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You must principle in an instrument on their list and if your principle is not piano, you must take or test out of two semesters of Piano.

Also, +1 on the person that said Berklee's synth program is not old enough to have access to vintage analog. At the time, you didn't even get to touch the Waldorf stuff until two years in, and the rest of the synths lab was Roland and Korg junk.  (Early 90s = Roland D series and Korg M and O series, you figure it out )

There is/was a major called MP/E (Music Production and Engineering) which I considered briefly, but didn't want to spend half my time at a desk... again, you'll get a lot of lab fees but in retrospect I think I would've gotten more out of that major than Synthesis.  You'll spend a lot of time, at least early on, recording conventional jazz combos, because MP/E's get hit with the tasks of recording Performance majors' projects.

FTR I was a Piano principle and Songwriting (pop music with lyrics) major, choosing business and production classes as most of my electives.  My favorite class in the entire experience was Livingston Taylor's class about performing.

Berklee is much more open to ideas such as VGM and DIY music than they were when I attended in the early 90s; when I applied, the admissions board demanded an explanation of what "video game music" means. Perhaps I was the first to write that on their application..

I'm not saying that you can't go from Berklee to chipmusic (or else I wouldn't be talking to you now) but it isn't an obvious or appropriate path, to me. If you principled in Trumpet you'd spend most of your time woodshedding and playing jazz covers. I went as a pianist, and though I learned a ton of harmony theory and treasure the overall experience, the domination of bebop era jazz and extremely technical live performing started to piss me off after three semesters.

Has anyone taken on the corrolary of "how do we get more people into tracking?"

The people I know that are chronic ModPlug users do not advertise the fact [/subltehint]

Holy wars rule! [/sarcasm]

I can't speak for total newcomers but I know they are "out there," every now and again someone will wander into #mod_shrine, BotB, or SDCompo and try a compo round, but few of these people stick with it, so if it doesn't twist the question around too much, how do we keep these people interested?

When I want the MOD/XM sound I use an IT clone like Schism because I prefer its hotkeys, otherwise Renoise remains my instrument of choice for just about everything. I suspect most tracker users "graduate" to either Renoise or MPT (or abandon tracking.)

If you want to play an instrument with limitations there is always harmonica and kazoo. The "limits" in chip are an artistic decision like any other.

I wouldn't call it "flipping out" because I haven't found my relatives on it yet. I find facebook uncomfortable to use though it is the only way I can communicate with certain people, and to be clear I think 50% of my dislike of facebook is about how it is used, what it is or how you work it is the other 50%.

I'm looking forward to seeing how people use the "hangout" button. It is probably easier to get my relatives to push "hangout" than it is to get them on skype.

I suggest keeping your project simple so that you don't bite off more than you can chew. A 1-osc synth is okay if it can be versatile, some examples from history are Roland SH-1000 and Arp Soloist series.

Borrowing the "keyboard" of a stylophone is okay, but see if you can create a modulation source with a light sensor or some other control for the non-stylus hand.

You say you don't want detune, but you'll have it anyway- you have to put the instrument in tune somehow, right?

If you want the instrument to stay versatile, have the modulation sources connect with banana plugs and borrow monotron's input to the filter action. Anything more (to me) is a bit beyond a school project. Good luck!

Try any MIDI sequencer. Most DAWs are decended from sequencers. Why do you want to avoid them? You are already working with Audacity, right? It is an obvious progression.