Looks rad. Take a video!
242 Jul 16, 2014 4:27 pm
Re: Sampling LSDJ Drum Sounds (39 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
Creating and selling a sample pack is a totally valid practice in music production guys! Some genres have an entire history that is built around the use/overuse of a single sample pack, too. nordloef and herr_prof have it nailed, but the cost should be accurate to the processing and additional treatment done to the samples, not just for the curation of the pack I think
All I'm sayin is that the vanilla LSDJ drum samples definitely exist on the net already as a free pack, though. But hey, if you look hard enough you'll find enough free sample packs of anything - so if you find a sample pack that's charging, they usually try to make it unique so you won't find it anywhere else. 
it's no big deal IMO
243 Jul 16, 2014 4:02 pm
Re: nanoloop 1.7 (60 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
great to see new developments oliver, and even more exciting that the old features are coming back ! 
244 Jul 15, 2014 11:56 pm
Re: Sampling LSDJ Drum Sounds (39 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
but these packs already exist on the internet tho
245 Jul 9, 2014 6:13 pm
Re: Wav Instrument Tutorials for LSDJ (11 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
That's not a stupid question at all! I think that confused me too.
If I remember correctly you're right, the 00 end is the bass frequencies. This explains why when you switch to a High Pass Filter in the Synth screen that the sound cuts out - the default value is FF, which means that the cutoff is happening at the highest point (i.e. - all frequencies are being cutoff but the highest possible ones, so you might not hear anything unless you are a dog and can hear those high notes )
246 Jul 9, 2014 3:32 pm
Re: KIDS REACT TO GAMEBOY (44 replies, posted in General Discussion)
herr_prof wrote:
I'd like to see these kids reacting to getting smacked upside their damn heads.
LOL
247 Jul 9, 2014 3:26 pm
Re: Wav Instrument Tutorials for LSDJ (11 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
The best response I can come up with to this thread is to not worry about trying to emulate other instruments too much in LSDJ, you'll always get disappointed (and other people will only hear "8bit" anyway). Instead, try to embrace the timbres and come up with wacky crazy sounds through trial and error - you'll have a lot more fun with happy accidents than trying to make a specific thing and failing at it
WAV sound design for me goes like this: Start with sine or a thick square so you have a lot of bass - then mess with parameters and chip away at the bass frequencies until you get something you like. It's like ice sculptures then - you're starting with a big block and then chipping (pun intended) away until you get something really nice and unique to your own sound!
248 Jul 8, 2014 5:57 am
Re: Understanding legacy FM chips and audio cards (12 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)
lol thanks guys, and shoutout to you guys in fact being the exact two people in mind
249 Jul 2, 2014 8:14 pm
Topic: Understanding legacy FM chips and audio cards (12 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)
Hey everybody,
To me, the history of FM stuff is as complex as the way it makes music.
It doesn't seem as simple as NES -> 2a03 or even the Amiga -> PAULA, for example.
I wanted to make this thread because I think it might be helpful to grasp this and I also feel a lil guilty bothering Carl all the time lol
So this is what I gathered so far and I'm prepared for it to be horribly wrong so hmu!
This is specifically talking about desktops, because most laptops just had very compatible clone alternatives I think
ok so...
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>AdLib 1.0
Very popular add-on sound card early on
The AdLib sound card had a chip on it that uses FM, the Yamaha YM3812. This chip is also called "OPL-2."
The AdLib card could not do digital audio/PCM, instead it synthesized things like SFX using the FM from the YM3812/OPL-2.
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>Sound Blaster 1.0
So Creative comes along and makes their first Sound Blaster card to compete with AdLib. The Sound Blaster sported the same Yamaha YM3812/OPL-2 FM chip too, but could now also do mono sampled sound in addition. Sound Blaster now becomes more popular than AdLib
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>Sound Blaster Pro series introduced
Pro series has two YM3812/OPL-2s, one for each channel to create stereo images
Sound Blaster Pros evolved to use a single upgraded FM chip: the YMF262 (or OPL-3)
The YMF262/OPL-3 had twice the channels, extra waveforms, and simple LCR stereo so you didn't need two of them anymore
(*Apparently around here AdLib tried to compete with an YMF262/OPL-3 chip based card called AdLib Gold but it failed or something...? idk)
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>Sound Blaster 16 series introduced
Still had the YMF262/OPL-3 chip from the Sound Blaster Pro days
Higher quality audio sampling
Had the ability to be connected to the Wave Blaster, a wavetable sample-based General MIDI compatible synth
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>Sound Blaster AWE32 series introduced
Combines the previous Sound Blaster 16 specs plus a "MIDI Synthesizer" section from E-mu
The "MIDI Synth" includes an E-mu sampler and effects processor directly (making the Wave Blaster obsolete? I think???)
Still got dat YMF262/OPL-3 chip but combined with everything else this thing seems like a beast
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After this generation of Sound Blaster 32, the sound cards ditched the actual OPL-3 hardware in favor of software emulation for FM synthesis instead and for the context of this thread, I don't think people here would be as interested anymore lolol. These cards include Sound Blaster Live! and Ensoniq AudioPCI cards -> These cards are actually the first tools I used to compose music seriously in high school, using General MIDI software sequencers to play the wavetable samples. It's actually funny because while growing up I noticed that my General MIDI songs would sound a lot lamer on newer computers and it's taken me over a decade to realize that it probably was because Ensoniq's wavetable synthesis got thrown out.
s/o to the two guys who might kinda read this
250 Jul 1, 2014 2:13 pm
Re: Looking for Artists for Kickstarter Project (46 replies, posted in General Discussion)
A.I. wrote:
... I'll go bother the metal-heads and indie hip-hop guys, they are at least creatively supportive
LOL, this has got to be a troll what
251 Jun 30, 2014 5:54 pm
Re: Looking for Artists for Kickstarter Project (46 replies, posted in General Discussion)
roboctopus wrote:
There's going to be a 2-day chip festival in Evansville, Indiana in early August. I guess that's sort of close to Southern IL.
There's a thread for it: http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/14428 … ly-aug-89/
Maybe you could check out some of the artists from that if it's close enough to you geographically.
Oh wow, that's rad! Had no idea that was happening.
A.I. - definitely hit that up!
252 Jun 30, 2014 4:50 pm
Re: Looking for Artists for Kickstarter Project (46 replies, posted in General Discussion)
You just really need to hit up some shows/events sometime!
I'll see if I can do any research on stuff in Southern Illinois and will post back here later, but like if you're trying to start a show about this stuff, shouldn't you be the one doing that research...? An open call might not be exactly representative of what actually may or may not be going on in your area, but instead just just people trying to get quick exposure from their bedrooms.
The best curated showcases, documentaries, and journalism about this stuff work well because they're run by people super invested in it and digged hard into the depths to find the best of the best. They aren't just promoters and organizers with connections but they're driven and creative people and many of them make their own music and art in the style, too. That is to say, they totes know their shit yo
253 Jun 30, 2014 4:42 pm
Re: Looking for Artists for Kickstarter Project (46 replies, posted in General Discussion)
wow this thread
255 Jun 27, 2014 3:19 pm
Re: Does a sav file for the this cart exist somewhere? (27 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Nullsleep wrote:
If anyone shares this .sav I will kill you and put your corpse up on the pirate bay.
Pirate Search: __________
_ Audio _ Video _ Porn _ Applications X Dead Bodies
256 Jun 27, 2014 3:16 pm
Re: Does a sav file for the this cart exist somewhere? (27 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Domu wrote:
hey so if you ever have a scratched cd you bought, dont ever ask for it to be sent to you via a thread like this, else its immoral.
distributing it to those whove not paid is different but in the case of Fumu, with his horribly erase-battery-prone EMS cart, whats tha problem?
Well I mean, IDC if the homie Fumu wants to back up a dying piece of history for himself. I'm talking about if someone else who might have this cart, backs it up, and posts the link in public. I don't think there's any malicious intent, but it might not be a good idea before clarifying with people first since they still own it
Domu wrote:
cant see any hate for the guy actually selling the cart on Ebay here, surely that's worse?!
Hm, I don't think that's worse though. I mean they sold it for like $100 - IIRC you got the cart for a donation of like $150, so they didn't even make a profit on it here. They probably just wanted to sell it to someone else who'd be genuinely interested in the data. Now if the .sav started floating around and got shared though, it now brings up concerns of property of each individual artist (like Bit Shifter said), the property of Blip Festival materials, and above all it now turns that special cart into a blank flash cartridge. I think that's kind of depressing IMO 