Yo! I'm the ten year old kid that edited that definition from what was copied from the 8bc wiki (RIP). Before, it was basically the 'mario on a rave' shit.

ant1 wrote:

I don't use it as a derogatory word (I'd call most of my own tracks fakebit) and I basically do just define it as any "chippy" songs made with VSTs and samples. I thought that was the popular definition but I guess I was wrong! sad

And that's how I understand and use it, too. A catch all word for emulation plus further stuff you can do in a DAW. I know it's used derogatory sometimes, but that's mainly because ye olde FLoops abuse that everyone groaned about on 8bc.

animalstyle wrote:

Yes there are bad programs out there - but, get a master programmer who cares in the helm and you are going to get something thats amazing (maybe its not there yet, but why pidgin-hole yourself), and i for one don't want to see that definition up there when that goes down.  At some point these chips are going to die.  If we want to preserve this music we better start emulating and stop discouraging the idea of emulation.  It makes no sense.

In a way, I was abusing Wikipedia there to do exactly that. I removed the silly qualitative implications connected to the word which were in the original article and added a short description on the stylistic impact that the absence of hardware limits may have. Basically, I changed the definition to a purely technical term- as I honestly think it is. Wikipedia can work both ways; I thought if the scrubs look it up and see a definition like that the word might loose its derogatory implications over time. A wee bit of social engineering.

I guess for you it is something purely insulting. If you're reading that article and think 'Hey, that makes any emulated music shit' I can understand why you edited it, because I agree. The thing is, 'Fakebit' is terribly catchy, so I wanted to nab it for good wink

Edit: By the way, most people on here seem to use it like me and ant1 understand it. If you look at the tag search, almost all tracks (tagged by the authors themselves) escape the floops-unce definition you think it implies. http://chipmusic.org/music#s=tag:fakebit

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(10 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Have a look at this list:
http://weltenschule.de/TableHooters/instruments.html

Each keyboard is sorted by tone generation type and has a nice description if you click its link. For many you can find sound examples on youtube. I personally like the Yamaha PSS series.
Check the PSS-100:

Nullsleep wrote:
invaderbacca wrote:

the fact that this isn't 9 pages of "hey you guys did great" is ridiculous, we all need to learn to just STFU and be happy for our peers

Totally disagree.  That kind of vapid echo chamber mentality is dishonest, boring, and leads to stagnation and death.

Just wanted to chime in and say, threads like this make me extremly happy cm.org exists.

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(10 replies, posted in General Discussion)

4mat wrote:

mini master keyboard (E-MU, Edirol or something) + laptop + YM or NES VST = soundchip from game console controlled by keyboard.  I'm sure there are better ones than triforce these days but it's a start.

Oh right, totally forgot the emulation option. Of course, if we're going down that road, you can get old keyboards for cheap on ebay that have some nice chippy sound themsleves.

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(10 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Jakten wrote:

Can you modify a small keyboard to have the audio chip of a game console

Haha, you just hit on one pretty infamous quote in the scene where one.. uh.. person claimed to have done that with an YM. I think it was an YM anyways.

The short answer is no, you can't. There are MIDI options for a lot of consoles though, which give you the same result much, much easier. You still need the host system and midi adapter, so a completely portable option isn't happening unless it's a handheld system.

You can get midi keyboards in all shapes an sizes. I think I saw a tiny Korg midi keyboard for 20 bucks or so recently, damned if I remember the designation though.

boomlinde wrote:

is it supposed to be pronounced micro-b, microbe or simply "ubi"?

Deliberately ambiguous. I consider any pronunciation valid.

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(50 replies, posted in General Discussion)

The only album that lets me reproducibly wake up refreshed and relaxed when I sleep to it is Stars of the LId - ... and Their Refinement of the Decline. That feels amazing every time though.

(vimeo)id(/vimeo)

Like this:


ehehehe

I love Lander heart

393

(20 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I know Doormouse and Delta 9, I'll check the others. Thanks!

Edit: Doh, Stagediver is Dispyz. Shows how much I know hmm

394

(20 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Hmm, a bit off topic, but could you drop some names to check out? I like the DJ Producer and some Hellfish, but that's a slightly different style I think. Other than that I only know Sharpnel (et aliases) and m1dy tongue

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(20 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I thought speedcore was just 300+ BPM hardcore techno (until it drifts into splittercore and extratone up there). Is bent hardware usual for producers?

396

(50 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Isn't that the plot of Toaru Kagaku no Railgun?

Anyways, you can do cool shit with sound.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrasound … infrasound

Weird litte toy. I'm not too much of a fan of completely random bent noise, but could be interesting if the circuit could be modifed to quantize to selectable notes + beat clock.

Also:

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(11 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Uhm. How do you overdrive a square wave? I think at most, you can distort it (=fuzz), no?

I'd think with overdrive you would only kill what little dynamics you got on the GB, plus possibly amplify stuff like line noise. I could be wrong on that since I only have experience with software, so please correct me.

With distortion, I had to try lots of different effects to get something I like. The most satisfying result I got with a crazy distortion effect that uses a fractal algorithm, but I doubt there's a ready made hardware effect like that.

Hm, something like GB->Filter/EQ->Overdrive could work though I guess.

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(211 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Grats España, thanks for an entertaining final!

400

(49 replies, posted in Collaborations)

Second track is in! smile

Thanks, Subterrestrial!