17 Reply by Rynnon

(24 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

ashimoke wrote:

I wouldn't say m-audio keystation is THAT shitty.

You can set the channel, check manual online.

There was indeed an option to set the channel, which I did just now (to channel 1); I dont know which channel it was set to before. It still didnt work, though.


Glitch Militia wrote:

If you have a real cheap'n shitty midi keyboard, they won't work with everything. This might be the case. I'm talking from experience here.

It works perfectly fine with ableton and my midi-interface-soundcard, so it cant be that bad.

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18 Reply by Rynnon

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ashimoke wrote:

Midi channel setting of your midi keyboard? You should get sound with channel 1-5.

yeah, i read about that before ... i dont think midi channel setting is even possible with my keyboard, its as bare bones as it gets (m-audio keystation 49e, if that information is helpful); never set a channel anyway. i will look it up in the manual, though.

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19 Reply by Rynnon

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ashimoke wrote:

Is your arduinoboy in the correct mode? Are it's leds responding to midi signals?

I tried all modes on the arduinoboy. And no, the LEDs dont respond at all, they only flash when I switch the modes.
I also tried both MIDI-ports on the arduinoboy, again with all modes, just to be sure.

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20 Reply by Rynnon

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thanks! didnt know about mGB.

flashed mGB onto my cartridge just now, but there still is no sound. any ideas?


.......

this is the kind of thing that made me pick up the bass. you just plug it in, pluck it and thats it.

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21 Topic by Rynnon

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I want to use my midi-keyboard to play my game boy like a synthesizer; kind of what the usb-keyboard-mod does, but without any modding.

I have an arduinoboy, a midi-keyboard and a DMG that runs LSDj. I tried connecting the MIDI-Keyboard to the arduinoboy's MIDI-IN and setting LSDj to keybd-mode, but that doesnt seem to work. whats more, the arduinoboy's LEDs dont show any response, regardless of any modus button pressing on the arduinoboy  - if I use MIDI-sync, it works fine, with the LEDs blinking away, doing different patterns when switching modes on the arduinoboy.

I already did a cm.o- and google-search, but to no avail.
I would really appreciate it if you could give me any hints, or tell me wether this works at all.
thanks in advance!

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22 Reply by Rynnon

(129 replies, posted in General Discussion)

so I discovered this long-dead thread while browsing some user's posts several pages deep. want to share my bs.

I LISTEN to chip music because I like how it sounds, and the kind of music many produce within that genre (e.g. fast paced EDM with lots of catchy melodies)

I MAKE chip music because I can. This is less simple then it sounds: I also like instrumental hiphop, metal or funk. But I dont have the skills (even just as a composer) to make these kinds of styles the way I want. Composing good metal is hard, especially if you cant play an instrument metal-style. And well, composing metal without using a real guitar you can actually play ....same goes for funk. As for hiphop, its just that my production skills suck >: D

chip music, on the other hand, just works out naturally for me, its easy to get a consistent sound. and well, in the case of LSDj, the hardware+software is easy to use, affordable, portable (I muck around with my game boy all the time on public transport), easy to mod. also, great community. so far ...

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23 Reply by Rynnon

(38 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I named my bass guitar "Sperrholz" (translates to "ply wood")! This bass is kind of shitty (still good for what I paid, and certainly good enough for my crappy bass skills). I also undid the original paint job, so you can see the wood it is made of - not a particularly pretty sight, but kind of cool in a DIY-it-looks-like-crap-but-i-made-it-and-it-works-way.
still searching for a name for my guitar, other stuff is usually not named. but, my game boy deserves a name! i should ask the previous owner if he named it, he often names his stuff ;-]

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24 Reply by Rynnon

(72 replies, posted in General Discussion)

thebitman wrote:

22 credit hours + college marching band + job DJing + girlfriend = no time to try another tracker right now. Thanksgiving might bring good tidings though...

you got way too many things going on. but, i am the same. i probably would get SOME of the things i want to do with music right, if i just concentrated on one thing for an extended period of time, e.g. tried my hardest making hiphop instead of getting an acoustic guitar with rather tangential use in my many musical projects.

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25 Reply by Rynnon

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while i feel comfortable producing fast paced edm like drum&bass or electro house, i suck at getting instrumental hiphop tracks right. something in the vein of dj krush or the derse part of solatrus' prospit&derse-record (homestuck soundtrack. im a HUGE fan of all of that dave stuff, like those ridiculously lo-fi hiphop remixes of the other kids' themes). one reason that derse stuff does not work is that good string VSTs are fucking expensive......

oh, and rock musik. i want to make something like instrumental nu-metal, or maybe metalish post-rock (i dont like 99,9% of all metal singers). but i suck at composing guitar parts (and good guitar VSTs are expensive .......)

well im still learning.

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26 Reply by Rynnon

(4 replies, posted in Constructive Criticism)

+1 for replacing "ate" with "8". i like 8s. somet8mes i insert them 8 rather random spots.


I listened to the sets; i liked "this is how you shuffle, bitches!" and "for a special someone". tips for structure: in a "normal" song structure (like a pop or rock-song), variation is key. repeat the same thing, but add subtle variations; change the ending tones, transpose the whole melody 2-3 halfnotes up. maybe try a solo part, work with different chords in different parts. or a break with really heavy and fast beats - 16th hihats can do that - and a driving bassline. i like basslines!

lately, i have that same problem, though: i have some good parts, complete with beats, melody and bass,  but then i dont quite know how to make a song out of it. especially as verse/chorus/verse gets old fast without vocals (and i dont do vocals).

well, what is there to master if you use just lsdj? maybe use a compressor to make it louder, and eq the bass frequencies up, but those pieces have plenty of bass.
meh. hope this is helping. dont know if someone with the same problem can be of much help ...

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27 Reply by Rynnon

(676 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Hello, I'm Rynnon. I make music under the name of Rynnon Steinbolt. 22yo, male, german university student.
I got into chip music this year, more or less because of homestuck.
i have been playing bass for three years, and started mucking around with cubase last year, making instrumental hiphop, drum&bass, instrumental rock and whatnot. and homestuck covers/remixes. oh yes. now i do all of the above but with the means of chip music, using ableton live and soon, LSDj.

some chiptuney electro/house i made: http://soundcloud.com/steinbolt/rynnon-steinbolt-dsch-d
some instrumental hiphop i made: http://soundcloud.com/steinbolt/beatdown-dde-style
some chip music i made: http://soundcloud.com/steinbolt/rynnon-steinbolt-imps
some drum&bass i made: http://soundcloud.com/steinbolt/rynnon- … -no-3sc4p3

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28 Reply by Rynnon

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intriguing .... somehow. i like how the style reminds me more of aphex twin than any chip music artist i know. not shure what to think of the production, since it is apparently supposed to sound quite different.

but MAN. that name is a nightmare for search engines.

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29 Reply by Rynnon

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i sure can relate with the first track being the magnum opus (kind of). though i can see how the production of my early tracks is flawed, some of them are my favourite pieces out of my whole work. maybe because they are a different genre than what i do most of the time? that would be a sucky reason ...
"my whole work" i say, but i only make music since last year and made like 20 tracks.
also, +1 spacetownsav.

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