481 Reply by Natty

(21 replies, posted in Releases)

Ha, Akira, I'd forgotten all about your blunt style. Nice to be back on a forum with you.

In fact you can microtune in LGPT. And I don't just accept each sample as whatever it says the note is. If I'm using a non-osc sample (which is most of the time,) I usually do change the root note to tune it as best I can to match something actually at C.

Unfortunately, I fear that you might be right about something else:

As regards being tone-deaf, that may be a possibility, and a frightening one. In fact, tomorrow I'm going to have a full battery of audio tests because I've seriously damaged my auditory nerve and scarred the timpanic membrane in my left ear. For the past few months my hearing has been getting progressively worse in this ear. it isn't deafness. Technically, it's the opposite of that: Hyperacusis- certain frequencies are amplified, causing intense pain in that ear. One of the noticeable effects is that it's more difficult for me to tune by ear than it used to be back in the pre-Chiptune days when I played guitar in bands and I had a perfectly serviceable sense of sound. Back then I never had a problem tuning things. Old age is a bitch, huh? 

It's scary and unpleasant and all I can do is recommend that people wear earplugs in loud places and not be stupid like me. Otherwise you might find yourself on a forum being dressed-down by 8GB, Pseudo, Peter Swimm, and Bit Shifter for being tone-deaf.

Anyway, thanks for listening! I'm glad there are people out there who can hear the differences in the samples because, frankly, when I hit "start" all I hear is a single tone punctuated by clicks and a small voice telling me to hang myself. Is that normal?

wink

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482 Reply by Natty

(21 replies, posted in Releases)

Why did I just waste so much time writing that?

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483 Reply by Natty

(21 replies, posted in Releases)

Hey guys, I'm really glad you like the collection. Coming from the likes of you, it's high praise!

It's funny, while I was going back and listening to those old Game Boy tracks I realized that I hadn't finished the trilogy of EPs with Archive.03, so I may have to do that at some point in the future. And I'll still be doing Game Boy programming for NATO. So none of this speak of renunciation. Perhaps I'm just taking a break for a while while I learn how to use LGPT to make the kind of house and techno-inspired dance music that I love.

And I have been getting quite a bit of criticism for my Piggy Tracker recordings along the very same lines Josh pointed out. I should say that with the exception of Nerdy White Kids, Never Been to Japan, and These Unforgiving Hours, the Piggy Tracker material on this collection is mostly made up of experiments that never quite worked out. The earlier tracks are me getting the hang of the interface and the later tracks are me trying to use less conventional samples. Why release them at all, you ask? Because it will probably be a very long time before I get enough Piggy material that I'm satisfied with (and enough free time,) to do a proper album. I think the tracks are interesting for the very reason that they're a bit off - I think that using orchestral samples and layered waveforms in Piggy Tracker let me get across a particularly unsettling feeling I'd been having.

I've also noticed that people seem to enjoy listening to my Game Boy stuff when its recorded and prefer my Piggy Stuff live. That makes total sense to me. I think it has something to do with the universal appeal of TR-909 samples.

I just needed to stick my head above the deluge of Game Boy music for a minute (or a year or two,) and try to stretch a bit.

And frankly, I'm pretty sure that a lot of other people have the DMG stuff covered way better than I ever will.

BUT THANK YOU ALL AND HAVE A HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to write a historical outline of the Greenpoint Oil Spill, a 2000-word piece about Beau Brummell's descent into gambling debts drawing on thirteen primary-source collections of Regency period diaries and letters, make a Flash timeline about Stuyvesant Town, and shower before my girlfriend gets here.

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484 Reply by Natty

(57 replies, posted in Past Events)

IAYD wrote:

If I had the money I would seriously consider flying up for this.

You should start a kickstarter campaign.

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485 Reply by Natty

(114 replies, posted in Past Events)

Princess wrote:

WizWars:  DO IT DO IT DO IT I wanna see how much of the Handheld Heroes roster we can get together in one place.

We should have started a kickstarter fund - "Pay for Handheld Heroes musicians to come to south by southwest so they can see their friends play."

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486 Topic by Natty

(21 replies, posted in Releases)

Natty - Emesis

Emesis is Natty’s Valentine’s Day present for 2010.

It is a compilation of tracks composed between 2006 and 2010, arranged in chronological order. Some of the tracks have been released in the past on various websites. Some of the tracks have never been released at all.

This compilation should be viewed as a document of Natty’s musical development, warts and all. There are some hits, some near-misses, and quite a few happy accidents. Like a maternity ward bombarded by heavy enemy shelling.

The first six tracks were composed and recorded using the Little Sound DJ music tracker running on an original 1989 Nintendo Game Boy, modified for sound, ease of use, and aesthetic edification. Tracks 7-12 and 14-17 were composed and recorded using the sample-based Little Piggy Tracker running on a hacked PlayStation Portable. Track 13 was composed and recorded using Little Piggy Tracker on the PSP beat-matched by ear to a Nintendo DS running the DS-10 cartridge.



And while you're at it, don't forget to download my other real albums:

Archive.01 - These Days I Expect the Worst
on Calmdownkidder Records

Archive.02 - We Happy Few
on Hand Held Heroes Records

The Greased Cartridge

Live at Public Assembly


Happy Valentines Day.

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487 Reply by Natty

(62 replies, posted in Past Events)

Yeah. When people were having a super-junior-high-tiny-fists-accidentally-punching-little-girls-mosh-pit during Patric Catani while the rest of us were trying to dance I wanted to kill them all.

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488 Reply by Natty

(7 replies, posted in Trading Post)

It's friendly skeletons hugging each other.

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489 Reply by Natty

(49 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I want him to play some Bubblyfish on a harpsichord next.

Then Starscream on a Hammond Organ.

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490 Reply by Natty

(136 replies, posted in Past Events)

The Nathaniel Adams sneaky guide to dressing well on a budget:

It's important to note that fashion and dressing are two different things. I'm not interested in fashion or the fashion industry and I've never particularly taken an interest in women's clothing - they can take it off for all I care.

H&M - Button-down shirts for $40
Top Man - Dress shoes for $100 or under
Starstruck Vintage in the West Village - Ties for $10-$20
Urban Outfitters - Levi's Tex-Twill Trousers $30

I get my suits made in India by a tailor who has my measurements on file so every time a family member goes over there I usually get a two-piece for about $200 and a three piece for about $250.

Some things you can't compromise on, though. Nice sweaters are worth the price - Ben Sherman and Pringle of Scotland are my favorites. Pringle also makes the most stylish argyle socks. Cufflinks and other jewelry should be bought with careful consideration - cheap imitations are dull and often obvious. A good pocket square should be silk unless it's white, in which case it should be linen,) and it should never be the same color as your tie.

I hope to see everyone well-appointed and proud of it! Remember, dressing isn't about being comfortable, it's about being dressed.

Ro-Bear: I can teach you how to tie a bow tie.

P.S. I predict Starscream will win all kinds of awards. This is gonna be so much fun!

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491 Reply by Natty

(32 replies, posted in Releases)

Hey Damon, can I buy a copy from you at the TCTD Gala?

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492 Reply by Natty

(136 replies, posted in Past Events)

When are the nominees announced?

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493 Reply by Natty

(84 replies, posted in Tutorials, Mods & How-To's)

Never mind, figured it out.

I have a headache from breathing solder but I also have an LSDJ keyboard.

Thanks again for the tutorial.

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494 Reply by Natty

(84 replies, posted in Tutorials, Mods & How-To's)

Thanks for the guide.

The keyboard I bought had the following wires: Red, White, Green, Blue
I connected them to the DMG-07 cable as follows, based on some stuff I read online:

Keyboard =====DMG
Red -     +5V     - Brown
White -  Data    -  Yellow
Green - Clock   -  Green
Blue -  Ground  -  Blue

Now when I plug in my keyboard, LSDJ shuts off, and the screen goes blank, but the battery light remains on. If I plug it in before turning on the DMG, the program just won't start.

Any ideas?

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495 Topic by Natty

(798 replies, posted in LittleGPTracker)

Hey everybody, I'm posting this in software because its the only place it made sense to put a non-vintage multi-platform tracker.

A question for other victims of swine flu:

I've been using lots of orchestral samples lately and there's a click when triggered and when it ends. I've used a volm0100 command at the end and the opposite at the beginning of each one to get rid of it, but sometimes that doesn't entirely work. Can anyone think of another way to do this without going into the samples themselves and editing them? I've got a huge orchestral library and that would take me ages.

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496 Reply by Natty

(32 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Why is Glomag endangering his white pants like that?

I think we should all go see this movie at the IFC and seriously rethink our attitudes toward trash kicking:

http://www.garbagedreams.com/

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