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Aw! Well done 8 bit Rex!

Yeah, I've heard about that .

In all honesty Beepola is probably one of the easiest trackers to use . There are many different engines, but I prefer the sound of shiru's engine so that is the one I am most proficient at. I'd be happy to give you some "tips" but I don't think you would need them considering your skills with LSDJ, which to me seems like a much stranger interface what with trying to navigate a tracker with a directional pad with A and B. Beepola is more time consuming than it is difficult. 2 player is another one that has used Beepola before. Basically, if you know you way around a tracker this shouldn't be too difficult. The fun part is trying out different numbers for sound parameters in the instrument editor. I don't mind giving some tips, but half the fun is figuring it out yourself . If you want to "pay me back" how about sending me a game boy cart with nanoloop 1.5 on it ?? No dice eh? What if I send money to your address . Alright fine, I'll stop. Maybe I'll just goof around with some demos until it makes noise and record the sound from an emulator . Then everyone can call me a n00b and we'll all have a good laugh. Gimme some cookies .

At least you had enough motivation to start this competition for goofy chip nerd musicians like me . I've got a question for you guys. I've got a friend who is a very good composer but he writes music with guitar...and so he picked up guitar tab for writing midi's. So, he's done a couple of tunes with a mega drive/genesis sound font. Now before you say "eeeewwww!" Have a listen to this.

http://8bc.org/music/Jabo/Through+Burning+Space+FM/ 

Now if this competition is strictly for trackers I understand. But he can write original music, and it sounds pretty cool through an FM sound font . I also ask, because I have an FM synth keyboard and other keyboards that I can write music on including my modern one that I can get a gritty sid-like sound out of., and I wonder how that would float in this competition. I'll leave it up to you arlen. Thanks. I've got a lot of musician friends but not a lot of them are chip tune writers. Perhaps that would "downgrade" the competition. But I'm just throwing it out there,

LOL I'm sure it was . I thought my silly explanation and all the smiles in my post reflected that but it is difficult to properly get across your *tone of voice* via text over the internet ha ha. I'm looking forward to hearing what everyone has contributed I love the idea behind this theme .

oops.... ummm....*runs away*

Worst comment? "This game boy music makes my ears bleed, I am close to hitting the mute button." But on the positive side he ended it by saying, "But, you make it almost tolerable" And to be fair I was showing him a 1 bit tune and that isn't for everyone . Basically, most people that have said something less than great about my chip music is because they can't stand the high frequencies of the tones rather than disliking the composition itself which I can understand.

Most hilarious comment? "This sounds like Sonic music farted into a trumpet and then ran through a magical fan...I love it!" To be fair, it was on a sonic mix I did when I was first getting into making electronic music with my new computer in 2004. !

Best comment? My brother told me he showed it my stuff a group of friends who came over for a party and they said "Your little brother "made" this? That's awesome, play it again!"

Actually my good comments far out weigh the bad, and people generally like my music whatever it happens to be made with and my family is  mostly musically inclined and very supportive...so I am lucky !