It's missing some chutzpah, but I really like the idea. I have played around with nano loop [ http://www.nanoloop.de/ ] and tweakbench has some awesome freeware vstis [ http://www.tweakbench.com/ ]. Most of these attempts, however, have either a horrid UI or lack a robust feature set. While I have not done too much coding in the vst/signals area (some dsp in MATLAB I suppose) I would totally be down for coding a really solid 8-bit sound emulator. If anyone wants, feel free to ping me and discuss it -- davenport dot mike at gmail