I know there's been a topic on this already, but my question's slightly different.
Is their anyone on the forum with different kinds of synesthesia?
I dated a girl with chromesthesia and grapheme-synesthesia, and I'm not sure what mine is called, but I can taste what I hear, as well as certain words. I can sometimes even swish notes around in my mouth to find the next note I should play when improvising on an instrument.
Sorry this is on the weird side, ahaha.
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Never heard of tasting before..
I get an image of colors in my mind when I hear things. Like 'that sounds blue' or 'thats green'. I think i like chip so much because arps are like crazy rainbows in my mind.
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Dino from Cheap Dinosaurs. He talks about it a little here:
http://datagarden.org/3150/interview-di … dinosaurs/
I personally definitely have a strong association between certain notes/chords and colors myself. I don't know if this might be associated with maybe some book or toy or something I had as a kid, but for example, D is and always has been green for me. C is yellow. A is red. G is brown. etc...
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Right on!
And yeah, BeatScribe, for me chiptune's like a bunch of different sweet-sour candies in my mouth, ahaha.
Dino being a synesthete makes a lot of sense. It's weird, but sometimes you can almost tell when a musician is a synesthete, I feel
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atomsmasha wrote:
i can smell with my butt
I wear loud t-shirts.
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Yeah, I have timbral chromesthesia, For me nothing happens in real time though, its only when I imagine the particular sounds, Like when I hear the sound in my head, I can recall a colour.
A few people have a had a stab at diagnosing me properly. I have never found it a problem and until probably a month and a half ago I thought everyone had it.
The only thing I find difficult is when working in a DAW, and the person I am working with has Coloured the tracks. Cause when I go to EQ a heavy guitar in my head I am thinking Dark Red but I staring at a bright Green. That just confuses me, I have kind of learnt to deal with that by not every sound having different colours. In my Reason 7 Rack, All my instrument tracks are Green, All my Audio tracks are Purple, All my Sampled Loops/ Breaks are Red and all my Drums are a mellow Blue.
And when I work in Logic, Everything is the Default Blue.
For me, Heavy Guitars, Heavy Synth Bass' = Dark Red, Prog House style Plucking = Orange 808 Snares = Grey, Acoustic Guitars = Light Orange. Stuff like that.
And I can kind of get very disoriented when people overuse those "Psycho-Acoustic" Effects if that makes sense.
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It's not synesthesia but when I memorize the pitches of the random things that make noise in my daily life. Like, my old alarm clocked beeped a G# so whenever I hear a G#, I can immediately recognize it. Same with the beep that the touch screen of my cash register. Or whenever I hear a D, I think of the first note of the West Wing theme song.
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nickmaynard wrote:
It's not synesthesia but when I memorize the pitches of the random things that make noise in my daily life. Like, my old alarm clocked beeped a G# so whenever I hear a G#, I can immediately recognize it. Same with the beep that the touch screen of my cash register. Or whenever I hear a D, I think of the first note of the West Wing theme song.
That sounds a lot like perfect pitch! 
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http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/4530/ … iscussion/
http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/5743/ … fox-split/
were you looking for different types from what's there?
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theghostservant wrote:
http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/4530/ … iscussion/
http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/5743/ … fox-split/
were you looking for different types from what's there?
Yeah, I mean, I can taste notes. Dunno how common that is. And I've met many a people with grapheme synesthesia. The reason I ask on the forum is because I tend to associate chiptune with synesthesia.
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Thats interesting.. for people with the condition do the pure tones in chip look more or less focused than conventional music?
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wasn't there a synesthesia comp or something like this?
if there wasn't.... all you synthetes get together and make a ROYGBIV album (if you can even agree, i'm sort of thinking its a subjective experience from the sound of it, rather than all A-440 = blue always, or something...)
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herr_prof wrote:
Thats interesting.. for people with the condition do the pure tones in chip look more or less focused than conventional music?
To me, personally, chip tastes like candy, ahaha. But I've had synesthetic friends describe chip as 'clear' and 'sparkly' 
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kitsch wrote:
wasn't there a synesthesia comp or something like this?
if there wasn't.... all you synthetes get together and make a ROYGBIV album (if you can even agree, i'm sort of thinking its a subjective experience from the sound of it, rather than all A-440 = blue always, or something...)
http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/5743/ … fox-split/
Was it that?