625 Reply by sandneil

(100 replies, posted in General Discussion)

jefftheworld wrote:
sandneil wrote:

like the snare drum crystal castles sampled from covox then

If Cyrstal Castles had sampled just a snare drum and then sequenced their own drum patterns, yeah that would totally have been fine. That's not what happened, though. Maybe do the research before you get all snarky about it. tongue

i know what happened & its irrelevant "how much" they used. unless you hate also all artists who used the amen break in their songs? no, you dont, because soul music isnt Your Scene.

likewise you dont hate all people who uploads songs to youtube. only when its Your Songs.  and maybe you even think copyright law is really cool, until nintendo tries to get Your Flash Carts banned in the EU, until the guy who made the miles davis comp gets sued by miles davis' photographer

im just t rying to highlight the victim complex that chip music has. isnt it a little naive to suppose that "we" are all on the right side of the law all the time & that it only serves to protect us from the CRIMINALS intent on destroying our scene & PARASITES who exist only to profit from our hard work?

what is the reasoning here? you want a monopoly on distribution of your own music? people can only get it DIRECT FROM THE SOURCE? why? what benefit is there to have things taken off youtube

theres an album on temp sounds solutions bandcamp called "remixes volume 12". is there not some contradiction to make twelve albums of bootleg remixes and then cry wolf when someone puts your freely released music on youtube?

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626 Reply by sandneil

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hate your username though

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627 Reply by sandneil

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i wasnt a fan of the video but the music on bandcamp is great

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628 Reply by sandneil

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like the snare drum crystal castles sampled from covox then

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629 Reply by sandneil

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i wonder if johan contacted those booty bass artists when he put the "ass" and "titties" samples in lsdj

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630 Reply by sandneil

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logic doesnt support vsts at all

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631 Reply by sandneil

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well i thought i made it fairly explicit that i wasnt talking about "the law" in my post. because hopefully none of us would consider getting a lawyer involved over someone putting some songs on youtube

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632 Reply by sandneil

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as far as i am concerned the cc licenses mostly serve as a statement of intent. regardless of the technical legal issues if youve put a "copyleft" license on your song and you want to punish someone for sharing it on youtube Thats kind of a dick move. if the video has just got audio and no footage it isnt really a derivative work any more than a mp3 to ogg transcode would be as far as im concerned

theres a strange double standard in this scene where we are all totally cool with things provided we are on the right end of it
* watching music videos on youtube  - OK
* making youtube video with chiptune and a frame showing the name of the chiptune - NOT OK
* literally making an entire song out of samples from a snes game - OK
* using the snare of a covox song in the intro to a song on a commercial cd - NOT OK
* guy uses that miles davis picture and gets sued - OUTRAGE
* crystal castles use that religion picture for a tshirt - SUE THEM
* pirating ableton (worth approx $500) - OK
* pirating lsdj (worth approx $1) or chipsounds (worth approx i dunno) - NOT OK
the list goes on

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633 Reply by sandneil

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aw i love this channel though! sad join us now and share the chiptunes chippers you'll be free chip-pers you'll be, free-ee-ee-ee

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634 Reply by sandneil

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here;s one VITAL element of your rig that everyone needs though: a kettle

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635 Reply by sandneil

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Ateno wrote:

I would love to mod, but as you can see, I have no idea where to start at all. Piano Roll is mainly what I am using now and some sequencer to do my drums. And synth based is more or less out of the question, because my piano skills aren't exactly up to par. I also think I want something more stationary, and because of such more flexible as far as capability.
What would fit into those categories, and what is the best way to go about procuring such hardware and how to set it all up, and how to mod it?

its like asking someone how to set up an instrument but you havent told them what instrument you want to play

theres loads of choices
~ gameboy
~ c64
~ atari
~ amiga
~ nintendo
~ zx spectrum
~ old pc
~ new pc
~ wacky hacker stuff a la gijs gieskes
~ old fm synths
~ amstrad cpc
~ psp
~ dingoo

thats maybe 5% of the different things you could use to make chiptunes

if youre rich you could just buy any of them and hope that youll be able to figure out how to use it. but if you want to get something you know you will like. the best thing to do is emulate stuff on pc until you settle on something that you like the sound and the interface of

here's a gameboy emulator http://bgb.bircd.org
here's a gameboy tracker http://www.littlesounddj.com/lsd/

here's a c64 emulator http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/
here's a c64 tracker http://sourceforge.net/projects/sid-wizard/

here's an amiga emulator http://www.winuae.net/
here's an amiga tracker http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=13329

here's a NES emulator http://nestopia.sourceforge.net/
here's a NES tracker http://blog.ntrq.net/

here's a search engine http://duckduckgo.com

as was mentioned earlier your question is really open ended and thats cool but you need to give us something to work with...

did you ever use any old games consoles? which were your favourites?
do you have any fond memories of old soundtracks and stuff? which?

otherwise people are just going to blindly recommend you what they use and/or tell you to google it - because the possibilities are literally infinite!!!

i hope you find some kind of setup you enjoy though. and dont worry if that setup is just your computer/ipad/mobile phone/whatever. no one is going to judge you for your hardware choices as long as your songs are cool. fwiw i just use a cheap second hand laptop i got for free

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636 Reply by sandneil

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well you need to place it above oil

not really that was a joke but i'm not 100% sure what you mean by a rig... i guess you mean a music making setup

you need to enjoy working with the hardware and more importantly (i think) the software so there might not be much point asking people what they use because it's probably not going to work for you. in any case there is a big gallery of the stuff people use here: http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/166/p … ome-setup/

which emulators have you been using? which software/roms did you use in the emulators? what did you enjoy the most

really you need to be sure youll enjoy it because its very easy to buy a lot of stuff youll never use

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637 Reply by sandneil

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update: converted the massive scale archive from huygens fokker to IT microtuner format

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638 Reply by sandneil

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Chainsaw Police wrote:

Sooooo I've been totally out of the chip scene for a good year now. What did I miss?

nothing really

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639 Topic by sandneil

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dunno if any of you will find this useful

impulse tracker and derivatives are not really suited to creating microtonal music. i think openmodplug can do it but i'm not sure how, it's probably incompatible and it doesn't run on not-windows. these scripts work by creating an .iti file with the same sample at different pitches, mapped correctly with the multisample feature of IT so it is playable with the keyboard and trackable as usual

the script takes .its (impulse tracker sample) format files as input only, so an additional script is provided to convert .wav files to .its (this helper program depends on sox, if you don't have sox you can save .its files from inside impulse/schism/modplug tracker)

http://8bitcollective.biz/posts/it_microtuner.html

hasnt been very thoroughly tested but it seems to work

now also with 4000+ scales from huygens-fokker:

additionally have converted the approx. 4000 scales in the huygens-fokker scale archive from scala .SCL format to the correct impulse tracker microtuner format and they can be downloaded here along with the script i used to do it.

example http://chipmusic.org/sandneil/music/mic … acker-song

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640 Reply by sandneil

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http://csdb.dk/release/?id=16258

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