Sycamore Drive wrote:

1. Chiptune is NOT a genre, it's a medium for creating music in a range of styles. Stop calling it a genre.

I don't think you should pose that as an undisputed fact. I disagree that it isn't a genre or in many aspects a style of its own. That's not the point though. The point is not to get too anal about it, and maybe to show some respect for those who disagree instead of just playing it off like you know best. It makes it look more like wishful thinking than anything.

Y'know, the amount this is coming up lately, we should have an international panel of artists come up with a creed or something to end dispute haha.

+ it's worth checking out modern genre theory. it's not as simple as just analyzing sound frequencies, you know.

1. Chiptune is NOT a genre, it's a medium for creating music in a range of styles. Stop calling it a genre.

I don't think you should pose that as an undisputed fact. I disagree that it isn't a genre or in many aspects a style of its own. That's not the point though. The point is not to get too anal about it, and maybe to show some respect for those who disagree instead of just playing it off like you know best. It makes it look more like wishful thinking than anything.

how can I dubstep my university project?

trash compactor + ducks + assumptions

I wouldn't say chip tune was a genre but more of a description of method/ sound. I mean allot of what i made is reggae so...

Your descriptions of what chiptune is and is not do not encompass a single note of any music that I, for one, have made that I call chiptune. Please, for everyone's sake, take our advice and do more research, listen to more music and then reconsider your project.

is this final for the university of phoenix?

Nice.

by simply saying its a means of writing music completely belittles every other style of music. its like saying 'im not writing rock music, im simply using a guitar as a means of writing music.'

but uhhhhhh

that's exactly why guitars and keyboards are so common, because it's easy to write any kind of music with them

I use my guitar to write dubstep all the time, no lie

and then I track it with LSDJ so expect my chipstep album this summer

chiptune is similar as we can know its a fusion between electro and, most of the time or in my case, dance music but we can explain it in one word because of its defining sound.

hardly. i've heard dubstep and rock made with gameboys (two magnificently differing genres), post-rock and dance music made with nintendos, heavy industrial made with an amiga... shall i go on? i agree chiptune is a good catch-all phrase for music made with old sound chips. however:

chiptune: a set of tools, not a genre. a sound chip is a synthesizer. end of story. synthesizers get used for all sorts of different genres. if you took the time to listen to the vast amounts of well-made chip music out there, you'd realize this.

also, i just wanna leave this karl wisdom here again.