Chiptune will disappear someday? (Page 5 of 6)

Well, hello gals and guys. Pardon me if I intrudee..
I don't really believe stuff really disappear. Actually I don't believe the disappearing really exist.. even in the terms of science, something vanishing from existence just doesn't exist. Rather that is scrubbing dirt from a wall to light being sucked into a black hole.. But in this case, chiptune from humanity. If you really think about stuff just don't vanish, it's always leaving something behind or growing into something more. it usually always does a little of both.. Anyway, chiptune exactly be the same as both you and I know it as today... But into something much bigger or be a part of something big. Chiptune music might inspire a certain person in our world to use certain elements and tunes to make their own music which would become popular and well known around the world. Or perhaps maybe not enough people got the a good taste of chiptune, but once they do it may blossom into something more then we expected. Have you every heard the butterfly effect? Basically it goes one event triggers a whole another series events both big and small. That's basically what chiptune is doing now. It's going to evolve along side humans. And hey not convince yet? Well think of it like this, rap started small just like chiptune did. It started in Britain believe it or not. It had a pretty small community of it's own. I think jazz was big back then, and I'm sure they didn't expect it to be as big as it is now today. This world we share together is very unexpected and anything could happen, even to the smallest of things, or so we see it as. Chiptune has some serious rad relationships to humanity and it isn't leaving anytime soon. Maybe go caterpillar to butterfly on us but not leaving..

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Chipmusic is fine outside of the 'chip scene', there's lots of new music, tools and r&d going on.  Probably because those guys just get on with things that interest them and aren't worried about being in any kind of scene at all.   (for a start there's certainly no 'cc' elsewhere, people just upload stuff and that's it, done. Who gives a toss what Johnny X from Y thinks about your bass drum sounds?) 

I can see why people are getting bored if they focus on the same kit though, branch out a bit.   If you can, write more tools and drivers and focus less on the actual music when you don't feel inspired.  That'll keep it fresh.  This is still supposed to be an 'underground' music scene one way or another, so experiment.  It's not like there's a record label breathing down your neck.

As an example, go download the latest HVSC pack and have a listen to Alan Bond's new sid suite "100% basic project".  64 algorithmic pieces written in BASIC that sound like nothing else going on right now.  Inspiring stuff, you can even load them into your c64 and see how he did it.

very interesting indeed! I like most of what I've heard... I can't find any website about this project. Is there one, or some code?

Chipmusic is dead, and we're eating its innards.

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Last edited by Feryl (Feb 19, 2024 8:48 pm)

Well, for all I know, chiptunes have technically existed since at least the 1930s (older than you might expect for this kind of genre) (if we're talking about the style of the sound and the fact that these sounds are technically synthesized with relatively simplistic waveforms). I think of these for a start...
https://youtu.be/YiIB36ZY0WM
https://youtu.be/Z7Zb4rso82M

Thus, chiptune has technically existed for a very long time, and perhaps they will continue to exist for that length of time.

Last edited by KungFuFurby (Jul 28, 2015 1:25 am)