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I hadn't heard of the genre before, a quick look on wikipedia and the definition seems incredibly vague event by wikipedia standards. Seem to be "any type of music with guitar / drums so long as it is tangentally connected to video games"?
Not knocking it but it is a pretty wide net!
I have a couple of teaching jobs and I help out at a tattoo studio. This isn't exactly "outside chip music" but I am pretty friendly with a really nice community of indie musicians here and we have monthly music show and tell meetings.
I adore music of all sorts of genres, loads of chip, skweee, 60s and 70s rock, classical, blues, motown, showtunes (yes really), early electronic stuff, all sorts. Love good stories, be they books, movies, podcasts, comics, whatever. Currently working through Scott Siglers stuff. Love history, mainly 1900s and onwards. My brain is always stuck in "problem solving mode" so I tend to be a bit spaced out sometimes. Also love classic hollywood, Wyler, Wilder, Huston, Hitchcock etc. I like games, my favorites are probably Go, Street Fighter Zero 2, Various Lucas Arts things and lotsa little indie games. Making furniture is hugely satisfying as is slowly getting back into shape after a year as a stay home dad.
Long term I want to look a bit more seriously at promoting, maybe do a soundtrack or two and get my Japanese up to translation level.
I just have to remember that sometimes you have to throw your life away, and pay in blood to achieve what you want.
The phrasing seems a little dramatic but I totally agree with the sentiment of betting big every now and then. If it is any help at all, Im a bit older (34) and I spent my 20s in was which weren't exactly super smart long term. I walked out of as job thought I was nuts for leaving and moved to london with no job or place to stay. Then got tired of London and moved to another country in more or less the same circumstances. Then about 2 years ago a whole bunch of life stuff slotted into place and everything came up win!
I was clicking about on vintage synth and I found this really weird little synth which I had never head of called a Philips PCM 100
From the post on VS
From the designer of the SFX peripherals for the Commodore 64, came this curious little box — the Personal Media Composer (PMC) 100. It's got a Yamaha two-operator FM chip, a membrane keyboard (flat, but not capacitive like the EDP Wasp) and its most striking feature, the built-in cassette deck. This allowed you to save your compositions as either sound or data, or it could function as a Walkman or dictaphone.
What an odd little beast!
I have a real soft spot for some of the "oh fuck it lets just throw everything and the kitchen sink in" type products like the Amstrad Mega PC (PC with a built in Megadrive) or the Pioneer Lazeractive (Laserdisk player/megadrive or PC engine/kareoke machine/wtf???) or the Hi Saturn (Sega Saturn/Car navigation system).
nitro2k01: Fixed the image. Vintagesynth doesn't like hotlinking.
Fukn wow. Good find Jake!
im guessing he thinks its a QY series
Curses, my gear senses were tingling.
I didn't know there was a lower end SU10?
My main objective to bandcamp is that is kinda sucks for managing things you have downloaded as a customer. You basically have to dig through your whole inbox to find things,
.xrns files for renoise!
I have heard locals say that Kabukucho and Okubo are dangerous...
I apparently also write italo violin house
Whats afucking brilliant idea!
This is a bit tangental to cm.o so if anyone feels it a little outside our scope feel free to graveyard it!
I have just moved to a new house from a 1 room apartment. I have a little studio room (with my PC) which I would like to stream to a bedroom on the same floor and a living room one floor below. I have an apple base station and the apple TV box seems a good way to stream the data but I need a good solution for amplifying the sound,
Caveat 1 - I would like to keep the amp as small as I can, really don't want to use a 19 inch unit.
Caveat 2 - A combination of a 1 year old kid running about the house, earthquakes and walls which aren't SUPER strong make me reluctant to use powered speakers. The 1 year old means, the speakers pretty much have to be wall mounted. I LOVE my fostex PMO.4s but they weigh about 5kg each or I would just mount a pair of those.
The solution I have come up with is a super small format amp like one of these guys :
Dayton Audio DTA-100a Class-T
microFidelity Audio Amplifier, Model 200
Audio Engine N22
And a pair of passive speakers. Anyone used any of the above units before? Got a better option in the 200 usd or less range? Any better solutions to the streaming problem?
Thanks!
Lazerbeat wrote:Great effort but im afraid the color cycling is a bit too much for me!
thanks, and i actually agree with this particular screen. it looks kind of lame when the speed is slower though. the problem is, the negative space comprises so much of the screen, so it is kind of overpowering when it's big like that. during the video, there are some glitchy areas where only tiny little pieces are color cycling and those aren't too intense at all. so yeah, i think it's mainly because of how much of the screen is pulsing.
Old topic but if you have a v4 you could key in litewall or something as another layer for the larger negative space backgrounds. That might de intensify things a bit,
There have been a couple of threads on this topic, the search function is your friend!
http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/4128/ … une-scene/
http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/5964/ … es-nights/
It is a bit London centric but Swindon is only a quick trip down the m4.
Awesome idea but did you check with Johan to make sure he is cool with this?
I'd bite that!
Next soundbytes shirt:
"id byte that for a dollar"
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