DogTag wrote:

http://roboctopus.bandcamp.com/track/th … -the-world
Electric guitar with distortion, if I remember well. It sounds awesome : D
I have to try out ukulele. Its lack of bass could be an advantage...

Is there any tutorial out there to this?

Hey that's me!

For that song the guitar was actually clean and recorded through a DI box. The compression, EQ, and 4-bit sample quality make it sound kind of distorted, haha.

This song had a piano kit in it: http://roboctopus.bandcamp.com/track/your-stars-at-dawn

Piano definitely is much easier to work with than guitar. A sound with more definition works better, in my experience. Bass sounds don't work very well, and highs don't fare very well. In my experience you're best sticking to mid-range sounds. It helps to EQ out some of the bass to make the sound clearer. EQing out some of the highs seems to help reduce that DMG-bit-crush-hiss sound.

The sound is definitely lo-fi, but I think it has its own charm.  I'm actually working on some new tracks that heavily use this idea, haha. I was literally about to make a kit of e-piano chords! ^_^

The best thing to do is just experiment with EQ/Compression and different instruments. It's a bit of trial-and-error but you might find a sound you like!

Edit: for preparing and loading samples into an LSDJ ROM, I originally used little-scale's tutorial. I used Audacity though.

http://little-scale.blogspot.com/2008/1 … -lsdj.html

This gives me some nice ideas to work with! Love that track with the piano.

float.bridges wrote:

Like, guitar, bass, drums, melodica, and cello? Would it just be extremely low fidelity?

I picked up a copy of pocket music for gameboy color. Sampled instruments sound terrible.

Doesn't it take a bit more than just one sample to flat-out decide something is good or bad?

I have a flute sample ripped from Sound Club that sounds pretty decent. At least it is loud. They probably already were posted but little-scale has a huge collection of sample kits with instruments and stuff.

Like, guitar, bass, drums, melodica, and cello? Would it just be extremely low fidelity?

I picked up a copy of pocket music for gameboy color. Sampled instruments sound terrible.

Imagine playing cd quality .wavs on a Gameboy...

4-bit @ 44.1KHz seems a paradoxical, really :v

kineticturtle wrote:

Since we're listing examples here, for my flute and gameboy piece Flight of the Bleeper Bird, I had the flutist record every note on the instrument, and I made a kit for each octave. They appear pretty prominently about 2:27 into the second movement:

http://meerenai.bandcamp.com/track/flig … per-aliens

any chance you can share these kits, or are they bound by contract as is with the piece?

Those sound superclean

Since we're listing examples here, for my flute and gameboy piece Flight of the Bleeper Bird, I had the flutist record every note on the instrument, and I made a kit for each octave. They appear pretty prominently about 2:27 into the second movement:

http://meerenai.bandcamp.com/track/flig … per-aliens

any chance you can share these kits, or are they bound by contract as is with the piece?

Check this out, he recorded his guitar, I'm sure, and split it up into at least 20 different sample instruments/a kit:

http://files.exotica.org.uk/modland/?fi … spices.mod

same practice, but obviously the gameboy's capabilities are lesser than an Amiga's, etc.

http://gameboy.modermodemet.se/en/demo/113

Right on! Thanks!

You're welcome.

Like, guitar, bass, drums, melodica, and cello? Would it just be extremely low fidelity?

Also, the drums are pretty easy to make through GameBoy sound, just pick through the sounds in the 4th Channel of the audio.
Best selection: Try sounds that sound like *chow* *ch* (reference Pokemon Gen 1 and 2 music), or something like that. Don't go with how Yong Yong's music sounds like, with choosing the 4th channel sounds. Because for one, it'll sound less professional, two, it'll sound too "technoey".