I can agree with that. I love that radnessss. that transient trick is a good one. I have used it in other things when synthesizing sounds on my laptop but never thought to try it on chip hardware.
One thing that i noticed in the FM world that i miss about the subtractive synthesis is that there is a strong emphasis on trying to recreate real life instruments. Personally I favor letting the FM be its own sound. For me the sound replication always ends up sounding boring and generally cheesey. It wasn't until i heard those "BRAAAAAAAAAG" and "TWAAAAANG" soundeffects that i got into FM synthesis. Ultimately thats why I ended up liking the mod version of this better.
The genesis/megadrive was such a powerful machine sound wise. It has so much potential. It has soooo many modern applications in music production. I mean the polyphony trick is totally proof of that. It really does stand out as its own instrument.
So I got this sweet little compaq laptop running windows 95 that I use for fast tracker and sometimes adlibtracker2. I think it might have an issue...
I am guessing this needs to be replaced or just never ever used again but I thought I would run it by you guys first. Any thoughts? Should I just get an external floppy drive and use that or is replacing it something that would be better?
That mod stuff is pretty interesting. Seems really strange but certainly unique sounding. I actually like the mod version better then the FM. The FM feels pretty flat to me and uninspired. The mod version maybe more noisy but it does certainly feel more dynamic. To me it would feel like a nice treat to hear something that different sounding coming from my genesis/megadrive. I mean, hearing an simple voice sample in video games at the time was pretty cool. It would certainly be much cooler way to reward your players for making the end credits then more of the same and text. Also considering how the SNES was boasting about how superior its audio was using samples... Yeah I think it was totally worth it. FM:
My first computer was a black and white Macintosh in 92 right around when I was 6 or so. My mom got it from her work. I remember frequently getting yelled at for freezing it when I got impatient and decided to click on everything. It was the only computer in my life until 97 when we "upgraded" to a Macintosh Performa. My first console was a boring old game boy. That was literally the only gaming platform until I was in highschool.
wow you guys are choosing some really documented ones. those all seem pretty easy to me. the one i always thought was way not beginner level was goat tracker. The sparse interface wasn't one that I would call intuitive at all as there is literally no clues or help in the program itself. still to this day I have not managed to get one sound out of that thing. LSDJ was really intuitive for me cuz i mean... there just isn't that much there. anytime you push a button something happens. I never got that with goatracker. adlib tracker is all in the function buttons and there is even a nice help button for quick references. renoise is one that i clicked with right away too but that was several years and versions ago.
Its all about what you kinda know going in too tho. I tend to read/lookup navigation keys and usually that is enough for me to go off of and get started.
The shurthi1 failed to leave an impression with me but the Polivoks filter board on the unit i used was actually really rad. I didnt like programming the thing and it always sounded super thin to me. Not what i wanted personally but other people seem to love theirs. The FM might be ok for this kind of thing tho.
http://www.vintagesynth.com/yamaha/dx200.php The dx200 is a great easy to use FM synth box too. If you only use 2 of the operators then you can get those OPL2ish sounds. In my experience authentic chiptune sounding FM synthesis really is something that can be made with any of your average FM synthesizers.
