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But it does. Everything is vibration including music.
Where did I say that it wasn't? I'm saying that the dimensionality of musical qualities is not a purely physical one. If we think of music purely as physical movement over time, it can of course be expressed in a four dimensional space, but that's quite obvious and musically useless.
Hey, about getting viruses on macs, what do you think is the most likely target for a virus? A relatively obscure Unix system for home users that has you write your super password any time anything wants to make changes outside your home directory, or a more popular, historically inseure OS where most of its users are always logged in with root-level permissions? In that light, "get a mac" is completely valid advice, or more generally; "dump windows". Depending on how you use your computer that's easier said than done, though, but most of this crap can be avoided by using a sane browser, staying out of the bad parts of the internet, not running executables you don't trust and not trusting executables that are obviously malicious.
tl; dr: Get a mac if you don't want porn.avi.exe to ruin your install, or just don't run porn.avi.exe
On the fourth dimension
What is the fourth dimension? Do you mean like a fourth spatial dimension, are you talking about spacetime, or about dimensions in general? If you were to think of a point or an element in music as a vector of the parameters that affect its percieved qualities, I think you'll agree that it would be bigger than a four-tuple. That has nothing to do with physics in particular in any way, though.
To find out exactly you would need to know the sample frequency and the phase increment per sample for each note. Not sure what's up with notes going flat past D4, though. With fixed point phase counters (which I assume LGPT uses) the precision should actually increase the further up you go. Can you hear the flattening yourself, or is it possible that aliasing throws your tuner off? Maybe the tuner is just beter at registering a difference in pitch at higher frequencies. That is, the difference in pitch in terms of cents stays about the same, but as you go up the scale the difference in terms of Hz grows.
I think this is the one I used. It's good! I used it to play back some drum machine samples using the ER-1 sequencer.
Is it too unce unce unce? It is too weird? Is it just not progressive enough for today's scene?
If the goal with your musicking is getting on the "chip = win 2" compilation, you should be asking its curators these questions. We would just give you answers based on incompatible definitions of those properties.
It's good to learn early on that until you know exactly what you are doing, no one likes your music more than you do.
I just fucking hate getting rejected: it makes me think that I'm doing something wrong. So I thought I just throw it out there.
If you think that you are doing something wrong, you have to carefully examine what standards by which what you're doing is being judged. If they are not your own, and if you find that you disagree with them, they're not a good source of motivation. If you "fucking hate" getting rejected, you'd better look for alternative sources of motivation, because people will dislike your music, and some of those people might be curating a compilation you want to join. Find a standard that you are comfortable with and for which you have some level of personal control. You have to know yourself what is right or wrong not to be anxious about it.
There were some sample trackers for the ST, so I'd guess there were sample chiptunes. But it needs to be investigated for sure!
EDIT: I was thinking that the STe has two DMA channels, but looking it up I found out that they have a very limited set of output frequencies. Not very good circumstances for these chip waveforms to "naturally" occur.
*new song* NEW GENRE, GUYS
lol i dunno
but some people are starting to tag their music 4-bit and 1-bit and stuff.
This is a silly not-serious thread and I was just being silly even though there are 4-bit computers which produce music and computers with 1-bit sound devices so it's covered on all sides.
Also didn't somebody just recently create a tracker for a TI calculator to create 1-bit chipmusic?
1-bit and 4-bit gets no love ;_;
I'm just trying to raise the question, since this has been bugging me for a while. Not to rag on you, to be clear! It's just kind of annoying to me when people call Game Boy (or YM2149/AY equivalent) music "4-bit" (especially when they do it to correct someone calling it "8-bit") when there's really no technical basis to what distinguishes it from so called 8-bit music. Very few sound chips (can't think of any, really) typically used for 8-bit music would qualify as being "8-bit" in the terms that people use to say that Game Boy music is "4-bit".
And yes, there evidently are 4-bit computers which deliberately produce musical sound (probably also decimal computers and analog computers as well), but I think that they have little relevance in this context. BTW, going to have to order one of those Gakken computers!
That's pretty cool! But what about the sound device: what makes a particular device 4-bit? The Game Boy for example, has a bunch of 4-bit DACs, but panning, mixing and master volume multiplication of the channels seem to happen after d/a conversion, which I'd say this complicates classification a bit.
What devices qualify as being "8-bit"?
And what about the SID (More importantly, what about the Sony Dreamcast 4-bit)? My point here is that "8-bit" is more or less used as a catch-all for any blip-bloppy music, and in that context hardly refers to any tangible technical aspect of production.
4-bit and 1-bit get no love...
Well, show me a 4- or 1-bit computer that's ever been used to produce music.
From that adlib player, one might be able to hack together a SID+adlib player, though, for playing a precomposed adlib tuni in time with a SID song.
Someone make a SID+FM tracker? Linde, can you modify SIDWizard to add FM pwetty pwease?
Hehe, got your facebook bump. It would be a great combo for sure, but I don't think I'm up to the task of modifying SIDWizard. It would be great if only for the percussion mode, even.
You can always spice things up with some outboard effects. I don't even press play in a tracker. I just grabbed all my old 192 kbit mp3 renders and play them in itunes, and use an outboard effect thingie to actually do some things live. It doesn't have to be a lot, people are content with seeing you do anything. You can add stutters with it, delay, filter sweeps etc. We put on good shows by dancing and playing good music, and no one ever comes up to me questioning the way I perform.
Kind of like how Unicorn Kid, and Sabrepulse both slowly transitioned into EDM. Anamanaguchi hit on it a lot in their new album as well, I see no harm in it. I guess it could be necessary to make a new genre to establish the difference between the two? Chiptune and nu-chip.
Sure, make a genre.
I say this because even the newer stuff contains a lot of chiptune, just not necessarily pure chiptune. It is sort of an EDM chip blend, which in my book is just fine.
What's pure chiptune? Are chipmusic and EDM ususally mutually exclusive? I'd have guessed that the two very vague and broad terms wouldn't necessarily impose on eachother. You don't "blend" with EDM, either it's electronic dance music or it isn't. Having performed chipmusic live a load of times, I can say that whatever you play could easily classify as electronic dance music.
I think genre doesn't really matter as long as the music is good.
In what sense exactly doesn't the genre matter? In any sense?
ChipMusic.org / Forums / Posts by boomlinde
