Renata — Chiptune Instrument for Windows
Make your own copyright-free chip sounds. Unlimited, unique, yours.
The Swiss army knife of chiptune apps — built to make your own. Design sounds on real emulated chips, compose in a chip-native studio, and ship music that's fully yours.
- 300+formats played
- 10sound chips
- 7chip export formats
- 12Studio instruments
- 15,000+visualizer presets
- 100%offline
Sounds & Instruments Generator
Synthesized, not sampled — so it's original, royalty-free, and yours to ship.
Stop renting other people's sounds. Real SID (6581/8580) and AY/YM synthesis — oscillators, filters, ADSR, macros, multi-voice layering — no subscription, no shared sample packs. Everything you design here is yours.
Renata Studio
A chip-native studio for composing your own tracks.
Twelve authentic chip instruments. Arrangement and Session views, piano roll, a mixer with nine effects, automation. Everything you write here is original — and yours.
The On-Ramp
Forty years of chip music, as a starting point.
Turn a SID, NES, or Amiga tune into DAW-ready MIDI, clean per-voice stems, or a sample pack — in one click. Re-voice it on another chip: Renata re-performs the notes through the target chip's own voice. A cover, not a copy.
Conversions of copyrighted songs are cover versions — great for learning and sound design, not for release. Ownership applies to what you create from scratch in Renata.
[00:00.12] load "midnight_run.sid" .......... ok — 3 voices, PAL
[00:00.84] transcribe → MIDI ................ 428 notes · 3 tracks · A minor
[00:02.31] export stems ..................... voice_a.wav voice_b.wav voice_c.wav
[00:04.02] build sample pack ................ 14 one-shots · 3 stems · sfz · zip
[00:05.77] re-voice → Game Boy (DMG APU) ... re-performing 428 notes
[00:09.40] write "midnight_run.gbs" ......... plays in a standard emulator
// A re-voice is a cover, not a copy. Own what you make from scratch.
Eight musical outputs. Seven chip formats. One hub.
Native .sid, .nsf, .gbs and .ay exports are real executable players on our own from-scratch 6502, SM83 and Z80 drivers — they play in a standard emulator.
Light Synth
Your music — alive.
Over 15,000 visualizations. Dim the lights and watch.
One app instead of five.
| Capability | Renata | Chip trackers | Synth plugins | Converters | Players |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Play 300+ formats | ✓ | — | — | Some | ✓ |
| Chiptune → MIDI | ✓ | — | — | Some | — |
| Per-voice stems | ✓ | Some | — | Some | — |
| Original chip synthesis | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — | — |
| Chip-native DAW | ✓ | Tracker UI | Inside a DAW | — | — |
| 7 chip-format exports | ✓ | Some | — | — | — |
| Offline, one-time price | ✓ | ✓ | Varies | Varies | ✓ |
Snapshot as of mid-2026. Windows now — Mac and Linux are funded Kickstarter stretch goals.
Eight pixel-perfect themes. Tributes to the machines this music came from.
Renata's own names for its own designs — inspired by the era of the Atari ST, Commodore 64, Amiga, ZX Spectrum, Sega Genesis, NES and Game Boy, and affiliated with none of them. Every theme is original artwork on free-licensed fonts.
The Journey
One developer. Nine months. One board.
Ten sound chips brought back to life by one person — from the first YM2149 register write to the studio that plays them all. Take the flight through every milestone in an immersive 3D world.
Design the sound. Compose the track. Own everything.
One-time purchase. No subscription. Kickstarter backers get the lowest price Renata will ever be offered.
