Modus

I'm trying out a Town of Ice idea. Dunno if it'll work so I won't reserve the song yet :S EDIT: Here's what I have so far.. any suggestions for improvement would be very appreciated -> [removed] EDIT2: Will update with a more polished version soon. EDIT3: K, tweaked it. What I have so far: Birth of Rhaknam [Town of Ice Remix]

what!? No. Noooo!

Dude I know right

I never really.. thought of it that way. It sort of is a reflection of all other styles, using sound in its most basic form. I guess it's a matter of perspective, and I might need to adjust mine..

Alright, I'm doing my best to not talk out of my ass here. My point boils down to my what my personal preferences are and why they are that way. I have no authority speaking down on any type of music in a room full of well-bred musicians that have panels at PAX East ohmygosh- That said, I thought I was well-acquainted with chips but I could definitely dig deeper. I just wish more people would try out this 9-bit stuff because I love it so damn much. Hearing 8-bit makes me want 9-bit. Again, I'm talking about genres and styles, not instruments. Don't people generally stop producing music in certain genres after a while? Of course you have the few cultists and oddballs who keep on pushing the envelope, and that's fantastic, but styles, not instruments, lose their edge after a while (for me). I already said I love 9bit, which definitely uses those same square and pulse waves you mentioned.

Chips are kind of a unique situation to me. They existed because it's the best developers could do with the tools they had. Also, you compared an instrument to a genre there. If you compare it genre to genre like, say, chiptunes and classic rock, I think it's fair to say that some genres do "run their course." I admittedly still love classic rock, but a genre like purebred chiptunes just doesn't have the same longevity for me. There's no rule saying what you can and can't make, but there's a reason pure chips are nowadays a pretty cult thing, and it's not because what's being made is bad. A lot of it is damn good and clever. People crave novelty and evolution though.

Pure chiptunes have kind of run their course IMO. I think we should really concentrate on submitting 8-bit embellishments. I call it 9-bit, but it's basically adding FX like Reverb/Delay/Distortion to leads and allowing the supporting instruments to be "whatever sounds good", whether it's bitcrushed or not. Even the best chiptune purists feel... dated. Are we even talking about this anymore? Oh, we're onto hating the staff now? Joojes are suck! Let the peasant uprising begin!

Highly recommend you take advantage of this. If you think chips always sound harsh, flat, and grating, you haven't heard halc. Or flashygoodness.

My point is that word choice matters. I have enough of that stuff when I visit my parents and have to hear Fox News in the background all day. Yes, it was a tangent, but it's an important aspect of intelligent discussion in general. Tangent over.

Putting "capitalist" in front of a word doesn't automatically Americanize it. I'm not even sure what "capitalist extortion" could mean. To extort means to coerce someone out of their money or property, which in any sense, capitalistic or not, these companies are not doing. The hardest language you could use in this situation is "exploitation". Capitalist exploitation, there ya go. When you start throwing words around like "extortion", you're getting into Fox News sensationalist territory, and we're smarter than that, right? Tell me we are.

Extortion? lol. Yes, these damned publishers are coercing us into buying their boxes, else we might have "a little accident." I have to pay them protection money every damned month just so they won't activate the bomb in my gaming console's core and blow up my house! OK Bleck.

Syllix is right. I only followed people in thread whose music I liked I don't want to be followed just as a numbers game or if you don't like my noise.

No, you did not pay for that content. The content you are paying for is made clear on the game's back cover, in media previews, on the company's official website, etc. I will acknowledge that it is a bit exploitative by nature, but at the end of the day all it does is tempt people. There's no deceit, it doesn't pry open your wallet or steal your credit card info. Just because an extension of the game is pre-finished does not mean you are entitled to own it. That's what this boils down to for me. Entitlement. Because every game I've seen do this still has LOTS of content, lots of characters, and is a full game on its own. Even if it's sparse on content, you know this because it's advertised as such and there's reviews to tell you that. So then you don't buy the game, and the company responds by not doing that anymore! Companies go as far as consumers allow them to go. If you keep buying their shit regardless of what they do, then what the heck do you expect? They'll keep doing it. tl;dr I think people should stop buying products that start being exploitative. I don't get why that's not an option, especially in the entertainment industry where you don't need the item in question.

I'm with OP and don't really see a huge issue. You don't have to buy DLC/unlockables. So then, just don't buy it. On-disc content makes file downloads like 99% smaller, which I'm all for. A line is only crossed if the content itself is something imperative to success in the game, and publishers don't do that. Some bad MMO companies do, but that's all I've personally seen.

I gained 4 followers and lost 4 since posting here. That's sweet. Actually I've been hovering around 35 for a few months now because people follow then unfollow in the same pattern. I DUN GET IT.

No you silly, click "share to group" in the upper left of your track. You have to be in the group to share it though.

' Thanks a lot, I'm not going to be able to leave that page until it's all memorized. edit: The dude's commentary is lul-worthy but jesus, what the heck does he define as "real music"? edit2: Neurofunk is amazing. edit3: The creator is not well-acquainted enough with chiptunes! Those samples could have been better selected. He should add 9-bit as a sub-genre I'm digging up some of the suggested artists. I wanted to listen to everyone's suggestions first, but there's a lot of them to go through. Thanks brethren.

Whoosh that was fast. Thanks.

I'm just really curious what psytrance is. Who are artists that represent psytrance really well?

Obtuse gave you a very good list, but you can't forget Trash 80 and OCR's very own halc. Big Giant Circles also went on a chiptune tear in the Imposter Nostalgia album he released. It's surprisingly extremely good.

I thought so, and I hate that rule. It logically makes no sense to me, and it looks ridiculous. Anime and grammar. This is serious business.

You're moving society forward one post at a time, truly. On a less overly sarcastic note, I do admire your proper use of "effect". I'm not sure if I'm supposed to put my quotations before or after the period, though. Well no. Only Song of Ice and Fire is a good book.

He's pissed off you hate what he likes, so he took a piss on your grammar. I seen this tactic many times. But seriously Deathnote is the only good anime.

http://soundcloud.com/modusmusic I'll be checkin' out all yalls sounds. YO