273 Feb 17, 2013 11:01 am
Re: Any databenders here? (66 replies, posted in Graphics, Artwork & Design)
274 Feb 16, 2013 11:27 pm
Re: Any databenders here? (66 replies, posted in Graphics, Artwork & Design)
This looks awesome! How do you people do this? Looks cool, would give it a try if I knew how it worked
The most basic way is to take an uncompressed image file (.bmp is a good place to start) and put it into word pad. Then save and add .bmp back on to the file.
There are more complicated ways involving using audacity to effect the raw image data.
275 Feb 15, 2013 7:28 pm
Re: Databending is now officially dead (31 replies, posted in Graphics, Artwork & Design)
276 Feb 15, 2013 3:37 pm
Re: How do I rate? (9 replies, posted in General Discussion)
The songs are rated automatically based on activity If I remember correctly
277 Feb 15, 2013 2:38 pm
Re: Any databenders here? (66 replies, posted in Graphics, Artwork & Design)
278 Feb 15, 2013 11:47 am
Re: Databending is now officially dead (31 replies, posted in Graphics, Artwork & Design)
Cool hunters do this shit. Remember when Kanye did welcome to heartbreak and made datamoshing mainstream? It's always just the surface elements catered to the mass market.
It's a case of either giving up or hunkering down and seeing what happens. An the plus side, in a few months data bending will be old and out of fashion rather than ignored and unfashionable.
279 Feb 12, 2013 4:16 pm
Re: New Postal Service Song (28 replies, posted in General Discussion)
ForaBrokenEarth wrote:Big fan of the postal service. They were quite ahead of their time with Give Up, and they've always coloured my own approach to electronic music. Now that Give Up has had 10 years to percolate through peoples subconscious and owl city so successfully ripped them off a few years ago, we'll see how people react.
First time I heard an owl city song I thought: damn, postal service got really lazy.
I remember at the time there were a lot of myspace musicians trying to rip them off (there was one called "Life Coach" who did a great song called reject rebound. Even ripped off the logo) But I was really surprised how long it took a band like owl city to trip them off and get popular.
280 Feb 12, 2013 4:14 pm
Re: Pajjama - Jane Papaya (6 replies, posted in Releases)
I don't know what I was expecting but it wasn't this.
That was awesome! The FM bass on pachinko devil is exactly my kind of thing.
281 Feb 12, 2013 2:27 pm
Re: New Postal Service Song (28 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Big fan of the postal service. They were quite ahead of their time with Give Up, and they've always coloured my own approach to electronic music. Now that Give Up has had 10 years to percolate through peoples subconscious and owl city so successfully ripped them off a few years ago, we'll see how people react.
282 Feb 11, 2013 8:45 pm
Re: LSDj kit instruments on GBA, now much cleaner (34 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
Since updating I've noticed that one of my unmodded Gameboy colors now makes a slight pitched beep when two kit samples are played simultaneously. It's a European pokemon one (pikachu+pichu), I looked inside the battery compartment to compare it to one that didn't make the noise. the board says "1-2" they other says "1-5". No idea if that's relevant to anyone. I'll compare versions later to see if it used to happen and I just didn't notice.
Doesn't happen on my prosound DMG or the other ones I tested it on.
283 Feb 11, 2013 6:02 pm
Re: LSDj kit instruments on GBA, now much cleaner (34 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
Just patched up this and it's cool not having to subtly mask the Kit's as much as I used to. I love that this got implemented as fast as it did. I love this shit.
284 Feb 10, 2013 7:13 pm
Re: Who are some female chipmusic artists? (104 replies, posted in General Discussion)
I'm not sure why it's apparently controversial for a girl to want to find other girls in a community that is quite clearly male dominated.
The fact that the mods had to delete a bunch of sexist comments early in the thread is a pretty decent indicator of why some girls might want to find other girls. It's not asking for special treatment or anything, it was just a question to help find other female chip musicians.
It's easy to just go "Who cares, I just want to know if they're a good artist or not" and think you're being smart, when in fact you're missing out a lot of issues and over simplifying. Walter b. gentle said something about a girl DJ dressing down to appear like less of a "girl DJ" and more of a "DJ", but that assumes you can't be a DJ and a girl, or that normal DJ's must dress masculine. You don't hear about male DJ's dressing less masculine to appear more like a "normal DJ"
285 Feb 9, 2013 3:06 pm
Re: 8BP127 Radlib - 2 Le Chip 2 Quit (37 replies, posted in Releases)
the other day I was talking with a sound designer/engineer about that you can make complex skrillex-ish sounds using FM, he is going to die with this. Awesome stuff, last track is my absolutely favourite.
Most of the Midrange bass in skrillex's first EP was done with FM8. Although reportedly the sound design was all done by a label-mate of his.
286 Feb 7, 2013 8:49 pm
Re: Post your gig/home setup! (1,620 replies, posted in General Discussion)
I should buy Shruthi.
I've got one, but I've not soldered it up yet. It's been a few months since my soldering warrior days, not sure if I'm up to it...
287 Feb 7, 2013 12:36 am
Re: Any databenders here? (66 replies, posted in Graphics, Artwork & Design)
288 Feb 5, 2013 12:28 pm
Re: Security Impulse - Practice EP (12 replies, posted in Releases)
I say this as someone who loves shitty hardcore recordings.
Don't pan everything to the right.