Trying to find what market, genre or style I would say my music is. The electronic people say it's chip tunes, but the chip tunes people say its electronic. What do you guys think?
http://www.iimusic.net/catalog/2012/07/ … -computers
-Steve
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Austin, Texas
"8Bit" isn't a genre, and I don't know why people act like it is.
Chiptunes are technically a form of Electronic Music. We are all electronic musicians. Some Electronic musicians make Chipmusic.
"Chip" is a technique, style, and in some regards a subgenre; it's not mutually exclusive, however.
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Savannah, Georgia
chip is the medium of the music, electronic is the genre.
Last edited by Aeros (Jul 24, 2012 5:00 pm)
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plasmaface wrote:
Trying to find what market, genre or style I would say my music is. The electronic people say it's chip tunes, but the chip tunes people say its electronic. What do you guys think?
http://www.iimusic.net/catalog/2012/07/ … -computers
-Steve
just realized those were your songs. i would call it electronic.
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NC in the US of America
Isn't there a sticky about the definitions of chiptune, chipmusic, 8-bit, etc?
Here it is: http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/3988/ … read-this/
It sounds chippy to me. Definitely not 8-bit.
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Ok yea you're right. Chiptunes is a sub genre of electronic music, that makes sense.
I'm not trying to figure what direction to take my music, its more of figuring out the right marketing techniques. It wouldn't really settle in the chip tunes world however, but people who are into daft punk, deadmau5 etc... wouldn't "accept it" into there hearts right away. (not that I care or not).
Maybe i'll start a label for this strange mixture of the chiptunezy and dance world. Who wants to jump on board? haha.
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Russia, Moscow
Chiptune is music played on a chip. It is a much of a genre, as guitar music, piano music etc.
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electricloverecords wrote:
i think all the synths are analog.
I had the conversation a couple of days ago whether or not a gameboy was an analog synth with someone pretty well-versed in the field. I figured it was analog synthesis because it's coming from a chip that is making the sounds and wasn't sample-based, but apparently analog synthesis is created from different voltages being sent from the oscillators to whatever is amplifying it. This allows for analog synthesis to be much more imperfect, too; with you sometimes facing tuning problems, or just weird effects you never intended. With the gameboy or other forms of digital synthesis, it's sending the chip exactly what you want to be output via a signal and there's nothing to be interrupted or marred in the process.
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Chicago IL
wait, why did you need two threads for this?
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Saskrotch wrote:
wait, why did you need two threads for this?
extra promotions duhhh
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Rochester, NY
Zan-zan-zawa-butt wrote:
it's dad rock
it's butt rock