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(109 replies, posted in General Discussion)

JaffaCakeMexica wrote:

Can you break down these chords you gave in your explanation note by note, maybe explain a bit?

http://trainer.thetamusic.com/en/conten … ing-chords

sandneil wrote:

iirc ilocan was actually the father of some "pretty big deal" chiptuner. his songs were great and his 8bc persona was very endearing

If you mean this ilocan https://www.youtube.com/user/ilocan18

He was Chibitech's father. I don't remember when he died.

Also what the hell is this thread about again?

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(23 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Dolby-Z wrote:

the artist has to do some pretty crazy stuff to make just one console sound full.

That depends on what "full" means to you. The ability to have two notes at a time create a song that sounds complete is an important compositional skill, even if you never get good enough at it to release the results. If you mean the frequency spectrum, that's as simple as playing a square wave at full volume.

bitpusher2600 wrote:

Yes sir! Chuck D was almost a hero to a young me.

Chuck D was a hero to most...

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(23 replies, posted in General Discussion)

You can draw a familiar synth waveform as a Renoise sample and use its instrument effects as you would on any synthesizer if that helps. Version 3.1 implements the Redux instrument engine so the process can be as simple or complex as you want.

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(23 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Dolby-Z wrote:

Does anyone else use traditional DAWs and overdubbing in making chip music?

I use Renoise in this way, though when I have moments of self-doubt, I wonder if people think I do it just to be able to post music here and not because I actually wanted to.

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(16 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Robin Williams and Keith Emerson took their own lives as a result of inadequately treated depression. If you need help, please seek it.

SounDevotion competition began its 100th round, Battle of the Bits tried a kickstarter. I manage to make entries despite only having 30 minutes to 2 hours per night to work on them, and still straddle chipmusic and Vocaloid.

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(274 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I'm interested in who is active now, not people who were active in 2010.

Then necro the thread. That information is still available for a reason.

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(274 replies, posted in General Discussion)

SketchMan3 wrote:

This should be in members only?

It should be merged with the old thread and closed.

Delek wrote:

Very good information, I think you know a lot about music, sadly, the only song that is close to what I'm describing is the one by Stevie Wonder.

That is my point, there is more to what you're asking than instruments and notes, so the answers are subjective, and there are thousands of songs that qualify.

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(274 replies, posted in General Discussion)

http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/412/twitter/

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It's been a while since I've seen a question about Japanese pop harmony come through reddit's music theory sub and it's probably because I keep giving the same reply. Your question isn't exactly the same, but my answer to it is similar.

As for harmony, Japanese harmony question is that the harmony in J-pop used to be present in American (and rest of world) pop too, but gradually fell out of favor, coming to a head around the time of yacht rock and lasting a little longer in R&B than in rock.

Here are some songs that are as melodically and harmonically fluid as the songs you shared, hopefully these are playable in your country, and yes, they're intentionally old and chronologically ordered as best I could:

Skip to 3:36:

Of course, artist's selection and your own subjectivity from the anime and video game subject matter are the sources of much of the bittersweet feelings, and that's not a bad thing: the music works because it augments that feeling instead of diverting or diminishing it.

As for the name of the style, there's nothing wrong with simply calling these anison (anime songs) or VGM, people who know what those are will understand what you're talking about.

This thread is closed.

is probably what this would have said a couple years ago.

My opinion is that sometimes there's no other way to get the exact sound you want unless you turn to old software and old technology. Sometimes that's a pain in the ass and a VST will make what you want to hear faster. This is a worn out subject and really nothing to be concerned with.

Two things:

Without violating a certain amount of personal confidence there may have been, Chibi herself was worried that people would find Kyunstep pretentious. She was surprised by the positive reaction and the rest is history. It basically shut the Blip Fest forever.

When we wonder about software and hardware used, it is the same as guitarists checking out each others' kit, to a fault. I can learn Protracker and Octamed and collect all kinds of Amiga kit until my wife throws me out, but the music I make will still sounds like me. No matter how much we learn about technique, styles, and genres, we can't help sounding like ourselves, but that's a good thing.

I recently asked Nile Rodgers on Twitter if his most famous Stratocaster had a tremolo to see if he blocked, bolted, or floated it, and I realized ten seconds after I sent it just what a useless question that is for me: Nile's sound is almost entirely from his hands, which are too different from mine to dream of copying, so I need different equipment to sound like him. Nile answered me anyway, turns out it's a hardtail... my point being that he freely gives away all his "secrets" because nobody has a chance in hell of copying him.

danimal cannon wrote:

Also it seems like the Battle of the Bits compo guys have been pushing the medium in the coolest ways.

Battle of the Bits, bitpuritans, and the current Famicompo Pico crew are almost the same people. I was flattered to be identified as "Battle of the Bits veteran" for Weekly Treats because they get a ton of work done and I'm lucky to enter 2 compos per year anymore.

bnox and company dare us to do crazy things all the time, I can't always keep up.

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(2 replies, posted in Releases)

This is a collection of vocal and instrumental pop songs flowing between the styles, feelings, and moods of an introverted hobbyist with a small, growing family.
Featuring the following voicebanks of the UTAU speech synthesizer: Kasane Teto, Momone Momo, Pam, and Pamyu

also the Vocaloid voicebank Megpoid Gumi and the Alter/Ego voicebank Daisy Bell.

Mixed and mastered using Renoise version 3.0

Instruments include but are not limited to: emulated SID (VST synths, Deflemask) FM, sample playing, sometimes with Schism Tracker, and guitar playing.

Listen and Buy at Bandcamp
Organized by Sound at chunter.info
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