If you really enjoy gamepad controls (they do make it very comfortable to write music for long periods of time) buy a PSP 3000, install halfbyte loader, install LittleGameParkTracker...Use the monowave sample.

Don't use trackers that dont have accurate BPM...save yourself the headache later on when you sample your chip style sound design into a DAW. LittleGameParkTracker still has all the tables and stuff you need to get that sound (but it also has accurate BPM).

LSDJ is really good for "pure chip" people and electrician hobbyists who like modifying gameboys and building midi boxes. By pure chip I mean you only use gameboys soundchip/c64 sid chip/Soundblaster's opl3...real soundchips... and nothing else...As for the midi sync option, can you really be bothered to solder all that shit together, only to have it break later on? As for USB gameboy carts, they are a phucking headache for a while, then they break.

Get an android phone/tablet, use sunvox.

Install renoise...use renoise plugin capture with whatever chip VST.

Thats just my opinion...knave

Thanks everyone. I'm going to get ahold of a lsdj and a modded gameboy (or do it myself). Maybe in a few months i'll have some cool music.

If you want to buy a modded GB, talk to Stardriver. I can put you in touch with him. I bought a green, prosound, play-it-loud GB with a blue inverted backlight and it rips man. Let me know.

Chipmusic in five easy steps:

1) Get a gameboy moded. If you spend less than 300 bucks in parts, it's not chipmusic.
2) Get a CMO account and ask what is chip music.
3) Get familiar with this spiral: http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/10613 … ty/page/3/
4) Post about how you want to make this community and chipmusic known to the world and how your youtube channel is going to change all our lives
5) Give up on all the bullshit, make some music, post it on bandcamp, be happy if you make 20$ with it.

1) Get a gameboy moded. If you spend less than 300 bucks in parts, it's not chipmusic.
2) Get a CMO account and ask what is chip music.
3) Get familiar with this spiral: http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/10613 … ty/page/3/
4) Post about how you want to make this community and chipmusic known to the world and how your youtube channel is going to change all our lives
5) Give up on all the bullshit, make some music, post it on bandcamp, be happy if you make 20$ with it.

If you're interested in making music then just get Plogue Chipsounds and continue to use your DAW. Nobody cares where it was made, what matters is the quality of your music.

http://www.plogue.com/products/chipsounds/

I write most of my stuff on an unmodded dmg

same for me, and the more it goes, the less I feel like modding it or getting to 2xLSDJ...

what a job though, to think/coordinate everything!! oO

2 would be a dreamy thing, as I'm in love with both Wave kicks AND Waves Bass

the 3/3 tiks trick works well, but often finds its limit with long lasting bass notes that get cut by next coming kick... and the fact that it's hard to ''cut the bass line'' in a live spirit

have to live with ''average sounding'' pulse bass then, that's the sad part of 8bit's life

Here's an example of what my prosound w/o bass mod color sounded like with light mastering.

The Chase