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@SketchMan3,

My issue comes from the question of modern day relevancy and the over saturation of music things in general via the internet. Looking back at all the western musical movements of the past, you can surmise all of these relevant social or cultural movements which accommodated them. Essentially there was a demand for music to be written and of course satisfying a demand warrants compensation. But what's in demand today? Mostly RnB, country, hiphop and popped out versions of rock and whatever...that's the demand of the public at large. Most things that fall outside of these just feel a bit socially irrelevant to me. Why should anyone expect compensation for something that isn't really needed or wanted? It seems a lot of people are almost begging for or demanding it.

@XC3N,

if that was directed at me, writing *chipmusic* for a living is not the same as writing *music* for a living. these two phrases mean completely different things and it seems some signals are getting crossed

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@defiantsystems,

what do you see as misguided?

yea i sure did play up the stereotypical 'internet tough guy' bit didn't i? yea nice out-of-the-hat phrase

and i'm dumb because? so i was a bit aggressive but it's because i can't take any of this chipmoney talk seriously. 'refuse another outlet of revenue' i like how everyone's a businessman trying to handle their business, man.

yea but how sustainable is this really? so you're living month to month, but hey what if you end up with kids or something someday? do you seriously expect to support anyone being a chip artist or some such thing? and i can only assume you live in a bigger city where public transportation is more practical. do you have car or insurance payments to take care of? are you not living with multiple roommates? are your parents 100% not giving you any money to help out on the months you come up a bit short?

this is what i'm talking about. like yea, ICanMakeMoney, but it's kid stuff.

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hey it's pretty easy just keep checking your music pages to see how many more listens you've got since last time you checked to see how many listens you got

I don't think I've seen a single person say anything realistic in this thread yet.

The chiptune 'market' is tiny, it's insignificant. Dissonace, you'd be better off taking this kind of attitude and energy toward something else. The majority of ppl who listen to chipmusic are the same people who make it. It's an InDusTry of kids sucking their own dicks; it's not a real part of the music industry at all. RetroGaming is an industry, RetroGaming has a market becuase RetroGaming is an actual product you can sell. "RetroGamingMusic" is not chipmusic and is not a product. Anamanaguchi have become noticed simply because they did a soundtrack for a popular RetroGame. GameSoundtracks are a part of the gaming industry, not the music one. Chipmusic overall is an adolescent/manbabby hobby for dorky white kids of all social classes, music major dropouts/failures and ppl that just generally don't know what the fuck to do with themselves. Probably 1% of the people in the scene actually have careers of some sort.

If you want chipmusic to pheonix-rise from the non existent ashes, make 2,000 games like scottPilGrim and let everyone do a soundtrack. In other words, you're not gonna stake your name in business history or something by tapping into some perceived frontier over here. There is no frontier, it ended in the early 90's with what was the older model of the gaming industry.

I made a few improvements, same url: http://mmlshare.com/tracks/view/450

I'll start trying to figure out the pulse design for the desert stage, which will be an interesting challenge. The gameboy's wave channel is most likely going to have to be used for drum samples(kick, snare and toms...which I'll combine with the noise channel so it'll sound pretty nice) so that leaves me with only two channels for the music. The desert stage has two very distinct melody lines amid ambient guitar chords and a bass line...this'll take a lot of consideration, lol.

Simultaneously getting stuff transferred over to xpmck and figuring out the details with the wave channel and getting samples to work with it. I'll focus on these two tunes so you can get that demo put together.

edit: guh, looks like xpmck doesn't support using the wave channel for samples. that's fine, i'll just use a triangle waveform on the wave channel and do some hybrid magic so it's doing both bass and drums. this'll probably end up sounding better actually.

editx2: got xpmck up and running after wading through hours of it's finicky bullshit, here's a .gb rom of the thing from the mml site: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/315 … 0pulses.gb

i'll be using bgb as my emu of choice while writing stuff. i can also compile .asm and .gbs from mml if those are ever needed.

if anyone else wants a hassle free way to compile your mml to .gb, .gbs and .asm, let me know and i'll upload/link my customized xpmck folder. it's a pain in the ass otherwise, if you don't know what you're doing.