Why so few new MOD/XM artists? (Page 6 of 10)

The granularity and what is possible to represent in either program (or music sheet, tablature etc) is different, and that has an impact on your approach. I really don't get the logic behind your idea. Are all the languages of the world exactly the same, too? I mean, in the end they are all there to express the same thing.

If you think that sheet music has the same function (or even intended function) as trackers, I really don't know what to tell you.

Last edited by boomlinde (Jul 13, 2011 8:38 pm)

That was not actually an "assumption" as it was more of a reply to µB's post:

By "idols" I was exaggeratedly referring to people like:

As I said, I'm old-fashioned when it comes to live music. Where I live there is little to no dub.

In what other way do you prefer I interpret "And using any sequencer is exactly the same as any tracker."?

Doesn't it matter to you? I use several different pieces of software and tools to make different types music because I know how much control the interface, sounds and layout has over my output. More often do I feel like the tools decide what I do than the opposite.

The software most likely matters to you as a composer. Should it matter to you as a listener? Ideally, maybe not, but believing that people only listen to music for the sake of what they hear is naive. We have all kinds of weird preferences that have nothing to do with the final output. Is it wrong of me as a listener to prefer music made in Protracker just for the sake of it being made in Protracker?

I guess that in a scene that is based mostly on computer fetishism, the approach actually matters a lot to people.

Alcohol.

Just fucken let loose!! I don't know about you guys, but to me live music is about having fun, not trying to change the world.

When I first became interested in making chip music, I started with modplug tracker.
I love modplug. It is still the easiest tracker for me to get my ideas down in. If writing an NES song, I would MUCH rather use Modplug than Famitracker, Nerdtracker, NTRQ or Pulsar. My NES samples are perfect (most of them are stolen from Virt and Norrin Radd for fucks sake, how more authentic can it get when sample based) and I know the program so well that it's really easy for me to throw down ideas in it. I've also used a ton of other samples and styles in Modplug with similar success; I especially like writing c64 style stuff with it.

Why don't I use it live? Well, in the first place, I don't have a laptop. If I did, I might. In all reality, when I'm playing LSDJ "live", there is very little I'm actually doing with the Game Boy. Sometimes I get a cool idea and go into live mode and change stuff up. Normally I'll edit parameters of instruments and tables, fuck with the sync command like Nullsleep was doing for a while (such a cool trick that can psych people out)...but mainly my performance comes from manipulating the songs on my Mini-KP, which I could just as easily do with modplug. Hell, my last show I actually played a song from my iPod because someone kept requesting it so much, and realized while playing with the mini-KP I was basically doing the same thing as I would with a game boy.

But my other reasoning for favoring the Game Boy, is that I like the sound it produces. It's just that simple. And there is the added benefit when playing live, that I'm playing using a couple of GBCs, instead of just hooking a laptop up like any other electronic artist. I want people to know I'm doing something different. You can hear it in the sound, but I want them to see that this isn't just me running some program on a computer and making "video game sounding music", I'm using actual Nintendo hardware to create some dirty and hard as fuck dance music.

but squash is the shit!

i wonder how this thread got to six pages