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Am I understanding this correctly? Chipmusic will not accept donations because it does not want to fall to the same fate as 8bc? What?

That's like saying just because a lightning bolt struck and killed someone at a certain place, means we should all stay as far away from that place as possible. Look, maybe I don't know the whole story, but if one guy is willing to pay out of pocket to keep this forum alive, then we should all have the choice to support it as well. This isn't a corporate owned business. Of course, if you think I'm crazy, then now would be a great time to call me out on it.

Allow me to illustrate my point with this:
As far as I know, Chipmusic.org at present time is the largest and best social gathering in forum form specifically for chiptune musicians and like minded people to join and share thoughts, ideas and art. We just had a sizeable paid offer for talent HERE. I've looked around and everything else I've come across is subpar compared to Chipmusic.org and maybe that's just a simple opinion of mine. However, Chipmusic.org is a place for growth, for the entire chiptune movement, and I'd be willing to assert... a central pillar.

My goals are the success of the 8 and 16-bit chiptune movement and considering the tracker I'm working on, my goals are most especially focused on the 16-bit movement. Shiru, Delek, cTrix and I all are providing software to help make this happen. I see absolutely no reason why Chipmusic.org can't be the next 8bc, or better yet surpass it. I've heard numerous ex-chiptuners tell me that they gave up with the fall of 8bc. I get it, we don't want to walk through the same footsteps of 8bc, right? Are we going to make progress out of the concern that we'll repeat history, or are we going to make progress out of having the confidence to forge a new path?

Donations are one way to help the cause. To fortify the pillar. But there are many other ways that haven't been considered that could help expand everything we're doing here. More people need to hear our music and learn about what it is that we're doing here. This means more fans, more chiptuners, and more innovation. Music is an inter-inspired art form. We learn from each other and create new ideas based off of those ideas.

If everyone here thinks that donations aren't the answer, then what will it take beyond what we're already doing to expand? There's so much talent here that's waiting to be heard. Once in a while I poke around and listen to the music that other artists are creating here, and I hear amazing talent and potential. What is something that we can do to better expose the artistic creativity here to the rest of the world?

Absolutely, Deflemask compatibility is still in the agenda.
Thank you Delek for the link to that MIDI to .dmf converter, I would have never known it existed otherwise.

Quick question on something that was brought up over at OC Remix, does anyone think being able to import .MID files into the ROM would be something useful to have?

I have a strong ear in the realm of music theory and write more advanced jazz/classically influenced chip and metal. When I compose, I hear notes/chords/arps/scales/harmonies in my head. The note names could be gibberish symbols and I could still write perfectly because I compose by ear, but I can't always associate note names/flats/sharps with it's actual pitch. So the choice in mixing the two is for the sake of variety and novelty. I kind of got bored looking at LSDj's pure sharps and I thought looking at nothing but flats would also be dull, so I simply thought it would be fun to mix the two!

In all technicality though,  Eb, Ab, and Bb are exactly the same as D#, G#, and A#.

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It means no envelope. In the future when I implement drawing of envelopes I want that to draw the operator envelope that's currently being edited.

No worries on the algorithm and envelope drawing guys. I want to get more sound stuff out of the way before I do that. Also, once I start working on Groove I'm also adding in the Options Menu, tempo control and palette editing.

I like your work, I also like the rich guitar tone. I'd be interested in collaborating with you guys some day when I have more free time.