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Its a piece of software, not hardware after all.
That means that they don't have to pay any cost to duplicate or distribute the product but doesn't remove the majority of the cost, which is the research and development.
The price has to not only cover the R&D costs of the project but also sustain the author/company through their next R&D period.
Mr. Spastic was one of the first 'modern day' chiptune musicians I ever listened to and his music has always stayed in my regular playlist rotation, so I immediately bought this album. No regrets.
PULSELOOPER wrote:What's happening with him?
Consider conversations like this one: https://twitter.com/SwedishForSize/stat … 9130396672
So what you're saying is they're prioritizing real life issues over maintaining a niche piece of software?
I don't buy it.
You seem to be conflating what a 'scale' and a 'key signature' is. A scale is a set of notes, where as a key signature defines the tonality of the music.
If you want to be super anal, a key signature is a notation for denoting key. ;p
That literally proves Fearofdark's point. A key signature is written to make it simpler to write in a particular key if you'll be commonly using notes from a particular scale and will only more rarely have to mark accidentals.
All four of those terms mean different things but nobody is arguing that they're not related.
PROTODOME wrote:Haha, with your definition sheet music would be insane, you'd change key signature every chord.
You're probably trolling but seriously dude, go learn some music theory.
Haha...but you are wrong.
But fair enough, because you still schooled me on accidentals a little bit. I didnt use the term correctly as I dont read sheet music.
Also, I dont play piano or keyboard.
Mystery solved.
The arduinoboy utility lets you set the channels however you wish and does so via the midi interface, so there's got to be a portable way to do that.
carrying multiple devices including a mixer is stretching my definition of portable
If I can use it on an airplane seat-back tray I consider it portable. A mint-tin sized mixer, an arduinoboy, a Game Boy and a Volca all fit comfortably in a small bag and would be great for jamming out at work, school or even on an airplane.
the roughest part of your plan would be the writing on the go part.. i mean, how would you know what the synth line you're sending to the microkorg sounds like without having it hooked up?
The Korg Volca series and the Roland Boutique series are both very compact and work on batteries. It's easy enough to power an arduinoboy with batteries or from the link port power pin and you can buy or build a tiny passive mixer, although the Roland Boutiques even have a line-in that is just mixed into the output.
The DHP 33 is another story, though. 
It's definitely possible to control multiple devices with LSDJ.
You'll probably need a MIDI THRU box to split the midi signal. However, there isn't any easy way of syncing two Game Boys while also doing MIDI.
BTW any plans for Iceland tour in future? Playing in pubs in biggest towns and villages? Anyone?
Well, I'll be there in mid-august. . .
^___~
Hi
My name is Breki and I am a chiptune musician from Iceland. Whaaaaat! My project name is Laser Life and it's funny that this thread is posted on the 7 april because I released my debut album 'Polyhedron' on the 8th of april. You can stream the album on https://laserlife.bandcamp.com/
I know one other chiptune musician from Iceland. His project is called (cassette). Check him out over here: https://soundcloud.com/rni-geir-l-russon
Ah ha, awesome! I knew at least a few of you must exist!
had to do some digging to find this tweet again https://twitter.com/chrislpenner/status … 8603077633
Disadvantage to that technique is that if you add a pickup/anacrusis it'll throw that scheme off.
with 330 000 inhabitants living in Iceland, you can't expect to get hundreds of chiptune artists coming from this country...
I'd like to live there for sure...
Well, I'm not looking for hundreds.
Sweden has ~30x the population of Iceland and has many, many chiptune artists so you'd expect 1/30 as many in Iceland but it seems there really aren't (m)any. It's probably because much of the computer culture of the 80s and 90s never made it over to Iceland. 
I remember Combat Dave! Had no idea at the time he was Icelandic.
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