Omodaka!
769 Apr 3, 2012 4:41 pm
Re: [US] NEW YORK NY • 2012 05 25-27 • BLIP FESTIVAL NYC 2012 (360 replies, posted in Past Events)
771 Mar 30, 2012 6:03 am
Re: Abducted By Sharks - Hammerhead (4 replies, posted in Releases)
Oh shit. LOVE the art btw
772 Mar 29, 2012 9:40 pm
Re: Post your gig/home setup! (1,620 replies, posted in General Discussion)
I've got a new secret weapon toy, we'll see how it sounds at PAX East.
773 Mar 29, 2012 6:42 pm
Re: Chiptune Genres and Subgenres (95 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Shiru wrote:
Guitar shredders are able to play much more complex arpeggios than those that usually used in chiptunes, at speeds about 25 notes per second, the speed of common 'slow' arpeggio.
As that guy who actually does this IRL, not really.
774 Mar 29, 2012 6:41 pm
Re: Chiptune Genres and Subgenres (95 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Decktonic wrote:
And I know that those arps and patterns can be very complex and you think they are only possible on a tracker, but I'm pretty sure a full orchestra with a clever conductor could play that just as well.
Yeah those 16th note triplet arpeggios (that span 3 octaves) at 220bpm while modulating duty cycle and hard left right panning are totally do-able.
775 Mar 29, 2012 5:55 pm
Re: Chiptune Genres and Subgenres (95 replies, posted in General Discussion)
RushJet1 wrote:
just write music. let whoever else classify it
OH GET OUT OF HERE WITH YOUR CRAZY TALK
776 Mar 29, 2012 4:33 pm
Re: Chiptune Genres and Subgenres (95 replies, posted in General Discussion)
OK pretentious serious cap on for a second.
While Chiptune is to been seen as a synthesizer or instrument, NOT a genre...
Because of the uniqueness of the instrument and the way music is composed for it, I posit that there are chiptunes that defy modern classification and thus could be seen as their own genre that is exclusive to chiptune.
Thoughts?
777 Mar 28, 2012 5:30 pm
Re: {NYC] Chipstomp! April 19th Chipocrite, Kris Keyser, Dain Saint, etc. (10 replies, posted in Past Events)
Cool lineup!
778 Mar 27, 2012 11:58 pm
Re: WTB White DMG (21 replies, posted in Trading Post)
Greyboys with play it loud screen and buttons look so close to white boys.
I'll let mine go for 500. It's pristine and has the play it loud case
Yeah that's high, but I don't really want to sell it
779 Mar 26, 2012 6:41 am
Re: I'm sick of Chipmusic because... (163 replies, posted in General Discussion)
breakphase wrote:
I think it can be very profound and you get out of it what you put into it. But I think it is more for people who want to experiment. It's not like were trying to be superstars or something (or maybe some people are..). I just see it as being more casual than other forms of music.
Anyway I don't mean to denigrate the artform. I agree that the limitations can bring about complex compositions. I just think it's something you should do mostly for personal reasons because you enjoy it. Nothing to break a pool cue over.
no pool cue necessary (I'd be a terrible fighter) but I still completely disagree. I'm actually currently working on a panel for PAX East about why I think chiptune is one of the most exciting and ground breaking ways to make music I've ever encountered. And I've been around a musical block or two.
I mean there will be casual people who use it of course, but it's certainly not any more casual than people who take up guitar for example. I don't mean to single you out at all, I've just noticed a pattern of people from all places who treat chiptune like a musical 2nd class citizen, little more than a novelty, when in my experience, it is anything but. I think that's more of a misconception that hits close to home.
780 Mar 26, 2012 5:50 am
Re: I'm sick of Chipmusic because... (163 replies, posted in General Discussion)
BR1GHT PR1MATE wrote:
other than the faux neologism (<3 u bby, xoxo), i loved what you had to say dan, but do you guys really think that trackers are laborious to program? they were developed as a SHORTHAND for MML right? i mean, clearly times have changed and there are "better" options in certain regards, but I still think that a person with good tracking technique can write and finish a production-quality track way faster than any other electronic audio writing tool.
u2babby
The learning curve of tracking is pretty steep, but once you clear the hump it is very quick.
781 Mar 26, 2012 5:14 am
Re: I'm sick of Chipmusic because... (163 replies, posted in General Discussion)
breakphase wrote:
Zan-zan-zawa-butt wrote:chiptune in the end is a dabbler's field; anyone seriously making new music in this form is doing it out of some sick perversion to start with
Hahaha yeah that's really what it's about. It's for hobbyists mostly. And sometimes you can get enough people together to listen to it at the same time.
While to some it's a curious oddity to dip their feet in, I wholeheartedly disagree.
I've found chiptunes to have a surprising amount of depth despite limited capabilites, ESPECIALLY when working in medium (not fakebit).
Why is this?
Essentially the workaround we use to get the most out of our hardware (demoscene mentality) causes us to use extremely unique compostion ideas. The monophonic nature tends to lend to "hypermelodicism" (a word I came up with) which are those breakneck monophonic melodies that you might hear in a Trey Frey song. They're usually a mix of impossible bends, crazy vibratos, extreme panning, multi-octave arps, and peculiar note runs and rhythms all at a breakneck pace. Why? Because those are all things that the Gameboy or NES is GOOD at. On a conventional instrument it would be STUPID to program these sorts of things. Even on a digital synthesizer, it's extremely conventional and laborious for people to program melodies in this fashion.
This is just ONE example of many. Do you think I would program extreme 12 note arpeggios mixing runs and chords, in which each note has millisecond panning switches, millisecond octave cycling within each note, and high frequency vibrato to add timbre on a regular instrument, all while modulating the duty cycle in a counter polyrhythm to the arpeggio rhythm on a tradition instrument or synth?
It's not a sick perversion. It's a mindblowing approach to composition that's truthfully a breath of fresh air in a world increasingly full of presets. BTW apologies if I failed to notice sarcasm.
782 Mar 25, 2012 11:06 pm
Re: FAVORITE NON-CHIP ARTISTS. (100 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Ultrasyd wrote:
Joy Division
Taake
Nehemah
Abigor
Nobuo Uematsu
Yasunori Mitsuda
lol uematsu is totally a chip artist, I asked him how he liked composing on the NES when I played with him
"very difficul, 3 channo!"
Mitsuda is too, if you count SNES as chip music even though it's sample town.
btw I'm just giving you a hard time
783 Mar 25, 2012 10:57 pm
Re: I'm sick of Chipmusic because... (163 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Dot.AY wrote:
anybody that ever feels like they are getting sick of Chipmusic.. do yourself a favour and make your way to your Local Blipfestival (I mean they're everywhere these days)
every single time I see a stack of artists from all over the world doing incredible shit that you don't get from listening to an MP3 on your laptop and all of a sudden I am all .. "HOW GOOD IS CHIPTUNE?"
I can relate to this
784 Mar 25, 2012 10:09 pm
Re: I'm sick of Chipmusic because... (163 replies, posted in General Discussion)
I'm doing a nullsleep cover album. With guitar solos