721 Reply by Lazerbeat

(12 replies, posted in Other Hardware)

abortifacient wrote:
Lazerbeat wrote:

All of the smaller places / thrift stores got picked over by collectors Im afraid.

D:
Please let it not be so....

Unfortunately it is, ten years ago there were 20 or 30 retro gaming shops in Akihabara and thrift stores with cool stuff all over the place. Now there are 2 worthwhile stores in Akihabara plus Mandarake and Friends which are just about worth a look. All the above stores sell everything at auction prices though. There are a couple of good places for arcade boards left but probably 90 percent of the retro places are gone.

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722 Reply by Lazerbeat

(12 replies, posted in Other Hardware)

echigoya music is across the street from Tower recors in Shibuya on I think the 9th floor of the building opposite the post office. Basically that and 5G are the best / only real places for synths unless you get lucky in Ishibashi music or the 5th floor of the mac store building in Akihabara.

For games hit up trader or super potato in Akihabara. All of the smaller places / thrift stores got picked over by collectors Im afraid.

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723 Reply by Lazerbeat

(45 replies, posted in LittleGPTracker)

Moved to software & plugins.

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724 Reply by Lazerbeat

(38 replies, posted in Past Events)

Also, there is post party news coming out soon. It will be heavy.

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725 Reply by Lazerbeat

(19 replies, posted in Releases)

Woot!

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726 Reply by Lazerbeat

(30 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Is there any chance we could condense all these game recommendation threads into one? They are at best tangental to the forum.

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727 Reply by Lazerbeat

(38 replies, posted in Past Events)

Pre party line up announce, post party info coming soon....

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728 Reply by Lazerbeat

(10 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)

Why call it a WAVEtable then? Seems a bit misleading or am I missing something?

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729 Reply by Lazerbeat

(148 replies, posted in General Discussion)

chunter wrote:

The twin problems that blip created are that they gave the illusion of being the highest possible goal and that they made it seem so easy to do.

No disrespect but the first isn't really a problem? Maybe blip was or wasnt the ultimate goal, but blip seems to be over so people have new goals if they want like, be the best musician they can be or learn that new chip or put on their own festival. Seems like a silver enough lining to be worth mentioning?

Also putting on a chip festival isnt THAT hard, people seem to forget there was a time when the blip crew knew relatively little about chipmusic festivals and they had to make it up as they went along. Absolutely nothing to stop someone else from giving it a try!

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730 Reply by Lazerbeat

(148 replies, posted in General Discussion)

The future of chipmusic is incredibly exciting for me. Blip and TCTD have left the scene but everything looks super rosey to me. Things which are going on which im excited about.

- Blip showed 4 continents of people how great a chipmusic show can be. I think it was an inspiration to thousands of musicians, organisers and fans. That is a fertile seedbed.

- Continuing development of new and exciting hardware (drag and derp, GenMDM, Various NES projects, GIMIC)

- New technologies for distribution / communication like twitter and bandcamp

- Steady progress on trackers like LGPT, Famitracker and Deflemask

- Live shows popping up all over the place.

- Old school people (om, 4mat, hunz, gusse) coming back to the fold and being fucking awesome

- new performers developing (toriena, m7kenji, cheapshot, batsly adams, o2star)

- people making money from game soundtracks!

- chip sounds reaching a wider audience through plogue

So much potential!

My wishlist for the future

- More old school sceners start performing, Elwood and Radix anyone?

- A network of bad ass independent festivals for chip music.

- Gimic gets some traction outside japan (FM chips like you wouldnt BELIEVE)

- Someone finally discovers how blindingly awesome louis G is.

- Chibitech releases an album.

- More tightly focussed chippy labels like chipflip/metrodub/telefuture

- people finally stop bickering / giving a shit about "authenticity" and "what chipmusic is".

All of which, cept the last one, seems pretty likely!

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731 Reply by Lazerbeat

(10 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)

02star in Tokyo is totally on my list of things to do for the intermediate future

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732 Topic by Lazerbeat

(10 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)

I have an opl3 base Midibox FM and there is one feature I can't quite wrap my head around. The MBFM Manual (http://www.ucapps.de/midibox_fm_manual.html about 60 percent of the way down) refers to it as a "wavetable sequencer" where as Adlib Tracker 2 calls them macros.

It looks to me like a kind of LSDJ like table for inputting lots of midi CC commands at sub tick levels? Anyone able to confirm? I

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733 Reply by Lazerbeat

(33 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)

I wonder if it is possible to hook this up to a sammich fm?

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734 Reply by Lazerbeat

(41 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Can this not go in the customized gear thread? Seems a bit redundant.

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735 Reply by Lazerbeat

(41 replies, posted in Constructive Criticism)

I just had another look at the CC forum, I think this thread is still super relevant, give it a read guys!

Also, rule 12

12. Thread titles should describe the topic of the thread. Please avoid titles like "Help!" or "Have you seen this...". Something like "How can I do a beefy bassdrum with Midines?" or "I just saw a chip music reference at the bus stop" is good. Staff reserves the right to edit unclear thread titles to something more descriptive.

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736 Reply by Lazerbeat

(63 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)

I have this weird tingly feeling like when I saw Diana Rigg in the Avengers but didn't know what sex was. The wiki entry is way over my head!

Can someone ELI5 why (i have no doubt it is awesome btw) this is awesome for me?

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