1,217 Reply by SketchMan3

(154 replies, posted in General Discussion)

chunter wrote:
O2star wrote:

I WANT NAMES.

I don't think we want to seem to throw anybody under the proverbial desert bus (or throw ourselves under the bus by making enemies of long time friends.) Besides, I'm pretty sure any guilty lurker knows...

herr_prof wrote:

Its even more infuriating to see people passively doubting the integrity of other artists who get popular and decide to branch out into other production techniques while still identifying with chipmusic.

I'm not getting the "torches and pitchforks" vibe from this thread. It doesn't seem like people are saying post-chiptunism is a bad thing. Seems they're just trying to figure out what it's all about. But I'm probably missing the underlying passive-aggressive currents as always. As for doubting integrity, I mean... these feelings are here, sometimes you just have to get them out in the open and deal with it; find some resolution so you can just move on. If nobody mentions it, then it's just going to festering just beneath the surface. Somethings can only be communicated through an exchange of fists to face.

Honestly, though, I could care less what other people identify themselves with. In the end it doesn't really matter. But this is just history repeating itself. This whole... "thing" is nothing new, and the "chipmusic scene" certainly didn't invent it. It's happened N to the nth number of times before, and it will keep happening x infinity.

I feel like the only way things can move forward is with all-out warfare and a huge line drawn in the sand with hurt feelings and broken hearts and friendships torn apart forever... no I'm just joking.

Edit: herr_prof, do you really think the scene as a majority values process over result? Maybe it's just a vocal minority.

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1,218 Reply by SketchMan3

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The ukulele world had only begun to recover from the "Tiny Tim" era around the time youtube started to blow up. The banjo suffered a huge blow to it's credibility from the popularity of "Hee Haw!" It's still recovering. The mandolin is next with those "Happier than a X with a Y" commercials.

It's funny... it seems like the majority of people who are all nichey like that are newcomers who only know chiptune from youtube covers. Then again, there are the really great artists who begrudgingly let the audience in on the "joke" so that the general public can make a connection to what he's doing up there with an arduinoboy and a midi controller. "*buhding** yay... -_- you hear that guys, that's the sound of a gameboy booting up -_-", even though it's obvious that they feel they are cheapening their art by doing so.

As opposed to the guy who just walks up and presses Start with no introduction.

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1,219 Reply by SketchMan3

(15 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Maybe the Grayboy is leaning on the green one for support ;p

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1,220 Reply by SketchMan3

(33 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Does Wave Channel Kit-Only LSDJ count as sample based?

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1,221 Reply by SketchMan3

(10 replies, posted in Graphics, Artwork & Design)

Thanks Saskrotch. I probably should have pm'd him. But the thing that I find interesting is that this technique was going to be used in a game, but Nintendo blocked it.

I wonder if this thread is in the wrong section...

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1,222 Topic by SketchMan3

(10 replies, posted in Graphics, Artwork & Design)

Here is a quote from McAlby's soundcloud page for the track "Metal Masters prototype":

"This song was composed for a very rare Game Boy game named Metal Masters, but it was never used. The game suffered many delays during the development (years!), and in the end I composed a completely different soundtrack for the final release.

It is one of my first where I used pseudo stereo effects on the Game Boy. Recorded from my own GB emulator.

Anecdote: The original game boy console had 4 shades of grey to represent the graphics. We developed a technique to show up to 7 shades of grey on this game, taking advantage of the LCD persistence, but at the end Nintendo didn't allow us to use it, arguing future compatibility. Needless to say, the game looked amazing (for a Game Boy) with 7 "colours" instead of 4!"

I know you experiment with Gameboy stuff a lot, so, nitro2k01, what have ye to say about this? Do you think you could replicate this? Or have you already? I remember you had a thread about a picture of a cat or something...

Anyway, that's a pretty interesting little tidbit of information. Just thought I'd share.

Edit: Link to the tune.

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1,223 Reply by SketchMan3

(3 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Yeah, just choose the tag of your choice. Not everybody tags their music with the platform it was composed in, but most do.

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1,224 Reply by SketchMan3

(26 replies, posted in Releases)

I was surprised by how... classical(?) this was. This is the kind of stuff you have to pay attention to while listening.

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1,225 Reply by SketchMan3

(25 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I think Victoria Vox used to have a video of herself playing ukulele while driving (which is something she admits to doing often) but I can't find it anymore.

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1,226 Reply by SketchMan3

(20 replies, posted in Collaborations)

Looks like a p.fun game. You could go through the music section and find songs that grant you the license to do what you said you didn't want to do if you wanted to. The artists gave those songs that license because they don't have a problem with people like you using their stuff.

Edit: Don't know if any of my stuff fits your game, but you can use "Whirly" if you want.

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1,227 Reply by SketchMan3

(154 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I know this is a discussion for "artists", and I guess I still fall in the category of hobbyist since I haven't really "released" much of anything and most of the unreleased stuff is incomplete never to be revisited, but I just love music in general. I can't define myself or my "art" in just one category. I am just "SketchMan3". I don't change my name just because I'm doing a different type of music. Whether I do Gameboy rock or ukulele ska or gospel guitar, I am still my one individual self. I know there are some artists who like to use different names depending on the "project" they are working on. I don't really get that.

As for not-chip-anymore artists playing at chip shows, I thought it was because they were invited there by the people in charge of the chip shows.

Sometimes it seems like chiptune is such an all-or-nothing scene from some of the comments here. I know it's NOT an all-or-nothing scene, but sometimes it seems like if you like chiptune then you can't like anything else, or don't want to. It's like Chiptune vs. The World or something.

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1,228 Reply by SketchMan3

(1,206 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

what does the xbox button do?

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1,229 Reply by SketchMan3

(25 replies, posted in General Discussion)

sleepytimejesse wrote:
Saskrotch wrote:

figure out what I like / don't like without actually sitting in front of it and watching it happen.

This. I think watching the music happen as you make it links what you hear to what you see and affects how you experience your own music. Seeing how the bread is made. Takes some magic out of the listening experience.

edit
plus one for the John Cage quote

This is so true. Sometimes I'll throw on my wireless headphones and go on about the house doing whatever and ideas will pop into my head that I wouldn't have gotten while staring at the computer screen.

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1,230 Reply by SketchMan3

(154 replies, posted in General Discussion)

TSC wrote:
BR1GHT PR1MATE wrote:

Now I'm not passing judgement,

Yes you are.

And the verdict is:

"I think its a good thing in certain regards and at the very least leads to a diversity of sound"

???

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1,231 Reply by SketchMan3

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It sounds like a problem with the cart if you've tried it on different computers. That's the best I can offer.

So you said you were able to backup your stuff from an EMS64 cart using a transferrer cable? Hm. I never would have thought of that.

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1,232 Reply by SketchMan3

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I'm reading this as "Nostalgeeack" sounds like some kind of mental disorder sad. "I'm a Nostalgiac. I have Nostalgeeuh."

Maybe I'm weird, but I like my old stuff and what I'm currently working on.

Sometimes I get tired of hearing a song while I'm working on it and take a break though.

Yeah, me too.

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