people trip on this kind of thing, dont be one of those people.
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I'm still going with the term fakebit is dumb. Your options are 8bit or chiptune, and authentic 8bit or chiptune 
Edit: tbh I just use chiptune myself, whether it's authentic or not 
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You're making silly threads instead of making music.
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If you're worrying about the tags you'll add to your release, then "chiptune" is alright. If you feel the need to be more specific, judging by what you described in your opening post, you could add the tags "module" and "Renoise".
I wouldn't recommend to add the "8bit" tag because it's too overdone these days, but that's just my personal opinion.
There's no need to use "fakebit".
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I personally hate the term Fakebit and trust me i won't use it but it gave me a good idea thanks to everyone !
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TDK wrote:
defPREMIUM wrote:8bit is more about only using 8 channels of sounds where with fakebit is more about video game music remixes which in my opinion are the better chip music : ))))))
Not at all. C64's are 3 channels, Amiga's are 4 channels - same with the Nintendo's. It's the difference between using original hardware, and emulating it (or adding to it).
uuuuh srry but no each channel is 1 bits meaning 8 channels for 8 bits......... : /
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defPREMIUM wrote:
TDK wrote:Not at all. C64's are 3 channels, Amiga's are 4 channels - same with the Nintendo's. It's the difference between using original hardware, and emulating it (or adding to it).
uuuuh srry but no each channel is 1 bits meaning 8 channels for 8 bits......... : /
So you're saying that music created on a C64 is 3 bit, Amiga is 4bit????
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defPREMIUM wrote:
TDK wrote:Not at all. C64's are 3 channels, Amiga's are 4 channels - same with the Nintendo's. It's the difference between using original hardware, and emulating it (or adding to it).
uuuuh srry but no each channel is 1 bits meaning 8 channels for 8 bits......... : /
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defPREMIUM wrote:
TDK wrote:Not at all. C64's are 3 channels, Amiga's are 4 channels - same with the Nintendo's. It's the difference between using original hardware, and emulating it (or adding to it).
uuuuh srry but no each channel is 1 bits meaning 8 channels for 8 bits......... : /
No. You're wrong. I'm pretty sure 8bit refers to the CPU of the console. Most consoles\computers traditionally used to make chip music have 8bit CPUs, but there are some exceptions, so 8bit is a bit of a misnomer (no pun intended). It certainly has nothing to do with the sound chip since most consoles or computers used to make chip music don't have 8bit sound chips. Chiptune makes more sense as a term since it simply means music made using sound chips from old computers\consoles.
So to answer the topic question, no. You're not making authentic chip music if you make your own samples or synthesize sounds on anything other than sound chips belonging to old computers\consoles. I don't think it matters though as long as the music sounds good.
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qb wrote:
It certainly has nothing to do with the sound chip since most consoles or computers used to make chip music don't have 8bit sound chips.
To be perfectly fair, by some definitions, they do (8-bit bus interfaces etc.). I say this a lot, but I don't think that "8-bit", as typically used to describe music, has anything to do with hardware technicalities.
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Chiptune makes more sense as a term since it simply means music made using sound chips from old computers\consoles.
Amiga computers were still pretty new by the time "chiptune" started being used to describe some music that was made with them. I don't think that a reasonable definition would take relative age into consideration.
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So to answer the topic question, no. You're not making authentic chip music if you make your own samples
Coincidentally, that is how "chiptune" sounds are traditionally made.
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defPREMIUM wrote:
TDK wrote:Not at all. C64's are 3 channels, Amiga's are 4 channels - same with the Nintendo's. It's the difference between using original hardware, and emulating it (or adding to it).
uuuuh srry but no each channel is 1 bits meaning 8 channels for 8 bits......... : /
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boomlinde wrote:
Coincidentally, that is how "chiptune" sounds are traditionally made.
That's the irony of it all 
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that awkward moment when i trolled better than intended.......
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EDIT: double post.
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