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this thread is making me super stoked, love seeing these devs ready to make magic happen

also LOL - seriously i'll try this out though, thanks scannerboy!

chiptune lives; thank you Tobokegao !!!

ubiktune! that crew knows how to shred hard

Hi!

First off ForaBrokenEarth I'm super honored that this track inspired you - thank you for checking it out! As far as the groove, I guarantee you can get it down no problem. I just whipped out the SAV file for that song right now to take a look at the programming and here's a couple key things I noticed in it:

• the whole song is written in a 5/5 groove (i.e. on the groove screen, the main G00 groove is 5/5 instead of the default 6/6) -  I wrote this song on guitar and the meat of it was based upon this quintuplet (five in the space of four) riff. (example: 2:58 in the track has all channels doing it in unison, but you can hear the riff thrown all throughout the track). I couldn't really figure out a neat way to do this in LSDJ, so I had the whole song written in 5/5 as the main groove and whenever I wanted to do the quintuplet riff I would switch that channel to a groove of 4/4. It makes sense because four notes with groove 5/5 is the same length as five notes at groove 4/4 (5*4=20; 4*5=20). But don't let the numbers confuse you, I really suck at math - but what I'm saying is don't hesitate to experiment with these settings at all

• the heavy kick is an instrument I designed that is in fact kick and bass at the same time - you can do this in a table by messing with the TSP column and the PXX command, then throwing a P00 where you want it to stop

• but most of the song actually uses a really thick noise kick, tbh!

• there's a slight tempo change in the middle of the song, i just sped up that whole section by like 5 bpm just for extra energy

That's pretty much it! I might consider releasing the SAV of that song someday but there's really not too many secrets hidden within it. Just experiment with GXX, use HXX pretty liberally, and don't hesitate to add/subtract beats or entire measures at will (unless you're making dance music, because then DJs will hate you lol). Just like the great discussion in this thread, try to variate stuff a lot to keep it fun!

If you're interested in hearing me ramble more about grooves in LSDJ you can watch an embarrassing video of my goofy voice hosting a presentation on this topic at 8static in 2012. otherwise feel free to shoot me a message/hit me up whenever and I'll hook you up 8)

edit: i use groove 3/3 and blank 7Fs almost all the time too

"it's awesome" - an0va
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yup, he ended up admitting that he previously searched through chiptune dance music tracks and just didn't personally like what he heard - this completely contrasts his published statements that he's the first one to even attempt it

now this could be a combination of shitty statements and lazy fact checking, but when called out on it he got unnecessarily rude and defensive to the point of still claiming that those other other releases didn't exist just because "they sucked" - so that's pretty much what made the angry mob form i think

honestly i wish this could all come out positively though, i think this could be a great opportunity for a new publication to make a new article clearing the air and still including sonikku in it as a new artist

my hypothesis is that this guy has already been a more active DJ/producer/(whatever) in his scene and this DJ Sonikku thing is a recent new project - could explain the near immediate press with small numbers on the surface

either way he really seems like a clown overall