Gonna listen tonight.
273 Jan 16, 2013 1:24 pm
Re: UBI058 Danimal Cannon and Zef - Parallel Processing. (62 replies, posted in Releases)
274 Jan 15, 2013 7:47 pm
Re: How did you learn music? (58 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Started playing guitar when I was 11-12 years old. Started several bands which I did music for more instruments than just guitar. Made a bit of hiphop/ragga for a while and started chiptunes.
Tracking got me in to more theory though, I just knew guitar chords and stuff by heart so wasn't really focused on notes. When I started tracking I suddenly had to buildup chords by putting notes together. One follows the other and that's it.
Learning piano/keyboard is a good way to start, you'll dive right in to notes and combining stuff.
275 Jan 15, 2013 7:43 pm
Re: Published books on the subject of Chipmusic/tune (33 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Isn't there a Chiptunes for Dummies book yet? 
276 Jan 15, 2013 7:42 pm
Re: Published books on the subject of Chipmusic/tune (33 replies, posted in General Discussion)
goto80 wrote:
What is it that people don't get?
I mean - what is this thing we're doing, anyway? It's really challenging to explain to an 'outsider' what this is. But if we can't, then ... then ... then the future generations' understanding of chipmusic will be limited to Gameboys and hairspray!
Well, maybe it's just me getting technical too soon.
277 Jan 15, 2013 7:40 pm
Re: list of all 2013 releases (66 replies, posted in Releases)
http://xyce.bandcamp.com/album/4chpcm-love-2
Released yesterday. Features 23 of our favorite xyce Amiga mods made in the past couple of years. Download includes a package with all mods, hi-res graphics, Amiga rom with all music and ofcourse all 23 songs in which ever format. :-)
4 CHANNEL PALOOZA.
278 Jan 15, 2013 2:15 pm
Re: Published books on the subject of Chipmusic/tune (33 replies, posted in General Discussion)
goto80 wrote:
Aha! Thanks! Yeah, copy and destroy! I was so tired of it when I finished it (actually so tired so I missed the whole opposition/graduation thing, ehh) so never got around to distributing it properly. I still have some vague idea of re-writing it properly (not adapted to academia) and release it. Perhaps together with texts from others. But-uh...
From what I can remember, the best English book about chipstuff is little-scale's dissertation. Other than that it's papers and articles. If you really want to get your hands demoscene-dirty, you should check out the book by Daniel Botz.
@xylo The point of reading what other people say, is for example to get a better understanding and be able to explain what chippitoonz is to other people. Or, you know, to learn something new
EDIT any feedback on the thesis is welcome, btw. didn't get much from the uni people, lulz
I just say you did an excellent thesis about the subject.
But honestly, most people don't really get it any way, especially if they're not that technical minded. Well, may be that's because I haven't read enough books on chiptunes and therefore can't explain it properly, we'll never know. ;-)
I just get hold back a bit to start reading books and articles about chiptunes. I have read so much of them only covering the LSDj part that it kind of holds me back reading other stuff.
279 Jan 15, 2013 9:57 am
Re: So I wrote this email to Bandcamp. (27 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Jellica wrote:
the one problem with bandcamp is that the streaming is so slow, you can't listen to a track unless you let it buffer for a few minutes first. not just on my home internet either.
I never had any of those problems. Not at home, work, my university, hotels, et cetera.
280 Jan 15, 2013 9:53 am
Re: Tracking on Mac OSX (5 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)
You can use xQuartz and Wine to simulate OpenMPT. That works pretty flawless.
You can use the function key (fn) with backspace to delete stuff but I usually just cmd-x (ctrl-x) what I want to delete. I do that on both Win and OSX machines so used to that method.
281 Jan 14, 2013 7:50 pm
Re: Published books on the subject of Chipmusic/tune (33 replies, posted in General Discussion)
What's is exactly the point of reading what others think chiptune is?
282 Jan 14, 2013 12:54 pm
Re: Delivering tension past the 2 minute mark! (15 replies, posted in Constructive Criticism)
Jellica wrote:
there is nothing wrong with making short songs
Agreed. Loops are awesome as well!
Try to focus on arrangement. If you make songs more structured people find them interesting throughout the entire song because they tend to expect stuff they heard before in the song, and if they like it they are waiting for it to come again. You can bring certain parts with interesting build-ups or bridge-ish parts.
I mainly focus on a chorus part which is catchy. Verses are really just to make the chorus pop-out more.
Loops are a different story. I just focus on a really good catchy melody there and make it loop hehe.
283 Jan 14, 2013 11:58 am
Topic: xyce - 4chpcm love (the best of xyce mods) (5 replies, posted in Releases)
It is here! Our 4th album. A collection of 23 of our favorite xyce mods we've made in the last couple of years. A homage to the Amiga and it's awesome sound.
Logo and coverart is done by Alien^PDX.
This album is 'pay what you like', and the download features both the logo and some extra art in hi-res, all the mods, an Amiga disk (.adf) and ofcourse the songs in the format you like.
We hope you like!
Spotify will be featuring this album soon, but for now you can listen and download all songs on Bandcamp:
284 Jan 13, 2013 9:41 pm
Re: Upcoming Releases (617 replies, posted in Releases)
A little video teaser of our 4th upcoming xyce album. A homage to the amiga and it's sound. 23 of our favorite 4channel xyce mods, we made in the last couple of years. Will be released on Spotify and Bandcamp very soon!
286 Jan 8, 2013 11:02 am
Re: favorite SID/Amiga tracks? (19 replies, posted in General Discussion)
2 years crest by pink is still one of my all-time Amiga favorites.
287 Jan 7, 2013 8:55 pm
Re: Play Modules on iOS (7 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)
Modizer is nice. :-)
288 Jan 6, 2013 1:00 pm
Re: Coding a tracker: Where to start? (14 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)
Milky is opensource. You could learn references and structure and try some of your own.