I am wanting to get into making chiptune music that can be game ready, any recommendations on software I should use for mac or pc? As of now I just write everything in guitar pro and export to midi to use with abeltons library of synths.
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http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/3988/ … read-this/
Items 1 and 2 under "How Do I Make Chipmusic?" are a good start
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I would recommend Little Sound Dj. It runs natively on a Gameboy, you can "buy" (you just have to donate at least $0.01) the ROM here http://www.littlesounddj.com/lsd/ and run it on your Gameboy emulator of choice (BGB is a good one: http://bgb.bircd.org/). The interface will seem a little daunting at first, but watch some tutorials on YouTube and read through the manual a couple times (http://www.littlesounddj.com/lsd/latest … _4_6_6.pdf) and you'll be good. If you want to make music on an actual Gameboy you can buy a flash cartridge here http://nonelectronics.com/cartridges/ems64usb
Another good program to check out is FamiTracker (Windows). You can download it for free here http://famitracker.com/. It'd probably be easier to figure out for a beginner but it's a little less versatile IMO.
Also, here's an example of something made in LSDJ https://danimalcannon.bandcamp.com/album/roots and an example of something made in FamiTracker https://virt.bandcamp.com/album/shovel- … soundtrack
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Glenn wrote:
I am wanting to get into making chiptune music that can be game ready, any recommendations on software I should use for mac or pc? As of now I just write everything in guitar pro and export to midi to use with abeltons library of synths.
Greetings Glenn,
Welcome to the site! You know, if you're looking for a good general purpose tracker for authentic chip music designing, try Deflemask. It can make music for NES, Sega Genesis and Master System, Commodore 64, Gameboy, Turbo Grafx 16, and more.
Famitracker is good for NES music and all the expansion chips made for that. It has more NES exclusive features than Deflemask on certain things, namely the 1 bit sample channel.
Yeah, so Deflemask and Famitracker are good places to start. Deflemask will work Windows, Mac, and Linux.
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download this: http://kometbomb.github.io/klystrack/
read this: http://n00bstar.blogspot.ca/p/klystrack-tutorials.html
pm me if you have any questions AFTER you've given it an honest try.
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what do you mean by "game ready"? Most tracker for a given chip/system can export for making games to this system: for example with vortex tracker II you can export a file so you can include it into a sinclair spectrum game, with goattracker you can export to include it into a C64 games.
But from your question, I guess you're targeting a more modern system such as Windows, Mac OS X or Linux? Then do you just want to create a mp3 or ogg/vorbis file to include into your game? Then any tracker can be just as good as another one, that really depends what kind of chiptune sound you're expecting.
klystrack, famitracker, deflemask, lsdj, sunvox are rather easy to use trackers.