I figured you'd be looking for a chiptune partner to make folk music with. Thank you for clarifying.

herr_prof wrote:

Yea if you want to do midi commands at the fast rate you do commands in famitracker youll be disappointment. If you use it as a regular midi synth its does very well at that, however.

It really depends on how creative you can get with midi and how much you like working in a daw.

Live Animals does pretty well with minimal commands, it all depends on what you want to do with your music.

Invest in gold.

Apeshit wrote:
Dire Hit wrote:

Dope mod, but 2005 called and they want their image hosting site back.

What's wrong with photobucket? I fully intended on buying framed prints of these photos.

True. And it's not like anyone would ever want to embed this picture on, say, an Internet forum.

Dope mod, but 2005 called and they want their image hosting site back.

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Timbob wrote:

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Just finished this machine smile
It's a preset drum computer and sound bank (you can play drum sounds via Midi.)

The stick scrambles the rhythm, the points are all circuit bend points. The knob in the middle sends data signals from the red points to the line in for square wave bass sounds smile

It also looks like a face.

This is really neat.

Wait, this is all it takes to get that kind of exposure?

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(41 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I can understand being a little pissed that someone who isn't really a part of the community is getting recognized for this. People can't be rational all the time and it's totally ok to have opinions. This being said (unrelated joke incoming), we should have a place in the top right corner of the screen that tells us how many days have passed since the last "once we were robots" style crusade.

"This site has gone [001] days without Internet mob justice."

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(4 replies, posted in Trading Post)

I'm interested in the tascam but I wouldn't be able to buy it for a little while if I do decide to, but I figure if it's still here after a few weeks feel free to remind me.

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The fact that people are still doing it now leads me to believe we're not going to stop for a long while. I don't know how the hardware is going to hold up in the next 30 years but I do know that people are always going to try and make things with a limited toolset. Electroswing became a thing around 2010ish I don't see why there won't be a resurgence of other musical styles.

1-Down wrote:

I have a BS in music and I tell everyone this.

I just BS'd my way through music theory.

Good music is purely relative, so no.

I know a lot of very smart theory students who can't write for shit, it's all about getting practice in and becoming comfortable with your sense of what sounds good and how to make things sound good. Music theory is 100% necessary, in the sense that if you're making something that sounds good you're probably following most of the rules, but with enough practice you sort of work out the general gist of it on your own. Being taught is helpful, and probably a lot easier than trying to trial and error your way to making good music but if you can't stand that kind of class there's no harm in just diving in and making it up as you go along.

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(12 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Pull a Skrillex and reverse your melody.

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roboctopus wrote:
Dire Hit wrote:

The trick to making slightly repetitive music stay interesting is the details.

Really, I think details are important for high quality chip. Some of the best tunes have simple melodies and structures, but these amazing little details. Sudden stutters. A quick instrument change on the repeated melody. Dropping the drums for a bar, etc.

You're the major key music I would have used as an example of this. Details details details.

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This program could only make less sense to me if it were literally in japanese.

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The trick to making slightly repetitive music stay interesting is the details. Try adding noise channel risers and crashes to build to parts that you want to have more energy. Put an extra drum fill at the end of the last bar of your loop. Cut the sound in the first beat of your loop to throw people off guard.

https://soundcloud.com/troyboi/troyboi-medusa-dayz

Try listening to this to get some inspiration. Troyboi is a master of doing cool one-off changes to every layer of his songs to keep things interesting. Listen to when everything gets tape stopped or suddenly everything is triplets for a beat.