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I can't agree that digitally recording analog synthesizers defeats the purpose of using them. They're tools in their own regard, and they'll do whatever it is they do, however the rest of the toolchain looks like, as much as the rest of the toolchain will.
Speaking of Dave Smith stuff... Anyone had any fun with a desktop Evolver?
Lines per beat
edit: As in, right now you can only make notes as small as quarter notes in Famitracker. You can make shorter notes with pattern commands or volume envelopes, but this wouldn't allow you to make a rapid succession of notes. You could try to do something with the arpeggiator in the instrument editor but this gives you poor control obviously and you'd need to make a new instrument for every few notes and it would be really hard to get it to sound the way you want.
As opposed to say, OpenMPT where you can just set LPB to 16 and now you can make 16th notes at any BPM you choose.
I don't think there's such a concept as "lines per beat" in Famitracker (I'm not sure if it's presented that way, though). It's all "ticks per line" If you want higher resolution, decrease the amount of ticks per step. Those steps that are quarter notes in your head could as well be 8ths 16ths, 32nds or even triplets. You can increase the speed so far as to have one tick per step. You can change the amount of ticks per step dynamically, so you can compose in a more comfortable way normally, and double or quadruple the speed when you get to more timing critical parts.
I think the limits, when it comes to timing, depends on the play routine. Normally a player would run once each frame (60 times per second on NTSC). If you recorded freely with a DAW, you'd likely notice some artefacts if you were to quantize stuff to 60 Hz ticks.
While they usually are in practice, players aren't necessarily limited to 60 Hz, though. You could have several ticks per screen redraw to increase the resolution, (probably) use a timer interrupt to advance the ticks at an arbitrary rate or so. The only real limit is how much time is spent on each tick in the play routine, which in most cases should be less of a worry to you than MIDI jitter.
If you are tracking and want to make things sound more natural, have a look at the note delay/cut commands. Some trackers will even let you record MIDI freely and insert the delay commands for you as you play.
I'm a fan of Korg stuff in general. Affordable and pretty interesting gear. Besides a few of those I have the FB01 and the TX81z.
Pre-ordered it and got the download link this morning. Perfect breakfast. I like it a bit more than their last release on Telefuture, they're getting closer to optimal.
When I make a release I post it on facebook and twitter, which helps a lot. Also getting in touch with a label has been great. A good label will probably work on promoting your music, and a great label will draw attention to it just for the sake of the music being released there.
Constructive critisism on ChipMusic.org? Bullshit, man. I'm calling bullshit, what's considered "constructive critisism" on this site is everyone just being an asshole, you know?
Really? I just look through all the threads on the first page of the constructive criticism forum and couldn't find a single instance of someone being an asshole. Maybe you can point it out. Maybe you are the asshole for not being able to handle valid critique in a constructive way.
If an internet pitchfork mob make fun of you for posting bad music, you need to be able to brush it off as the bunch of idiots it is. Ignore them or report them. If they are just generally holding a negative opinion about your music, though, you need to deal with it in a constructive manner for your own sake. It's not healthy to have your ego so tightly tied to your creative output that negative criticism or a bunch of crap posts from random people on a forum completely devastates you.
Maybe you could also list that handful of exceptional advances. From your assertive tone, you seem to have a good idea about this. Maybe you could also list some advances from the past 20 years spawned out of misery and war. Weapons don't count.
Hey, if you don't have an artist or release list ready when you announce your label, at least give us some idea of what to expect and what you expect from submissions. As it is now, this link is a total waste of time. No music, no info, nothing. What's the point of announcing?
Well, it's simple and nifty enough, just supplying the last update time as a GET parameter to force a reload whenever it's changed.
A friend of mine just put his faulty cartridge connectors in the dishwasher which apparently had a great effect on them. Maybe you could try that. Those pins ought to get dirty after a few thousand cart swaps 
You mean the Hydra? IMO it seemed like a bit of a dead-end platform given its price, especially if your interest was in anything other than developing for it. The Propeller chip it is using, though, enjoys quite a great community I think. Wouldn't surprise me if there were already some music editors for it. I remember seeing lft work on one at a party for one of his demos (but it was not ever meant to run on the actual system). There are certainly a lot of music drivers for it.
Go ahead! Kinda cool, but the aliasing noise is pretty awful.
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