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.

99% of electronic musicians don't like the genre that 99% of people place them in.

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

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.

trash compactor + ducks + assumptions

how can I dubstep my university project?

Someone (Dot.AY i think) wrote a good paper on chip tunes and the community around it several years ago that several of us took part in in the way of interviews.

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...

IAMERROR, there is so much wrong with your basic premise that I don't even know where to start. You seem to have very little understanding of chiptune and this community. It's scary to think how many people present what we do as "school projects" without even saying anything here.

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.

Nice.

is this final for the university of phoenix?

well, if it's for a production class... will you be focusing on the sound engineering aspects? like, how to mix, compress, EQ, limit, etc, a chip track? because that might be cool

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

yes

so you make music with chiptune?

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.

Oh.