[ Closed ] Your thoughts on the chip music community (Page 8 of 14)

There are emulators for EVERYTHING and they can output files for hardware.  Also, and I'm guilty of this too, saying "just samples" ignores a huge chunk of chiptune history... hell, "chiptune" as a word originally referred to using small single-cycle SAMPLES.  Also, Fast Tracker II ... Impulse Tracker ... LGPT ... knowwutimeanvern?

If new peeps were even more strongly pushed towards trying emulators and dos trackers before getting any hardware at all then we would probably see a much more interesting variety of tunes being made rather than such a gameboy-centric situation.

Disclaimer:  Thinking that everybody using gb's is boring assumes that the compositions would be better on other hardware and obviously that's not true.

some mods dont like that though Di

What???

what exactly are zef instruments anyway? can't seem to find a lead on Bing or google.

lsdj instruments made by musician zef

Exposed pins that can fry your chip, floating pins, overheating soundchips, really unreliable PSUs (no really, just modify a C128 PSU or build your own, never use an original C64 PSU).  It was a brilliantly made system for the time, but it's over 2 decades old and there were some design choices made to keep costs low.

That said, I freaking love my C64!  Such a sound, so powerful and a sexy design!

Last edited by jefftheworld (Jan 25, 2013 5:53 pm)

my chiptunes are still very simple, short, basic, and not very melodical because I haven't really mastered any other musical instrument. I do see the chiptune as a very complex, successful and pleasing form of art, and I believe the old veterans are people that should be seen as role models for us, less skilled chiptuners (or no skill, in my case). As someone here has probably already stated, maybe the standard for chipmusic is too low. I think that there's a feeling among new players to make their songs be untz untz untz chiptunes. I've written about 8 or 9 tracks in LSDJ and most of them were like that. I saw what was happening and came to the conclusion that I naturally went for untz untz untz types of songs because they're the easiest to make. I've stopped doing untz untz untz and want to go into chip-ambient music because it creates more diversity among the music being made, and that's what's ultimately going to be the deciding line in the community: Whether to make simple untz untz untz songs or actually go off into the different genres of chiptunes and even create more genres that will expand knowledge of what is possible with LSDJ or C64 and etc.

What would be a great idea is a centralized source of LSDJ tutorials. I know that there's LSDJguides and such other tutorial and information pages out there, but it's all scattered and theres no real order to it. The tutorials for "making your first chiptune" are plentiful, but the all end right there, and only give a very basic synthesis of the information needed. The closest thing to an actual in-depth tutorial out there in my opinion is andaruGO's gameboy school. He never really continued his work on it, though. What would be a nice change is to gather a team of chiptuners and make a Youtube channel that would be dedicated to make lessons starting from square 1 and show the screens and navigation in LSDJ, and go on to make in-depth explanation of each sound channel, how it works, what roles in can play in a song, etc, and then go into teaching advanced techniques and groove changes and things like that. That way, there's a way for chiptunes to be taught as a form of art, in the proper ways of playing it, and there is a source for information for new chiptuners to use instead of bothering the forums.

those are my two cents on the topic.