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(13 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

These guys seem to be!

http://ds10forum.com/

CTRL+I? Initialize?

/me is confused.

Did you do Today with renoise?

1,108

(6 replies, posted in Releases)

Only half way through and this is already awesome!

To celebrate the music of the Mother series several artists have banded together to create the most nostalgic tribute to these games they could muster. Their music takes you on a journey beyond the end of Mother 2/EarthBound, meeting new characters and even a few new enemies.

fluidvolt — Thanks, Buzz Buzz (2:40)
Toby Fox — Fallen Down (1:00)
Pongball — Ninefield (1:39)
Joshua Morse — Summers Plaza (2:11)
Mouthless — Batty Bird Bop (1:12)
sleepytimejesse — New Scaraba Bazaar (3:37)
Maxo — Surprise! Photo Studio (3:04)
Mouthless — Rowdy Rodent Riddim (1:46)
Toby Fox — A New Line (2:50)
sleepytimejesse — Unidentified Flying Object (2:18)
Joshua Morse — Battle Against A Strange Enemy (1:49)
fluidvolt — The Tar Pits (1:34)
sleepytimejesse — Frank's Back. (1:05)
nysnamovois — Mr. Socksmagreeter (1:26)
sleepytimejesse — Haunted House (2:51)
fluidvolt — Slumberous Cove (2:34)
sleepytimejesse — Fire Spring (1:15)
sleepytimejesse — Giygas' Quiet Border (0:48)
Maxo — Fight Gyiyg Spawn (3:03)
Toby Fox — Megalo Strike Back (2:39)
Toby Fox — Checkerboard Memories (3:11)
sleepytimejesse — Goodbye (0:11)

http://ubiktune.org/releases/ubi042-var … bound-2012

Dude, i wanna hear your tracks!

Another useful hint, renoise users can KIND OF save "patches"

1 - switch to mixer view
2 - right click the channel which has the "patch" you want to save
3 - chose device chain -> save as whatever.xrnt

Open a new renoise song hooked up to the little-scale midi interface

1 - switch to mixer view
2 - right click
3 - choose "device chain" -> load
4 - IMPORTANT - click in the channel strip you just loaded the device into, double click the "linked instrument" number
5 - Enter 99, then enter 03 (or whatever channel strip it was)

What you are actually doing is kind of hacky. It is mainly used to store chains of FX like, reverb into compressor into maximser BUT it saves all the settings so we can exploit this to save a single instrument which happens to contain all our midi CC data for our patch!

Thanks and hand jobs to Abortifacient for working out that the linked instrument number will get renoise to recognize new midi "patches"

You can control the noise channel to some extent by using the 3rd square wave channel of the psg right? I wonder if anything fun happened there?

µB wrote:

I don't know. I'd have no problem wearing a Hendrix tee, even though he died 9 years before I was born. I wouldn't consider it "Faux Nostalgia" either, but just an expression that I enjoy his music. Similarly, I have an interest in certain time periods before I was born (I love Art Nouveau, for example) and sometimes wish I could visit those for a bit. Maybe it's the same for those kids?

I actually thought about that exact same example, the Hendrix t shirt I mean, you did see people wearing the odd Hendrix or Morrison shirt when I was in college. I think it is just a contrast to Tokyo, here, it is rare to see people younger than late 20s at a chipmusic show. Generally they are old enough to have played games during the 80s. I think retro culture maybe has a bit more reach or appeal to younger generations outside of Japan. I would love to know what the secret sauce is cause it would mean more people at local chip shows!

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(8 replies, posted in Sega)

Examples of Modern compositions would be interesting too!

Jay Tholen wrote:

I wasn't alive for most of the 80's (b. 1987...) but I have a weird sense of nostalgia for 80s culture. I think it had a lot to do with being raised in a not-very-wealthy family so we were always behind the tech curve by 5ish years. Got a NES when the SNES came out, etc. We still don't have cable or broadband here. (thank God for friendly neighbors...)

Oh yeah, I wasn't meaning to be critical of it, it just feels like culture moves so fast now. Going back to my home town in England a few years ago and seeing kids aged 15 or 16 wearing "Kurt RIP 1994 " shirts was a bit odd. Also, I guess with so much culture now being digital, movies or books or music aren't quite so tied to a particular era any more.

Yah, if that survey were done in Tokyo, everyone would be over 25.

spacetownsavior wrote:

the reason it's skewed toward younger ages is because that's the population we're interested in! she's trying to explore that weird cultural area of people into chiptune that are too young to have really been influenced by lo-bit sounds. if the reason so many people are into chiptune is because they're nostalgic for the sound aesthetic, then the ages of chiptune enthusiasts should keep getting older and older, but younger people are still getting into it!

Faux nostalgia is indeed an odd cultural phenomenon.

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(67 replies, posted in Releases)

Not mentioned in the op but there is a bandcamp page for this to throw luke some cash if you want http://knifecity.bandcamp.com/album/knife-city

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(67 replies, posted in Releases)

Knife City 4 Metrodub!!!!

Synced Gameboys!!!!

Love!!!!

Sweeeeeeet renoise just fixed an annoying midi bug with 2.8 RC2 which makes the midi inderface much easier to use.

Zan-zan-zawa-butt wrote:

haha i look at this thread every year and just think, well, back to ze drawing board

Cause people don't mention your name? You don't even want to play live!