I guess I'm a bit late, but... aside from uploading an mp3 render (you should definitely do that at some point), I wouldn't worry too much about trying to find ways for listeners/voters to check out your entries. Any botbrs worth his/her salt will be perfectly fine to just download the recommended player for each format . At the most, you could link to or suggest a player in the description or as a comment. VLC actually can play NSF and some other vgm formats. There's also DELIPlayer which plays virtually everything, (I think. You should probably disable any audio enhancements when listening critically). The lyceum should be up soon so you'll be able to find out more info on the available formats.
On a related note, any plans for a sync-listen live stream? The last one was so much fun!
Yeah. You could still sunvox and mp3 it, unless you are saving that wildchip category for something else. I'm hoping I'll be able to do an entry for each of the 12 categories
For this battle you'd have to enter it under the WIld_Chip category. The previous major (spring tracks II) had a sunvox category. Basically anything that isn't one of the listed formats for this Summer Chip III goes under the Wild_Chip category.
MilkyTracker also has a draw tool. I didn't know about the shift+click thing. I know of a couple people who actually completely sequence their tracks from the ground-up in Audacity.
I suppose somebody who is already accustomed to using Audacity would like to use this method, and they could even take it further and use all the effects and stuff to get interesting sounding samples. I suppose the more options the better. More toys to experiment with.
The midi sequencer Anvil Studio has a cool little audio lab that I like to use to create chippy samples and sound effects. Everything is handrawn: Wave form, pitch over time, volume over time. Pretty fun.
Yeah. It's just a trend. Like how tagging stuff "8-bit" was a trend, I suppose.
boomlinde wrote:
And yes, there evidently are 4-bit computers which deliberately produce musical sound (probably also decimal computers and analog computers as well), but I think that they have little relevance in this context. BTW, going to have to order one of those Gakken computers!
Yeah. I just posted it since somebody asked me to show them one.
lol i dunno but some people are starting to tag their music 4-bit and 1-bit and stuff.
This is a silly not-serious thread and I was just being silly even though there are 4-bit computers which produce music and computers with 1-bit sound devices so it's covered on all sides.
Also didn't somebody just recently create a tracker for a TI calculator to create 1-bit chipmusic?
One time my friend and I were jamming in the school gym on guitar and drums during a fundraiser just for the fun of it and people found a hat and put money in it. Nobody said anything, though.
Then we donated the money to the school.
Bit wish wrote:
It seems like nobody likes live busking if you're not shredding power chords.
was talking about the sound device, not the computer. Beeper, gameboy dpcm, that kind of stuff. But if you really need a 4-bit computer there is the Gakken GMC-4
I did a quick google search and found getlofi.com. He was not able to find properly threaded screws at his local hardware store. Hope that little tidbit of information is useful to you.
It'd be nice if somebody could find out the specs on the Gameboy screws. I'd do it, but I don't have the proper equipment to measure them.
. At the most, you could link to or suggest a player in the description or as a comment. VLC actually can play NSF and some other vgm formats. There's also DELIPlayer which plays virtually everything, (I think. You should probably disable any audio enhancements when listening critically). The lyceum should be up soon so you'll be able to find out more info on the available formats.
