289 Reply by ant1

(42 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Sycamore Drive wrote:

I think I'd play more gigs if it was acceptable to just sit in the corner with a laptop plugged into a PA.

i guess this isn't acceptable because the purpose of a gig is to entertain people and give them something they can't get at home, not to fulfil the "performer"'s egotistical desire to Be A Gigging Musician or to Have Played A Gig

which is why i chose to decline invitations to "perform" at events i have been asked to "perform" at

i have said it before, if you are gigging you are an entertainer. make sure you entertain people (OTHER people, entertaining yourself does not count).

edit: i feel the same way about busking. if people using a certain street or public space don't want to hear your music, it's selfish and inconsiderate to force it upon them.

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290 Reply by ant1

(49 replies, posted in Bugs and Requests)

i get the same problem, it's not just you

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291 Reply by ant1

(97 replies, posted in General Discussion)

there are probably cheaper ways to buy vinyl (the material) in bulk than in the form of vinyl records? just guessing

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292 Reply by ant1

(30 replies, posted in General Discussion)

the scene itself has tried to get together and write articles about chipmusic at times,  see the wikipedia page as it was and maybe still is. it was kind of hard work and no one agreed with each other.

if you are brave enough to stand up and take the inevitable flak for presenting your own experience of chip as absolute truth then go ahead and write some articles about it, become our "PR guy", maybe it will be better than this, maybe it won't. my point is, whatever you write about chip music, most people aren't going to agree with it.

that said, some of this is horrible:
- "crack open a couple of Game Boys and rewire the sound modules"
- the semicoherent tech talk about instruction sets of chipsets and procurement of an assembly language development system (??)
- the focus on YMO as the Source of All Music

so, maybe someone from inside the scene could do better. but none of us have a full understanding of all aspects of chip music and we are probably liable to write the same kind of crap about some areas (or ignore them completely)

this isn't a bad effort given the complexity of the subject matter and the (i am assuming very limited) amount of time they had to research it (edit: most of us have spent YEARS researching chip music! they probably spent a few days). but it's not a good article either!

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293 Reply by ant1

(34 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)

i think protrekkr is the updated version with more features now / still being updated

a bit buggy for me or i would use it more often, but cool with the synths and built in effects

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294 Reply by ant1

(34 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)

an0va, they were actually my first trackers that i ever used !

totally different to renoise though! (by this i mean,  renoise has changed A LOT - it is unrecognisable)

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295 Reply by ant1

(53 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)

ignore this tutorial, more easy ways to write pc engine music have arrived since i wrote this. use deflemask



chipchamp: i dunno anything more about it than what i wrote. not sure anyone does. it probably hasnt been documented properly anyway

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296 Reply by ant1

(66 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

i don't even hate it? i just don't use it much and keep it with other stuff i don't use in a plastic box. sometimes i play castlevania in a GB emulator i just can't be bothered to get the real thing out because i don't have many good games for it or a lsdj flashcart

let's get this thread back on track:

my other gameboy (gba) is in the same box that my first gameboy is in

edit: also i saw those cases that nordloef's girlfriend made and they looked really nice

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297 Reply by ant1

(66 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

walter b. gentle wrote:

ant1 and zan-zan dont like gameboys guys. better close this shit down. but before you do . . . i like to tote my stuff in a street fighter IV te fightstick box i have. for some reason i always felt kinda lame carrying stuff in the licensed nintendo bags. to each their own.

edit: and 4mat too. do you guys have a club?

eh? because not liking gameboys that much is so unlikely that three people doing it at the same time implies some kind of conspiracy or collaboration?

fwiw that's really where i do keep my gameboy, in a box with other consumer electronics i don't use any more

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298 Reply by ant1

(110 replies, posted in General Discussion)

edit sorrty

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299 Reply by ant1

(66 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

mine is in a big plastic crate along with all the other useless consumer electronic crap i haven't used in ten years

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300 Reply by ant1

(34 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)

i have used many other trackers but i could NOT get myself into this one, really! the interface sucks, somehow

which is a shame because nothing else has that "DAW feel". but oh well

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301 Reply by ant1

(9 replies, posted in Past Events)

thread title says 28th !

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302 Reply by ant1

(110 replies, posted in General Discussion)

damn. i was sort of expecting a thread about low-gain's interview with geekparty!!

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303 Reply by ant1

(39 replies, posted in Tutorials, Mods & How-To's)

updated with new download link smile

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304 Reply by ant1

(4 replies, posted in General Discussion)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--e9onkymlA          ?

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