Why so few new MOD/XM artists? (Page 7 of 10)

I hadn't looked at the "grown up" version of Noisetrekker before.  It does seem to, in fact, be the shit.  I can't seem to get the linux version to work, had to install the Windows one, no biggie.

It's the self-contained-ness of trackers like this that I really really like.  Like ADT2 or Fami or other trackers that are a front-end to a specific synth engine.  Wordy words blah.

Last edited by egr (Jul 14, 2011 2:36 pm)

Yeah I remember that! I downloaded it on my super slow 56k connection back in 99 or 2000.  I remember being amazed at the demos it came with.

The only thing I can add to the four pages of flame that piled in is that in the one gig I did in the past few years (that wasn't just regular rock) I had an IT tune where I prepped a pattern with blank space and jammed a melody into muted tracks, then unmuted them, then used shift-F6 on the next order to move to the rest of the song. Musically, it worked well, but at the moment the audience were still a bit tense about what I was doing so it was not to good effect.

Answering the OP question, I think if I was starting now and learned about XM/MOD I would consider it a road that was already trodden, it is only a matter of time until the LSDJ community is viewed in the same way.

I don't mean that to be a naysayer, it's just how things happen sometimes.

I got first dibs on an Osaka deck.

2 of the finest statements ever made in the history of chip music.

As for the live question, just write your xm's and rock em' in chipdisco!

Yea I would agree that the majority of any specific genre is lame with a few standout vanguards leading the way. I thought of something else I prefer about lsdj to just about every other music app in the world.

It is in a constant state of MUSIC READINESS. You can start it up, futz around for a few bars, put it down and pick it up later without worrying of saving or copying files or whatever. The sounds in the rom are all you have to work with, so it is much closer to working with a hardware synth or physical instrument than a daw or making "computer music".  I'm sure I could get something comparable working on something like musicline but I would still have to sit down at a workstation or prepare the music creation environment in a way that is often a hindrance to the creation of music itself. I love the moments where I have five minutes on the bus, or am sitting in a park bench, and something comes to me that is awesome.

In the hardcore tracker scene to me, that outside the visionary artists 4mat mentioned it is far too procedural and correct linearity when it comes to sound design and composition. "I am making this song in this genre in this key because it is CORRECT". Sometimes I just want to load a project and dick around. Of course mod files are themsevles a blank canvas, with the samples chosen for you, so im sure my feelings in this are some sort of cultural bias.

/me stops staring at his bellybutton