Author: Peter Swimm

  • Chip Flip on “Noise Music”

    Chipflip has an excellent write-up on the state of chip-noise.

    “8-bit noise music is not very common, which means that good 8-bit noise music doesn’t really have best of compilations (yet!). It is maybe a bit like someone over at 8BC said about breakcore: the certain particularities with a genre that make it so good, are quite tricky to reproduce with an old soundchip and is therefore often completely lost.”

    Its a great primer of a little subsection of the chip sound, and features a load of artists you should check out.

  • Sega Death

    [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/SsHGet3HpWk" width="425" height="344" allowfullscreen="true" fvars="fs=1" /]

    “sega death is a 2 member experimental sega genesis project. the members of this band are ian (dramacore) and lucas (sickmode). sega death started in 2008, in chicago illinois usa.

    nothing in this album was sequenced, no outboard effects were used. EVERYTHING is from the sega genesis audio out, recorded directly into a computer. some bits of silence and excess noise were cut out. using a sega genesis, if the cartridge is pulled out while the game is playing and music is audible you will hear a tone.”

    I remember back in the genesis days there were some game hacks where you yanked the cart and inserted another (maybe with the sonic game?) so this is an interesting application of the trick.

    Download.
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  • Weekend Of Lessons

    PDF_Format writes:

    So for a while now, i’ve been in #pdf_lessons on esper.net, and have given some lessons.  Megabass on LSDJ, for instance. This weekend, and following week, i am scheduling lesons every night.  Every night, at a time posted in the channel (all times EST, because that’s my time zone), there will be a lesson, on the topic posted in the channel, run by one of the operators of the channel.
    Topics:

    • LGPT – Rhinostrich/XC3N
    • LSDJ – PDF Format + others
    • Famitracker – Tristendo
    • Goattracker – Zabutom
    • Milkytracker – Strobe
    • Mssiah/P64 – PDF Format + Firebrand Boy
    • Arduinoby – PDF Format + Trash80
    • Other trackers – Other people
    • Music theory – Rhinostrich, PDF Format, Strobe if he feels like it

    and general other information on other things by other people who know about them. I will post a schedule as it is confirmed by the teachers of the lessons.  But if you want to learn any tracker, or trick, or skill, come into the channel, and there will be a guided lesson, followed by general Q/A afterwards.  Stay tuned, and tell your friends.

    For more info

  • LittleGPTracker version 1.b_37 Out

    lvpt1.1b_37 is in the ghetto section for GP2X/PSP/W32/DEB.

    Here’s the list of changes:

    • Allowed multiple selection for note and instrument editing in Phrase Screen
    • Fixed synchronization problem between the main thread and the player thread. This fixes the problem that tracks could go out of sync when doing rendering at full speed (not using RT). It might also generally improve the stability for heavy pounders
    • Rendered files are now located in the project folder.
    • Fixed tempo to be more precise: before, tempo vs. sample count transformation was rounded to integers. This meant that exporting a track at 80 BPM would end up to something close to it but not exactly it, which could be a hassle if trying to use renderings in DAWS. Now it’s totally accurate. It might be that the track’s feel is slightly different, so let me know if there’s something in concert for your ears
    • Updated the note map to be always show (for consistency). Mute track are now also shown by having both the octave & instrument number shown as “–“
    • Cached some file attributes to make samplelib browsing faster on PSP.
    • Fixed audio volume in preview so that it doesn’t destroy your ear. Now it’s played at half volume which correspond to the default 128 volume of instruments

    More Info:

  • Receptors 2004-2008 5 Albums for DL

    522187Receptors has 5 albums exclusively performed on gameboys running LSDJ, Nanoloop and Korg DS-10 cartridges! Recorded 2004 thru 2008.

    Enjoy them here.