yeah i also forgot his name
in the original draft of my post he was called "that dude who styled himself after back to the future" but i couldnt remember what he stole or why t mattered either so he got left out
434 Jan 21, 2014 12:15 am
Re: chip criminals top trumps (64 replies, posted in General Discussion)
thats not how copyright works
435 Jan 21, 2014 12:12 am
Re: chip criminals top trumps (64 replies, posted in General Discussion)
deets on rob hubbard please, all criminals must be brought to justice
436 Jan 20, 2014 11:46 pm
Re: Joss Manley - Somethings (4 replies, posted in Releases)
thanks this is the best i was just listening to joss manley songs yesterday thinking about how great joss manley is and wondering when the next time someone would make a "whats your favourite underrated chiptuner" thread on cmo so i could post "joss manley" in it
437 Jan 20, 2014 11:41 pm
Topic: chip criminals top trumps (64 replies, posted in General Discussion)
ok if you hate criminals and criminality then you dont have to to post in this thread, or just post something like "i hate criminals and criminality" but please dont start an argument. gonna review some of the top chiptune criminals here in a "top trumps" fashion. lets go!
anton maiden:
criminality 6/10
excitement 10/10
likeability 10/10
overall score 26/30
this guy was the sh*t, he ripped off some anton maiden midis and played them back on his fm soundcard and sung over it. sadly hes dead now but hes one of the original chiptune supercriminals and his music rules
x|k
criminality 9/10
excitement 8/10
likeability 6/10
overall score 23/30
was this guy devious, lazy or just plain forgetful? the trillions of robbed midines customers dont care, they just want their money back by this point. his EPs on 8bc and mp3death speak for themselves though... come back x|k we are ready to forgive
ben dalglish:
criminality 5/10
excitement 6/10
likeability 9/10
overall score 20/30
did you know that chiptunes legend ben dalglish actually ripped off jean michel jarre when he made the soundtrack for c64 game "LOCO"? me neither! im not sure they really had copyright back then though so he only gets 5/10 on criminality... and hes a f***ing legend!!!
dimmu borgir:
criminality 7/10
excitement 8/10
likeability 5/10
overall score 20/30
who was expecting everyones favourite norwegian black metal band to appear on this list? not me! anyway apparently they ripped off the soundtrack from an amiga game called agony without giving credit to it... the bastards! i love black metal but these guys are probably racists so 5/10 from me on the likeability front. dont have much else to say about this really. dont burn churches kids
crystal castles:
criminality 8/10
excitement 7/10
likeability 3/10
overall score 18/30
this wild canadian couple (or was it australian) shot to superstardom in 2007 or 2008 with their debut album "crystal castles"... little did most of their fans know that their myspace page was harbouring a dark secret: a song by 8bitpeoples star LOBAT. if you looked closely you could find traces of theivery on the album too, with a snare drum stolen from COVOX hidden on one of the tracks. Also they stole some picture of some woman for their next album that no one liked. i dont think they ever apologised and the guy who made the backing tracks was a complete dork so they get a 3 out of 10 for likeability.
fitts for fight:
criminality 7/10
excitement 6/10
likeability 4/10
overall score 17/30
these girls had the attitude but they didnt have the talent to back it up! sadly they admitted fault and even apologised in the end so they dont get a 10/10 for criminality. some likeability because they were teenagers and their music video was punk as heck!
zombie nation:
criminality 1/10
excitement 7/10
likeability 7/10
overall score 15/30
this one-hit-wonder german techno act stole the only riff of their only hit ("kernkraft 400") from david whittaker (for those of you not in the know, thats a chiptuner)... apparently they paid for it though! are they even criminals? and the song kicks ass, it used to get stuck in my head for days.
atari teenage riot:
criminality 8/10
excitement 4/10
likeability 3/10
overall score 15/30
apparently this dude invented gameboy music way back in 1996 or something. maybe he just used a time machine to steal kulor's tracks from 8bc!! thats what happened anyway and they have a stupid image and their music sucks too. criminal, yes, but otherwise a mediocre offering from the german stalwarts
laromlab:
criminality 7/10
excitement 3/10
likeability 4/10
overall score 14/30
so this guy released a WHOLE ALBUM of songs by euro chip godz such as the AY riders and dubmood (ironically, as a member of razor 1911, dubmood himself is probably a criminal! fact is stranger than fiction). why would anyone do that? i can't think why unless its because laromlab is a complete tool. vaguely remember that he apologised though so he gets a 4/10 for likeability
frankmusik:
criminality 8/10
excitement 3/10
likeability 2/10
overall score 13/30
you might not have heard of this guy, one of his songs was sampled from a sid track by someone, i dont remember the details, his music and his fashion sense sucks, also his lyrics are boring as h*ck... sod off frankmusik!!
deadmau5:
criminality 5/10
excitement 4/10
likeability 3/10
overall score 12/30
one of his old songs is a rip off of some demoscene song, hes also sampled tim follin in one of his songs, i cant remember what happened at all but the guy is a dork and his music sucks too. and no one cared so its not even that criminal (thats how criminality works right?)
timbaland:
criminality 10/10
excitement 1/10
likeability 0/10
overall score 12/30
you all know what happened here... yeah thats right timbaland stole some c64 tune and made it into nelly furtado's greatest hit. i think he also stole a song for "ayo technology" by 50 cent. boooooring. but he made a lot of money, and it even went to court, so full marks for criminality. also he called the original composer "a f*ckin jerk" so gotta give rap producer "timbaland" a 0 out of 10 for likeability
rusko:
criminality 3/10
excitement 4/10
likeability 4/10
overall score 11/30
remember what The Sickest Dubstep That Exists sounded like before skrillex? yeah it was just tim follin soundtracks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKj6AYFr6YE idk what to say about this, dubstep sucks and so does rusko
mazi:
criminality 1/10
excitement 1/10
likeability 1/10
overall score 3/30
congrats mazi you are at least more likeable than timbaland
438 Jan 20, 2014 10:49 pm
Re: C64 Music for Dummies (c64 tutorial) (39 replies, posted in Tutorials, Mods & How-To's)
nice one buddy! hope to see your song in winter chip!
439 Jan 20, 2014 5:33 pm
Re: Please contribute and correct my spreadsheet with musical scales (19 replies, posted in Tutorials, Mods & How-To's)
why are you using some wacky foreign set of note names from tousands of years ago
440 Jan 20, 2014 2:27 pm
Re: C64 Music for Dummies (c64 tutorial) (39 replies, posted in Tutorials, Mods & How-To's)
vice comes with a utility called c1541.exe that lets you manage d64 images
run it and type "help" or look in the vice docs
441 Jan 17, 2014 10:31 pm
Re: Microtonal music in chiptune formats? (24 replies, posted in General Discussion)
sleepytimejesse wrote:
sandneil wrote:seems like it would be easier to do this in the instrument but its still going to be a massive PITA and writing music shouldnt be a massive PITA...
haha I mean one could argue we're already in PITA music making with using trackers/programming. Plus anything other than equal temperament is probably going to require more work across all mediums since typically in this day in age it involves manipulating equally tempered instruments/programs or inventing/programming your own instruments.
PITA isnt black n white dude
theres a needle in your butt once and then theres a dagger in your butt every time you want to enter a note
442 Jan 17, 2014 5:59 pm
Re: Microtonal music in chiptune formats? (24 replies, posted in General Discussion)
sleepytimejesse wrote:
You can use detune commands in Fami, I think. Usually used for doubling a non-detuned lead for that chorusy mega man lead vibe but you could probably get something more in depth with the time put in.
seems like it would be easier to do this in the instrument but its still going to be a massive PITA and writing music shouldnt be a massive PITA...
boomlinde wrote:
Protracker stores its note data as period values, i.e. the notes aren't necessarily strictly tuned to a table of pitches. One could probably just massage a protracker module into slightly different pitch conventions like just intonation, but it's going to be kind of hard to compose with a completely different set of pitches than those you'll end up hearing in after conversion.
massage the tracker too?
443 Jan 16, 2014 6:22 pm
Re: Microtonal music in chiptune formats? (24 replies, posted in General Discussion)
open modplug tracker has scala support just built right in if you want to do it the easy way
444 Jan 16, 2014 6:17 pm
Re: Roland is rereleasing the 808 and 303?! (23 replies, posted in Other Hardware)
remember the MC 303 ... lol
and the Jupiter 80
and the SH 201
roland are probably gonna produce some tacky digital poo and give it the same name as a thing people liked to try and trick you into buying it
which sucks becuase if they made faithful reproductions of the 303/606/808/909 and sold them for a sensible price they would make a killing
445 Jan 16, 2014 2:08 pm
Re: Roland is rereleasing the 808 and 303?! (23 replies, posted in Other Hardware)
if its not the same or v similar as the originals its just cashing in on their reputation
which sucks, h8 u roland, be more like korg please
446 Jan 14, 2014 5:19 pm
Re: 8bit Sample Pack in this months computer music (23 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)
i have it but i havent checked out any of the samples at all
i dont imagine a set of samples called 8 BIT BONANZA from a magazine about ipad dubstep is going to be very good
ill listen to them tomorrow
447 Jan 14, 2014 4:46 pm
Re: Favorite tempo (76 replies, posted in General Discussion)
it works fine http://8bitcollective.biz/$/temp/radix% … eminem.mp3
448 Jan 14, 2014 4:42 pm
Re: Favorite tempo (76 replies, posted in General Discussion)
qb wrote:
Jellica wrote:anyone know how to work out tempo on goattracker using x5 speed?
You can't as far as I can tell. C64 trackers don't have accurate tempo (it fluctuates over time). A lot or most PC trackers have this problem too.
no lol