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Well, I can say that your composition skills are accurate and good. The sounds you picked are pleasant.

However, it sounds like you are using triangle waveforms instead of square waves. Square waves would sound more like a real chiptune. The triangle waves you use are also way too high of quality, so my ears know right away that it's not authentic chip.

You could easily replace the instrument you used with a square wave generator. Or just change the osc to square in whatever VSTi you used.

It is true that the NES had a triangle wave on one channel, but it was highly distorted and had a very unique sound that is very hard to imitate. It is not the same triangle wave as on a standard synthesizer.

Again, I think you did a good job with the composition, and the tunes sound cute. But if you are wanting to get an authentic sound, I recommend one of the many wonderful trackers out there like Famitracker: http://www.famitracker.com/

Free to download and use. Plus it is set up to give you authentic NES music, and you can even convert your song to play off a Nintendo cartridge. Of course there are many other chips and sounds to imitate out there and they all sound different and unique.

I like Sega Genesis personally. I have a tracker (VGM Music Maker) where I make authentic tunes for it. Someone even played one of my songs on an actual European Sega Genesis (MegaDrive).

If you enjoy your music the way it is, that's cool too. But my initial thought is that you are wanting to make authentic sounding chiptunes. Is that your goal?

My pleasure, and yes I'm very much the same, and have ideas for whole albums that have related motif themes, and so forth. Not for every song per say, but most songs, like in a John Williams soundtrack or something. Obviously the Cantina tune on the Star Wars soundtrack does not sound like the main theme at all, but a lot of the movements share a basic theme or subtle background chords and movements. Yes, I admire that kind of musical style.

Famitracker was never daunting to me. It was very thrilling and exciting with each new thing I learned. But I dive right into things first, and when I get stuck, then I finally decide to read the manual.   But everyone's different.  Yes, you will get very precise portamento, very easy to implement as well, actually. Same as with vibrato. Can start, stop, and alter intensity right down to the very frame per note. That's why I really like trackers for chiptune making. You can also do lots of cool things with arpeggios, tremolo, and have authentic usage of the 1-bit DPCM sample channel. You cannot find a better tracker for NES... that I have seen. (Somebody correct me if I'm wrong )

But yeah, take your time, though, no need to rush into things. Your music sounds good just as it is. I enjoy it. And if you'd ever like someone to work with on a Famitracker tune, then I'd be willing to.

Take care,
marcb0t 3.0 --- yo!

It does sound like they fed it through a highpass or bandpass filter, as the lows are lacking some of the frequencies. Definitely play with your EQ a little using the low end of the TB-303. And make sure to add a little pitch bending between some of the notes

Whoa! Sounds intriguing. Glad to hear you found all that source code.

If you ever need a free backup storage, I have like 20 GB of storage on Dropbox you can use for no cost. Let me know if you'd like me to share you a folder.

I'm guessing you are going to dedicate one tracker for standard Genesis stuff, and the other branched one will be more geared towards Sega CD PCM and 32X PWM development. It would make sense to make a split at that point given the limited resources.

Cool stuff though... woohoo!

Thanks for sharing. That was really fascinating! The dance of the crow was pretty weird, but cool at the same time.

In terms of the topic. Perhaps far in the future, there will be a retro nostalgia, people wondering what the first computers and video games were like. Or maybe those sounds will just be integrated into music for generations to come. Like they'll be relics unidentifiable except to cyber nerds pumped up on useless factoids.

You still have people who are really into ancient instruments and even harpsichords, and all kinds of century old sounds and things out there. So I could see chiptunes lasting in some form for quite awhile.

I don't think the mainstream record companies getting a hold of chiptunes as a new pop cultural scene would be a good thing. Although, I wouldn't mind going to an alternate timeline where that happens for just a few days (won't happen in this one, so no worries). Inter-demensional travel has been a little hard on my body lately. So I'm sticking around here for a bit.

Yay! for the Special+CSM :DDD  I am probably the only one who likes to use Special Mode in VGM Music Maker. Really thickens up the song when you have chords of 4 coming out of a single channel like in the latter half of this song: https://soundcloud.com/marcb0t/seaside- … ed/s-EQdmL

Yeah, they are sine wave chords, but it can also be used for glowing luminescent background stuff, and other really interesting sound effects and drums. I've been doing a lot of experimenting. VGMM doesn't allow for as much flexibility as there probably should be, but the little it does is spectacular. I've made talking voices with CSM mode before. It's tricky, but fun. Using that A-Timer and modulating the 4 operator pitches separately.

Yeah, the H Blank PSG interlacing would be cool. But it looks like you'll be doing everything you can to get things to work nicely. If anything, it would be an interesting experiment, once you already have a good solid program.

Amiga sounding for the DAC wavetable is just fine for me, doesn't even have to be that good, because I mainly use it to thicken up bass sounds, and extra things, so I don't mind if it sounds a little distorted or lower quality. It's all apart of the fun, I think.

I really like where things are headed, and I realize the most important thing is to just get all the  basic stuff working solid and efficiently before any other special things.

Thanks again, and take care!

(I've also been using Aly James's FM drive for experimentation with the above mentioned. Excellent VSTi!)