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I think that type of person is more sensitive to the effect music has on the mind, but at the same time completely ignorant...
Yeah, because they're not distracted by all the internal analysis and criticism and dissecting that goes on in the mind of the musically-inclined.
SketchMan3 wrote:'haps you are right about the whole thing. You have way more experience with it than I do.
Hahaha I don't really think I do.
Sarcasm. Readings... Inconclusive.
You've actually released stuff. I'm still a "bedroom jammer".
I feel like it'd be a good day to make back the money that was spent on the gear in the first place.
Well then I guess I know A LOT of nerds. Everyone I know who experiences chipmusic for the first time, likes it more when they find out which hardware it was actually made on and that it's not faux-bit. If it's fake-bit they get disappointed. To them it's more exciting to know that someone programmed a machine that they used to play Pokemon on. It's not a bad thing. And I think people wonder what music is made on a lot more then you think. Especially Electronica like this.
But did they like it before they found out? I guess I'm thinking about the younger generations who didn't grow up with the Gameboy or NES, or were too small for their older siblings to feel safe letting them play on it.
Do they actually seek you out and ask you? Or do you volunteer the information?
But of course they'd like it more.
'haps you are right about the whole thing. You have way more experience with it than I do.
Now... what happens when chipmusic becomes widely accepted as a musical medium. We all want people to stop saying "Mario at a rave" and "bleep bloop music" and "video game music" and "lolwut is that beeping noise?"
But when they do stop saying that, and, instead, say the things that chiptuners say when they hear a good tune, and chipmusic becomes more mainstream... will we stick with it? If MTV starts showing chiptune videos and we can actual make a living off of it... will we still call it legit?
Auxcide wrote:This couldn't be more wrong.
The only people that care about that are here, if the music wants a wider acceptance on it's own merits it should distance itself from the process of how the music is made. Pretty much every chip article sounds like an excerpt from Sound on Sound and we're past the point where it's the journalist's fault.
If a casserole comes out tasting nasty, nobody's going to care that you had to dive to the depths of the sea to find that one last special ingredient, or that you had to fight ninja's to procure a blade sharp enough to dice it. If it tastes bad, all that was for naught.
Likewise, if the music is good, the average listener isn't going to think "Hey, I wonder if this was made on a gameboy or FL Studio. Is it fake-bit or 8-bit?" They're just going to say "This is cool music."
Unless they are nerds.
I personally like the word "chipcore". I remember somebody using that word on this forum before... I think it sounds much more legit than nintendocore, and doesn't have the jokey connotation.
Just throwing that out there...
Ah... I finally figured out that really pretty cascading arpeggio. This has been a very educational video.
This was cool. Kind of trippy, and weird that so many of those girls had the :3 shaped mouth.
My only complaint is that the girl with the blue monocle didn't get enough face time. 
LOL, this looks like a Yamaha toy piano from 1974 that I got at a flea market for 25 cents. It even has the same instruments, drum patterns, and buttons. Except this one looks a little bit bigger, and mine doesn't have those three sliders. My power switch slides horizontally This must be a slightly upgraded model.
Those mods are pretty awesome. I wonder if I could get somebody to put a line-out/headphones-out and pitch wheel on mine...
Anyway, good luck with that.
Edit: Oh wait, the instruments are different. Mine has clarinet instead of organ, and oboe instead of horn.
One good thing about physical releases is that they have resell value when you get tired of them.
Not so with mp3s.
SketchMan3 wrote:I'm always trying to set my stuff so it matches the volume of the music in my mp3 library, so my instruments are consistently A-F
>>>>>:(((((((((
So... now I've learned something.
Anyway, I went back through my songs, and I do occasionally use lower numbers, so there.
I figured out something, though... I should be able to boost the output volume of the emulator over 100% to satisfy my needs and keep my stuff clear sounding.
I guess that's the difference between composing on an emulator vs the actual gameboy. I'm always trying to set my stuff so it matches the volume of the music in my mp3 library, so my instruments are consistently A-F (unless I'm doing slow dramatic attack envelopes), lol. My noise kicks are almost always F. So... now I've learned something.
If you still want to keep your envelopes loud, here's a tip: Don't be afraid of harmonics in the bass. When I first started trying to make wave basses I'd try to make it louder, but I'd always back off every time a little harmonics would creep in. Also, Q is not your enemy.
Make it a little crunchy. Crank up that start volume, then adjust the other stuff to bring it back down to sound more bassy. I tend to draw my waves with the synth screen rather than the wave screen.
But... yeah... I think lowering the other instruments will help. Then when you record the song, EQ it and boost the volume up to standard levels.
my pocket never drained the backup battery! it only drained the actual gameboy's batteries - half an hour of working time in two AAA batteries.
So, then, the note on Kitsch-Bent is misleading.
Edit: Also, I never could stand the way the batteries behaved for the Pocket. It doesn't even fade out when the battery dies. It just... *POP* and it's off. One time my uncle used aluminum foil to connect a small lamp which used 2 AA batteries to my sister's Pocket (because we were out of AAA's and were desperate to play Wario Land), and it WORKED! Lol. And, when the batteries died, it even faded out like the DMG does.
That was pretty cool.
What is the significance of the dot-slash?
Anyway, I tried it, kigb ran this time, but still no sound. Also, the contact email address I sent my message to is dead, so... forg' it. I'll just stick to BGB+Wine.
I have a question... you guys who are giving me advice... do you actually have KiGB running on an Ubuntu/Linux system, or is this all theoretical conjecture and experimenting based previous experience with running OTHER things on Ubuntu/Linux?
People tend to set up such things informally these days.
Ok so... the deal with KiGB is that I download it, unzip it, then double click to run. It's not like... something you can alt-f2, type KiGB, and it's off. So... my terminal looks like this:
sketchman3@sketchman3-desktop:~$ cd /home/sketchman3/kigb_lin
sketchman3@sketchman3-desktop:~/kigb_lin$ aoss kigb
exec: 13: kigb: not found
sketchman3@sketchman3-desktop:~/kigb_lin$ I tried doing the "Alt-F2>aoss>Run with file..." but that didn't work either.
Hi Guys,
I just ordered the 64mb cartridge from Kitch-Bent with a mini usb cable.
Now I've read through a lsdj-wiki and saw a few things i have questions about.
First there is this note:
"NOTE!: Don't use a Game Boy pocket with flash cards because it will drain the backup battery!"Can someone please explain this to me?
It means exactly what it says: If you use the game boy pocket with a flash "cart" it will drain the backup battery, which is what the cartridge uses to save your data. If that little battery dies, your data dies with it. FOREVER
WHAT is "the tracker style program"? something that already exists or something NEW?
Maybe the meant "A" instead of "THE"? I dsunno
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