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*bumping this thread so some guy who uses LSDJ since may 2012 can complain about how we are still going on about this*
now lets start a thread inside the thread.
Seems like people still are changing the colorscheme in FT2, what do you think of this? is it ok not to stick with the default blue on blue?
I would add that a second LSDJ is much, much cheaper than an Avalon 747.
Or pretty much any outboard compressor, really.
Don't get me wrong, I respect you and I think your music is amazing, but your suggestion completely misses the point a lot of us use a second DMG for. I might not be able to afford a compressor or a rack-EQ, but I *can* afford a second game boy.
Just sayin'.
How could i get you wrong? 
Yeah ofcourse you have a point. But I didn't mean to be all nazi about what compressor to use. What I was trying to say was, mearly routing your kick out seperatly from the gameboy and treat it with whatever you want is a good alternative to using 2 gameboys. As an example, for a long long time I used a Alesis modFX smashup and you can get those for 20 bucks off ebay nowdays. really inexpensive, small portable compressor. Even smaller than a DMG. Don't have sidechain though 
but if judging by a price to sound ratio, this is the most priceworthy compressor I have ever used. a Smashup on the samplechannels on an Atari STE is like a "go sell your SP1200 and gtfo" in the face 
also, the DBX 163 is a very good small portable and inexpensive alternative. but seriously, just some EQing from any dj-mixer could make that squarewave kick just as good as any wave channel kick.
When I played dancemusic with a gameboy I sometimes routed the kick Left and everything else Right and then compressed and EQued the kick, splitted the L signal and used it as a sidechain source to the Right track using an Avalon 747. Worked well, could make a fat square chan kick, use sidechain compression on the Right track and didnt need a second LSDJ. And if you like to pan leads and other stuff when making harmonies n shit, then just split the R signal again and go for a mixer or rack-EQ that can do proper M/S.
Just a tip!
yes, people have really misunderstood the fundamental basics of a subculture. the forums shouldn't be used for back tapping and circle-jerking peoples releases. Forums should ONLY be used for drama and juicy gossip. chipscene, plz.
me and zabutom did a bunch of chip hiphop back in 2003-2004. Sounded like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISrnON-c … re=related
Sounds like a pain in the ass and a shot in the foot to use more than 1 lsdj. it deletes the whole point with making music on a limited platform and the fun of doing so. just my 2 öre
I agree with zanzan, airy fairy vgm (!) and trying to copy the sound of 90s keygens for the nostalgic selfmastrubation kicks of it is really pointless if it is not just a way to learn how to compose and produce music -and still! maybe you should keep said songs to yourself before complaining about quality of audience...
chipmusic as it stands is as big of an incestual, solipsist, automated backpatting machine as it can possibly be without coverage and it is your complacent idiot fault.
Oh how I miss the 90s demoscene where you were allowed to say that something sucked without being labeled an asshole.
Victory Road:
I think my post was somewhat unclear. No bad in making uptempo music, no bad in being a gameboy musician (I am one too), nothing bad with fakebit, and no bad in being DIY or "unprofessional". My post was ranting against puritanism and trying to explain some of the points being brought up in this thread like failing/too small audience for pure chip events and few artists playing bigger gigs. Continue to do uptempo music.
Also, I do not agree at all with decktonics post. Big promoters don't give a flying fuck what subgenre of EDM you do. They mostly care about how big audience you bring and how much of the audience attracted by other poster names that also match you. Doesn't matter if you make the best dubstep in teh world if you seem to be an unestablished hobbyist with no established fanbase and no communication.
And still, the best and most effective fast track to any gig is sleeping with the promoter and/or being close friends with the ones doing the booking. Voila...
Why are pure chipevents so important? Why cant chiptune be blended into wider themed events? I mean all due respect to chipmusic, the chipscene and all chip musicians but going to an event where 8 out of 10 artists play uptempo gameboy music ain't that sexy, as it aint sexyto go to an event where 8 out of 10 artists play stonerrock, dubstep or nu-post-oldschool-gospel-electronica. OK OK, I know, but even though that was me generalising, lets face it, it is a very accurate demography of the chiptune scene and has been since the early 00s.
Better use the community as a good resource for colaboration and a platform to better reach out to a wider audience and further establish chiptune as an accepted genre instead of the purity 8-bit -don't let them in if they can't name three gameboy trackers and know how to solder a speaknspell- jihad.
I don't think the wider public we saw at european chipmusic events in the early 00s lost interest at all. I just think the pure chiptune event lost its novelty that attracted non hardcore chiptuner crowds but still said -nonhardcore- crowd are always delighted to see a chiptune artist in the lineup of a larger festival and I have played quite a few... There is this one problem in the chipscene, maybe because of the strong DIY attitude and purist mentality in the chipscene, a lot of artists tend to lack what, having no better words to describe it, a professional attitude, entourage and or method towards the music industry (I dont mean major labels here, I am talking about everything from festivals to promotors and labels, smaller venues etc) and that tend to scare the bookers and promotors off. Everytime a chiptune band or artist get this (or accept the current state of affairs as some might put it) they tend to pop up all over the mainstream musicfestival chart which is where I think they belong.
Too bad that for each one who gets there, there are 99 other uptempo gameboy musicans in places like this one who flame them for doing so ...
I am sorry for rambling, but I was just chocked by people here talking about "lower quality of fans in the chipune community". Who ever have that point of view of things, you are drunk, go home! (but now I am being a hypocrite, I had the same views of chiptune purity once, back in my early teens....)
anyway, sorry for the grumpy monologue. Go Fakebit!
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