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(59 replies, posted in Atari)

I see that I didn't download the .INO file. I copy and pasted it. Is that likely to change anything? I can't find a way to download the actual .ino, just view it and save as some sort of text format.

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(59 replies, posted in Atari)

Hey. I'm trying to get this together, and I think I need a little help with the teensy 2.0 part of this equation. I downloaded the .INO file, installed the Arduino IDE 1.8.2 and the teensyduino add on. I don't know exactly what to do to flash it to the teensy... in the Arduino app I have teensy 2.0 chosen for the board type, I don't know what to pick for usb type, I chose midi. which programmer do I pick? and where do I put the .INO file, run once or run repeatedly?  Then, when I verify or upload the file, I get a lot of text in the bottom window saying crap about errors. "prg uchar kick[] does not name a type
"..., and some..."was not declared in this scope."
so this is my first experience with flashing code to a microcontroller, and it just don't seem right... HELP PLEASE!

Do you like what you're doing? Who cares what the rest of the monkeys think? Music is sound that gets interpreted by the brain as electrical impulses. You're body doesn't care if someone with years of experience and an artistic heart is playing live or if you're listening to an mp3 of it. Your brain gets some stimulus and reacts by squirting the right chemicals. It "lights up" exactly the same.
  Just do what makes you and your friends happy.

Buy a powerpak. Throw a resistor in your NES. Done. It's worth it.
I'm definitely interested in plgDavids mod board. I LIVE for seperate audio channel outs and midi in ports. That's my jam.

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(3 replies, posted in Releases)

Awesome stuff! I LOVE the idea of having the individual tracks of a song available. Dj and sampler fodder. Paying for the seperate parts doesn't bother me as long as the "value"  of the parts is equal to the complete song price.

It's crazy good here! Literally being crushed by piles of cash for playing chiptune dance music to enthusiastic crowds of brilliant young people offering me free sex and all of their drugs. Everyone move to oklahoma and get rich and fat just from picking up my scraps.

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(18 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Break down. Cry. Seriously though,  remove elements. Make space. Delete notes to let some silence peek through the curtain. Sometimes a breakdown to just a kick and a snare roll nudges me in a mew direction.
Leave everything the same, but change instruments slightly. Like a bass line that sustains less each cycle.
Harmonize.
Arpeggiate the stuff that sustains. 
Stay on one note and just rhythmically beat the crap out of it.
Variations of the loop. Instead of dun dun dun, give it a touch of dundun duh dun, and go back to the loop.
Stop. Do something else totally. Sleep on it. Let some time pass. Then one day you'll rediscover it and you'll be in a different phase of your own cycle. Then maybe you'll see it from a different perspective. A fresh, mew take on it.

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(55 replies, posted in Sega)

Sexy stuff!

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(4 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)

SD2IEC. Sd card drive for c64.
It's a machine. You can repair it depending on how much time and energy you want to invest. You can find people who will fix one for you. You can buy a tested, working one...
People sell small c64 power supplies on ebay and ray carlson sells massive hardcore ones.

Sounds like you're in experimental territory here. Since the backing is just a thin sheet of reflective material glued to the screen, what about a thin piece of glass mirror in place of the backlight? Maybe u could find a reflective plastic membrane and glue it on like tinting a car window. They have it all over the walls in these colorado flower stores for growing flowers.

Hit up bennvenn for the backlit front pcb thing he has. Check his shop page. Shower him with money and praises.  But don't bother him too much, he is doing important work that benefits us all.

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(10 replies, posted in General Discussion)

You point the remote control at the guitar pickups...but how does he use the norelco shaver? Where's his looper? How did he bluetooth that helmet?!

That wouldn't be surprising. Snatch everything up If/when you have the chance. Hardware extensions for chiptune is super custom gear.

Limitation, restriction, freedom in submission to the rules set by the machine? The way people look at you when you tell them what you like doing with your spare time... is it audio kink?
Being in command of a machine, hardware complications by modding, creative abuse of a system...

I'm trying out midi control and gameboys. I got an aboy kit from catskull.(Nice. Thanks!) I got mGB and LSDj to do their thing, but I wasn't having any luck triggering  with pushpin.  Catskull pointed me to double check my software version.  I had downloaded the file from github. So I found the pushpin_aboy file blog and flashed it to my ems cart.  I can get it to load on a dmg and I get the garbled graphics and it triggers audio with note on commands. Cool. When I try to load it on a gbc, I get garbled graphics. I push start and the screen goes black. No audio. So what am I doing wrong? When I flashed the cart, I clicked the gbc box like I usually do. I had pro sound, bass boost, and noise reduction mods on the gbc. So I tried it with a stock gbc, same thing.

That mod totally works on the front load nes. The powerpak emulates the expansion chips. I don't think that it emulates them all however. So some famitracker songs with those expansion chips may not be able to play back all of your parts.
Check out that tns-hfc5/tns-hxf4 stuff if you decide to go the famicom route.
If you get a powerpak, make sure to check out everything from Neil Baldwin. It'll help you switch your mind around approaching making music. Always helps me freshen up the staleness of using one software too long.