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Great idea! I just got a gopro for making youtube videos, so maybe I'll start doing something similar.
Sweet! If you fancy becoming a contributor or whatever then let me know 
One of the things I've found myself doing a lot is making use of guitar pedals to add colour to some of my LSDJ tracks. I got a bit obsessed with the weird and wonderful boutique noise boxes that are out there, but got frustrated that all of the demo videos (with a few notable exceptions) all focussed on warbly guitar riffs, and didn't really give much of an idea of what to do with synths/drum machines/other electronic instruments.
So... I decided to set up a blog to demo some of the more unusual pedals I come across, and just stuck it live tonight with my first one: An MWFX Judder pedal - played through a couple of Gameboys/TI-83+. Thought it may be of interest to some of you here!
Run into a bit of a problem where every so often the calculator freezes up and won't respond to any command. Most of the time I've been able to shake it out of its slumber by waiting a bit and pressing a seemingly random set of keys... but this time it's totally stuck. I don't want to remove the batteries for a hard reset as that means losing the stored songs/having to re-flash HT onto the device.
Anybody ran into this before, or have a solution?
http://bedroomproducersblog.com/2015/04 … -drum-kit/
^^that's a sample pack of sounds made with LSDJ. I just chucked those in the volca sample. So much fun. I've personally never used the beats but this was one of the first ideas I had with the sample.
I opted for the Sample instead of the Beats as well as I could get them on eBay for about the same price, and I've been using it almost exclusively as a drum machine.
unexpectedbowtie wrote:This is what I followed:
http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/15978 … org-volca/
I've used both the Bass and the Sample.
Ah thanks! So it's using lsdj to sequence melodies onto the volcas. That's pretty cool, can I ask what you used it with the sample for? I own one as well and I filled it with a sample pack called 'gameboy sounds' from somewhere to use live, but having it as slave to lsdj never crossed my mind. How would you sequence stuff on there? It doesn't strike me as being as simple as corresponding note values like with a bass or keys, because you could have any samples on there from anywhere.
You're right, and I'm not sure how exactly that would work either. Worth a bash to try and see though.
For the Sample I've been using it as a drum machine really. I opted for it over the Beats because of the flexibility. So I'll dial in my patterns, and set LSDJ (or my DAW, depending on the scenario) to send the MIDI clock to the Sample. That way when I hit play on the DMG/laptop the Sample starts at the right place and speed, and I can turn patterns on or off to make things more interesting.
Fannied about tonight with HT and recorded a quick track with some guitars/vocals over the top. Deliberately a bit glitchy/detuned.
https://soundcloud.com/unexpectedbowtie/delete-repeat
Thanks for all the help/work that's gone into this!
I'll keep thinking about possible solutions for the impossible
that's all I ask 
There is no indicator for current position. I believe it was because it would cause screen refreshes that would be an unesseary strain on the cpu.
Thought it might be a memory issue. Cheers!
unexpectedbowtie wrote:I don't imagine you could just with that cart, but if you have a MegaMem cartridge and another USB cart (EMS for example) you should be able to. Bit of a faff, but you could backup the sav onto the megamem cart, then restore it onto the USB cart and backup that way.
Or you could click the other products on that very page and choose one of the USB programmers/readers...erm, once they are back in stock.
Good point. I didn't notice that. I must have mentally discarded it before as it's Windows only.
wow, that's cheap: http://bennvenn.myshopify.com/collectio … eap-o-cart
but I guess for the price, you can't backup your work to a computer?
I don't imagine you could just with that cart, but if you have a MegaMem cartridge and another USB cart (EMS for example) you should be able to. Bit of a faff, but you could backup the sav onto the megamem cart, then restore it onto the USB cart and backup that way.
Thanks mate, that is super helpful! I know zilch about Mac, yet quite a few people were having trouble installing TiLP on OS X. Glad you've found a reasonably straightforward solution that I can add to the manual.
Awesome! Glad it's helpful
I'm learning the ropes just now, going over the manual when I hit something I can't do. Loving it so far. Deceptively powerful!
One thing I can't figure out is if there's a playback indicator (like a moving cursor or something) to see which row is currently playing on the sequencer screen. Does that exist and I'm just missing it? It's really helpful for composing.
I went back and re-read this whole thread today, and spotted that nonfinite was having some troubles installing TiLP etc on OSX El Capitan:
I purchased a few TI-82s and would like to get HT2 on them. I attempted to get TiLP installed on my Mac (El Capitan) and had a hell of a time. Installing packages so I can install packages so I can install other packages. Threw in the towel tonight after about an hour of installing packages in terminal. Is there a more straightforward way to do this?
Libticables2 wants glib, glib wants libffi. This is where I surrendered.
I had the same issues, even making use of Brew. The dependencies needed other dependencies which was a nightmare to work out. In the end, I discovered that I could install much easier by using MacPorts, which did 95% of the work for me. Far simpler. Here's a link to the TiLP Port:
https://trac.macports.org/ticket/13227
and a guide to installing MacPorts:
You basically need to install XCode, install MacPorts, and then install the 'Port' above using MacPorts.
Sorry if this is obvious... I just didn't see it mentioned anywhere and worth sharing!
Bad luck 
The cheapest thing to do is usually to get another DMG and salvage the parts. You can find a fair amount that are in bad cosmetic condition, but the innards are perfect.
unexpectedbowtie wrote:Got mine today and everything installed! One thing I can't figure out is how to turn off the calculator whilst HT is running...
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You have to stop the music by clicking the "play" button and then click "alpha"> "ON". Then click "mode" ( or "2nd"> "Mode") and finally turn of the calc by clicking "2nd"> "ON"
Perfect, thanks!
Got mine today and everything installed! One thing I can't figure out is how to turn off the calculator whilst HT is running...
So, TL;DR, chip music is simply a genre that attempts to sound like early computer music. And no intelligent person can disagree.
Can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but whilst I admire the skill involved in replicating the sort of music that you would find in old computer games, I find it some of the most boring approach to chipmusic there is. For me, the really interesting part is using the chip sounds ('authentic' or otherwise) as a new kind of instrumentation in their own right, particularly when blending them with other elements (like guitar, vocals, drums, or whatever). If it's just about replicating computer game music, then count me out. At the end of the day, who really cares about placing strict definitions on what is something creative anyway? I don't get it.
This comment from VCMG probably sums it up better than I could:
"Chiptune/chipmusic" has a well-defined center but such a stupidly vague edge that lately I've come to think of the term as a philosophy even more than a method or a genre.
after all, I think all chip really is deep down is celebrating old, outcast, or uncommon technology by bringing it into the present. You can do that by pushing the boundaries of limited tools or you can do it by combining those tools with modern ones or you can even just give an earnest homage to those tools and not actually use them, and as long as its a sincere statement I think it can fall under the name.
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