e.s.c. wrote:

maybe, i just expected more from this scene as a whole.. sorry, youve collectively let me down (not that you give a fuck wink ).. had a few conversations with other guys about this, and im not alone on thinking things were going to go a different direction back then..

I think chipmusic has become a caricature, because I agree that there's nothing like Tree Wave happening now, I think Goto80s projects might be closest to what you're thinking of.

Most mature kinds of music are now filled with people who look for tutorials and forums for step by step instructions on how to make things, it's the current way people learn.

I don't like Ubiktune as much as I ought to, for me insane virtuosity does not instantly equal good music. I don't think fragmentation into specialty genres is the answer either.

In the long run, I'm going to make what I like to make until I can't or don't want to make it anymore. As time passes more of my music sounds less like it belongs; I'm sorry I couldn't do much for the scene.

Gotta eat sometime.

I forget exactly when, but I try to have three major musical ideas in any song. I try to avoid having more than that (too long, break it into multiple songs or create a suite of songs) and I won't consider anything that has less than two (since one idea is the same as just taking a beat and releasing it with little embellishment.)

Within three major ideas can be three minor ideas, and that's how stuff gets long.

I am not considering the length of the song while I compose, but I've noticed from the "magic" of streaming statistics that most newcomers won't listen for more than a minute. I want to experiment with the notion of fitting three major ideas under a minute in the near future. I expect failure. wink

herr_prof wrote:

- When people come to your town, come to them as a fan, and make a connection

Dale Carnegie wrote:

Be genuinely interested in other people.

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I listened to elf hugger with to be celebrated playlisted afterward, it made for an interesting follow...

Keep up the nice work.

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Too many to mention, so I'll just leave these 3:

Sound of Contact - Dimensionaut

School Food Punishment - Riff-Rain

Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass

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Track titles can lead to high listen counts from curious people who checked out the song from a search term, but otherwise, if I can't think of something I want to say in a title I'll use Wikipedia and pick random articles until something looks appropriate.

http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/3988/ … read-this/

Unless they won't. wink

When I switched from piano roll midi sequencers to trackers I thought it was liberating and easy, but I had been composing for some time by then. I don't know why I prefer columns of notes to piano roll data, maybe it's the difference in visual to audio feedback?

stargazer wrote:

No love for the max? Has anyone used one?

Had one, pressed the sides more often than I used the thumb wheel properly. Advantage is best. I find stock Nintendo controllers are junk, the cube being the only exception, I can't grip them as intended.

Does it count when it's private?

If you want to complete my teenager rig, you'll need SB16, Voyetra sequencer, and a midi synth. Good job getting it working!

You may only have 3 eq bands but if you know them well you can do high and low rolloffs to give the house a nicer signal to work with. It sounds like a nice 10 band EQ should be in your future.

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It was typical to lift from other songs in the early days of video games, so although I'm sure it was illegal, it never occurred to anybody to sue.

It's different when you are plagiarizing in your own genre, doing nothing transformative to the original work.

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As much as I want to believe the photo is legit, I'd also like to know how the photo for "the inevitable defeat" was made. wink