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I didn't even insult anybody or anything. ='(

OP, you said you didn't like LSDJ or unce, but this is pretty melodic. Maybe you could give it a shot? It certainly satisfies my melodic desires.
http://chipmusic.org/vcmg/music/dunno-w … -this-song

Also, check out the soundtracks to "Seiklus" and "Lyle In Cube Sector". Those are very retro and quite melodic, and weren't made specifically for the games so technically not video game music?

Not only chipland, but most all artistic communities.

He contributes comedic relief, soothing hedgehogs, and he's taking FROM the community in order to improve, providing an example for us all. He provides inspiration and hope for those of us who are trying to come up in the world of chiptune and improve ourselves as musicians and composers. He makes us feel good about ourselves.

But that's virtually what you did in this thread.

What you fail to understand is that, at least as far as Gameboy is concerned, we're trying to innovate and push the hardware past the point at which our predecessors (the classic video game music composers) stopped. Unfortunately, this leads to use looking down upon, or just refusing to revisit, the wide variety of sounds that have come before ours. There are many sounds that NES and Gameboy composers used that many of us just don't want to use, because they are associated with "gimmicky" video game sounds, even though they may be a pleasing break from they "typical" modern, "faux innovative" sounds that keep us from being distinguished from one another.

For example, I can't stand the "YA YA YA" wubs that I hear in so much chipstep or whatever you want to call it. It sounds to "human", yet mechanical, to me, and that annoys me. So I get really happy when I hear someone make the typical "wub wub wub" wobbles that sound much more bassy and organic.

The Donkey Kong Land Soundtrack and the Super Mario Land 2 soundtrack are STILL my favorite Gameboy albums of all time.

Edit: And, ironically, I WANt to make music that sounds like that, but I can't yet do it for some reason. Sometimes we WANT to do something different, but it just doesn't turn out that way and we don't want to mess up the creative flow by turning something into what it was not meant to be.

Where do you get the idea that he thought there was anything wrong with it? The "offensive" word he used in regards to your music is often aimed at one's own works, and the respected works of others. It doesn't necessarily mean they think it should be flushed down a toilet.

To be fair, everyone did repeatedly point out the fact that he doesn't understand it.

I did not realize that "amateurish" had such a bad connotation. I've heard plenty of amateurish stuff that I liked. Indie musicians who "have it" but don't always "get it". Now I understand more fully why there was such a powerful response to Lazzie's statements.

Now let me hush. You know what they say: Judge not, lest ye be judged.

The amount of work someone puts into polishing their sound and the technical aspects of it are only important to other musicians and does not directly correlate to whether or not the average listener will like it or not. Maybe Trey's melody really DOES sound amateurish, and we're just too biased to see? I shudder at the thought. Hard work and effort and experience does not equal "the best sound ever for everybody and death to those who think otherwise".

Personally, while I don't see Trey's music as sounding amateurish, it certainly doesn't appeal to me as much as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts FIRST composition when he was 6. One's taste depends on one's experience, and I wouldn't try to judge someone because they don't like what I like (unless they like Rebecca Black and Justin Beiber).

Edit: Okay, Trey's music is pretty dece. I'm not going to lie. I just heard some sick arps and it just took me away. Still, I listen to everything with a critical ear: I'm not going to fool myself into being predisposed to call something "awesome" just because it's different/impressive at first listen.

This is cool! The first two tracks are nice and catchy. I was expecting some reggae chords/arps or something during the bridge in the second half of "Audrina", though. It got a bit monotonous.