I'm 19 and most of the chipmusicians I know are in their mid-20s to early-30s. If you go to an open mic at an all-ages chipshow there's a good chance you'll see people who are even younger than 18 (and they're the ones who tend to do the bad LSDJ stuff). If you go towards the more demoscene-y side the average age is probably higher though.
17 Jun 27, 2016 11:21 pm
Re: Many chipmusicians have become conceited in their old age? (62 replies, posted in General Discussion)
18 Jun 27, 2016 10:06 pm
Re: Many chipmusicians have become conceited in their old age? (62 replies, posted in General Discussion)
I still don't get the 'old age' part though. like, most of the people you're talking about are probably fairly young and haven't been doing chip for that long
19 Jun 27, 2016 9:59 pm
Re: Many chipmusicians have become conceited in their old age? (62 replies, posted in General Discussion)
SketchMan3 wrote:
It's more likely that many niche musicians just don't make music that's exciting enough to live up to their level of enthusiasm towards it.
They're not conceited. The music just isn't all that interesting.
Ohhh ok I think OP just misunderstood the meaning of 'conceited' a bit. I can definitely see what he's getting at because I've definitely seen a whole crapload of bad 1xLSDJ dance acts that could really use some songwriting and arranging lessons going all at it on stage.
I think it's wrong to say that a complicated setup gives you more permission to hype up your stuff than a single gameboy setup though, since I'm sure there's plenty of acts that use a ton of modular gear and still sound like butt.
20 Jun 27, 2016 9:51 pm
Re: module player for android (12 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)
I use xmplay, it's not 100% accurate and sometimes flubs up with certain mods but for the most part it works well. The mods that didn't play back correctly were mostly modern ones that use a lot of weird tricks, iirc.
Edit: whoops I meant to say xmp
21 Jun 27, 2016 9:42 pm
Re: where did all the thousands of 8bc users go? (63 replies, posted in General Discussion)
8bc put its music section up front, so a lot of people came to browse the music, and then later jumped into the forum, but stayed around for the music foremost. Here, there is a music section but it's not very important so if you're not interested in discussion there's not much to stay around for. That's my theory
donotrunwithpixels wrote:
The 8BC users pop in here, see comments like this, and think WTactualF and leave.
^ Also this
22 Jun 26, 2016 11:06 pm
Re: Many chipmusicians have become conceited in their old age? (62 replies, posted in General Discussion)
when you say 'old age' who exactly are you talking about?
23 Jun 10, 2016 7:27 am
Re: Classic FM radio station (13 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Man, I thought this was gonna be about an online station that played cool old FM game music or something 
24 Jun 4, 2016 3:45 am
Re: LSDJ Irregular Length Chains (7 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
How many phrases is chain 00 and your accompaniment? If 00 has the same amount of phrases as your accompaniment 8 times, it might be easier to just split that solo up into 8 equal-length parts in 8 different chains, i.e. make chains 00-08 and have each one hold the same number of phrases as 20.
If you don't care about having all your chains line up exactly during playback you can just get rid of the FE chains altogether as well and everything will work, since LSDJ handles each channel's playback independently of the others. The behavior you have with those phrases might be a bug, but there's really no need to make "empty" chains in this case.
25 May 11, 2016 4:45 pm
Re: [CB056] Tobokegao - Picnic (7 replies, posted in Releases)
Best 1xLSDJ album I've heard in a while.
26 May 4, 2016 9:02 pm
Re: Hehe feel proud :3 (16 replies, posted in General Discussion)
my.Explosion wrote:
catskull wrote:You use the white theme?!? Crazy!
I know! That's the bug I was talking about!
haha
Yeaaaaaa a fellow white themer! Really glad this site has it because the default theme hurts my eyes, especially at night.
27 Apr 27, 2016 10:09 pm
Re: Game Dev looking for music? Read this! (21 replies, posted in Collaborations)
Maybe it'd be good if developers included a "Release Plan" item as well that specifically states what they plan to do with the game once it's finished, like if it's just a free download from a personal site or a mobile app with in-game transactions or a commercial release on Steam or whatever. A lot of these look like hobby/free digital download projects so I can see how some people might be hesitant or unsure about what they can offer as compensation.
28 Apr 26, 2016 11:53 pm
Re: Music Theory (109 replies, posted in General Discussion)
JaffaCakeMexica wrote:
As a matter of fact, I did not make gay jokes.
I didn't take screenshots but I'm p sure you did in the Welcome to CM.o thread before nitro2k01 came in and you edited out your posts
29 Apr 26, 2016 10:47 pm
Re: Music Theory (109 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Bravo on the trolling btw, and I say that without any sarcasm
JaffaCakeMexica wrote:
(pianists are pseudo-gei because 'pianist' sounds like p-nis)
dang I didn't even notice this one until now
30 Apr 21, 2016 9:44 pm
Re: Here Between You Me - Phantom Beach - Debut EP (Dream Pop/Bitwave) (3 replies, posted in Releases)
This kinda music usually isn't my thing but dang I'm liking this a lot!
31 Apr 18, 2016 5:12 pm
Re: All-Time favourite Chiptunes! (108 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Dunno how I forgot this one but Cooshinator - Synechdoche is probably my all-time favorite LSDJ track. Haven't heard anything quite like it since.
32 Apr 10, 2016 2:15 am
Re: an0va's RC PRO JAM: How do you get that groove? (12 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
Cooshinator wrote:
I know Vince Kaichan uses 3-3 and I've heard that he often has to spread his songs over 2 or 3 song files which sounds kinda dreadful.
Actually I use 6-6 and just crank up the tempo most of the time unless it's still not fast enough, since 3-3 chews through phrases super fast (I have a song that uses a 4-4 or 5-5 groove at ~240-250 bpm because I needed ~300 for the track). I think it's best for parts where you need more granularity for just a few specific bars but not elsewhere.
I can't say for sure without actually listening to the track you're making, but I think your problem might be a songwriting thing and not a technical LSDJ thing, since the song's groove is actually pretty straightforward (ignoring all the time signature changes etc).
One way to loosen up a rigid pattern is to have some variation in the sounds, so for example you might make certain kicks quieter than others, or you might have a 2nd noise instrument that is an accented version that you throw in once in a while. A performer won't always hit a note the same so you can approximate that by throwing in variations once in a while.
There's also the whole 'confidence' thing that is super weird and I don't really understand how it works, but basically if you believe it has groove, it will have groove. Some of the strongest I've ever heard came from a song that uses drum machines with stupid-simple rhythms and almost no variation in volume, but it sounded great because you could hear the confidence behind its composition.
Dunno if this was helpful at all or not since it's super hard to explain this stuff, but basically it's just a skill you pick up gradually from listening and paying attention to other people's tracks.