Because I know a few folks still wander in here from time to time: myself and a few other folks are putting out a monthly newsletter to help promote new chiptune releases, live shows, compilation projects and anything else we can find or that people send to us. We would really love help reaching out to folks outside of the US East Coast scene, and particularly to other parts of the world. If you have something you'd like to submit, or want to receive the newsletter, please check us out over at chiptunemonthly.carrd.co.
1 Jan 28, 2024 10:05 am
Topic: Chiptune Monthly: A Monthly Chiptune Community Newsletter (0 replies, posted in General Discussion)
2 Nov 2, 2012 10:49 am
Re: [VA] *F'burg 11/17* TREY FREY, CHIPOCRITE, INVERSE PHASE, and others (7 replies, posted in Past Events)
I am excited for this. I'm tired of VA basically only having MAGFest as the chipshow to go to (and MAG's technically in MD these days). This needs to come sooner.
3 Jul 3, 2012 6:55 am
Re: Welcome to CM.O! (Introduction Thread) (676 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Hi!
I'm Adam. I've loved chiptunes since I played my parents' NES back when I was but a wee babe, and have recently found the means to produce them. Before venturing into chiptunes, I learned to play the euphonium, tuba and trombone in highschool, and am currently a euphonium performance minor in college. I'm currently learning Famitracker for my chiptunery, though I also have Nanoloop for my Droid and aim to pick up LSDJ for my clear Game Boy, just to see what all the fuss is about.
You can find me under the name Robot Sex Apocalypse on Soundcloud by following the link below. I'm by no means good yet, but I'm dedicating the summer to getting good at Famitracker, so hopefully I'll have something to show for it.
http://soundcloud.com/robot-sex-apocalypse
I look forward to bringing my band geek training into the chipmusic world to do some cool stuff I don't know if people are doing yet.
Also, if anyone wondered, my biggest musical inspirations in the VGM world are Nobuo Uematsu's work in the old FF games (specifically 1, 4 and 6) and the Megaman and Megaman X series.
4 Jul 1, 2012 9:36 pm
Re: First Track, Would Like Criticism (Famitracker) (11 replies, posted in Constructive Criticism)
Lavar wrote:
Melody seems decent but a little weird in the middle. The track sounded empty because you only used 2 channels. That last bit sounded more like it. I also missed drums, but feel free to do whatever you like!
Yeah, I'm seeing the resounding advice here is that using two channels is bad news, so I'm definitely going to amend this and make the chords actual chords as opposed to thirds or power chords.
Also, to people who were wondering if this has a consistent key - 80% of it is in C. Even the runs in the middle. It's just that the beginning isn't, which means I'm going to probably end up making that in the key of C as well to mesh with the rest of it. It may sound odd to some people though because, as I remembered about halfway through, the C minor Pentatonic scale and the C scale are not in the same key, dohoho my music theory teacher in highschool is weeping in a corner somewhere I'm sure. So while 80% of this is in C, some of it is trying to be in Cminor Pentatonic and failing, causing the weirdness.
If that means anything to anyone.
5 Jun 30, 2012 7:12 pm
Re: First Track, Would Like Criticism (Famitracker) (11 replies, posted in Constructive Criticism)
KurKami wrote:
hey when i started using famitracker this REALY helped me (awesome btw)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TGnkOpt … ature=plcp
there is a file link in the description so you can open it yourself (awesome song btw)and another thing when i first started using it i hard a hard time finding how to add more channels so im gonna tell you that in case you didn't know
1.press the module tab
2.press module properties
3. chose a expansion chip to your liking (i like konami VRC6 the most)
Oh snap! I appreciate it!
And thanks Frostbyte!
6 Jun 30, 2012 4:10 pm
Re: First Track, Would Like Criticism (Famitracker) (11 replies, posted in Constructive Criticism)
Downstate wrote:
i like detuned dissonant sounds, but its not really working for me tbh.
last quarter is on the right track !
my advice dont run before you can walk
make something simple ish before you go uber motzart : P
This is fair. 
I just had the idea in my head and wanted to get it out before I lost it, but I'll concede I don't know enough about Famitracker yet to accurately attempt something like this. I think I might shelf this one, go fiddle a bit more with some simpler songs, learn how the DPCM channel works, and come back to finish this.
7 Jun 30, 2012 3:33 pm
Re: First Track, Would Like Criticism (Famitracker) (11 replies, posted in Constructive Criticism)
AndrewKilpatrick wrote:
ChipsChallengeBand wrote:wow I'm not even sure if that was in a consistent key
please finish your compositions before you post them here for critique
Also, did you only use two channels? Because it sounded limp and rather void
Ah, I was wondering if the key changed too much. Some key changes are usually acceptable in music, but I was afraid (and you've confirmed) that this one strayed a bit too much.
And actually, yes, I did only use two channels up until the very end of the piece. I didn't realize how poorly that came out, though.
But thanks! You guys gave me exactly the two things I was looking for the most.
8 Jun 30, 2012 7:31 am
Topic: First Track, Would Like Criticism (Famitracker) (11 replies, posted in Constructive Criticism)
Hey! So, I wrote my first chiptune piece in Famitracker, and would like your input. Please and thanks!