GBA has the 4 DMG sound channels (2 pulse, one sample/wave, 1 noise) PLUS it has 2 DAC streaming audio channels (like the soundcard you have in your personal computer), which is where all the organic-sounding samples are coming from.
385 Dec 4, 2014 3:33 pm
Re: GBA - Advance Wars 2 soundtrack, how does it work? (2 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
386 Dec 4, 2014 12:11 am
Re: How do you feel about the band called Crying? (69 replies, posted in General Discussion)
listening to their bandcamp. I'm enjoying it. I've definitely heard less interesting less engaging chippy band projects that sometimes sound like backing tracks waiting for vocals to go on top...
the band known as Crying gets a (^.^)b from me
And the mix between the chip elements and the live band elements is actually CLEAR and i can hear each part distinctly instead of the guitars just fading into the pulse waves or the chip leads fading into the background of everything... That's always a plus for me. Guitars doing more than power chords... actual guitar parts.. And you can actually hear it o.o
The vocals kind of remind me of BC Likes You, except it's done naturally without the vocoding stuff. I likes.
IDK why chip + guitar seems to be such a difficult balance to strike... I've heard so many people do it well (in my opinion), yet the ones who don't do it so well mix-wise (in my opinion) seem to get the most jabber...
387 Dec 3, 2014 11:30 pm
Re: How do you feel about the band called Crying? (69 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Whether they wrote it or not, I have no problem with it. I mean... if it's real emotion it's real. Not going to bash them for writing something real and feeling it.
I will say that I don't think I've seen anyone tear up when performing something they wrote themselves, though. "How touching the music you are playing is" and being "touched by your music" aren't entirely the same thing.. but.. um.. lel.
I'll have to check out this Crying band... >.>
388 Dec 3, 2014 11:15 pm
Re: LSDJ Complete Drum Kit on Noise Channel (15 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
I love that lo-fi classic vgm crunch kick with a little extra love due to not having to make space for the actual game, lol. Doesn't work so well for dance music where you need the club thumping, but it has its place.
http://chipmusic.org/forums/post/172275/#p172275
389 Dec 3, 2014 11:08 pm
Re: How do you feel about the band called Crying? (69 replies, posted in General Discussion)
I kept thinking this thread would be a discussion on emotional response to chipmusic. Then I saw the edited title up to the point "How do you feel about the band..." and thought it was going to be "How do you feel about the band Crying" and was going to talk about how touching it is to see performers so touched by their music that they break out into tears along with the audience.
But alas...
390 Dec 3, 2014 6:31 pm
Re: Up Dog (15 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Is this a publicity stunt?
391 Dec 3, 2014 4:19 am
Re: Help Name Me (50 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Identity Crisis
For We Are Many
+1 for the name "Help Name Me" btw
Missing Gnome
OmO
Whoami
Goobershlobber
Changeling
Amorphoros
Think of a Chip/Bit [perfectly good name minus "chip/bit"] name and remove the Chip/Bit from it...
392 Dec 3, 2014 12:41 am
Re: LSDJ Complete Drum Kit on Noise Channel (15 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
You can make a noise hihat+kick if you make the attack of the kick really high and hihat-like in the first row of the table before the down sweep. I've done this with "snare+kick" too on a track I'm working on to kind of get an "unce qunce unce qunce" sound. It kind of works. lol.
noisechannel.org has an "LSDJ And You" series of articles written by thebitman and one of them includes a very nice noise kick patch with a clicky attack. Probably the "best" noise kick I've ever heard.
Like... think about it, you could write an entire song using just Tables, using TSP for different notes, effects commands and everything for different "instruments", etc.
You can create multiple instruments in a single table and smoosh them together at high speeds, as the others mentioned doing in the song patterns with Dxx commands. If you really need hihats going on every beat over top of all the other drums put your favorite hihat shape in the first row of your snare and kick tables, then etc etc... Personally I enjoy the limitation of having only one drum at a time playing in the noise channel, as it presents a challenge for creating interesting rhythms.
A noise kick is never going to blow out your subwoofer. I don't think. So keep that in mind.
Edit: Sorry i have no patches to share... >.< I don't memorize these things, lol. Every new creation is an experiment from scratch and trying to half-remember what i did in previous projects 
393 Nov 22, 2014 1:18 am
Re: Live Mode: Is it a must for live shows? Is song mode cheating? (63 replies, posted in General Discussion)
jmc1987 wrote:
I've never played live personally, but since my stuff is all LSDJ and guitars, I always figured I'd set up a DVD projector or TV with Pixelvision videos synced to a backing track. I figure it'll be boring watching me standing there playing power chords.
I totally agree with your thinking.
394 Nov 21, 2014 3:30 am
Re: Live Mode: Is it a must for live shows? Is song mode cheating? (63 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Lies of omission
395 Nov 21, 2014 1:38 am
Re: Live Mode: Is it a must for live shows? Is song mode cheating? (63 replies, posted in General Discussion)
No
396 Nov 20, 2014 6:21 am
Re: I need something to make me laugh (19 replies, posted in General Discussion)
chiptune movie trailer by that which resides in the spiral
no copyright intended
397 Nov 20, 2014 5:33 am
Re: Super Rare Chipmusic? (14 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Anybody got The Donkey Kong Land OST recorded from a Super Gameboy?
398 Nov 19, 2014 12:38 pm
Re: [my fault] ads... lots and lots of ads (5 replies, posted in Bugs and Requests)
Better load up on some malwarebytes and adw cleaner, son...
399 Nov 19, 2014 5:22 am
Re: What's your favorite song you've ever written? (24 replies, posted in General Discussion)
I hate all of my music with equal amounts of love. Except for the really horrid stuff.
400 Nov 18, 2014 2:58 pm
Re: How Is The Drummer Counting This?? (22 replies, posted in General Discussion)
I mean it's not that hard to do if you practice... Disregarding trying to think it out in your head and just internalize the changes and go with it. That's not a very academic approach but eh. It doesn't take genius. IMO
Edit: It does help when you have people in the band that you're working it out with Don't have to struggle to "follow a crazy drummer" if the crazy drummer leaves a trail of bread crumbs.