not a pop star...but a synth star ! 
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Nadia wrote:
A few months ago some friends & I were talking about 8-bit music and I decided to look more into it because I really liked how it sounded. I found lots of sites about it, learned more and downloaded a lot of chipmusic. I found this site on one of my later searches.
I'm glad you liked what you found.
It bothers me that there seems to be a disproportionate amount of musicians compared to listeners/fans on this board, though for contrast, it bothers me that Vocaloid boards seem to have more fans than musicians, but anyway....
Pop, or what is popular is subject to a certain degree of measurement. The bop and post-bop jazz Minusbaby mentioned is descended from the jazz of the 30s and 40s which one could say was simply pop. For simplicity, I've taken to calling my music instrumental pop, but I know better than to believe I'm going to make a record that charts in Billboard, it is a different measure of "popular" that I am talking about.
Chipmusic has already had moments of popularity that have come and gone, I'm sure there will be more if people keep making music in this way, but...
Borrowing an idea from KLF's The Manual, if you think you want to chart but don't think the songs that are charting are works of genius, you won't chart. Since I don't really care about the music of Laughing My Fucking Ass Off (DJs should be required to pronounce their name this way, especially on the air) I am pretty sure I won't chart, but I know I had my window of opportunity for that sort of thing.
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i guess the boards being slanted towards artists makes sense naturally though, since we aim more towards aiding musicians more than the social aspect... this topic is fair enough, again though i don't feel those tracks are particularly chip (my analog synths do sqaure waves)...we probably have a good number of regular non-registered fans who visit the site but dont really want to talk to us weirdos (totally a fair call)
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What about when Chip flirts with pop superstars????
I'm up for the Challenge
... also chunter are you a vocaloP?
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ChipsChallengeBand wrote:
... also chunter are you a vocaloP?
No, but I use UTAU sometimes...
...and once made a song with Momoko Fujimoto (Momone Momo's voice donor)
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I don't consider those chip. Those are just your basic synth waveforms.
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ChipsChallengeBand wrote:
What about when Chip flirts with pop superstars????
Just google "Chiptune compilation". Done.
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i made a c64 demo about this thread becuase the title was so funny
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egr wrote:
ChipsChallengeBand wrote:What about when Chip flirts with pop superstars????
Just google "Chiptune compilation". Done.
or go to boingboing and search for chiptune
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I think tracker music is a huge influence on today stutter pop:
http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2012/ … nam-style/
Maybe not chipsounds, but definitely chip style sequencing.
I jsut posted that video because its amazing.
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Will i am from the BEP wants to learn computer programming and become a code writer. dope ha? http://tinyurl.com/9pxcsal
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ant1 wrote:
i made a c64 demo about this thread becuase the title was so funny
excellent strobes, upload that to pouet.net
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4mat wrote:
ant1 wrote:i made a c64 demo about this thread becuase the title was so funny
excellent strobes, upload that to pouet.net
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São Paulo, Brazil
ant1 wrote:
i made a c64 demo about this thread becuase the title was so funny
I love you ant.
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i don't think they can get to into chiptune as much because I'm pretty sure Nintendo is cool with what we are doing with their gameboys.