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I set the tempo (usually in the 80-100 BPM range). I then create a drum track and pick a key for the bassline. The bass sets the chord progression basically and then I work on the first melody and it expands from there. This is how I do it most of the time, but other times I start with the melody or the bass.
Edit: It depends a lot on how I start a project. Most of them start with me just messing around, but sometimes I already have a concept in mind before I open my DAW.
I also asked what kind of record deal you would accept, so feel free to come up with something that would be reasonable for you.
Yes, restrictions and deadlines are a disadvantage to me too, but I don't think all labels are like this. Some allow more freedom than others when it comes to stuff like that.
Would you accept a record deal offer if one was presented to you? If yes, under what circumstances? (Relatively) big label, small label, chiptune only?
For me, it's hard to say. On one hand, I wouldn't mind making some money (it's not like I have a great job right now) and get more recognition by being promoted this way. On the other hand, I would like to be able to release my music for free as well and let others use my music for both commercial (use it in a movie\documentary, video, play it at an event, etc, as long as you don't directly sell my music) and noncommercial purposes. I also wouldn't want to have my music copyrighted on YouTube by a record label (so my fans could upload my music or use it in a video and monetize the videos), and these sorts of things kinda motivate me to always be independent. Or maybe I could co-produce songs as a side project (e.g. band), I guess that could work.
Pretty useful tip considering that a large portion of the members here are veterans.
Sometimes I write songs with a specific person in mind and name it something that I know will resonate with that particular individual. I've done it a few times about a handful of different people. Mainly its just me trying to choke too much meaning and emotional value out of uptempo instrumental dance tracks I write on Gameboys while dealing with past relationships/life events in an obscure, roundabout way.
But hey, whatever works right?
Pretty much what I do, but most of the time the whole theme of the album\release revolves around that person.
I'm from Romania, though I'm not a pure chiptune artist. I mostly like to make experimental music.
@4mat I knew about the "Decades" thing, though I didn't figure it out myself. Now you got me extremely curious about the other albums.
@SBSM Yeah, I'm kind of afraid of being too cryptic, so I was thinking of something like taking the first letter of each song title (in normal or reverse order) to form names or words.
Edit: @Mrwimmer Yes, a puzzle would be interesting. That's actually what I was originally thinking of but I didn't want to reveal too much for now.
Does anyone else like to put hidden messages or meanings into their songs or albums, in titles or anything else related to the songs themselves. I'm talking about subtle meanings in the form of, for example, anagrams, but I'm also curious about other ways to do that.
I haven't actually released any of my projects in finished form (yet), but I'm planning on including some messages in my future releases, mainly about the events that inspired the creation of the songs or the concept of the album. Without revealing any specific details, I can say that most of my songs were inspired by events from my life, and most of that inspiration is attributed to a few girls that I liked at the time. I thought about sneaking in their names as a tribute (or thanks for the inspiration), even though they may never find out. It would be kinda awkward to come up to them and say "Hey, so I wrote a bunch of songs about you...".
Does anyone else like to do this sort of thing? You could also share a bit of insight about the inspiration behind your songs\releases.
I wouldn't sue for the money. I would sue to make an example of him, to show him and others that there are repercussions for stealing. Some people never learn.
Threaten to sue him (even if you don't mean it). That might make him to take those songs down.
I would definitely sue someone over something like this if I had the time and the money.
It was inspired by a dream I had many years ago. It's supposed to be spelled "cube" (it does sound like that in my native language). There was a big floating cube in my dream, like a floating balloon that was advertising something. It looked similar to this (it was tied down with strings like that and I was holding one of them), but it had a normal cube shape and it was white, blue, and red I think. The part that I liked about the dream was the sense of scale, it was floating like a hundred meters in the air and it was pretty big.
i like how i can make music using 3 sid chips and make a c64 demo with 4mat and join Hack n trade and meet nice people irl and meet horrible people online.
SID5EVER
SID music is the reason I got into chiptune, well, pretty much. Keygen music is directly based on C64\SID music and sounds a lot like it sometimes. Retardedly enough I owe it mostly to Timbaland. He made "Ayo Technology", the first popular song I've heard that utilized chip sounds (he has a SIDstation that he used to sample Acidjazzed Evening, the SID version by GRG). Maybe I would have gotten into chip music eventually, who knows. I guess I was already attracted to it when I first heard it in keygens, I kinda liked weird stuff even then.
It's not about nostalgia for me, at least not the same kind of nostalgia as other people here. I did play NES games as a child, but I couldn't remember the music from those games when I discovered chiptune later on, except for the Super Mario Brothers theme. However, I didn't associate it with chiptune music. The nostalgia\emotion I get sometimes from listening to chip music is from the chords people used in their songs, or from melodies that use slide\portamento and PWM (those sounds kinda mimic crying and they make me emotional, especially if the chords are sad for me).
The music is great, there's a massive variety, and everyone has their own way of doing things
The software guys who make it possible for people to make chip, are always involved, and always listen to people about what they could improve next etc
Yeah, I forgot. Chip music is quite diverse.
Not to mention that a lot of software is free (plenty of great free trackers).
This sort of topic has probably been done before, but I can't find anything using the search feature. Moderators are obviously free to lock this if this topic is a duplicate.
My first exposure to chiptune happened via keygens. I didn't think much of the music until I heard popular music utilize chip sounds (I had a bad taste in music back then) and that made me curious about the actual music those popular artists were "ripping off". Arpeggios were my favorite sound back then and they still are. Nothing says electronic music more to me than chiptune arpeggios. Shortly after I started developing a strong liking for all types of chip sounds. The retro aspect of the sounds, the rawness and simplicity still draw me to this genre to this day and it still remains my favorite. It's really mostly about sounds for me, and not just for this genre, but for music in general.
Of course, there are other nice aspects, such as the fact that a lot of chip music is free (old video game soundtracks, demoscene music, etc).
What do you guys like about chip music in particular?
the way i see it, he never offered this up and had a huge amount of material there. why do that? why not promote it? because he didnt want people to know? its shady. he never made it known that he even had this channel on this forum or anywhere else from what i can tell, so its kind of shady and obsessive and shady creepy after talking to this guy, he gives me a pretty shady vibe. speaking of shady, looks like he removed a substantial amount of people's music like he said he would, probably because he knows he did something wrong...even though he's still rambling on like a robot in my inbox saying he doesnt think he did anything wrong. he said my complaining was analogous to him giving a copy of my music to one of his friends, instead of directing them to a website. instead, its more like putting a copy of his entire music collection online for all of his friends, because thats what it was, was it not? ahaha. dont answer that! let this thread sink to the bottom or close this shit.
anyway, im out. cristian, you're a weird jerk. ask people from now on if you're going to run your channel. this is chipmusic, theres no reason for you to have a channel like that and not ask people for submissions.
Because it is not in my nature to boast. I also never asked anyone to subscribe because it sounds a lot like begging to me. I wanted people to find the channel on their own. I removed (and will keep removing) videos because I did do something wrong. I assumed artists were more reasonable than this and understood the type of license they used. I was wrong and I realized that I don't want anything to do with people like you, so I'm removing most of the stuff to avoid this kind of conversation in the future.
I'm a jerk because I kept my cool and complied with your requests. OK.
ok, and all the other artists and comps? like that cdk one? you need to pay attention to license details. technically all of yours are in violation just by not having the creative commons logo attached, but thats just being nitpicky
Most of them were like this, some of them weren't, I'll admit. Still, all this time it didn't occur to me that it would hurt the artists.
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