17 Reply by Sonus Silver

(22 replies, posted in General Discussion)

C.S. Lewis is my favorite author so I'd highly recommend his space trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength) as well as his final novel Till We Have Faces. If you like Lewis and want to get a bit deeper into Faerie, try some of George MacDonald's works: The Golden Key, The Light Princess, The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, At the Back of the North Wind, and Phantastes are worth checking out. I also recommend The Neverending Story by Michael Ende—it's much better and richer than the film (sorry). Ursula K. LeGuin's Earthsea books are also worth checking out, though I've only read the first (A Wizard of Earthsea). Oddly enough, I'm also a huge fan of Garth Nix's Abhorsen quartet (it used to be a trilogy): Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen, and Clariel. If you like those you may also want to check out Across the Wall: A Tale of the Abhorsen and other stories, a collection of stories by Nix that gives a couple of side stories. Roger Zelazny's work is also very well done and entertaining: try A Night in the Lonesome October and Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming. Finally, for classic sci-fi, try Tunnel in the Sky and Orphans of the Sky, both by Robert Heinlein, and Stanislaw Lem's Cyberiad.

So, to recap:

C.S. Lewis:
- Out of the Silent Planet
- Perelandra
- That Hideous Strength
- Till We Have Faces

George MacDonald:
- The Golden Key
- The Light Princess
- The Princess and the Goblin
- The Princess and Curdie
- At the Back of the North Wind
- Phantastes

Michael Ende:
- The Neverending Story

Ursula K. LeGuin:
- A Wizard of Earthsea

Garth Nix:
- Sabriel
- Lirael
- Across the Wall: A Tale of the Abhorsen and Other Stories
- Abhorsen
- Clariel

Roger Zelazny:
- A Night in the Lonesome October
- Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming

Robert Heinlein:
- Tunnel in the Sky
- Orphans of the Sky

Stanislaw Lem:
- The Cyberiad

Enjoy!

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18 Reply by Sonus Silver

(12 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

I organize my instruments as follows:
00-19 = Pulse
1A-1F = Kits
20-2F = Wave
30-3F = Noise
(I don't use speech as often as I ought...)

For tables, I usually use 1A-1F for percussion (bass kicks, snares, etc.). Everything else is up for grabs.

For Phrases, I usually use EA-FF for percussion and silence. Everything else is up for grabs.

For Chains, I usually reserve 70-7F for Noise. Everything else is up for grabs.

I'm kinda in the middle, I guess? I dunno...

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19 Reply by Sonus Silver

(3 replies, posted in Releases)

Anthony, if I may be so bold as to ask, why will this one be your last? Can we expect anything musically from the band members individually/otherwise in the near/distant future?

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20 Topic by Sonus Silver

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Hey, all! I just released my first something in a very long time:

https://sonussilver.bandcamp.com/album/eeveelutions-ep

Hope you enjoy!

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21 Reply by Sonus Silver

(2 replies, posted in Releases)

spacerobot wrote:

instrumental space rock with chiptune elements

For a dollar? I'm not even mad.

EDIT: AND IT'S MASTERED BY STEMAGE WAAAAAAAT!!

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22 Reply by Sonus Silver

(16 replies, posted in General Discussion)

pselodux wrote:

I just shouldn't try to market it as chiptune, and send demos to some minimal tech labels instead.

Or I'll just give up and start my own damn label, releasing anything as long as it's minimal and repetitive big_smile

This may be the effect of the current trend with the bigger labels. In other words, if labels like Ubiktune and Pterodactyl Squad are pushing comps more than EPs or LPs, then won't it be likely that many smaller labels will spring up to keep the EP release promotion flow going?

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23 Topic by Sonus Silver

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I'm going to be recording and releasing an album soon and wanted to know if there's a significant difference in the sounds of a recording exported from bGB and a recording made from a DMG plugged into a line-in port on a PC.

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24 Reply by Sonus Silver

(3 replies, posted in Collaborations)

What does your online presence look like? I.e. how's the social medias and have you reached out to collectives like ChipWIN to help advertise your name?

Also, what's your e-mail; I can't seem to access it from this site...

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25 Reply by Sonus Silver

(3 replies, posted in Collaborations)

Whoops, sorry for the double post.

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26 Reply by Sonus Silver

(20 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Matej, I've been told I can sing well. I'll send you a PM and we can work out what you want done :3

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27 Reply by Sonus Silver

(40 replies, posted in Trading Post)

I shall gladly take that first Powerpak off your hands for the mentioned price, please :3 I'll PM you!

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28 Reply by Sonus Silver

(69 replies, posted in Collaborations)

I'm glad Imaginary is feeling both. Y'all are a tough crowd.

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29 Reply by Sonus Silver

(69 replies, posted in Collaborations)

Frank, my girlfriend's sister is an art student and she came up with something. I'm not sure how to post a pic, but I'm sending it to you via gmail and you can post it for all to see.

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30 Reply by Sonus Silver

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Hey, Imaginary, whats the theme for the comp? Like, what should an artist do for cover art? What do you have in mind? And what's the title of the comp?

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31 Reply by Sonus Silver

(18 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

UPDATE:

I got it to work! I booted the computer up with disabled Driver Signature enforcement, went through the control panel, and updated the driver through there...like I guess it's supposed to be done. Thing is, I went back to Windows 8, then back to 10 and this was the first time trying to load the driver since switching back to Windows 10. I selected to browse for a driver myself, then bypassed all the warnings Windows gave about the drivers and such. I dunno. I got it to work.

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32 Reply by Sonus Silver

(46 replies, posted in General Discussion)

bitpusher, your story is similar to mine. The first chiptune I listened to outside of a video game was Anamanaguchi. I asked for "video game music" on a forum on Starmen.net hoping for stuff like The Megas and Metroid Metal and someone gave me a link to the 8bitpeoples Power Supply release. That snowballed and I'd say that my biggest influences, chip-wise, are USK, IAYD, DMG Plantlife, and Random. USK because he's the king of Game Boy disco and I wanna make music like his, IAYD because he showed me what the WAV channel can do and that it's okay to use a pulse kick, DMG Plantlife because his album on mp3death taught me how to make a killer WAV kick, and Random because his tracks are made around a pop music structure (intro-verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus) and it shows me that the structure of my tracks is legal.

As for admiration, I'd say USK and Roboctopus because they squeeze the most out of the DMG in both powerful and subtle ways.

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