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It's a lot more complicated than just asking when we're talking about established musicians unfortunately. A lot of songs rights are owned by the publishers or performing rights agencies and not the artists themselves. They are usually 100% unwilling to just "give permission" and will instead demand to be paid. Some songs are available for mechanical licensing, which costs around 10$ for the license and then around 8 cents royalty per copies sold. If the songs is not available for mechanical licensing, you need to deal with the publisher directly and it will be a similar process with similar costs.

So let's say your compilation has 10 songs, and all songs are up for mechanical licenses. You need to pay 100$ upfront for licensing costs, and then pay advance royalties on an estimated number of sales. So let's say you sell 1000 copies, that will be about 8 cents X 10 songs X 1000 copies = 800$ to distribute to various agencies and publishers. So all in all, for an estimated 1000 sale of a 10 song album, you're looking at a 900$ investment.

Since the artists participating in this compilation are doing it for free/charity and this will be sold through your bandcamp page, you're the one who is dealing with all monetary aspects of this. Thus, it should be you who is in charge of securing rights and paying the appropriate entities to make sure the whole thing goes off without a hitch.

On that note, if I were you I would wait until you get a finished song before hunting for rights. There are always a few people who are not able to deliver their song for various reasons so you don't want to pay for licenses that are not going to be used.

Since you're aiming at a charity, you might be able to get a few songs (or all, if you're lucky) for free if you present your project to the publishers properly. You'd need to put together a little document and make your case.

Anyways. Just my two cents. Or you can do what most people do and just release the songs because "this is just chipmusic" and all.

That said. I think I'm gonna hop on this particular bandwagon. There's more than a few 80s songs I've been itching to chip-cover. I'll fill out the form.

Compression affects dynamics. Even in four bits, you have access to the entire dynamic range from silence to full blast, you just have less precision. Compression will work just as well on the output of a DMG if care was taken in composing with some dynamics in the instruments. If everything is always playing as loud as it can go all the time, even in 24 bits, a compressor has nothing to work on.

I guess it's their music so they can do whatever they want with it, but if people in the chiptune scene are getting into their old classics, remaking the songs on modern gear seems to me like it's missing the point entirely. But whatever, it's their stuff and they can re-release all the bluegrass neojazz djent they want.

The only thing that I find lame is kickstarting a year's salary for it. If you want to remake your old music, go ahead. But seriously, 40k$ to produce a few remixes and tshirts might be pushing it a wee bit. But again, whatever, they can do what they want and if people are into it, more power to them I guess.

Yeah the interface is way too graphical for me too, but it's leagues above the page of pixel sliders with abbreviated names of the other one.

I think the basic idea of his kit is like he's consistently feeding a tap tempo and that helps keep the sequencer in time with his playing, allowing him to slow down or accelerate parts by banging the drums. I hadn't seen a video of his in years, had totally forgotten what his name was. Glad this got posted, he totally rocked that shit. Sad to hear he lost his hearing

Just gonna drop in and say KLYSTRACK MOTHERFUCKERS.

Then you'll say "Not the same thing AT ALL man:

And I'll say "Exactly."

And we'll all hate each other forever.

http://kometbomb.github.io/klystrack/

Good times.

Thanks!

@Pulse: Yes!! Klystrack is really worth it! I can't stress it enough! Have one more short sentence with an exclamation mark! Hell, have two!!

@Duality: I got your email.. I'll be replying soon-ish!

@PLB: It was really refreshing and fun to compose too Not that I don't like making "proper" chiptunes, but yknow.. after a while you need the change of pace.