TmEE wrote:
not everyone tells what they used to make the tune with...
i don't think a seperate platform classification feature would change that.
769 Jun 7, 2010 10:13 pm
Re: Request: Add platform to music submissions (24 replies, posted in Bugs and Requests)
770 Jun 7, 2010 10:05 pm
Re: How many Amiga users are here? (22 replies, posted in General Discussion)
found a 1200 today... yeehawww! also i have a 500 and a 600 but i mainly use them to play giana sistaz.
771 Jun 2, 2010 2:47 pm
Re: Request: Chipmusic Radio (21 replies, posted in Bugs and Requests)
sounds like a great idea to me. that woolyss player seems already a little too fancy for my taste, should be just a simple little player (like the flash nsf player), displaying only the basic controls, info about artist and track name and a link to the track's page. the selection should random tracks from the music section, maybe a bit weighted towards new tracks and tracks that have received many comments cause let's be honest: a large number of tracks from the music section are... ermm... not really masterpieces.
772 Jun 2, 2010 2:30 pm
Re: DMP005 - Joss Manley "noneofuslikethispartreally" DATAMOSHPIT RECORDS (4 replies, posted in Releases)
penguin showarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrsss!!!
overall the release is a wee bit too minimal for my taste, still great stuff tho!
so, all i can say is: if datamoshpit manages to keep the quality level of releases we have seen in the past months, it's bound to become one of the top 5 chiplabels out there i'd say.
773 May 31, 2010 7:55 pm
Re: Shitbird - Shitbird EP [CND003] (13 replies, posted in Releases)
excellent stuff.
774 May 30, 2010 12:38 pm
Re: A very different way of making music on a Commodore Computer (8 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
that one's actually pretty cool cause it's referencing "daisy", or at least it very much reminds me of it
775 May 25, 2010 3:39 pm
Re: [EC005] Tasos Stamou - 2 chants & a pixel dance (1 replies, posted in Releases)
chant 2 is awesome! the rest ain't really my cup of tea.
btw chant 2 has a funny mistake in the id3 tag... or was that intentional?
776 May 25, 2010 2:54 pm
Re: Beepola - Sinclair Spectrum cross-platform beeper tracker (23 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)
just tested the new version which includes shiru's phaser1 player and has most of the playback issues resolved (at least on my computer). so, all i can say is: this program is becoming more and more awesome!!!
777 May 24, 2010 2:13 pm
Re: Stromkreis (Germany, Wuppertal) - 22.05. 22:00-tomorrow (4 replies, posted in Past Events)
it was great, as expected!
if i understood the organizer correctly, this will take place every month now. so my message to all chiptuners who are thinking about visiting the north-rhine/westphalia region or germany in general: try to get booked for a show at this event! the organizer of this is Low Bit Revolte (afaik not a chipmusic.org member, you can reach him at www.myspace.com/lowbitrevolte or you can send me a pm and i'll forward it to him.)
778 May 23, 2010 8:42 pm
Re: Beepola - Sinclair Spectrum cross-platform beeper tracker (23 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)
it's a very cool project indeed. i wouldn't call it a mature application yet, since there's still a couple of serious issues (some drums missing, unstable playback, etc.) but it's definately worth a try, and it's going to make composing 1bit a lot easier in the future.
779 May 23, 2010 8:33 pm
Re: Rob Hubbard's music driver (C64) (30 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
very interesting thread, please keep the information flowing guys!
arfink wrote:
... You have to remember that even legends like Hubbard were computer geeks first and musicians second...
while it's true for most of the old legends, Hubbard is in fact a musician, he had classical training 
780 May 20, 2010 1:45 pm
Re: DMP004 "Saturday Morning Beat Downs" on DATAMOSHPIT RECORDS! (18 replies, posted in Releases)
i think he meant direct link to download
anyway i'm enjoying this, maybe not the most polished stuff in the world, but it's speed and energy make up for it!
781 May 19, 2010 3:06 pm
Re: Hey guys! (11 replies, posted in General Discussion)
heyho good to have you here!
but you need to work on your attitude bro:
Jredd wrote:
I've been uploading music to 8 shit collective for a while and found this mega awesome place and thought I should join and leave 8bc immediately and delete all my tracks there and upload them here instead.
fix'D
782 May 19, 2010 2:52 pm
Re: New update on "Z80 Chip Music Site" (12 replies, posted in General Discussion)
oh crap, i always thought the player was actually based on follin's code. stupid me.
about the dedicated bass channel, i believe note channel 1 actually gives a slightly better bass, doesn't it? generally it seems to behave in a different way than the other 4 note channels. to me it seems that when you put two instruments with the same settings, the one in nch1 will always be louder, and also notes in this channel don't get detuned as much, no?
about the drums... hehe... i totally failed to take notice of them being different from follin's... but overall they're the weakest part of beep tracker i think... the bass drum is much to loud and cancels a lot of the other sounds, and the rest is so quiet it's barely audible when you play a chord. so it's basically no improvement over having short, interrupting drums (like in phaser1 
), cause now you have to interrupt the sound manually
blablablabla... now i will shut up before i say more stupid things, and make a song with beep tracker.
783 May 19, 2010 2:09 pm
Re: Stromkreis (Germany, Wuppertal) - 22.05. 22:00-tomorrow (4 replies, posted in Past Events)
fuck yeah, this is going to be awesome!
784 May 18, 2010 10:24 pm
Re: New update on "Z80 Chip Music Site" (12 replies, posted in General Discussion)
i've already played around a bit with beep tracker and my opinion is that the player is in fact working correctly, like alone coder says. if you listen to some of tim follins tunes you get the same kind of flanger effect as on "big beep" (especially if you listen on original 48k or emulators - alone coders demo tracks are rendered from unreal afaik). also note that most of tim follins tunes were not done with this engine, but with more limited players (only 4 channels mostly). also, as people on wos have pointed out, first of all you need a good ear for music to distinguish the harmonies when composing, second of all there are only few chords/harmonies that are not detuned (again, if you listen some examples from tim follin made with the 6 channel engine, it's the same deal, he always uses very specific chords and player is fine-tuned for his compositional habits. same with the flanger effect, it can be controlled up to a certain point (it's somewhat related to how much the overall volume is sustained/decayed). so i'm pretty sure it's a feature of the original code and not a bug. besides, let's not forget follin was very young when he wrote this routine, so it's probably not very clean code. (i think what's happening is that playback rate is changed during playback to achive different volume levels, not only the pulse rate like in other players. therefore you get a flanger effect because of audible artifact frequencies - kind of like the hiss you get on digital 1bit music, but it changes it's frequency. however i'm no expert so i might be wrong about this.)
of course there's one huge problem: the way the editor works is not very suitable for the player routine. some of the 4 minor channels could be combined into a channel where you can enter chords rather than individual notes. but hey- at least we got this routine available in a tracker, after 25 years!
also, the demo tracks, especially "big beep" are really really amazing, i think. as shiru said, no reason not to have them on your site