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From another dude name Aaron with a gratifying yet useless degree in music composition, for the love of god no.
Just get yourself a CS degree and make wordpress front ends like the rest of us.

source only format  (.IT x 31, 4.2 mb / 84:33 )

http://eerikinpujsound.com/TAORU-MEMORY.ZIP

sabi - colorblind (2001)
http://eerikinpujsound.com/legacy/relea … puj033.zip

oh snap. why have i never thought of this before?
i do enjoy being able to see 24 channels horiz. on my LCD though.

yes.

ilkae - pistachio island (99-01)
http://eerikinpujsound.com/legacy/INPUJ … tachio.rar

ilkae - bring extra dragons (01-02)
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/23631269/dragons-xm.rar

ilkae - stained glass pinata (03-04)
http://eerikinpujsound.com/legacy/subdo … sn/666.rar

I got into tracking during the DOS years, so the rigid re-defining of the word "chiptune" has seemed really strange to me.

For me, it's more of a musical form with tropes/conventions and a limited sonic palette than anything hardware-defined.
Whether the limited sonic palette in a chiptune comes from hardware choices, software limitations, or user-made choices doesn't seem all that important to me.

I understand the logic in approaching chiptune from a modern interpretation of the term (hardware = real, software = fake), but very few artists are interacting with their hardware without a software interface; one likely installed on a modern personal computer and written by somebody else.

A lot of the innovative programming stuff that people tout as the "legitimizing factor" of hardware in this debate has been very much present in all forms of tracker music: it stems from clever people using a software interface.

To some people, the hardware/software/means of production seem to be of paramount importance - almost to the point where this "legitimacy" concern presides over any consideration of the musical content. I would strongly caution against this attitude, simply because there is so much good stuff out there made with sample-based trackers. The "pushing the envelope" factor was even more prevalent, I would argue, from a user input/pattern data standpoint. Since music was always released as source files, there was a constant incentive to show off your tricks to the rest of the community: be it for scene cred or motivated by good natured one-up-manship.

Is all mod/s3m/xm/it stuff "chiptune"? Not by a long shot.

Back then, it seemed to me that people were more interested in producing music that _didn't_ sound like it was made in a tracker. People would stem out tracks just to add DSP and hide the typical sonic traits associated the format. (ie: add reverb)

Was there a massive amount of legitimate chipmusic made using these formats? Absolutely.

Broadband and the sudden viability of 5mb music files (mp3s) changed a lot of this, mostly by eliminating file size concerns for PC-based tracker music outside of a demo/compo setting, as well as effectively killing the tracker scene as musicians switched to releasing in .mp3 format.

Nobody cared about tracker music at all in 2004: It had faded into contemporary electronic music seamlessly. (Huge generalization)
What put it back on the map was stuff like nanoloop and LSDJ - new software platforms developed for previously underexploited hardware.

People often forget that the "chip" in "chiptune" never used to refer to an actual hardware component.
It _definitely_ does nowadays.
This gradual shift in meaning over the last 10 years or so seems to be the at the root of all of these debates.

I fucked up my SMMM cart and recorded this in less time than it took me to write this post. 100% legit, 0% talent. (At least on my end.)

http://chipmusic.org/ilkae/music/2a03-autechre-clone

Hey, at least it's not fakebit, amirite? (Thanks, Baldwin, now I can make fake "realbit")
Check out that dirty line noise

There doesn't need to be a debate at all, in my opinion.
People using trackers to make music: awesome.
People developing new tracker software: awesome.
People expanding the range of legacy hardware that music can be written for: awesome.

It's all good.

don't be knocking pliant's VSTs! they've been around forever (like 12+ years) and are a lot of fun! the step-sequencer fx modules can be a total blast when playing live. (edit: i understand how absolutely ridiculous it is to be using peach as your "chip VSTi" in 2013, though)