Awesome work!
Just loved SHADOW FUNCTION, great jam, great beats.
50 Feb 18, 2017 9:40 am
Re: "Post-chip"/"VGM"? (43 replies, posted in General Discussion)
marcb0t wrote:
You'll find that nobody really seems to agree on what chip music really is. But that's what makes things so interesting on these kind of discussion threads.
Afterall, what would the world be without a little debate and discussion on subjective matters?
Don't get me wrong! It's just a debate that gets nowhere everytime and it is all semantics. That's why I say it is nonsense. Not beacuse it doesn't matter, is just that it doesn't move anyone forward, actually. It would help much more if it was a discussion based on other stuff than to give it a life as a genre or wtv.
Dunno if i'm making myself clear.
The main point is DO WHATEVER, NEVERMIND THE BOLLOCKS.
51 Feb 15, 2017 6:17 pm
Re: "Post-chip"/"VGM"? (43 replies, posted in General Discussion)
I thought everyone agreed chipmusic is a way not a genre. Wait what?
There are vaporwaves who grabs a little from chipmusic. And some would be called post-chip, with this definition proposed at the first post. Hell, some are chipmusic, at my book. (i don't have a book)
But this is nonsense. Do whatever, chip is not a genre, imo, but wtv anyway.
52 Feb 14, 2017 12:18 pm
Re: Happy Wavetable XMas (29 replies, posted in LittleGPTracker)
Well, Im having the same issue when going back with the sample. But my knowledge is ancient and I read somewhere about this issue.
But it was supposed to work? Never got backward plof to work with big samples. I could do some pwm with shorter samples and it would go back and forth, but with these wavetables it doesn't work. It just goes to the end of the sample and don't go back.
54 Jan 29, 2017 10:08 pm
Re: Chipmusic and Punk-Aesthetics (73 replies, posted in General Discussion)
breakphase wrote:
I'm trying to examine chipmusic as maybe an anthropologist or something. I think the behavior around it, and the aesthetics of it, are interesting.
You seem to think that chipmusic is about nostalgic reclamation. Taking things from the past and making them different.
My point, to try and be brief, is that chipmusic -- whatever your specific motivations -- is counter to mainstream values.
Guess you have a big point here! This makes sense to me. A lot. Maybe I was seeing from another angle.
But hey, Im not the guy who tries to be right whatever, I agree with you here and say I was wrong on that one. It is rebellion if I want change, right? Sometimes I end up trying to be devil's advocate and then I'm wrong. Otherwise we would all be rich and famous. Just a different kind of rebellion.
But then I ask: What are we rebelling against? I'm definetly going to think about that in the next few days.
breakphase wrote:
But the thing is, it's quite natural to subvert conservative media for radical purposes. Many of us make music that is quite shocking because it comes from old video game systems.
Anyway, in conclusion, I think chiptune is quite subversive as a movement, even if we don't mean to be.
And again, food for thought. Cause I experience this every time I play live. And now I do techno.
Maybe I was biased with my own world view and whatever and am not seeing what's the true nature of what I do. This sounds weird but I do need to rethink what am I doing with my music. Cause I think we should be even more subversive.
Thanks for the insights! I'm not high, wish i was
55 Jan 29, 2017 12:07 am
Re: Chipmusic and Punk-Aesthetics (73 replies, posted in General Discussion)
I think chipmusic has a certain A E S T H E T I C as nostalgia. Then VAPORWAVE came and just buried chipmusic with another kind of nostalgia (and I dunno why nobody came to label it as new punk).
Is it "punk"?
Cause honestly, complementing what zzzv said, we absolutely never transgressed or did anything political or whatsoever. We can say chipmusic BORROWED from punk the DIY, even if we lost some of it today. And I cant see anything else. Cause there's no need to be anything else. That's the beauty in it. We don't need the label "punk", even if you do some kind of music which is similar to that style of music. But starshine said better than me.
Starshine wrote:
Personally, I think the connection comes from both the D.I.Y. aspect, the musical/artistic limitations, and the community associated with it.
...or we're all just sad nerds who just wanna be cool...
And that's why I'm still here doing stuff with my portable videogames. I don't say we are sad nerds, but I'll come back later on that.
Anti-consumerism? I don't know about that. I never saw that anywhere in the chipscene (but maybe I'm blind). Maybe an ecological conscience, but wasnt that proeminet. I think that is just the times we live in. It was different 40 years ago, as it was different 10 yrs ago. People like videogames and I think this links with the next subject
Rebellion? I mean, as Breakphase wrote
breakphase wrote:
I'd also like to suggest to you the possibility that rebellion is already encoded within chipmusic
I say it's not. It's more about reviving and modifying past memories than rebellion. It's like molding and reframing what you used to listen as a kid. I don't know about everyone, but I grew listening to VGM more than what was on television or radio or wtv. That's not rebellious at all. That's actually my status quo. And here I link with "sad nerds", which I don't think we are at all. It's just different and "new".
Also, is there rebellion in our days? Isn't it different now? Are we in check with the times we live in? I have no idea how to deal with that actually cause I know Im alienated from that in a way.
I wasn't from the punk scene here, but I did studied the beginnings of punk at my town (as in academically, see how 1337 i am). And as I say that, I just think how many here are from poor families and from a worker background, cause, cmon, who had money to buy videogames? I got poorer as I got off from my parents house and I got lucky to even have a graduation from a university. And then if you see who started to make punk after the Ramones, specially here, was the poorer kids from the peripheries of cities.
I say we are "garbage men (not a lot of women, though). We reutilize old devices, and that's awesome. We give life to stuff which people tend to throw away cause it's old.
My music isn't even 8bit enough anymore, so I dunno if i'm blabbing.
Also we do so different genres using little toys and programs etc
Love you guys.
56 Jan 28, 2017 11:22 pm
Re: Happy Wavetable XMas (29 replies, posted in LittleGPTracker)
PULSELOOPER wrote:
Subway Sonicbeat wrote:AWESOME
But maybe I dunno how to use it? How do you use this thing? I mean, i can get some cool sounds and stuff, but how do I properly make it "tastier"?
I use it at osc mode, but it always sounds weird and I cant get it doing cool stuff. HALP?
Damn you Kurt. I've told you one million times about the tricks regarding oscillator and the monowave file, sent you dat files as examples, and you still come ask people here?
btw, thanks Pete for the awesome file.
BOOOOOO
My issue was not knowing WHERE to (PULSE)loop the wav files. Now I know because of those fine gentlemen.
Im all about lpof PWM for a while now.
But with these files I was trying to match the osc without looking the waveform. And when I did, I just didn't know what I was looking at. It was barely working, I knew there was more to these but I couldnt make the magic happen.
Now I did and Im loving it.
But yeah, I should get more projects to see stuff. Im way behind in lgpt techniques.
58 Jan 27, 2017 7:42 pm
Re: Happy Wavetable XMas (29 replies, posted in LittleGPTracker)
breakphase wrote:
Its all about using the loop start, loop end to find different waveforms to use. Since most of the waveform s are 2048, try a loop end that's 0x800 (2048 in hex) samples after the loop start. In oscillator mode of course.
THANKS MATES!
I cant check now, but that was what I was trying to ask, actually, cause noobs and stuff.
Love you guys.
And prof, thanks again for the link, is awesome indeed.
59 Jan 25, 2017 8:21 pm
Re: How does one play live chip music... (184 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Do magic and profit
60 Jan 25, 2017 8:11 pm
Re: Happy Wavetable XMas (29 replies, posted in LittleGPTracker)
AWESOME
But maybe I dunno how to use it? How do you use this thing? I mean, i can get some cool sounds and stuff, but how do I properly make it "tastier"?
I use it at osc mode, but it always sounds weird and I cant get it doing cool stuff. HALP?
61 Jan 25, 2017 8:07 pm
Re: where did all the thousands of 8bc users go? (63 replies, posted in General Discussion)
OFF TOPIC NEVER 4GET
62 Oct 5, 2016 5:13 pm
Re: ｉｓａｎｙｏｎｅｍａｋｉｎｇＶＡＰＯＲＷＡＶＥ? (17 replies, posted in General Discussion)
I am doing some as LACROUSTE, using only brazilian stuff:
https://soundcloud.com/lacrouste
But I am totally inspired by vapour with my chip too.
63 Dec 16, 2014 3:11 am
Re: [CP059] Subway Sonicbeat - Dissonância Cognitiva (3 replies, posted in Releases)
I uploaded on mixcloud, the entire mix, nonstop, like it should be listened.
http://www.mixcloud.com/ssb/cp059-subwa … cognitiva/
64 Dec 8, 2014 3:05 pm
Topic: [CP059] Subway Sonicbeat - Dissonância Cognitiva (3 replies, posted in Releases)
Oh, hello chipmusic.org!
I have a new release out today. Available on bandcamp for stream, I'm releasing some stuff I wrote some years ago on LGPT and I've been overusing them live, so it's time to let it out.
The last two songs were made on LSDJ+DMG. Influenced basically by french and acid house. I added a pinch of seapunk anywhere on those LSDJ songs, whatever that means.
Hope you guys enjoy it.