1,233 Topic by chunter

(1 replies, posted in Releases)

chunter - Everything Must Change (For You), So That Everything Stays the Same (For Us)

http://cedtm.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/e … me-for-us/
http://chunter.info/2011/02/28/everythi … me-for-us/
http://www.archive.org/details/cedtm-003

Everything Must Change (For You), So That Everything Stays the Same (For Us) is a return to the RPM Challenge in 2011 (The RPM Challenge is a public dare to create a recorded album using the time only in the month of February to conceive, compose, record, produce, and master) and is named after a paraphrase used in the blog Spike Japan (http://spikejapan.wordpress.com) to describe the country’s economic structure.

As with Release Zero, the RPM Challenge was in the same month as Battle of the Bits’ Winter Chip VI and contains mastered versions of some entries there. The blend of chiptunes and samples of varying rates with RPM’s time limit causes a rough blend of sounds and styles, beginning with the eerie and soft and gradually moving towards the tongue-in-cheek only to return again.

This started off as a ST-XX tribute but after about five tunes I didn't like where that was going, so instead I merged in my Winter Chip entries and did some rearrangements.

Enjoy!

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1,234 Reply by chunter

(19 replies, posted in Audio Production)

Ctrl-P and go to plugins, point the VST settings at the directory where you've installed your VSTe's and i's. VSTe's appear in your effects list automatically, look up tutorials for details.

By nature, all EQ effects the quality of your source, because you want them to; the matter is how the EQ effects your sound. It is helpful to experiment with many EQs to learn how they color sound and then choose the best for a job.

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1,235 Reply by chunter

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My personal answer to part 2 of your question: I do as much to get the balance right in the source program/instrument first, so that there is less to do after. I do most of my mixing in Renoise with SPAN and Karma, Bootsy, and TAL plugins.

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1,236 Reply by chunter

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I can link you to an article about EQ when I'm home again. It's rock-centric but it will do for what you want, I think. If you can use something like Reaper and get a plug like Voxengo SPAN, do so as soon as possible. It will be easier to EQ when you can literally see as well as hear the effect.

If the EQs don't seem to do the right thing, you can try a low-Q filter.

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1,237 Reply by chunter

(18 replies, posted in General Discussion)

He has some entries in http://battleofthebits.org and he won Famicompo Mini. He put his Famicompo winner on 8bc but it probably got erased in the outage.

F.O.D. is young? I thought he was about the same age as all the other guys entering that stuff...

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1,238 Reply by chunter

(81 replies, posted in General Discussion)

A friend of mine hated the sound at the beginning of this:


and this:

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1,239 Reply by chunter

(24 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)

How about an example of the kick you have (and don't like?)

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1,240 Reply by chunter

(49 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

InactiveX wrote:

Did any of you actually use an M1 back in the day? No-one ever programmed it beyond the presets!

wink

We had the O series (Korg O1/W) which was a lightened Wavestation... Indeed it was a pain to do much more than shut the reverb off on the presets, but to give the idea of what this engine is for or the real instrument, you can put the ROM samples on oscillators and ADSR each of them, use (cold) digital filtering and arrange splits and layers of these across the keyboard in a "combi." On O series and Wavestation, you could also arrange sequences of ROM waveforms and blend them so that you get a little beat when you hold a key down, and of course, there's aftertouch and LFOs. I doubt much of this will make it to M01, but done well you can probably make D-50 type layers...

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1,241 Reply by chunter

(51 replies, posted in General Discussion)

er.. As for the sounds of genres, for dub, start collecting delays and reverbs, for dubstep, some auto-wahs and ringmod and fuzz distortions... If you liked the idea of plugging your GB into effects, start collecting guitar pedals or anything that looks interesting or fun.

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1,242 Reply by chunter

(51 replies, posted in General Discussion)

You can deliberately reprogram your tunes to pan hard left and right, then send the channels to different effect chains. You can plug the channel into strange amplifiers to color the sound on purpose, etc... Experiment! This stuff takes time to learn, and that's part of what makes it fun.

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1,243 Reply by chunter

(81 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Steering towards liked sound, analog synths and simple waveforms.

Anybody that doesn't like simple waveforms needs to find another board. wink

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1,244 Reply by chunter

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PlainFlavored wrote:

Airhorns are still lame.

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1,245 Reply by chunter

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Doogie piano is a good example of a sound used as a bad cliche- to me, there are no good/bad sounds, only good/bad contexts to put them in. Since I started off with FM synths and midi, I've used the doogie piano and don't mind it. I've also used the sonic-ring bell and the seinfeld slap bass.

The problem with any sound that becomes a famous cliche is that if you don't use it in a way that the listener thinks is refreshing, that listener will be bored and move on. Doesn't matter if it's a synth, a drum set, or a guitar, a harmonica, accordion, whatever.

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1,246 Reply by chunter

(39 replies, posted in General Discussion)

glomag wrote:

This man is a bit confused.

There are three of you!

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1,247 Reply by chunter

(189 replies, posted in General Discussion)

herr_prof wrote:

Well if you dont make music that you yourself wants to hear, whats the point of making music?

Profession! I relate to this question because I nearly quit ALL music at a time when I stopped enjoying the process. If I wasn't asked to share it some time ago, I probably would have kept it to myself forever.

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1,248 Reply by chunter

(189 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Etymologically speaking, anything a person creates is art. For example, "Art" is the root word in "artificial." Don't carry a pretense that art has some greater purpose or divine meaning- when you drop a turd in the toilet, that is also art.

I made such a broad definition in part because in the past I tired of people telling me they don't like sport (implying athletics) when in fact, anything you do for fun is sport (which debunks the famous knock that hunting, fishing, bowling, or any hobby you hate are not sport.)

This conversation has reached the point where it will simply be a lot of people saying "no it isn't," and "yes it is," without having any concrete way to back their opinions with fact. It's okay to dislike beeper music, we have the phrase "difficult music" for a reason.

I think the question that wants to be asked is, do we spend too much time composing for ourselves or other chip musicians and not enough time composing in a way that non-musicians are more able to appreciate?

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