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I used Renoise to make Sky Burial and also for a lot of work I did (as in everything here  except for the Rollin' Reels stuff, and including the Gunstringer soundtrack stuff) for Audio Aggregate.

John Tiberio, who wrote the above-linked review, later interviewed me about the album and I had this to say in his question regarding Renoise specifically:

"When I first started looking into creating chiptunes it was overwhelming because I’m extremely”right-brained” and inspiration driven.  I am both impressed and stressed by mathematics and chemistry.  Complex computer languages and interfaces cause my brain to cease functioning in a seemingly pathological way.  On top of it all, I own a Mac, so it turns out that my tracker options are fairly limited.  I discovered Renoise and Milky Tracker, and I decided to hunker down with Renoise because it had a fairly broad user base and a lot of straightforward tutorials, many geared toward much more complex production techniques than I was interested in employing at the time. Once I got over the visual attack of the tracker interface as a whole, I found the format of trackers to be much more intuitive than any piano roll sequencer.  Despite being a bombastic cluster of numbers and letters, Renoise allowed (and continues to allow) me to compose my songs like essays rather than complex equations.Renoise’s ability to read .IT, .XM, and even .S3M files allowed me to study the ancient masters, particularly 4mat, maktone, virt, spamtron, and Norrin_Radd.  I found it very important and inspiring to maintain a strict respect for their form, particularly regarding a total lack of effect automation.  I quickly found a lot of liberty and creative inspiration available in eschewing Renoise’s native channel “effects” and sticking straight to classic volume column values.  I think something like the two-channel intro to “Flight of the Peacock Lords” wouldn’t have come to fruition if I had relied on static delay “effect” values.The “fine tuning” I referred to regards a simple need I faced to literally fine-tune the base notes of the different square wave samples I cobbled together into my instrument bank."

So, tl;dr aside, Renoise was a very easy transition into trackers for someone who had never used any sort of music sequencer before and who nearly broke out into a panic attack during a 2002 attempt to do something with Impulse Tracker.

NES freezing was a huge problem for Bit Brigade, a VGM project I play guitar in, over the weekend.  We score NES games in real-time as our uber-gamer buddy beats them via a projected top-loading NES.  He has, and usually uses with no freezing problems in six years, carts for our three main games that he regularly cleans.  Recently, however, (the awesome) Ryan8Bit made us some custom sfx-only roms for PowerPak use that allow us to play the music for the games while the sound effects roll through the PA.  About halfway through Ninja Gaiden, the PowerPak froze. 

I have been having other problems with the PowerPak recently as well, but the exhaustive details there are probably for another thread.  Even the top-loader obviously isn't foolproof, but Noah has never had any problems with it before and he actually just loaded up his genuine NG cart, sped through the game up to the point where the PP froze, and the game was completed with no problems.

Absolutely insanely awesome.  Attendance lacked slightly but energy never did.  If they're going to keep doing chiptunes in the main concert hall, however, I'd like to recommend some kind of smaller on-stage P.A. be brought in for the sets.  With bands, you have huge amplifiers and drums pouring sound directly from the stage, but for something like this there was kind of an airy void of sound if you were near the front of the stage dancing it off in between the significantly-spaced speaker towers (like I was with my fellow Shizzies).

Cheap Dinosaurs are just a fucking great band, period, chiptune or otherwise.

Wow, c-jeff, thank you for releasing this Darkman007 record!  I had never heard of this guy before, and it's stellar stuff!  Everyone, get to Ubiktune and download everything there!

And for those who are interested in such things, I'd like to point out that the Sky Burial re-release includes lossless WAVs as well as the original Renoise tracker files for the project.

Have fun!

About two years ago, I made this thread on the nesdev forum:

http://nesdev.parodius.com/bbs/viewtopi … 2ee886b383

And it's just so mindblowing (and vindicating) to me to see the developments that have occurred since I posted my initial query.

I'd like to be involved with this, but I haven't had any luck getting Famitracker to play nice using Crossover with Mac OSX, though soon hopefully I'll get to take a shot with WineBottler.