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You know, I think if your time limit were not so strict, it would be better. Again, you might find "someone" to help. But I don't think it will be easy.

My advice for the future is to get a musician right away, as soon as possible when you start a game project. That way, the musician can have the most time to help give your game the musical sparkle that it needs.

I found out that the musician for the original "Sonic the Hedgehog" game only had a single picture to work with. The game was earlier in development, I think, but he wasn't even shown actual gameplay footage. That soundtrack is still remembered even 25 years later by fans around the world.

You might only need just a written concept, and not even a picture. But the most important thing a musician needs is time. Food for thought.

Hope all goes well!

Which I never said you couldn't do. Which I did not even imply. Use the instrument macro or effects slot, and use 1 or 3 on either. It matters not to me. It's the same result.

You will rarely need to use all 3 effects slots on the noise channel any way. If you ever do, then I'd really like to see and examine your module for the pure fascination of it.

And even if you do, you can almost always find a strategic place to put a "Vxx" command where needed, if you have not implemented it into your instrument.

Technically, instruments are simply macros that make it quicker to design your music. You could do all the same stuff with a single instrument at full blast, effects  and volume commands, and tracker at max speed with strategic placing of all the notes. Of course that's incredibly time consuming though.

Then it was entirely worth it! Hehe, seems like most chiptuners are stuck on LSDJ these days. Always good to branch out.

Seems to run nice and smooth on my old 2006 Windows Vista machine.

If you ever need any help with this chipset and the noise channel special modes, just let me know. I'll be glad to help!

Setting the effect V01 switches the noise channel to the 6.15% PWM pulse wave. V00 switches it back to the hissing noise. The pitch control in channel 3 is dominated by the noise channel when the note in channel 4 is set to D#.

Play around with it and you'll see what i'm talking about.

Probably my favorite chip set next to YM2612.

Started playing with this last night, and there is definitely the ease of use I noticed. Really cool that you can fine tune the BPM, and can't wait until they have vgm conversion.

Chip tunes are only as simple as the particular composer. Actually, chiptune production takes a lot of technique and skill. It gets rather complex at times, to a degree that punk music would rarely ever touch (if at all).

There is nothing simple about trying to squeeze Mozart out of a C64. People who can pull that off have some real talent.

Also, I thought chiptune music has often been a nostalgic sound preference. I like to give away source files to people because I like them, or think it will benefit them in some way. Not because of rebellion. Any one starting off chiptune music for rebellion is likely missing the whole point altogether.

Yes, I realize that. But someone was suggesting using a DX 7 VSTi, which is waaay different from both YM2151 or YM2612. You're better off using VOPM, if you want to recreate sounds similar to Genesis sounds with a VSTi.

But yes, in the end, Deflemask is the superior PC choice for authentic Genesis music making, for right now. Mainly because of its balance of efficiency and accuracy. And the fact that you can port it to a hardware playable format.

Although, I believe that FM Drive has the most accurate emulation of the sound timbre and distortion.

I was deliberating whether or not to reply to this comment. However, I feel it is slightly misleading.

The Sega Genesis chip FM chip is the YM2612. It is only 6 channels of polyphony, and has different features than the YM2151 arcade chip (a.k.a. OPM).

The Genesis chip has the feature of SSG-EG, which modulates the envelope of each operator individual in very specific ways. It also has channel 3 multi-frequency mode, and CSM (complex sinuisoidal modulation) synthesis as another channel 3 ONLY feature).

Channel 6 can act as a PCM sample player as well. YM2151 does not have a built in sample player. Those old arcade games often had a separate PCM chip that could produce 5 or more samples simultaneously. (I remember hearing 16 at the highest). This is nice, but it is NOT a feature on the YM2151 chip itself.

The operator arrangement is inverted in some of the algorithms, which would mean that a .opm file might sound different on a Sega Genesis depending upon how the preset is designed.

The YM2151, however, has it's own PMS LFO generator, noise generator, and a second detuner for each operator.

There are some important differences between these 2 chips to consider.

So with the DIY project, it MIGHT be possible to use a Genesis chip, but you will be restricted to only 6 channels of polyphony instead of 8.

Alrighty.....

Now Deflemask is the best PC tracker option. It can be used without ever owning a Sega Genesis. You don't need a flash cart or anything. Just a PC. Although, if you want authentic hardware sound, then by all means, by a real Sega and flash cart.

Chaos Tracker, as previously mentioned, will be the ONLY Sega Genesis tracker available... if it is ever completed.