At least temporarily the best album ever made!
17 Jun 18, 2014 4:28 pm
Re: Goto80 - Ϝіlеѕ іn Ѕρаcȩ̧̧̧̧̧̧̧̧̧̧̧̧̧̧̡̧̧̧̧̧̧̫̫̫̫̫̫̫̫̫̫̫̫̫̫̫̫̫̫̫̫̫̫̫ (32 replies, posted in Releases)
18 May 3, 2014 8:43 am
Re: Discussing Electronic based CM.O-like Forum (8 replies, posted in General Discussion)
19 Apr 29, 2014 7:23 pm
Re: Yamaha FB-01 (YM2164 FM!) Sound editor released (81 replies, posted in Other Hardware)
Nice, Aly! Will you be supporting OS X this time?
20 Apr 26, 2014 3:51 pm
Re: Surround Chip Sound Tutorial (6 replies, posted in General Discussion)
The left/right channels are probably canceling each other out.
21 Apr 26, 2014 6:18 am
Re: Getting Started with GBA Chiptunes? (19 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
Don't immediately dismiss a tracker because a few of the sample songs you heard were too "synthy", because these tools are pretty versatile. People are giving you the kind of advice you were asking for and you are giving up on them after "a little look-up". That's not very polite and will make people more reluctant to help you out.
22 Apr 21, 2014 5:56 pm
Re: SURVEY re: SYNTHS (15 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Submitted. The real-time aspect of it doesn't seem technically feasible without really long buffers, though.
23 Apr 8, 2014 3:49 pm
Re: Chipmusic's general opinion on "experimental" electro music? (26 replies, posted in General Discussion)
If it easily fits the description of a pretty well defined and narrow contemporary genre I don't know if I would call it experimental, but yeah I like some experimental music.
24 Apr 7, 2014 5:05 pm
Re: Ever think you'll stop making chiptune? (98 replies, posted in General Discussion)
El Huesudo II wrote:
To consider chiptune a "genre" isn't just labeling it harshly, it's closing a lot of doors to experimentation and diversity.
How? As far as I'm concerned, musical genres are a system that has very little to do with creating music. If you set out to compose a genre piece, you have yourself to blame for the doors that that approach is going to close.
El Huesudo II wrote:
Soon people will wonder "how to write chiptune" and start asking for rules and guidelines ("what tempo", "what loops does it use", "is it bad if I don't want to use 4/4", "am I wrong for not using the BRK sample"...), just like people wanting to compose doom metal, or dirty south, or baroque counterpoint, or any other genre.
Welcome to a decade ago! If this is what you mean by closing doors to experimentation and diversity, I disagree that it is.
But there are no rules in chiptune - only limits of your chosen hardware (the octave ranges, the amount of audio channels and their type of sound, the processing limits, etcetera).
If you mean conventions, I think there are a lot of them in chipmusic. Just like in [whatever relatively modern genre you can think of], these are not necessarily common to all the works, but different conventions overlap in such a way that we can see a connection. In general, perhaps we can trace the origins of a set of works down to just a certain group of people, to a certain era or a traditional practice and still find out that that's still more well defined than, say, jazz or rock music.
Which is a similar thing that musicians experience when writing for piano, or accordion, or hang drum, or any other instrument.
Agreed. The common uses of these instruments are also closely guided by conventions.
25 Mar 29, 2014 6:11 pm
Re: Accidentally bought a PAL n64 (9 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Sweet!
26 Mar 29, 2014 10:51 am
Re: Accidentally bought a PAL n64 (9 replies, posted in General Discussion)
I'm pretty sure the N64 PSU does 50/60Hz AC over 110-240V, so that shouldn't matter. Read up on it before you try anything, though.
EDIT: Double checked, my adapter is rated for 230V/50Hz only 
27 Mar 29, 2014 10:20 am
Re: Re: the NVRAM in the Sonic 3 Cartridge (3 replies, posted in Sega)
28 Mar 28, 2014 11:19 am
Re: Accidentally bought a PAL n64 (9 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Some TVs support PAL60 over composite, which is video at 60Hz frequency with PAL color encoding. As long as you can get the N64 to output that it might be fine depending on your TV. If you have any means to use RGB video from the N64, chances are even greater that the TV will support both 50/60 Hz. Then it's just a matter of game region.
29 Mar 27, 2014 12:33 pm
Re: VIC-MIDI (19 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
There is some brief slideshow available about it for those interested: http://www.slideshare.net/leifbloomquis … dore-vic20
Looks like the way Viznut is going to be involved is through the waveform tricks he invented (as described here). These were for example used for the speech formants in Robotic Liberation/Robotic Warrior.
30 Mar 20, 2014 8:53 am
Re: Ways to describe my music other than just "chiptune" (28 replies, posted in Constructive Criticism)
kineticturtle wrote:
I'm with SBSM. I make folk/chamber music with gameboys and banjos and saxophones and violins and stuff. Am I in the same genre as Danimal Cannon and Nullsleep? I don't buy it.
Maybe not, but do you consider it chiptune? If not, how is your music relevant to a discussion about whether chiptune is a genre or not? If you do, what makes you think of it as chiptune?
Regarding folk music, do you accept that as a genre? I'd argue that folk music, as a genre, is far more disperse than chiptune.
31 Mar 11, 2014 9:07 am
Re: Am i makin 8Bit, Chiptune or fakebit ? (54 replies, posted in General Discussion)
qb wrote:
I know what you're saying. I'm talking about the original definition, which was a bit more particular than that.
You are talking about an assumed definition that you haven't really verified. The only academic source I could lazily find that deals with the origin of the term to some extent disagrees with your idea that chipmusic was primarily used in reference of C64 music.
Vellain wrote:
uuuuugghhhhh... -.- such pointless squabbling. Genre shouldn't really matter. The fact that you have to label your music as this or that means that you're confining your view of yourself and your music to what others have been and are doing. Musicianship--the skillfull composition and execution of your music--is what really should matter. Make music to make music; what other people have to say is irrelevant so long as you derive enjoyment from your music.
You are the one making pointless meta-arguments. "Genre shouldn't matter" might be a relevant perspective with regards to the original question but you aren't making a good case for it by telling us how music should be enjoyed. I am sure everyone involved in this discussion are able to enjoy music irrespective of what they think is a reasonable way to categorize it. If there is any weight to "Genre shouldn't matter" at all you should agree that categorizing music doesn't necessarily impose on the process of creating it.
32 Mar 10, 2014 6:31 pm
Re: Ethics surrounding the use of throw-away artist names (23 replies, posted in General Discussion)
I guess Ateno is your real name and that it defines how seriously you approach relationships.