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i tend to work on multiple tracks at a time so i need to have some vague structural rules to try an follow to easily recall what something might be.

but you also need to use all the available space in the same way as jefftheworld says

i just got about a 1/2 of the way through it and it didnt grab me at all, and i gave up!

i do like quite a lot of stuff from the 1950s and 60s

Ursula K. Le Guin (everything everything everything by her, even the childrens' books about wizards)

Margaret Atwood (oryx and crake trilogy is so good - its post apocalyptic though really)

Charles Stross (id avoid the Merchant Princes & and ghost investigation thriller stuff though, try and stick to his hard scifi, some of it gets pretty far out, post humans having a physical presence shit. the stuff about MMOs is interesting too)

Gene Wolfe (The Book of the New Sun series, dreamy fantasy stuff)

Joe Haldeman (The Forever War is a classic scifi war book)

John Wyndham (The Day of the Triffids & The Chrysalids are the most readable i think)

Brian Aldiss (Helliconia series is my fav)

iain m banks, of course

pretty much anything in the SF or Fantasy Masterworks series, if you just wanna pick up something random, they are pretty much all good.

edits - some others that are fun but kinda trashy:

Jeff Noon vurt was druggy fun

chris beckett - dark eden

Paolo Bacigalupi - The Windup Girl (concious artificial sex slave stuff?

george rr martin non game of thrones stuff. fevre dream is a pretty good vampire novel

oh and +1 for these

err yeah i like reading

but to help - you can control when the clicks happen, so you can hide them under kicks or noise channel percussion, otherwise it really is just a quirk of the system.

listen to how clicky this track is http://jellica.bandcamp.com/track/staring-at-the-sun for an example.

i don't really consider limitations in chip music hardware any more. there is what someone might consider a workaround for everything. for example on a c64 you can easily fit kick, snr, hat and a funky bassline in one channel, and have 2 channels left over for all kindsa shit.

ive transcended that shit, lol, the only limitations are in your mind! (ive been ready too many robert crumb/old hippy comics recently)

i think that people will only encounter perceived limitations they approach hardware chipmusic in terms of other forms of electronic or computer recorded music.

using the hardware is an aesthetic choice, just like say using an old 4 track tape player to make music is, or only having a 4 string bass, or a 6 string guitar.

about the jamming with friends thing, i think you are describing an issue that anyone might encounter when trying to jam using a mix of sequenced instruments and played instruments.

learning the interface well is the key, just like a guitarist might spend years learning his skills.

Then you will be able to react to changes in the music quickly and easily and also remember that some hardwares/interfaces might be better designed for improvising

im happy with my akai headrush. fake tape echo, with 4 outputs for each fake head. the loop function is pretty fun for improv.

a friend of mine has the roland space echo and really doesnt like how dirty it is.