Neat! Love that album art too!
66 May 1, 2015 6:41 am
Re: sudden MIDI EP by zan (6 replies, posted in Releases)
I need to play more Doom. (love all these songs)
67 Apr 28, 2015 5:18 pm
Topic: Collection of Japanese mods from 1999-2001 (6 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)
maak, a Japanese chipmusician on twitter, just uploaded 300mb of mods written around 2000 that he'd rescued from a CD archive. Really interesting window into the Japanese mod scene at the time. Make sure you have an unzipper that can handle some more exotic compressed formats though.
68 Apr 17, 2015 9:39 pm
Re: Any Specific Advice On Learning Tables (LSDJ)? (16 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
There's no real "formula" for quick results as far as I know. Most people I know gradually learned how to use tables through a combination of trial-and-error and dissecting other people's song files. (and of course reading the manual carefully 
)
Looking through other people's song files, copying some of their ideas, and then messing around with them is a good way to learn lots of techniques though, and most people will be happy to share their techniques and .savs if you ask.
69 Apr 15, 2015 11:20 pm
Re: emergency plastic nation mix! (()) aanaaana (()) (4 replies, posted in Releases)
Neat!
70 Apr 3, 2015 6:15 am
Re: Chiptune radio station?? (24 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Some people have performed on actual radio stations or gotten airtime before, but other than that everything's basically webradio.
72 Mar 12, 2015 9:36 pm
Re: Is music education necessary to write good music? (35 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Music education can definitely help but you don't need to go to "school" to get it. There's lots of online resources to learn the basics, and careful listening + lots of trial and error can get you the rest. That's how I do it anyways
Victory Road wrote:
there are people who go to university for several years to study how to compose music and they end up writing awful 12-tone wank so y'know i guess it's all about what you think is good.
^ also this
73 Mar 11, 2015 8:36 am
Re: Johan Kotlinski Lost Interview from 2014 (7 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Neat!
74 Mar 10, 2015 3:50 am
Re: 8bitpeoples; who is & what happened to's (29 replies, posted in General Discussion)
As far as I know BSK is still pretty active in Japan, USK is/was in southeast asia for a while but he still tweets often.
Edit: Oh nevermind, USK's back in Japan and he's a part of Clock Hazard now
76 Mar 7, 2015 9:48 pm
Re: Sid Wizard NEEDS more exposure! (45 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
SID-Wizard is really awesome, and I just really wish that the info pane at the top and the pattern arranger at the bottom weren't cut off when I use it on my NTSC machine.
77 Mar 6, 2015 10:37 am
Re: Anyone interested? Giving back: my studio is your studio (13 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Interested! If I ever actually finish this album I'll definitely hit you up.
78 Feb 24, 2015 6:03 pm
Re: Fairlight CMI Library 4 Trackers (MAJOR UPDATE) (12 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
If they're not I can upload the XI version. Didn't download the full library unfortunately though.
80 Dec 28, 2014 12:47 am
Re: Just listening to some HVSC... (14 replies, posted in General Discussion)
I don't think it has anything to do at all with the fact that the songs were created with trackers, if they even were. If anything it would probably be the relatively limited sound options with the C64 or maybe the culture of the C64 music scene. If you only have a few basic waveforms, a filter, and 3 simultaneous notes total to work with you're just not gonna be able to have the same diversity of sounds as you could in Fruity Loops (I assume that's what you mean by FL3), and if you hang out with people who make a certain type of music you might start to make that type of music as well.
But a tracker doesn't force you to make classic video game chiptune songs any more than a DAW or sequencer forces you to make EDM.