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roboctopus wrote:I got a job as a technical writer (I write marketing material, proposals, press releases, the occasional instructional document, website text, etc.)
Didn't think I'd see another technical writer here! It's a pretty obscure job all in all. We're in very similar positions, too. I used to write a lot for fun, but writing all day at work kind of douses the flame, so I started using music to FULFILL MY MANLY NEEDS instead. Actually, sounds like your work is slightly more interesting than mine. I just write instructional stuff, which gets pretty dry after a while.
Anyway, tech writer five! *smack*
Jeez man, chip music in Cardiff now? Further proof that I need to live there again. Might even try to get down there for this. Where are you having the chip party (as in which venue)?
Victory Road wrote:oh, well in terms of musical "harmonic content" no. but in any case, adding more harmonics doesn't necessarily change the amplitude of a waveform anyway.
in terms of actual harmonics (all sounds are made of a fundamental frequency + a bunch of "harmonic" frequencies which are multiples of the fundamental frequency), i think the LSDJ track would have more harmonic content than an orchestra... iirc a perfect square wave has infinite odd-order harmonics 
Sorry that was misleading of me. I didn't mean harmonic content in a hand-wavy artsy way. I meant the fundamental + harmonics. In any case this has got my physics brain re-activated now. I'm pretty confident an orchestra would have a truckload more harmonics than an LSDJ track, but a square wave's harmonics is a good point. It might be misleading because the majority of its infinite harmonics are outside our audible range. And the ones within our audible range don't come close to outnumbering the harmonics from the insane waveforms of just a few violins never mind a full orchestra. Either that or the amplitude of those harmonics drop off like a sack of sh... sugar.
BUT you may well be correct. I'm gonna go and geek out on this a bit. If I figure it out before I get bored, I'll let you know.
Victory Road wrote:actually a pulse wave has lots and lots of harmonics (although a 50% duty cycle won't consist of any even-order harmonics)
Sure, but presumably an LSDJ track doesn't normally consist exclusively of pulsewaves. Even if it did, that's only, what, 4 tracks of pulsewaves ? (Can you tell I don't use LSDJ?) That's not exactly the harmonic content of a full orchestra.
I'm not an expert on ears or sound, but something that comes to mind is that the simple waveforms you get from a game boy chip probably consist of much fewer harmonics than more complicated waveforms. That might be wrong right off the bat, but if it isn't, that means a song using a game boy chip playing at 120dB will have much fewer harmonics contributing to that volume compared with, I don't know let's go crazy, some Bach concerto, with complex harmonics all over the place. I would assume then, that each of the relatively few harmonics (specific frequencies) in the LSDJ track must be louder to achieve an overall equal volume to the concerto. Seems possible to me that the bits of your ear responsible for responding to those frequencies might take a nastier hit than any of them would while listening to the Bach song.
So in a nutshell, it seems very possible to me that loud game boy music could potentially be more harmful to your ears.
Good answer 
I'll see how it looks down the line when I actually finish the track, which will be a while.
It's all pretty informal around here, so you could easily just approach stuff like that on a case-by-case basis. No need for hard, fast rules I wouldn't say. I for one wouldn't be offended if someone told me my songs lacked the kind of chip tune focus to be included in a chip tune playlist. Anyway, cool. Peace out and all that.
Good work man! Is this just for full-on, 100% chiptune stuff? I'm doing an electro house track at the moment, but it's just got a few chippy arps and a pad, the rest being, like, more bits than 8. Is the song eligible? I guess the question is, is this YouTube channel showcasing chipmusic.org or chiptune?
My personal preferences:
I'd like to see that logo have some colour. Plain white makes it look a bit amateurish to me, but that could just be personal taste. I like everything else though. The little sound is a plus I think. Keep that beast.
Feryl wrote:Chip music is made from video game and computer sound chips. Lighten up.
Couldn't agree more.
I absolutely agree with the "Mario at a rave" hate. that might be the most irritating thing I've ever heard. I have to say, though, I don't know why Anamanaguchi are so resentful of any video game connections people might make. I'm tempted to say they shouldn't care so much about how they're perceived. Just make the music, guys, it's awesome. Game geeks love it, non-game geeks love it. Just keep doing it.
DMG received in perfect condition, thanks thnikk!
There was a cartridge in there too, Alleyway. Free stuff! Or was that an accident? In any case, thanks dude! The game boy is sexy as hell.
Can't believe I'm gonna miss this! I live 15 minutes walk from the venue, but I'm away that weekend. Maybe if I arrange an elaborate bomb scare, they'll have to postpone it for a week...
YERZMYEY wrote:Boddrick:
So here they are:
Awesome! Thanks dude!
I'm pretty slow making music, so I'll be a while, but I'm gonna have a lot of fun with this. I'll let you know when I'm done butchering your lovingly created sounds 
This is excellent mate! Very unique, chilled out style. Track 5 is indeed a boss.
Wow, 3 tracks is super impressive!
It sounds like it's kind of tricky to render out these stems, so don't worry about it too much. I haven't been producing that long so my remix wouldn't be phenomenal anyway 
But thanks in advance if you do get the stems!
Yeah I'm not sure how you actually make music on a Spectrum, so I'm not sure if this is possible for you, but usually if a guy makes a song and wants to let other people remix it, he'll render all the individual tracks (instrument lines) as .wav or.mp3 files and send them to remixers so they have the original sounds to use in the remix. They call those individual tracks "stems".
As I say, I don't know if that's possible given your method of making music, but if it is possible, I'd give my left nut for some Haunted Mansion stems! OK, that's an exaggeration. I'd give you a hug for some Haunted Mansion stems.
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