If you want panning, you play identical things on adjacent tracks but at different volumes. Some artists did this to good effect, but the loss of tracks is a definite tradeoff.
850 Oct 10, 2012 3:51 pm
Re: DJing a Highschool Dance with Electric Children (43 replies, posted in General Discussion)
minusbaby wrote:
Do Chip Musicians Dream of Electric Children?
I guess the title "Blade Runner" was better for ticket sales.
851 Oct 10, 2012 2:21 am
Re: Can I have some feedback please (14 replies, posted in Constructive Criticism)
I hear a personality to the sound, it is musical, the songs go somewhere, the notes are consonant, you even have some use of dynamics...
What I suggest is more use of dynamics, quiet bits that contrast with loud bits, maybe bits without noise so that when the noise returns it sounds more at home.
I hope you can hear from someone who is better voiced in noise-based stuff.
852 Oct 9, 2012 8:15 pm
Re: c64 uIEC/SD ver 3.2 HELP (7 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
Why OPEN and not LOAD?
853 Oct 8, 2012 6:04 pm
Re: Hi-Hat/Snare/Kick/Symbol Combinations? (40 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
Kicks on 1, 7, and 11 / Snare on 5 and 13
854 Oct 8, 2012 3:56 pm
Re: Hi-Hat/Snare/Kick/Symbol Combinations? (40 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
My symbol is that AV picture on the left... Oh, wait a minute...
855 Oct 7, 2012 6:15 pm
Re: ZZZV+ant1 (AGAMEMNON) Peret Sampras' Arpmaster EP download+CD (41 replies, posted in Releases)
Bump with content: I have reason to believe that ant1 is not in a good way financially right now, but I do not know if he is able to draw the funds if we say, started a bandcamp downloading campaign... I hope that someone with more knowledge can fill us in without being too personal.
856 Oct 6, 2012 5:55 pm
Re: looking inside games to see the songs? (19 replies, posted in General Discussion)
With a disassembler. If you don't know how to use one our what they're for, you're better off transcribing or copying by ear.
857 Oct 6, 2012 5:22 pm
Re: RETRO THULL - THURSDAY (single) (7 replies, posted in Releases)
Sounds great, forgive me for expecting something more like
858 Oct 5, 2012 10:08 pm
Re: Random musings on a train: Europe, Blip, community, the future (148 replies, posted in General Discussion)
boaconstructor wrote:
O2star wrote:I really would love to see chiptune artists break into electronic musical festivals.
I've been in the middle of this debate numerous times with numerous chip artists who have more of a "conservative" view of the scene.. I understand the argument that this sort of exposure could lead to a "lower quality" of fans in the chip community who care more about having fun and dancing as opposed to appreciating your tracking skills. Whether or not this is true, the existing "true" fans of chip aren't just gonna quit caring about and loving the artists and songs they've always loved.
What if mainstream presence actually made mainstream music become more interesting? Making an EDM festival doesn't have to mean selling out to the lowest common denominator.
859 Oct 5, 2012 8:03 pm
Re: . (65 replies, posted in General Discussion)
It's reposted a couple pages or two ago. I request that the title be put on the thread again.
I've never seen something get such a flash paper quick negative response before. I thought it was a troll song.
860 Oct 4, 2012 1:11 am
Re: should I use a PC or a Wii to emulate LSDJ? (23 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
SID is the hardest chip to get right, partly as an effect of its design- once you're really used to it, the different revisions of SID have different tones to them, and you can change the tone yourself by replacing the capacitor it uses for filtering.
I think the most correct way to consider using emulation instead of actual hardware for your music are latency issues and if the sound you get as end result is what you want. Being "correct" can be beside the point for what many of us do as musicians, it's more important to consider if you are actually getting the sound you want.
861 Oct 3, 2012 3:41 pm
Re: Random musings on a train: Europe, Blip, community, the future (148 replies, posted in General Discussion)
thebitman wrote:
Currently I am breaking into the local jazz scene, booking some gigs and stuff. That's how I have been incorporating my chip stuff for the public, and so far it is well received amongst the scene regulars.
I'd like to know how this goes. Steering jazz into a modern or fusion direction where I live makes people think of jam-band stuff like Phish and Widespread Panic which is not an awful thing...
There are some guys "by" me who throw trance and dubstep parties mainly between Savannah and Statesboro (again appealing to colleges but whatever works.) To me, the toughest barrier in the South is how far apart things are. All the cities named have the same thing in common for me: although they are several distances apart, I can reach them all after a day of driving provided I have a hotel night after the gig, so it's impossible to just show up after work, pop in and go home late. That's the difference when you're in a major city.
862 Oct 2, 2012 3:47 pm
Re: Random musings on a train: Europe, Blip, community, the future (148 replies, posted in General Discussion)
SketchMan3 wrote:
I wonder how it would work out if, during a live show that is also being ustreamed, the chatroom was projected onto a wall. It'd be like being there.
I saw that with a NicoNicoDouga event, the scrolling comments were projected behind the stage during a speech. A new speaker was introduced and you could hear applause at the venue, followed by flying ribbons of "888888888" (a symbol for applause) over their heads...
863 Oct 1, 2012 11:26 pm
Re: Random musings on a train: Europe, Blip, community, the future (148 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Decktonic wrote:
Promoters in the US do not understand that electronic music exists outside of the DJ context.
fix'd.
An acquaintance of mine abandoned making ambient soundscape music for the rave crowd in the 90s over similar pretexts, and yet, we are the same country who made early Techno and House... maybe it's because none of those people went on to become promoters... or did they?
bryface wrote:
anyway, there's so much potential in something that the whole audience can interact with (although development complexity obviously would ramp up quite a bit as well)
Make it as a wildcard demo and submit it to the party of your choosing.
864 Oct 1, 2012 10:14 pm
Re: Random musings on a train: Europe, Blip, community, the future (148 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Decktonic wrote:
So I think we still have a task, a barrier to overcome, at least in the states: informing people that you can actually produce and perform original electronic music, live, without instruments or singing, and that it does not make you a DJ, you are actually an electronic musician and that is a thing and it can totally be entertaining and worthwhile in a live setting.
Just my $0.02.
This is where I try to avoid making an "America Sucks" rant, I notice similar issues regarding any instrumental performance, in popular opinion it seems to need a context, like a movie or game, because music in its own right can't be handled. 
There are also the worlds of 1) playing what you want to expose people to vs 2) playing what people want to hear.