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    Recreating the Gameboy Style

    in Music Composition & Production

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    if you wanna go full hipster, get your old dot matrix gameboy and flash LSDJ onto a cartridge.

    then get an emo haircut and some tight clothes, neon sneakers and you're good to go. remember to fist pumps as they will make your music sound better too

    actually LSDJ is pretty fun to use you don't have to be a hipster to use it

    Captain Skyhawk OST: DOES IT EXIST ANYWHERE?

    in General Discussion

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    I'm sure my lowbie is showing, but I clicked on it and got a face full of weird characters. Is there music in there somewhere? Do I need some special program to exploit it?

    it's an NSF file, for some reason your browser wants to open it up as a text file [mine did too], just right click on the link and save it. It's basically a file that emulates nintendo music instead of streaming it, making it a nice compact format. However, you'll need special players for it. I recommend either Winamp or XMPlay, and grabbing a plugin for those players called NEZPlug [NEZPlug will work with both Winamp and XMPlay]

    I have devised an algorithm to make music to an arbitrary quality.

    in Music Composition & Production

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    Step 1. Spend an hour or two and just wing it. Do random things, try effects or instruments you've never used before, go with the flow. Maybe start with a theme and work from there. The best way to do this is to Just Do It. One Hour Compos and SolidComposer Arena are good for getting you off your butt and getting Step 1 done.

    Step 1 only has to be done once.

    Step 2. Take a break.

    no!

    keep doing compos, and don't take breaks! If you keep participating in competitions, ask for feedback as to why you placed where you did, and if you apply the knowledge you gain to every song you make, you are consistently getting better! Some of the best music I ever wrote was stuff I made in one hour compos, and sometimes I expanded/fixed compotunes and they end up on my albums :)

    A video game composer just saying hi

    in General Discussion

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    Going through your youtube channel, this stuff is great. I was listening to "Chandra" and the fact that this made it into a PGA Tour game is amazing and also hilarious. I guess I don't know how golf games are supposed to sound because I never play them, but it really does feel like it should've been in Mirror's Edge.

    Thanks for posting here, glad you like what we're doing!

    Getting back into Oblivion

    in General Discussion

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    It's a huge game, honestly, and that's not counting dungeons and caves. The overworld alone... is simply staggeringly huge.

    Try playing TES2: Daggerfall

    it's so huge that the overworld is randomly generated, there's something like... wait lemme look this up:

    Bethesda claims that the scale of the game is equal to twice the size of Great Britain:[1] around 487,000 square kilometers. The game world features over 15,000 towns, cities, villages, and dungeons for the player's character to explore. According to Todd Howard, an Elder Scrolls programmer, the game's sequel, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, is 0.01% the size of Daggerfall, but it should be noted most of Daggerfall's terrain was randomly generated. Vvardenfell, the explorable part of Morrowind in the third game has 10 square miles (25.9 square kilometers).[2][3] The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has approximately 16 square miles (41.4 square kilometers) to explore.[4] In Daggerfall, there are 750,000+ non-player characters (NPCs) for the player to interact with, compared to the count of around 1,000 NPCs found in Morrowind and Oblivion. However, the geography and the characters in these later games are much more detailed.

    Leads a la Anamanaguchi and virt

    in Music Composition & Production

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    you have to use pitch, vibrato, and other effect commands if you want to make the most out of a chip lead. fortunately, pitch bends and vibrato are incredibly easy in trackers. I can't tell you exactly how to make an expressive lead, because everyone has their own special way of doing it. Download Modplug Tracker and take a look at some of virt's tracked music [like his Tracked in Time songs] and you can try to dissect some of his music that way. I learned a lot by looking inside other people's music mods [for example, Alexander Brandon totally abuses premade drumloops in Deus Ex!]

    OC ReMix @ PAX Prime! (Sept. 3rd, 1:30PM, Raven Theater, Seattle, WA)

    in Announcements

    Posted

    So exactly what is it that you guys do at PAX? ;-)

    I was at the jamspace for a bit and caught the friday concerts [great show btw], but I was mostly just eating and drinking and trying desperately to get as much free shit as possible, I had just missed A_rival's vg freestyle rap, and did not know about the secret MM show either :V. I already posted about everyone else I met on theshizz thread :D

    BY THE WAY, thanks for making this happen danimal:

    Chiptunes Without A Tracker

    in Music Composition & Production

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    There are some NES soundfonts for midi.

    I think Midee made a NES soundfont a long time ago [like 1997 or some shit] that got really widespread, it's probably the one you could get off zophar.net forever. Anyway, the NES soundfont off zophar is fucking terrible, the samples all have an attack of like 30ms which makes them incredibly useless if you want to make authentic chiptune stuff. Plus soundfonts are terribly obsolete, try thinking of anything other than FL Studio's soundfont loader or SFZ+ that loads soundfonts and does it right!

    Best option for people using DAWs is probably the magical 8bit plug, YMvst for Atari ST stuff, and VOPM for genesis/MVS yamaha FM stuff

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