145 Reply by breakphase

(41 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Yeah I think the thesis of this thread is flawed. Chipmusic, I strongly believe, is a genre. It has been mischaracterized as a methodology. We can talk about the strength of working with limitations, or cool hacking stuff, but these are two separate things. I believe that the term 'chiptune' arose from the amiga tracker scene, where people were trying to emulate the sound of Commodore 64s, and stuff like that. . Amiga itself was a PCM based sound device, which is definitely not 'chiptune.' If we say that Amiga songs are chiptune, than we have to call early hardcore, like nasenbluten, chiptune. Which would be weird.

So, TL;DR, chip music is simply a genre that attempts to sound like early computer music. And no intelligent person can disagree. wink

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146 Reply by breakphase

(54 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Sup new kid

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147 Reply by breakphase

(5 replies, posted in Releases)

Yes...yes...

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148 Reply by breakphase

(13 replies, posted in General Discussion)

an0va wrote:

I will always post this album when discussing GSXCC:
https://tenebrium.bandcamp.com/releases

Written with a General MIDI sequencer and then converted with GSXCC but since it's completely original music and doesn't exist in any other released format than this, I think this may be a great example of how to nicely use GSXCC.

That and the music is spectacular.

GSXCC is a great tool. That's a very cool album.

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149 Reply by breakphase

(7 replies, posted in General Discussion)

This is great. I feel like I'm gonna get my head blown off any second.

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150 Reply by breakphase

(8 replies, posted in Releases)

never forget the 2016 bit shortage

(This is an amazing release btw)

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151 Reply by breakphase

(25 replies, posted in Other Hardware)

herr_prof wrote:
breakphase wrote:

I like the snare and the hats the most, weirdly. I kind of take issue with this thing being called an analog drum synth, when almost half of the drums are PCM, but whatever. It's good for the price.


quick no one tell him about the 909.

Wikipedia wrote:

All drums except for the hi-hats and cymbals are synthetically generated; there is an oscillator circuit with a dedicated filter and envelope curve. The hi-hats and cymbals are 6-bit samples, compressed and combined with a volume envelope curve (and tuning) to allow slight modification. Thanks to the analog circuitry, various aspects of the drum sound can be modified (pitch, attack, decay).

yikes nooOOoo!

I don't think analog was a selling point back then though. They were competing with LinnDrum which was all PCM. These days it's like a badge of honor.

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152 Reply by breakphase

(25 replies, posted in Other Hardware)

I like the snare and the hats the most, weirdly. I kind of take issue with this thing being called an analog drum synth, when almost half of the drums are PCM, but whatever. It's good for the price.

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153 Reply by breakphase

(21 replies, posted in Other Hardware)

This is a bit different, but my app SquareSynth also works this way. You can have 4 instrument/channels, each with 5 voices, in iPhone. iPad has 8 instruments. Supports midi hardware input too.

https://jnapps.wordpress.com/square/

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154 Reply by breakphase

(46 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Little Scale, for his blend of technical prowess and musical skill.

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155 Reply by breakphase

(15 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Okay maybe rhe world isn't ready for demo porm...

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156 Reply by breakphase

(15 replies, posted in General Discussion)

The real money is in hardcore demo porn

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157 Reply by breakphase

(6 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)

@Bryface Thanks for the write up! So do you like it overall? Is it worth it considering how many alternatives there are?

Stab in the dark for automation sequencer... Try double-tapping/holding on knobs?

Beware wrote:

This is less than true as Android 5.0 Lollipop added low-latency audio support.  I doubt Korg will be porting their apps (the App Store is a much better place to try to push a premium cost app), but we should start seeing drastically improved musical choices on the Play store soon enough.

I'm not an Android expert, and I heard about the improvement on Lollipop, but from what I've read and seen, it's still a problem for reasons which have to do with the Linux sound architecture.

Here is a post about poor test results of major Android handsets, with lollipop.
http://www.androidauthority.com/horrend … cy-624171/

Here's a post about the deeper technical problem.
http://superpowered.com/androidaudiopathlatency

About the premium price thing, it's still $40 less than the Nintendo DS version, at non sale price, so I say it's a good deal.

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158 Reply by breakphase

(6 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)

^That would be cool, but I don't think korg makes Android apps. Any apps which need low latency audio are unlikely for Android, at this point.

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159 Topic by breakphase

(6 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)

In case you haven't heard, DS-10 for the iPhone.

KORG iDS-10 by KORG INC.
https://appsto.re/us/JaKL7.i

Looks Good -- and it's 50% off till Dec 28.

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160 Reply by breakphase

(5 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Sounds like compressed plucked-bass samples. The EQ on the bass is interesting; sounds like a peak in the upper-mid range. I don't hear any LPF.

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