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can't wait!

If all goes well I'll be going on the 19th and I'll finally lose my chipshow virginity!

Wish I could attend the other days though sad

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Aw man, dem gagaku samples

This's the first time I haven't been annoyed by the hichiriki's sound, awesome!

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myriad violets wrote:
VCMG wrote:

goddamn finally just go to a chipshow for once

You'd better be coming to this: http://la8bit.com/

Crossing my fingers real tight. I really hope that's not during finals week.

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Play an irl show/goddamn finally just go to a chipshow for once
Avoid making generic chip edm whenever possible
Do more non-chipmusic
Do another game OST or two
Do a collab or two
Work on that concept album

Awesome!

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AWESOME

oh btw might wanna put the url in some url tags

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Hooray Evergreens II is on there!

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Yeah, Clipstream crew runs their shows a lot better than the way WWCW turned out. The guy who was doing most of the organizing 'n stuff for that seemed pretty inexperienced and a lot of the problems that the stream had stemmed from his inexperience and lack of adequate planning.

Also, there was quite a bit of drama happening behind the scenes, of which I won't go into detail until the people actually involved are comfortable enough to share it.

Awesome! Heard the preview you put up on SoundCloud, can't wait to give this a try!

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Go back into Garageband and export it as an mp3 instead of an aif and then upload that.

http://chipmusic.org/forums/post/138979/#p138979

If only I were more familiar with the 2A03......

Oh well, looking forward to hearing the entries!

danimal cannon wrote:

To actually give a serious answer to an 'interesting' topic, chip music (leads in particular) can be very bland.  A square wave hitting a note mathematically perfect with perfect timing sounds... mechanical and lifeless. 

In order to counteract this people should really take time to program expressive techniques like bends, legato, attack, vibrato and other things.  When you master these things, the extreme level of control on order of microseconds that chipmusic provides, allows this 'bland' instrument to be one of the most versatile and expressive instruments out there

It's not enough to just hit the right notes, it's HOW you play them too

This. When I'm writing melodic stuff in LSDJ I use the legato, pitch bend, and vibrato commands a lot a lot a lot on my melodes, and it really helps to make the music sound human.

Edit: nvm, e.s.c. said it better

Yes, please lurk more. All the information you were asking for in your topics has been covered at least twice over already.