Only as long as you think these nonsensical limiting thoughts will they be true. The L and P and V commands, along with some well-placed pulse modulation and volume envelopes, add massive presence and life to a simple pulse channel melody. Just listen to Chibitech and tell me that's not expressive! The problem is that people don't have the patience or motivation or knowledge or whatever to juice it up, or they're distracted by the limitations of a genre.
I'm not saying I can't juice things up, just that the tools I use are an essential part of composition. If someone writes a song with a tracker and it ends up the same as a song he'd write with a guitar, then he's not approaching his work with enough playfulness and creativity to be worth listening to. Wouldn't it be better for him to play off the limitations of his instrument and come up with something entirely expressive of that instrument? An instrument that changes any time I touch it is going to sound less calculated than an instrument that has to be intentionally fucked with to sound at all different, and that's going to be frustrating at times and liberating at others
Not going to abandon software I've been using for half a decade just because I run into a few walls here and there. And yeah I'm blaming my tools, did you look at the title of the thread?
This is probably because of the rock/punk shows I've been going to recently, but I've been noticing that chiptune up to a certain purity forces me to write music in a way that's like stupidly specific. No matter how fancy I or anyone else gets with LSDj it's still just a sequence of loops & it'll never be as expressive or dynamic as a 4-piece rock band/orchestra/jazz trio/whatever. I can name plenty of chip songs I think are hypnotic, raw, or even beautiful, but I can't name a single chiptune song I would describe as "catchy". It's still possible to write great music but it's never going to be anything other than some fucked up techno loops trying to pass off as some other genre
Also this is probably my favorite chiptune song ever and to me it feels pretty dang sad with all the lethargic pitch-bending shit and the downward-moving bassline
I wrote this when I was like fucking ridiculously depressed, maybe it's just a personal connection thing but to me the whole thing sounds super duper sad
he only REAL solution is to make one save file with multiple songs on it--pretty sure that's how Cooshinator does his sets.
Nah that'd take up way too much space lol. I often just play a transitional bit with my gp2x, but when I can I often have the slave set to the proper tempo and then switch it to master (it should still sound in sync), then I stop the old master, switch save files, and stop the old song at the same moment I start the new one. If you wanted to be extra fancy I'm sure you could start the new save out in slave mode, switch to master, and do another save switcharoo on the other gameboy. I always do song mode but I imagine live mode should work too. Oh and this technique is for 2xlsdj, but it probably works just as well for 1xlsdj
I can't listen to music at work but the other day I listened to this while driving there and around noon they found a car in the river right next to my workplace lol
