This project began as a collection of the music used when I got married in April of 2012, tracks 2, 4, and 8 were used during the wedding and reception. Track 5 was composed with most of the programming done on the balcony of the hotel room one morning on honeymoon (before the wife woke up,) and the remaining tracks are reworkings of previous material which were originally intended for a different project.
Sounds range from an orchestra imitation, some electronic instrumental pop ballads, and a chiptune epic. Tracks 5 and 7 are the ones that are most relevant to this forum.
I record its oscillator doing different things- it is noisy but warmer than any VST I have. That's it for now, I don't want to mod unless I have more than one. Plugged Stylophone into its filter, disliked the result. A white noise through the filter makes an okay hi hat.
Edit: I bought a Monotron, didn't read closely... Prices went down on those quite a bit making them handy part donors and enhancements for each other...
Subscribing to boards with a checkbox screen, defaulting to having all turned on sounds like a great idea.
I ignore CC threads because they make no sense to me; if you want CC, you can post your song and ask for help in its comments. Remember the first 100 songs rule before you post.
The venue wants your "elevator pitch," for which "Mario at a Rave" works provided you actually sound like Mario at a rave. The answer you give should relate to your own sound, not necessarily to chipmusic as a whole. Decktonic had the right idea, though it should be shorter if you can help it, and ... Decktonic's only works if you are actually pushing the limits of your system...
Title isn't self-explanatory enough, do you mean the TCTD prizes, placing well in a Compo, getting a good review, having your release announcement retweeted, reblogged, redditted, tumbld, or pinned, do you mean someone downloading a release at all, your parents/wife/kids shouting "turn that blip-bloop shit off I'm trying to sleep," etc?
