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I like this. I feel like it could be a little faster and chaotic, but I guess if you're going for that steady punk sound you've got it right. I think chip and noise rock could definitely go well together, especially on amiga. choppy octamed breaks and some weird dissonant guitar probably sounds great.
i'm also a big sucker for offsets. my jazzmaster's a bit of a cheapo shitter, but i'm hopin to fix it up a bit come summer. i'm diggin that creamy off-white jaguar hehe.
I only necro with good reason.
all this time and i never knew the .xm sources were posted!!!
woops necrobump, but this album deserves it. 
Come on guys let's stop fighting and make more music. 
??? has some pretty good stuff but I doubt he's on HVSC with a name like that
I do remember him having some cool c64 stuff, but no I don't see anything in the HVSC. Is all his c64 stuff posted anywhere? I miss that guy he made some really sick stuff.
I miss ant1
Are Hubbard and Galway not listed yet because they're obvious?
I'd say so. I started this because looking for some suggestions every "top 10 .sid songs" thing was dominated by Hubbard, Galway, and all the other great game composers from the C64 days. I don't think any of them mentioned anything but game soundtracks.
Oooh just remembered some others I forgot to mention!
Cadaver
Hein Holt
Alex Mauer (he used to have stuff under 'akuma pan' but i think they put those tracks under Alex Mauer now.)
Arman Behdad (also known as Intensity. had a few tracks on 8bc. very talented dude, RIP.)
Abbadon
Thanks for the other suggestions, everyone. Keep em comin'!
I like to poke around the HVSC once in a while, but a lot of the time I find myself sifting through bad game soundtracks or really boring shit. I feel like I'm missing the good stuff! Just wondering if anyone has some suggestions to check out. Maybe some kind of diamond in the rough.
Here's a few I'd suggest I guess, pretty obvious picks for the most part:
Drax
goto80
Linus
PRI
Laxity
Jammer
Glenn Gallefoss
In essence, you want to find a headphone that doesn't bias any frequencies too much. A good example of a bad headphone for making music would be Beats by Dre because they're designed to boost bass a toooon.
I've had my Sony MDR-V6's for something like 3 or 4 years now. They've held up very well and are fairly balanced when it comes to mixing stuff. I don't know what your budget is, but for $60 I'd say they're pretty good.
I think Grado make pretty good headphones for that kind of thing, too, but if I remember right they were a little more pricey than the Sonys. I might be a little biased, though. I've had good experience with Sony headphones for a long time. 
my last pair definitely had a few more years left if my cat hadn't chewed the wire!
Limitations of the gameboy chip seem to be the defining reason as to why all, or most, gameboy trackers are 4 (or up to 6) channels only. That being said, it could be possible to make a hack and create a tracker that emulates a "2xGameboy" chip or something (each chip panned L+R respectively or summin), similar to Raster's 2xSAP hack - so you'd get 8-channels instead of 4.
(you can tell I know very little about this chip ahahaha)
you wouldn't be able to do that with hardware, though and I don't see anyone making a PC gameboy tracker anytime soon. besides deflemask I guess but the only time i tried that was an early release and it kind of sucked at gameboy stuff.
the only other pc gameboy tracker i know of is Paragon 5 tracker.
the only other solution would be using a VST like chipsounds or that one WAV thing trash80 made a long time ago. chipsounds does a pretty good WAV channel emulation imo.
plenty of cool old grooveboxes around. Korg ER-1's are always cheap and can do some pretty neat stuff. maybe not great for anything melodic, though.
Unfortunately, no. BUT there is a sort of work around to getting a 5th channel in LSDJ.
I suggest you watch this if you want to learn more. It's just a bit of WAV channel magic, but it's pretty interesting. It's basically layering a square wave into a wave shape to simulate a 3rd pulse channel.
I'm a huge dronehead. I'm still sittin' on a drone album I wrote back in November. I need to get on releasing that...
Anyways, drone! I would suggest Tim Hecker, Belong, Aloof Proof, Gregg Kowalsky, and Mirroring. For drone-metal (probably not your thing, but it's harsh nonetheless!) nothing beats Boris, Earth, and Blackboned Angel.
COMPUTER JESUS REFRIGERATOR is worth checking out if you're into glitch music. Kinda like harsh noise with... random structure I guess? It's cool though.
You can customize milky and make it more like ft2. That's what I've done.
aanaaanaaanaaana wrote:Not to put too fine a point on it,
aanaaanaaanaaana.net wonders if it's been edged out of the chiptune discussion simply because it releases tracker modules instead of gameboy recordings?i would love it if you had a n00b-mode with all your releases (i.e. mp3 renders), because i know i'm missing out simply due to the fact that i'm too lazy to install more trackers :v
OR i could just stop being a total n00b and get something that opens all the major tracker file types (openMPT does that yea?)
I'm sure XMPlay could handle any aanaaanaaana release fine if you need a player. openMPT probably can, too. I do understand the mp3 render thing though. Streaming would be nice, too, but I don't think that'd go well with the culture of aanaaanaaana so to speak.
Woops, straying off topic. Yeah I'll quit for real someday, but doing the occasional chip thing is still pretty fun. Been thinking of revisiting LSDJ one of these days. I'll probably quit for sure when I'm an old man and have trouble reading small font sizes.
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