I'm not sure if this is the right section to post this, since this is not exactly chip music.
But it's micro. Very micro. Micro as the brain cells of a lab rat.

Talking with a friend of mine, a neuro scientist, we discussed low pass filters, square waves and such, but from two very different points of view. I was talking about music and sounds, and he was talking about other properties he studies in order to figure out how brains work.

After a few beers, he agreed to send me samples of the brain cells of the thalamus of a lab rat, which he studies in order to understand different reactions to outside stimuli. When I heard the sounds, I was amazed: it's some kind of white noise, but with unpredictable peaks and rhithmic bursts.

I tried to do something musical with it, and this was the result. I used some parts of the sample to do percussive sounds, and other parts as background noise. The bass is a moogish vst, while the audio is made of some excerpts from the lunar landing recordings. The sound crackles a lot, for obvious reasons, but I like it this way. Weird, I know, but I had fun.

Apologies for my bad scientific english, and sorry if this is too off topic for this board.

Here's the song:
http://www.zshare.net/audio/712035927c446b5f/

Of course, if anyone is interested, I'll gladly share the original samples.

Edit: the song is not final. I still want to tweak something and work on the arrangement, but this is definitely the sound. smile

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(93 replies, posted in General Discussion)

arottenbit wrote:

Buskerdroid from Rome.
Shared stage with him many times and he's the better lsdj artist in the whole Italy.

I totally agree. His game boy sets are furious.

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(24 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)

Brilliant song. It helped me start working today (I started way too early, still hung over from yesterday...). YAY!

When she's in a good mood: "He does music with gameboys." (making me sound like a weirdo)
When she is not. "Fa la tecnazza." Translation: "He does techno for drunk ravers."

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(14 replies, posted in Collaborations)

If I can get my friend to sing over my DMG, I'll try to submit something. No autotune: promise.

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(42 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Agreed. heart

FM synthesis? Fuck yeah.

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(1,620 replies, posted in General Discussion)

1 DMG + KP3. The other stuff on the table is not mine. smile

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(75 replies, posted in Graphics, Artwork & Design)

iLKke wrote:

Looove the headless tie guy! Rest is neat too smile

You stole my post. smile
I love it, there's some magritte going on in there!

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(36 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Done! We should use this feature to organize meetups. We should totally do a uber duper euro chiptune meetup.

Thanks for sharing, neilbaldwin. Time to dust off my ol' NES. smile

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(152 replies, posted in Collaborations)

I like drone music, but I never tried composing something. I'll try something with LSDJ, getting it to do something "not musical" could be interesting.

Can't wait for a stable/usable release. This might be huge.

This!
I used a slight variation of this kick (just tweaked the TSP on the table according to the tempo) in a few songs: if you some bass or some full sounds on the other channel, it sounds really good. I don't think you can go any deeper with the noise.

edit: props to Goatslacker for posting it on the patchbook.

Wonderful thread. I always go with pulse kicks, now I'll try some tasty wavs.

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(135 replies, posted in General Discussion)

When a door closes, another forum opens. YEAH! smile