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(45 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Lots of good recommendations in this thread!

I'll add a few:

Monomania (2xLSDJ) https://monomaniachips.bandcamp.com/album/robot-flowers

Bit Shifter (I didn't notice anyone mentioning Bert Shefter) https://bit-shifter.bandcamp.com/album/ … tion-chase

An0va: https://an0va.bandcamp.com/album/ego-depletion

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(58 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I always thought Peer's "Dance 3" was sad. It starts with this bittersweet chord progression and a fragile melody, which falls apart and gives way to a suffocating midsection of caustic noise, beeps, and scattershot percussion, which is finally joined by the chords and melody again. The glassy chords and wavering melody underpinned with the manic percussion always struck me.

http://pierre.slinckx.net/dances/music/3_dance3.mp3

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(12 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

toasterpastries wrote:

I know... I've pored over your .sav file for Tidal Bout to try to learn from you big_smile . Love that album.

I'm finding that I'm already deviating from the standard in some ways but it has been helpful in general for keeping things straight.

Thanks! smile

Sorry for being so disorganized haha. I usually start with a chord progression and melody and a general idea of what I want the song to sound like *before* I begin programming, so holding to an organizational structure doesn't usually work for me. I strum my guitar or play piano and hum melodies and imagine how they could be programmed into LSDJ and just start programming from wherever. I don't bother with much set organization because a melody that starts on PU1 might end up on WAV. I go through a *lot* of variations of a song before the final, which results in almost as many phrases/chains getting deleted as end up in the final version. Since I'm constantly experimenting and deleting chains and phrases, I guess trying to organize them makes less sense to me than quickly tapping the button and starting a new random chain.

But you organized folks can keep rocking haha.

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(12 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

This is sort of interesting to me. I have absolutely no clear organizational rules. I don't name instruments. Literally the only thing that is consistent for me is 7F is my blank chain, four phrases long with a K command in it, and 7E is the same, but two phrases long. Everything else is random.

I can see how organization might help some people, but I personally like starting from scratch every time and just letting the track grow in its own weird way.

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(23 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I've been listening to Justice today.

https://www.reddit.com/r/chiptunes/ has over 18,000 subscribers. If you want a ghetto version of 8bc's top tracks, you can just sort top scoring links by the last week (or day, or month, or year). It's still not as vibrant a place as 8bc because people don't comment on tracks as much though.

Most of mine, actually. Jelly was mentioned already, but these come with LSDJ files too:

roboctopus - Tidal Bout
roboctopus - Victory Lapse
roboctopus - The Landscape Has Been Erased

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(11 replies, posted in Releases)

Always great to hear new Je Mappelle.

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(108 replies, posted in General Discussion)

XyNo wrote:

I'm relistening Misfitchris - Famicom Sessions...

Excellent taste! I've always loved Saving the Shy Librarian.

It's simple but charming and lovely.

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(274 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I'm trying to do a better job tweeting stuff I guess.

https://twitter.com/Roboctopus

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(108 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Cooshinator wrote:

Dance 6 by Peer
Dance 3 by Peer
Snow Burn by Fear of Dark
Golden by Trey Frey
The Horror by ˨ype
Comsten by Goto80
Water2 (Wetter) by The J. Arthur Keenes Band
It's Only a Doghouse, Right? by an0va

Really nice list! Always good to see Peer get recognition.

Dance 4 is way up there for me.

https://soundcloud.com/pslinckx/dance-4 … -dances-ep

The One Electronic wrote:

If you aren't hella worried about having a "legit" recording from your DMG, you can get a 100% clean line out recording of each individual channel via BGB and throw that into your DAW for fine tuning the mix.  A good example of this is Roboctopus's Disco.txt.  Pure BGB.

Not every track on the album was recorded with BGB, actually. Most were, but I used real DMGs for some of them. "Born, Dancing" was definitely done with two DMGs through my DJ mixer. I think Pegasus Four was as well.  I actually A/B tested tracks BGB vs DMG and other than BGB needing a bit more EQ on the bass end, differences were negligible at best.

The One Electronic wrote:

Use the latest BGB!! There was actually a bugfix about this last summer.  It shouldn't do that anymore.  You WILL hear slowdown DURING playback but the renders will be perfect!!!

Yeah, sometimes it sounds sketchy during output, but the renders should sound fine.

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(60 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

catskull wrote:

What exactly are you wanting? Someone to mod your gameboy, or someone to sell you a pre modded gameboy?

Either/both?

I have an SP and I have a headphone adapter, but it's terribly noisy and not suitable for recording or live use.

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(60 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

cheapshot wrote:

Could do with another one of these. Is anyone still offering this service?

Per our convo yesterday, I came here looking for the same thing XD

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(56 replies, posted in Releases)

lol, 3 years after the fact!

The EP now comes with the .sav file and the custom kits. Still free, if anyone wants to swipe some tables or whatever.

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(6 replies, posted in General Discussion)

New website looks dope!