I don't know what to think of the advice telling you to read the manual, but personally I think that's the least of your concerns. Any of that will be useless unless you can make a good song. My tip is to give this one a couple of weeks of silence, then listen to it again and analyze it. Is it still good? Did it sound good to begin with? Is it as good as [some song you like]. Why is/isn't it? What is it that's good about [some song you like]? Make a lot of songs like Stevens says, then listening to them with a discriminating ear will come naturally.
354 Jun 11, 2012 2:13 pm
Re: The DX11 is a hugely underrated synth and here is why. (16 replies, posted in Product reviews)
It's obviously not a filter sweep, but the effect it has on the harmonic content is similar in that decreasing the modulation index eventually leaves you with only the base tone, and increasing it gradually introduces more higher frequency partials, not unlike closing and opening a low-pass filter respectively. I'm not sure what you mean by only having one overtone at your disposal.
355 Jun 11, 2012 9:14 am
Re: The DX11 is a hugely underrated synth and here is why. (16 replies, posted in Product reviews)
You can get pretty filter-sweepy sounds out of any 2-op synth with feedback modulation, or at least a patch that goes from no harmonics to a lot over the TL range. Here's a sample of my own 2-op FM 303 emulator thing: http://soundcloud.com/boomlinde/r-odent-dx303. I guess that with some imagination, those sweeps could as well have been filters.
356 Jun 11, 2012 8:55 am
Re: VIC-20 Music Tracker On a Cartridge? (14 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
I have a 1541U, but I guess you could use one of these.
357 Jun 8, 2012 10:55 am
Re: New Chipmusic Netlabel Searching Content (71 replies, posted in General Discussion)
I wish you good luck, but if you have a specific agenda, just passively announcing that you are looking for artists might not be the best approach. I'd mail to people I wanted to see on it. It's just a hunch, so I hope you prove me wrong 
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358 Jun 7, 2012 5:09 pm
Re: lets talk best data compression for the nets (25 replies, posted in Audio Production)
Joint stereo club!
359 Jun 7, 2012 11:56 am
Re: lets talk best data compression for the nets (25 replies, posted in Audio Production)
44 kHz CBR 192 kbps LAME is usually good for me, but I can see why it might not cut it for a perfectionist in cases like the one 4mat describes. If you want transparency, especially for raw-rendered chipmusic, you'd better go lossless.
360 Jun 5, 2012 4:29 pm
Re: How does one play live chip music... (184 replies, posted in General Discussion)
I mostly just play stuff back from my laptop and dance, but I bought a kaoss pad which I think really adds a lot to the performance.
361 Jun 4, 2012 8:40 pm
Re: Popularity Contest (208 replies, posted in Bugs and Requests)
I like the idea with the recommendations. Maybe you could subscribe somehow to the recommendations/favorites of a bunch of members you trust to pick good tunes, and the songs they recommended would show up together in a separate list along with the latest on the front page.
362 Jun 4, 2012 9:12 am
Re: Any chiptune artists playing in Seattle? (24 replies, posted in General Discussion)
On a vaguely related note, I think it would be nice to be able to add a pair of coordinates and a date in a tag to live show posts so they would show up in a map or something.
363 Jun 4, 2012 8:12 am
Re: Telefuture Label Launch (86 replies, posted in Releases)
Pipe dream: Make some cool leather jackets with the logo embroidered on the back. 
Anyway, I'd definitely get either a tee or a tank top or maybe both.
364 Jun 1, 2012 1:11 pm
Re: Telefuture Label Launch (86 replies, posted in Releases)
I'm hopefully going to listen through it all tomorrow. I'm really honored to be on this label, it's all top stuff judgung from the previews.
Lazerbeat wrote:
O2star for Telefuture!
Yes!
PlainFlavored wrote:
Stone Soup is made of everything that is good about electronic music.
:3
366 May 25, 2012 7:52 am
Re: Taking mono into consideration? (24 replies, posted in Audio Production)
All the stuff I release is mono, but I'm with ant1. Any shortcut you think you might be taking will have some drawbacks.
367 May 22, 2012 7:51 am
Re: How is your local chiptune community? (430 replies, posted in General Discussion)
It's been good here for as long as I've been somewhat involved, at least. It's easy to get a gig and people seem to appreciate the music. The electronic music scene in general seems to thrive here, but maybe it's just the people I hang around.
368 May 16, 2012 10:51 am
Re: Whats the story with the demo scene and open source? (21 replies, posted in General Discussion)
In my experience, I agree with Akira that at least C64 people open whatever they want opened . For some purposes (figuring out a specific effect/trick) a disassembly is only slightly less readable than a source file. Reverse engineering is simply assumed more often than not, but (rightfully) proud people will happily explain their tricks to you in forums/diskmags/person.