonic movement and genre blending
• AUTO mutation at musical boundaries
• Every eighth variation returns to the primary theme
• Editable waveforms, filters, drive, warmth, wobble, sub-bass, boom and dust
• Clean oscilloscope plus reactive vaporwave and lo-fi visual scenes
• Tracker, performance deck and fullscreen visual modes
• Project saving and recovery
• Export master WAV, individual stems, MIDI and project data
• Fully synthesized sound—no external sample library required

Linux-native

CHIPFORGE is currently built specifically for modern Linux audio systems.

Requirements:

• 64-bit Linux
• PipeWire audio
• Desktop graphical environment
• No Python installation required

Current release

This is the first paid Linux release of CHIPFORGE. It has been tested through its generation, synthesis, mutation, persistence and export systems, but hardware and Linux distributions vary. If something breaks, report your distribution, desktop environment and PipeWire version.

Put on the headphones. Light the fuse. Forge something.

Open Source MIT License