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(1,052 replies, posted in Graphics, Artwork & Design)

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(1,052 replies, posted in Graphics, Artwork & Design)

bump wink

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(42 replies, posted in Sega)

Shiru's tracker is awesome - I wish it was still being updated sad

!! thanks !!

bump.  smile

so this is what Johan is up to.

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(1,052 replies, posted in Graphics, Artwork & Design)

bigger one:  http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-QdOVF … G_0042.GIF

was looking at a lot of old 4mat Protracker modules w/ vivid tracker.  time to start hitting the Amiga!

all that work definitely paid off!  wait till these people hear the album.  It's too good.

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(336 replies, posted in Sega)

If you need a beta tester, I'm dying to get my hands on a copy.  I have used a lot of trackers:  LSDJ, Famitracker, Deflemask, Goat Tracker, Cyber Tracker, Houston Tracker, Prophet 64, VGM Music Maker, Renoise, TFM, Pixitracker, Sunvox along with the VST VOPM.  I like to find bugs too.

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(29 replies, posted in Collaborations)

good stuff.  I'm surprised there isn't a whole entire scene / music label of high quality chip hop / chip rap.

I can say that I have re-adapted songs for live situations.  Say you have a 3.5min banger and it's everyone's favorite song - it's easier to take that file put some space between all of your sections in LSDJ and then trigger things in live mode. It's very easy to add chill out sections and maybe a guitar/gameboy solo this way - maybe a new variation on your best melody - extended outro to pump the crowd up - etc.  I think that is really the purpose for the live mode - to spin endless variations of the same thing.  like "Ok I'm headed to philly. They get the fuck down.  Maybe I should extend that dancey part at the end."  or like you're playing in Buffalo and they like the hard hitting secitons... or you're playing in the south so maybe you break out the banjo-style patches.  This is what my favorite solo gameboy performers do and they keep it interesting because each time i hear the person things are slightly different.  That makes going back to see the person perform more fun in the long run and I am usually motivated to catch them.  When people announce things like "new song" I really don't care...  If people say like... new arrangement of a song I like - or if they would announce that they were going to improvise a little more or add sections and mix it up - i would get super amped.  But that is just me.

The best way to learn:  Get on the stage and make some mistakes.  Your audience will let you know if something is stupid - lack of applause or general unresponsiveness usually means you should change something.  I've had this happen many times.  smile  At times I ignored it or wrote it off as people not "understanding" my music...  not the case haha.  Being boring is probably the worst thing you can do.

you can defile the stage any way you like.  you're an actor / entertainer the second you step foot up there.  Technique is NOT a show.  Creativity is what you want to display and if that means hitting play then fuck it - you wrote the song.