Definitely, nice work on this.
162 Jan 7, 2015 7:00 pm
Topic: 4mat interviewed by The Ongaku (3 replies, posted in General Discussion)
163 Jan 7, 2015 2:19 pm
Re: Making Spooky Sound Effects (Famitracker) (11 replies, posted in General Discussion)
You have the right idea. Copy that onto another channel, played slightly delayed and half the volume. Also experiment with pulse 25 and 75 passing in unison, but slightly detuning them.
I won't suggest a scale to play for now because it is dependent on the other elements of the song.
164 Jan 6, 2015 7:18 pm
Re: Programs for writing .mid files? (16 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)
I recommend hooking the sound canvas up to the midi out and playing it from the DAW until you're ready to export. (Or just record it that way in the first place.)
165 Jan 4, 2015 8:54 pm
Re: Famicompo Pico (27 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Voting is opened up a week or two after the packs are released because of disqualification and revisions, and because there will be attempts at live listen-along streams.
166 Jan 3, 2015 1:03 am
Re: Musical experience? (33 replies, posted in General Discussion)
SketchMan3 wrote:
There's another thread about this where people go on and on about their musical experience or lack thereof somewheres on here...
I thought so too but I think it might be about "what nonchip stuff do you do..."
I learned piano at a young age (7 if I remember correctly) and let my interest extend to other keyboards, brass, percussion/drums, synth programming and guitars and such.
Starting as a teen is not a handicap, if you really enjoy making music and the process of learning to make music, you will stick with it and have a wonderful time.
167 Dec 30, 2014 8:19 pm
Re: Famicompo Pico (27 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Better hurry and don't forget that the deadline is in GMT.
168 Dec 30, 2014 3:09 am
Re: Just listening to some HVSC... (14 replies, posted in General Discussion)
okori wrote:
So I'm sitting here wondering why, and I think i've come across why. Trackers.
The SID music as we understand it begins with people like Hubbard and Galway around 1985-86, they wrote their own editors and routines that led to what we now call trackers, but those were nothing like the trackers that on Amiga. I think any similarities lie in the music that was fashionable at the moment combined with the limitations of the chip itself.
Much SID music predates the casual internet connection we take for granted today, and the really important stuff predates the internet at all, so while I don't think these artists created in isolation, there was definitely a fragmentation compared to what happened with PC trackers by the late 90s and it's nothing like what we can do today.
herr_prof wrote:
well if you listened to 100% of the music that came out in 1996 id bet you say it all sounds the same. Id cherry pick the artists you like out of the hvsc and only listen to them.
I agree with this too. 1996 is not the year to look for groundbreaking SID work, by then a lot of Amiga had taken over and PC trackers were being developed.
169 Dec 30, 2014 2:46 am
Re: Official Deflemask thread ( MULTIPLATFORM tracker!) (549 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)
In time for Battle of the Bits Winter Chip? Thanks for continuing to work on this.
170 Dec 27, 2014 4:58 am
Re: anyone get anything rad for xmas? (56 replies, posted in General Discussion)
sugar sk*-*lls wrote:
Gummi Bears, fancy pants, and a vocoder. Plus I got to watch the transformers cartoon movie from the 80's. Don't remember it being an hour long toy commercial...ultra magnus is still kinda cool tho.
Not many toy commercials scream "Oh shit, it's going to ram us!" in the middle.
Wife got me an ironing board style stand and we got some houseware stuff we've been doing without for a few years.
It's pretty much all for the baby from this point on.
171 Dec 24, 2014 6:06 pm
Re: First Trip Comicon or Something Like It (6 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Is Duckon still a thing?
I've been to about 3 conventions my whole life because they're always held on weekends when I can't leave work. Wherever you decide, book early if you can, if you can't it's okay to stay in an alternate hotel.
172 Dec 21, 2014 1:20 pm
Re: Does Chipmusic.org translate? (6 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Agreeing, most of the words used for music and synthesis are loanwords that are the same or similar across languages. If you can learn other fundamentals of the language in question it may become easier to communicate, as you see how sentence structures are handled in the auto translator, for example.
173 Dec 21, 2014 1:15 pm
Re: How many songs do you compose per year? (57 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Sorry, must have got lost in the sea of nested quotes...
174 Dec 21, 2014 4:35 am
Re: How many songs do you compose per year? (57 replies, posted in General Discussion)
BeatScribe wrote:
That and man, if you come up with finished songs very fast, doesn't that make you more awesome
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Absolutely not. The shock value of watching someone spew a tune quickly goes away when you realize the person is resorting to the same habit repeatedly without trying to break it.
175 Dec 20, 2014 12:20 pm
Re: How many songs do you compose per year? (57 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Saskrotch wrote:
danimal cannon wrote:It's not uncommon for me to put 10-20 hours into a song
okay for real if this is considered an above average amount of time to spend on a song i'm officially super embarrassed about how long it takes me me to write tracks that can't even come close to yours
That's about how much time I like to put in too, though really it's just an hour or so per day for a week or two.
Otherwise, there's another thread about lamenting your own quality 
176 Dec 20, 2014 4:33 am
Re: Reconciling When to Continue and When to Stop (60 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Cortuor wrote:
To keep this relevant, what is it that you used to determine whether or not you should continue, or is it that their hasn't been that thing and you feel there is something better worth doing for everyone, and yourself then wasting your time making music no one, yourself included, even likes to listen to that much.
The decision starts and ends entirely with you.
Those people who are better and those songs that blow you away? People made them, with equipment and skills you probably can access someday, even if you can't do it now. I'm not going to tell you about Ira Glass or 10,000 hours, because people are different.
It starts with some self-esteem, to like what you're creating even if it isn't exactly like what your heroes do, because at the end you're not supposed to sound exactly like them, you're supposed to bring something new. Maybe you have the fortitude to practice and become a master of your instrument, or maybe you don't. If you master your art, maybe others will appreciate it, maybe they won't. Do you enjoy it enough to carry on? You're not a better person for saying yes or worse for saying no.