Am I the only one who finds "leave your home and go to a gig" crass because the OP specifically asked about the internet?

breakphase wrote:

I just like to dick around online. And something about the amature, file posting culture is cool/fun to me. Whatever though, I'm not crying about it. *sniff*

Do it if you want, nobody's stopping you and I'm sure people listen.

calmdownkidder wrote:

Yo - listen, guys - I got out my house, got on a plane, went to 8static, and had a fucking blast hanging out with rad people and listening to rad music.

Do that.

If I hadn't burned my vacation days on my daughter's birth and had the money for the trip, I would've gone to Miku Expo instead. Nothing personal, just lots of choices out there.

Alpine wrote:

the chipscene is really weird, because everyone is so close, yet so far away at the same time. Pretty much everyone is a friend of a friend, either in a literal sense, or as an actual friend of a friend on facebook. There's also a genre divide kind of thing as well, there's been this whole "chipmusic isn't a genre, it's a way of writing" or whatever, and it's true, compare treyfrey to moby to anamana. You have people who write different genres, all on outdated hardware, and it kind of doesn't work. I can't really see guitar.org being a good place to have a discussion about music when you have people who write country music, and people who write melodic death metal.

Guitar boards do fine anyway, but the discussion is always "how do I..." and "my amp won't..." and all these other bits about technique and intonation and gear. Do you agree that this board is similar?

Alpine wrote:

The more and more I write, the less I understand chip, why write any genre of music in a format from a computer from the late 80s with massive limitations?

Hopefully, because you like it, but I don't disagree. I've reached a point where I want to simplify music making and don't always feel like jogging my memory to work a lot of different trackers.

The genre divide is a bummer, but easy to see coming. People like what they like, and though I see you all wishing Blip was back or 8bc would rise again, there was a lot of music I didn't like that people would celebrate. It's normal.

herr_prof wrote:

between dubstep wubs and reason squarewave synth leads, it basically already does.

Big room house

I stopped calling it "chiptune" when this site did. Don't forget to search for "chipmusic" too.

Remember also that one of the things that happened is that a lot of artists are pushing past "this is chipmusic" and are simply showing the same music as electronic music, so it won't come up in the search. If anything, lament the loss of marketability. wink

Why do these threads pop up on the eve of gigantic festivals? I'm pretty sure pixel is this weekend...

Some people will keep making music whether there is a scene for it or not.

When was "that point?" A lot has happened over the years...

It is as stated above, one of the reasons I hate on FM wink Use it carefully and deliberately because you'll eat up your voices quickly.

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nitro2k01 wrote:

That, btw, has been a good strategy to prevent people from reporting a post in the belief that they were writing a reply, which used to happen once every other month before that change.

I do that on reddit sometimes.

I should quit reddit.

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And then Antiques Roadshow comes on after it.

syobonaction wrote:


Kinda weird that he was chasing around a 10-ish year old?

inb4 she's not 10.

Is there an official explanation for Pharrel's mounty hat?

Hmm...

http://chipmusic.org/chunter/music/ballad-3

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Wait....  what? http://chipmusic.org/chunter/music/we-make-the-future

One of the prototype bands of chiptune had a lead singer (tree wave):

...so vocals have been in the style for a very long time.

I've always liked this, though I don't think computerization plays anymore... unless somebody knows something I don't:

There's plenty more.

Jazzmarazz wrote:

Some of the anonymous vocaloid songs on youtube incorporate chip. Im surprised more people haven't jumped on this though:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/291240481939?lpid=82

That and the Korg pedal are intriguing though I think they'd get old (for me) fast, I'd wonder about modify/bendability in the Gakken.

Also, Vocaloid music is rarely anonymous, but often ripped and reposted, as if the authors don't have the skills to find it... It messes up the  popularity rankings sometimes.

I didn't choose it. One of the guys where I work pronounced my login as if it was a word and I discovered it really is a word.