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(66 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Working on my first chiptune EP. It's not original, it's not really that unique. It's about robots and is acid-mouthed, hyperactive, sodapop-induced dance music.

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I was intrigued by the PO20 Arcade but I dunno. Still on the fence about getting even one of the pocket operators. Dunno how I'd fit it into my chain of gear. Eh. I'm looking forward to more info on the OP Z tho.

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(2 replies, posted in Releases)

Very cool :3

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(46 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Actually the four people that I first found that were true chiptune was Sabrepulse, Shirobon, Chipzel and a now abandoned alias Knuckle Joe.

Here are these kids(not being condescending. They were like 14-15 i think at the time so.. "kids") running around gameboys in hand making total bangers so I was MIND BLOWN and swore to myself that I was going to try making chiptunes on a gameboy some day. But at the time I was still a 9th/10th grade student with no money so I had no way of getting into it. Also didn't know LSDJ from a hole in the ground, just parsing their myspace didn't really give a lot of insight into what it was they were doing.

Time and time again I kept finding chipmusicians through myspace and just went on until I grew some brains and started researching it. smile

That's basically it. Now I've not met any one of the chipmusicians IRL but that doesn't matter. They've influenced me to no limit almost.

I don't like dealing with local music-equipment-pushers because a) they are really "pushers" and b) it's usually more expensive (not that I don't agree that it should be and I fully understand why, obviously)

Usually though it's that the few local people I've dealt with are fricking stingy, man. And one of them went as far as to just plain badmouth another company, which he admitted to was one of their own manufacturer-thingies (the people that they, the distributors, buy stuff off of to resell).

After that I just gave up on local. Small things, picks, cables, adapters. Yes local, obviously. But larger/more important stuff. Online (oddly).

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(14 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Yes. I am very intrigued by this. This is my excited typing.

Seriously tho I'm so hype for this. As an increasing sweet-tooth has been growing in me for analog gear. smile

The one that does the thing. That said: Famitracker.

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(1 replies, posted in Releases)

very good 100% deal. *thumbs up*

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(17 replies, posted in Releases)

That is very cool. Now I personally don't have a cassette player but I appreciate that people keep some of these formats alive since they're not half bad.

*Thumbs up* smile

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(13 replies, posted in Releases)

too good. *bow*

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(17 replies, posted in Trading Post)

Well. I know it's supposed to work somehow, but the only thing paypal lets me do is to either use my account already or create a new one, and I have no idea if they deploy som anti-scam stuff with two different accounts with the same card-info, otherwise I'd easily do it. :S

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(17 replies, posted in Trading Post)

I'm trying to but my stupid paypal is being stupid all the time raawrgghghghg sad

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I have one, it regularly loses contact and once or twice corrupted my cart. I'm not blaming the adapter for this though, I'm sure the contacts could be cleaner.

But I've ever only ran it from my computers powered usb socket since I know those output 5 volts or so, nothing that could in any way fry the game boy.

Wish I could tell you something else but yeah, check your walladapter thing, check that it outputs volts that the game boy can handle. Not all of them do.

Pretty grimy stuff. I kinda like it. big_smile

Yes I find personally that starting with a bassline is a pretty tough way to go. Even though the bass is the back of the song, the shoulders on which the other things stand on, it's a ton easier making a melody first and supplementing that with a bassline, cuz then you already know what scale you're using and it makes it a lot easier to gauge the direction it needs to move in (style, basically.)

I do start with the bassline sometimes, but that's pretty rare. smile

So in short: What Domu said.

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(1,620 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Yeah, ImATrackMan I'm so jealous of your cool stuff. I drool over it on twitter when you post something.. *Q*