Indeed. Just tried it and it crashed here too.
433 May 21, 2013 5:53 pm
Re: Klystrack -- "chiptracking for your netbook" :) (664 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)
434 May 20, 2013 3:47 pm
Re: Burning .adf files to floppy? (26 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
Alright girls, unball those panties.
435 May 20, 2013 1:07 pm
Re: Burning .adf files to floppy? (26 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
Nonsense. The Amiga uses fire to read/write. In fact if you spell Amiga backwards it reads: LAVA SPEWING DEMON MACHINE FROM HELL.
436 May 20, 2013 12:43 pm
Re: Burning .adf files to floppy? (26 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
437 May 20, 2013 12:33 pm
Re: Burning .adf files to floppy? (26 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
Yep. Remember that the samples need to be in the proper IFF 8SVX format.
You can get a shit ton and a half of PT-ready samples here: http://aminet.net/mods/inst
438 May 20, 2013 12:12 pm
Re: Burning .adf files to floppy? (26 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
If you have no HD you're pretty much fucked for ADF files. You can't burn them on a PC drive, and IIRC you can't nullmodem them to the Amiga either since most of them are just a wee bit over the size limit of an empty Amiga floppy. I might be wrong though. In any case... The only way to burn them is to transfer them to the Amiga and un-adf them to a floppy there. If they can fix on an Amiga disk, then you're ok.
You can do so with Amiga Explorer: http://www.amigaforever.com/ae/
You'll need to rig up a null modem cable, there are plans for it on the site, it's very simple.
You can download Total Commander from www.ghisler.com and AmigaDX from http://www.totalcmd.net/plugring/amigadx.html and use that to be able to open the ADF files on your PC and cherry pick the files you want from the archives, and then use Amiga Explorer to transfer them to the 500.
439 May 20, 2013 11:44 am
Re: Burning .adf files to floppy? (26 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
Do you have a tracker on there already? You could load program files into it as samples and use those for loops. (we used to use bits of Workbench back in the day)
HAhaha yeah. A music disk I made way the hell back had the text file documentation/credit/release notes/blabla as the snare in one of the song. Worked wonderfully as a noise source
440 May 20, 2013 11:39 am
Re: Burning .adf files to floppy? (26 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
Do you have an HD on the Mig?
441 May 20, 2013 10:16 am
Re: Klystrack -- "chiptracking for your netbook" :) (664 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)
Aye. I'm running two sound cards. The internal one, and my (old and weird) M-Audio Ozonic, which is a soundcard+midi interface+midi controller all in one, to which I got my Nord Stage hooked up as a second controller. The Ozonic registers as two separate midi interfaces (internal.. meaning itself, and external, meaning the in/out ports on it). So I'm running two sound cards, and two midi interfaces. Never caused any problems before though.
442 May 20, 2013 3:40 am
Re: Klystrack -- "chiptracking for your netbook" :) (664 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)
Might have to do with r1232 in general. It won't shut down properly, it crashes when you try to quit and the process remains in the process list and cannot be killed. I noticed that after about two weeks without rebooting I had a list of klystrack.exe processes about a mile long. So I wouldn't be surprised if some other thing in there wasn't working and made it crash.
443 May 19, 2013 11:25 am
Re: Post-Chiptune artist identity. Your thoughts? (154 replies, posted in General Discussion)
I love how this topic can never be discussed for the sake of discussion. There's always some guy who comes in and declares the whole thing pointless and the discussion goes to hell.
Heh.
444 May 16, 2013 9:23 am
Re: What do you do to pay the bills? (70 replies, posted in General Discussion)
The games industry is notorious for it.
Haha yup. Been working in gaming for ~15 years now and it's always the same thing... Company over hires to meet deadlines, then fires more people than it should a month after launch, then rehires too many people again on the next project.
That's why I am presently giving handjobs in the alley behind my building.
445 May 15, 2013 2:10 am
Re: Ways to help out the community (37 replies, posted in General Discussion)
In order of importance:
1) Make music, and make sure each new track is better than the last, otherwise keep it in your sketch folder.
2) Don't support or encourage bad music. People don't learn from praise, they learn from scraped knees and bruised egos.
3) Support good music any way you can. Post about good music on your Facebook page, buy albums you really like.
4) Email the artists you like. Every single artist in the world is an attention whore and they all want to be complimented. Attention motivates them into producing more of the stuff you like.
446 May 15, 2013 2:00 am
Re: Music Mentor (17 replies, posted in General Discussion)
There are a LOT of free resources online for you to learn from. From youtube tutorials to blogs to websites entirely dedicated to composition, or mixing, or technology etc. The thing that stops most people from using them is the will to do so. Sit down and soak up the material.
As for the mentor system, it's better done in person. Jamming with friends, both better than me or less so, improved my guitar playing a whole lot. You are presented with different ideas, different ways to do things and you can experiment with them right away and you challenge each other constantly. Who can come up with the best riff for next week? Who can juggle the most instruments in four channels? Who is game to try to take pictures of his sister in the shower and put them online? Online mentoring has the disadvantage of usually not being in real time, so exchange of ideas is very slow.
And most important of all.. just do it. Practice, practice, practice. And when you get tired of practice, practice some more. As for criticism, I don't believe in it. In most cases people are going to ignore it. A guy once asked me for criticism on a piece of music he wrote. When I listened to it, music cried a little. Yes. Music, the intangible concept, IT WEPT. When I told him his stuff was discordant as all hell and gave him some pointers to fix it, he told me "but that's the way I want it to sound". So y'know.. fuck him.
447 May 14, 2013 5:45 am
Re: Non-Chipmusic Projects (16 replies, posted in General Discussion)
In no particular order. Musical projects and somewhat related other things....
I had an industrial/ambiant/ebm thing going on for many years from the 90s to early 00s. I recently unearthed the entire thing and put it up on bandcamp at http://illlogicmtl.bandcamp.com/
I had a rock band a few years ago, as in.. with instruments and beer and all that stuff. I composed all the music at home, then we'd practice them as a band and the singer would write lyrics over the songs. We never recorded anything but I did put the stuff I composed online. All instruments played by me. http://www.myspace.com/placeholders/music
Over a couple of drunken weekends many a moons ago, me and a friend recorded some covers of old Pink Floyd songs. I did the music, he did the vocals. http://www.myspace.com/cirrusminorband/music
Somewhere around.. dunno, between 2006 and 2009, I was into electro under the name Push REC+PLAY:
http://www.myspace.com/pushrecplay/music
http://www.beatport.com/artist/push-rec
310/tracks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOOIBKqXmFY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z7tWQj_5Fs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4Lgn08EJ_w
A couple years ago in another apartment where I had enough place to have a little workshop, I built cigarbox guitars.
http://jamesclarkguitars.wordpress.com/
I once pretended I could code demos...
http://pouet.net/groups.php?which=3082 (will crash on most machines nowadays heh...)
448 May 7, 2013 5:32 am
Re: Why can't I find any wires? (12 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
a long long time ago when I had like 3218 synths and other things, I ran out of cables all the time. So I got tired, went to the electronic surplus store, bought half a mile of military-grade industrial-strength space-age other-hyphenated-words cable (2 wires w/ ground sleeves + shield) and a box of 1/4" 1/8" and XLR Neutrik connectors. Never had any problems again, and if they start breaking at the connector, you can always just resolder them. Dee Eye Why cables are much better than most crappy store cables, but they'll cost you a bit more as initial investment.