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A developer completed a project demonstrating high-quality digital audio playback through the ZX Spectrum's basic 1-bit beeper speaker, present on every model of the machine. The technique was verified working on original 48K hardware, a modern Omni 128 clone, and multiple emulators including Fuse, EightyOne, Zesarux, Spectaculator and Clock Signal.
Roland has released Melody Flip, a digital audio workstation plug-in that uses generative AI to create musical building blocks rather than finished songs. The tool draws from roughly 250 genre-based 'Palettes' to generate melodies, chord progressions, basslines, or drum patterns, either from scratch or based on a reference track fed in by the user. Outputs come as simple MIDI loops with basic instrument sounds, meant to be exported into a DAW and refined with other synths.