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(39 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)

Favorite music on SNES, in order:

Final Fantasy VI
Chrono Trigger
Secret of Mana
Final Fantasy IV
F-Zero

Honorable mention:
Turtles in Time
Earthbound
Darius Twin

For those who frequently play chip music live, how long are your sets, on average?

This is epic. One of the best chip releases I've heard.

Also would like to do this. And could bring a pretty sick projector if anyone wants to use it. (and could ride with Databreaker)

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(48 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)

LOL SPIKE... The did an article on me and said "The retro-loving folks at Rush Coil" - apparently I am actually multiple persons AND work for a corporation that happens to share my name

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(48 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)

Thretris wrote:

so random, I would think a Dolerean would make more sense with the flip up doors and what not (lid) but I love this thing. Erik posted awhile BTW http://chipmusic.org/forums/post/15067/#p15067

LOL funny you should say that... I was thinking of getting one of you guys to make one with a brushed stainless steel-looking finish with the DMC logo... you read my mind.

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(48 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)



In case you missed my Griff Tannen BMW NES made by Capcomposer
http://www.flickr.com/photos/capcompose … 616374682/

Hey, thanks so much. I am really excited about using this interface. The true honor goes to little-scale who went to the trouble of making such a groundbreaking device.

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(3 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)

Hi. I use the MidiNES a lot. This is SO much easier with a laptop, but you could do it without one. The problem is, I don't know a lot of cheap controllers that are going to have the ability to save the type of CC info and recall it, so you'd have to program this on the fly. But it can be done (kind of). For instance, I have this cheap Behringer UMA25S controller. It has 8 knobs on the top. You can pre-assign them to control whatever CC you want, but you'd probably have to change them on the fly. The good thing about MidiNES is that the duty cycles are pre-assigned to your mod wheel, so is is really easy to just move to the correct duty cycle (of course if you bump it you'll have to move it back). So for your example, if you assigned ASDR to knob 1, 2, 3, and 4 on your MIDI controller, you could just turn the sustain to your liking and turn the mod wheel to whatever duty cycle you prefer.

And of course you can play along with the MidiNES simultaneously, but you will need to change the global output of your controller to the appropriate channel (1-pulse, 2-pulse, 3-tri, 4-noise, 5-wav) and you will obviously have to reserve one of these channels for your live playing if you're using only one MidiNES. Of course you have two of these, so I assume you'd use one for live playing and just run MIDI on the other one.

If you want to playback MIDI and do all of this from one controller using one MidiNES, you are going to have to have a workstation of some sort so you can save the MIDI tracks / CC data. Something like a Triton. You could import your MIDI files to any workstation and direct them to use your MIDI out, and send it to the MidiNES, and that is a complex but workable non-laptop solution. Or you could run your MIDI tracks from a standalone unit (like an Akai MPC500 from what I understand) and plug your controller IN to the Akai so you can still send MIDI data OUT of the Akai to your MidiNES from your controller.

Or get a little Asus Eee netbook. It is powerful enough to run MIDI on a basic DAW and allow you to have all of these presets and MIDI files stored and ready to fire.

This is a weird vid because the surroundings are not intimate at all. You got a damn good response from these people considering you are so far away from them. It looked like a talent show or something, not an atmosphere you'd encounter often, I'd think.

From the perspective of a random viewer, I thought your fast movements were cool and your rolled up sleeves made you look like some insane Game Boy magician which I liked, since it put the focus on your hand movements. What I felt was lacking was a connection to YOU, because all I saw was the top of your head. I think a single scanning look and maniacal grin and an indication that you were having fun and enjoying yourself (some killer head bobs) would've gotten you another one of those screams, because these people were eating out of your hands already. Once you have them hooked, you've already won, and you can do whatever you want, so just have fun with it.

People don't care what you are doing as long as you are entertaining them.

If you get a bunch of people in a room to watch your shit somehow, I think to most of them, it is going to be a novelty. They don't know a Game Boy DMG from a fucking tuna can. The don't know if you are "playing it live" or running it off an iPod, and honestly, they don't care. They just want to hear some good music and have fun. So the only thing that was missing was the appearance of you having fun, because it looked like your hands were shaking and that you were on the verge of nervousness, unless that was just the video.

And a comment in general, not to your performance -

If you are so fucking cool that everyone there is there to see YOU and your name is Richard D. James, then you can just stand there and people will give you hummers on the front row even if you're catatonic.

But if someone is standing up there like a statue, like they're on break from serving lattes, what's the point of me -me being the average person that somebody dragged to a chip show even though I don't even know what the hell that means- being there? If someone doesn't seem interested or enthused by their own music, I'm not going to be inspired either, regardless of the hundreds of hours put into the tech and composition. So take the average listener and the same music, put a person up there that seems to be getting into it and having a good time (or putting on a rabbit mask or holding a bottle of Jack in the air, ANYTHING) and then Joe Listener is going to tell every person he knows, "Dude, TerdStar is the best fucking chip artist on the planet!"

The most common thing I hear from people I tell about chip music is, "it all sounds the same," so what will set you apart? Music is a drug, and you are a drug dealer, so give them a reason to have faith in your product.

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(7 replies, posted in Collaborations)

I think the Wav stems are a must.

If you are feeling saucy, include Ableton Live and Garageband/Logic files. I have never used those programs, but this seems to be the trend.

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(93 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)

Edward Shallow wrote:

Duck Tales and Mega Man 3 have always stuck with me considerably.

This. And I'm surprised nobody mentioned this game:

submitting birdo later today.

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(34 replies, posted in Collaborations)

Please disregard my entry. It wasn't ready for prime time.

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(55 replies, posted in General Discussion)

irrlichtproject wrote:
RushCoil wrote:

... Jesus Camp (I grew up around the stuff in this film - it scares me)

saw that one recently, it's awesome!!! having grown up in an atheist country, i thought it was hilarious, but if you have been involved with these people then i bet it's pretty scary.

Being an atheist around here is grounds for death or blacklisting. In my city they put up one of those Dawkins-esque billboards and someone RIPPED THE BILLBOARD DOWN with some sort of large truck or tractor, LOL WTF, a14' x 48' sign.

Databreaker wrote:

Omgz its all my stuff (its brad) =p

LOL buy it back at a discount brother