Like, guitar, bass, drums, melodica, and cello? Would it just be extremely low fidelity?
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As far as being too low in fidelity, I'd say no. But the for the average lister the answer is probably yes. But that's something of a feature in chipmusic, not a hinderance. To be able to create lovely sounds regardless of sound quality and hardware limitations is the whole charm to this artform. I still find 4 bit samples pleasing to listen too. I get good results from 4 bit c64 samples and NES stuff doesn't sound too terrible. I'd say go for it. I've had an urge to upload some chord stabs into lsdj and rejoice in the free polyphony. Haven't gotten 'round to it though.
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washington
wait, are you referring to recording instruments and then making them into a sample kit?
that's what the kits are in lsdj, so that's what they would sound like. (assuming you made a legitimate recording)
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Texas
Yeah, sorry I didn't clarify. But yeah, I mean converting the wav recordings of the instruments into 4-bit and figuring out how to throw them on a homemade .gb rom. Think it'd work out?
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I can't remember who it was, but they recorded guitar chords, and had them playing the same way kits would, and the song sounded p good. They did say that it takes a lot of fiddling around to get it sounding alright, and that you can't really use anything bass-y because most of the bass gets removed or something
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Alpine wrote:
I can't remember who it was, but they recorded guitar chords, and had them playing the same way kits would, and the song sounded p good. They did say that it takes a lot of fiddling around to get it sounding alright, and that you can't really use anything bass-y because most of the bass gets removed or something
It was roboctopus.
Yeah but overall it takes alot of post work to make them sound good.
I think piano is the easiest.
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Murcia, Spain
http://roboctopus.bandcamp.com/track/th … -the-world
Electric guitar with distortion, if I remember well. It sounds awesome : D
I have to try out ukulele. Its lack of bass could be an advantage...
Is there any tutorial out there to this?
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Detroit, Michigan
these videos 2xAA made are perf for the job
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Murcia, Spain
snesei wrote:
these videos 2xAA made are perf for the job
Cheers!
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Make sure you get the latest version of lsdj, it has way better sample playback.
I did some long samples with speech, and they turned out pretty great.
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Timbob wrote:
Make sure you get the latest version of lsdj, it has way better sample playback.
I did some long samples with speech, and they turned out pretty great.
Yeah playback has gotten way clearer in the newer versions
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DogTag wrote:
http://roboctopus.bandcamp.com/track/th … -the-world
Electric guitar with distortion, if I remember well. It sounds awesome : D
I have to try out ukulele. Its lack of bass could be an advantage...Is there any tutorial out there to this?
Hey that's me!
For that song the guitar was actually clean and recorded through a DI box. The compression, EQ, and 4-bit sample quality make it sound kind of distorted, haha.
This song had a piano kit in it: http://roboctopus.bandcamp.com/track/your-stars-at-dawn
Piano definitely is much easier to work with than guitar. A sound with more definition works better, in my experience. Bass sounds don't work very well, and highs don't fare very well. In my experience you're best sticking to mid-range sounds. It helps to EQ out some of the bass to make the sound clearer. EQing out some of the highs seems to help reduce that DMG-bit-crush-hiss sound.
The sound is definitely lo-fi, but I think it has its own charm. I'm actually working on some new tracks that heavily use this idea, haha. I was literally about to make a kit of e-piano chords! ^_^
The best thing to do is just experiment with EQ/Compression and different instruments. It's a bit of trial-and-error but you might find a sound you like!
Edit: for preparing and loading samples into an LSDJ ROM, I originally used little-scale's tutorial. I used Audacity though.
http://little-scale.blogspot.com/2008/1 … -lsdj.html
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Also, the tracks posted were done on the older version of LSDJ, with the murkier sample play back. I have not tried the newer version with the cleaner sample play back, but I really like that fuzzy sample sound, tbh. 
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Texas
Thanks so much guys!
Roboctopus, the piano sounds amazing, and I'm loving the lo-fi sounds of the guitar.
I can't wait to try this. I've been using nanoloop, so I have to pick up a physical cart for lsdj very soon.
So, I'm in a shoegaze/dream pop kinda band (with mostly GameBoy and NES as the synth lines), and we're releasing our debut EP in August-ish on bandcamp, CD and vinyl, but I really want to do a later release on GameBoy cart. I'm guessing that's not very economical, but can anyone offer any advice?
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Since we're listing examples here, for my flute and gameboy piece Flight of the Bleeper Bird, I had the flutist record every note on the instrument, and I made a kit for each octave. They appear pretty prominently about 2:27 into the second movement:
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sweden
I also used to experiment with sampled synth chords in Lsdj some years ago. I used to hard pan them and run them through tons of effect pedals. Sounded lovely!