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Archive.org has a direct download of the entire thing in a .tar file.

If you can't find a torrent with active seeders, I'd recommend downloading from there.

First, check out a lecture by LFT called Elements of Chip Music. It's a great introduction. That should answer some of your questions.

Next, to make chiptune style music in Milkytracker, read the tutorials on their web-page and there are also a couple of tutorials on youtube. And finally: check out other peoples modules (mod, s3m, xm files, Milkytracker reads them all).

Wouldn't that still allow you to just play and record a session off a keyboard?

I'm thinking of things like FamiTracker for NES, or BoyScout for GBA

In Famitracker, at least, there is only a limited amount of tempos available from the speed settings. As a way to get different, "intermediate" tempos, composers often rapidly alternate speeds between, for example, 2 and 3 to mix up a tempo in between those two. The Famitracker wiki has put together a chart of tempos that could be achieved with alternating speeds here: http://famitracker.com/wiki/index.php?title=Common_tempo_values

Applying the example above to the chart, Speed 3 = 300 BPM on NTSC and Speed 2 = 450 BPM, so the intermediate tempo between these two, using the pattern 3, 2, 3, 2... would be 360 BPM.

Let me know if you need more clarification/explanation!

A good resource for learning about the scene (at least the New York scene around 2008) is Reformat the Planet (Hulu watch link). I think it really shows off the origins and big figures really well.

awesome cover man! you guys are pretty rad!

i also write chiptunes but haven't done any covers apart from Duck Tales - The Moon.

https://soundcloud.com/aethernaut/duck-tales-the-moon

if you're interested. :)

Check out the free DAW LMMS. It comes with three synthesizers which emulate Gameboy, NES and Commodore64. Check this video as an example, to see it in action. If you need help in using the DAW, just come over to the nice community at r/lmms.

Here's the original file from 8bc: https://www.mediafire.com/?4nf62508y6e22yt

This is from a big (18GB) archive of 8BC uploads available here: https://archive.org/details/Best_of_8_Bit_Collective-2006-2011

If you want to get your hands on some of the music that 8bc hosted, someone made a "best of" archive that's over 18 GB. It's available here and here.

My favorite is ensnare 's Tech Switch, which he has the whole album available as a continuous mix on soundcloud. Sweet songs I promise :D

oh hey! if you are in D.C., there is a pretty legit show coming up this week hahaha! June 23rd at the Velvet Lounge: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=153485198052010

misfit chris, bright primate, trey frey, dauragon and some other guys i dont know, but sounds fun. seems like the perfect opportunity for a meet up ;)

edit: oh also it looks like there is going to be an open mic too, so bring your gear!

For starting out, you can just use LSDJ on a Game Boy emulator. I think BGB has the most accurate sound.

So download the LSDJ ROM, grab BGB, and try it out. Follow some tutorials on youtube. Experiment.

LSDJ has a definite learning curve, so just keep at it.

If you stick with it and want to go with real hardware, get a Game Boy and a USB cart.

With a USB cart you can load the .sav file from your computer on to the cart (so all that music you made on the emulator can be played on your actual Game Boy).

If you want an idea of the previous bundle promotions:

• TWIC

• TWIC 100th episode

In addition to This Week in Chiptunes, the site also released 12 Chiptune compilations, a Magfest compilation, bundles from Chipzel and Shirobon, and Cheapbeats

That thing circling the bird is supposed to be Covid LOL and it's on top of garbage hill which is literally a hill made of garbage were I live. There aren't any other hills here so people go there to get a view.

I made this song in Renoise with NES single cycle waveforms and using the limitations of the NES as guideline. (4 monophonic tracks, 2 pulse, 1 triangle , 1 noise track)

The animation was created using: https://www.aseprite.org/.

In the instrument editing screen there is a volume level thing. You can hit a + to add bars to it. This works essentially as a volume envelope. Make the last one zero.

Edit: picture. http://famitracker.com/wiki/index.php?title=File:Instrument_Editor_Window.png

Yes, you can use any samples you want, up to a certain length. The quality is usually poor. Is it worth the effort? That's up to you.

A lot of NES games used DPCM minimally if at all because it eats up ROM space and puts some strong constraints on how you can bank memory. That's not necessarily a concern if you're just making an NSF, but it is absolutely a concern for any real game soundtrack.

RushJet1 wrote what is currently the nicest tool for building DPCM samples: http://famitracker.com/forum/posts.php?id=1282

If Garageband is working for you then keep doing what you're doing. But if you want something that might be a little bit better suited to making chiptunes then I would check out MilkyTracker. It's available on Mac and also free!

Wowww! I remember this from the game bullet audyssey. It sounded so familiar, but I never remembered seeing the name of the song. So glad you posted this! So many memories

I'd like to see you guys' input on how to make the drop growl chord thingy in Trey Frey's "Drift" at 1:09 https://soundcloud.com/treyfrey/drift

What I know : - It's 2xLSDJ (duh) - There's one wave for the low tone, probably standard reese sine.

What I assume - It's Pulse with a very fast vibrato and some PWM involved - There has to be high-resolution Groove commands involved too to make the sound evolve in a more precise way

What I still can't figure out because TF is a friggin wizard - How does one make a pulse note go on and off really fast without having awful clipping ? Try having a table with a succession of E10 and E60 for instance, or even O-L, O-R, and it just farts on you.

• What amount of this is post-processed, noise-treated or EQ'd.

Let's try to crack this open guys ! Here's an original song skeleton I made on 1xLSDJ that features a comparable tempo and vibrato thingy, to get the VRREEPy pulse chords. I'm gonna post more clips along the way, to see how my exploration goes.

https://clyp.it/satw00bg ^ notice the clipping at the beginning? Imagine that at 8x speed. If any of you has advice on how to get rid of that either in or out of LSDJ it would be very welcome.

V'd arps are at 1:27.

Well, I know of this one: https://archive.org/details/Best_of_8_Bit_Collective-2006-2011

It's huge though (+18GB).

Here is a torrent: http://www.legittorrents.info/index.php?page=torrent-details&id=ecb1bc999470297243210a4503a38f1d5efbac79

It looks this author had a bunch more chiptunes missed in the 8bc archive dump... Anyone with a myspace account want to see what they can do to get the rest here? Lower quality, but it's the only place I can find her tracks.

https://myspace.com/selcouthsounds/mixes/my-music-288776

Look up Unicorn Kid, Random, BitHead...

Here is a set I did for a party about 5 years ago, starts out pure chip, and goes fakebit a bit, and a few other genres but all very chippy.

https://www.mixcloud.com/safiire/8-bit-disaster/

If you're trying to make mp3's and ogg's that sound like chiptune music, OpenMPT is free and has a solid Sega Genesis-like builtin FM instrument generator (it's not an emulator of the exact Yamaha chip used in the Genesis, but close), a sampler, and it'll get you started on the "tracker" style

here

If you want to make mp3's and ogg's OR legit, NES-usable tracks there's Famitracker. You get your two square channels for the *deet*s, your one triangle channel for the *doot*s, and a noise channel for the *tch tch shhh*s

Trackers only look obscure and impenetrable. The first bunch of letters and numbers in a column is your Note + octave (like, C#-1), next is usually an instrument number that you saved (say, you might have decided that 04 is the string-like deet), next would be volume (either 00 to 99, or 00 to FF if your tracker is using hex), and the other bunch of unexplained numbers refer to an "effect" that's in your tracker's manual (stuff like pitch slide up, left-right panning, detune, delay)

Shamelessly suggesting myself and a friend of mine. We make chiptune-inspired music on the Korg DS-10 synthesizer for the Nintendo DS.

• Snild Dolkow
• X Critical Strike X

For those who aren't familiar, check it out.

I am loving the game and the music!

Edit: Just to be clear, this is the vinyl release. If you guys want more pics, I can do that.

I'm in love with this program! I would recommend messing around in it to everyone who likes Cave Story, or chiptunes in general. I don't know just how it compares to other stuff; I've only ever used LSDJ and FamiTracker, but OrgMaker just works perfectly for me. See here: Forums

I am afraid I haven't composed since long ago. Last tries where using Psycle years ago and nothing of that was chip related. Then I tried to learn sequencers (Cubase, Ableton Live, Reason) but never felt comfortable with them and quit soon. "Recently" I discovered reViSiT, a Impulse Tracker clone for vst hosts with midi in/out integration with host. But didn't use it too much (just testing). Now I am waiting to get right mood and time to start again with sequencers and reViSiT. Also I don't discard use again old trackers and C64/SID hardware emulators but not really seriously.

I like Famitracker a lot. http://famitracker.com It's well used, and there are some good tutorials for it on youtube.

Otherwise you can use pretty much any MIDI / DAW program with "chiptune" VSTs, or there's like a thousand other ways to make chiptune style sounds with various tools.

It depends on what you want.

As for NES/Famicom music, try famitracker.

http://famitracker.com/ - website (downloads)

http://forums.famitracker.com/ - forums

as for a gameboy, use LSDJ as previously recommended.

Interesting! The Famitracker wiki also says that audio is updated once per blank. I suppose notes below 16.7 ms could be the result of very short sweeps, since those are updated by the frame counter at 120 Hz. That'd actually explain those 8 ms notes. I'll keep the 60 Hz update rate in mind for future sounds.

I spent some time looking through the Nesdev wiki, but it's very low level stuff, and a bit beyond my meager programming understanding. My eyes glaze over a bit at all the hex codes and different bit lengths.

OpenMPT! Holy hells, it's been a long time since I've heard that name. I still have my old ModPlug t-shirt floating around somewhere...

I haven't played with VST stuff in MPT at all, honestly...but you should be able to find some free plugins (distortion, filters, EQ, compressors etc) - googling for something like 'free VST effects' should give you a good starting point. I suggested outboard effects as I noticed your tracks sounded rather 'dry' - throw in some reverb, and also try adding distortion to leads / basses. Throwing a compressor on the drum track will help it to 'pop' more - I thought your drums sounded a bit flat.

You may also want to check out Famitracker - I think I read at some point that Anamanaguchi use this to write their NES tracks. Looks like it supports MIDI input, too, so you can likely use MIDI Yoke / Hubi's MIDI Loopback Device / whatever the equivalent is under Win7/8 (it's been a while since I dabbled) to sequence it from OpenMPT.

FamiTracker looks like it'll give you much broader control over the sound you're creating, unlike the few chiptune VST's I've played with which limited you to presets - this should help you get the variety you're looking for.

Good job, you just gotta get those kicks to sound better. My recommendation would be to use a sample, some noise, and some triangle.

Check out this link: http://famitracker.com/wiki/index.php?title=How_to_make_drums

Especially check out the "Noise and tone drums" section.

Personally, I use noise and tone, along with samples.

Also, for snares or claps, use samples and noise. You don't need tone for snares.

I've got about twelve years of musical experience under my belt, but I haven't been working on chiptunes for more than a few months. Knowing how to read and play music will definitely be good. A background in music theory helps, but if you can write songs that sound good to you, it doesn't matter whether you know the theory or not. /r/chiptunes is a great resource for information on chiptunes. I made most of those songs using Famitracker, and added the finishing touches in Audacity. Both of those are free, and I wholly recommend them. And if you have any questions, definitely post it on this sub, or feel free to shoot me a PM. I'm no expert, but if I can help you out, I'd be glad to. Happy chipping!

Oh, and thanks for your kind words about my album! All the good feedback has just made my day!

yay for milkytracker :) for those looking for more professional software with a "tracker feeling" renoise is worth a look. I know a dude who uses it for realtime sync with atari and gameboy for live sessions.

Yeah, DAW's like FL studio are the way to go when it comes to sampling. The additional step would be mixing in whatever you get out of LSDJ.

Alternatively, you could use a tracker like the free MilkyTracker and load in your samples, then make some GB sounding synths. (Famitracker is another good one if you're looking to make some 8-bit sounds)

http://milkytracker.org/?download - I use the KIArchive samples. There are many samples in the pack. I make fakebit more than "trve" chiptunes and these have helped me.

I use guitar pro and then export a midi file. Then I import it into synthfont and use chiptune soundfonts to get the sound I have. I'm not the biggest fan of famitracker's voice limits, even though its otherwise a really cool program. I'm still pretty new to trackers, though. I've been using guitar pro for years now, and am pretty good with it. It has its quirks, though...

You oughtta give SunVox a look. Its a tracker with a lot more flexibility than famitracker, and it too is free, and cross platform. Not necessarily for chiptunes alone, but it is still fun to mess around with.

One day I'll get around to transcribing my music into trackers and then I'll be good at them. For now, I want finished songs more than I want to use the trackers superior flexibility.

Sunvox is also a really good tracking program that I highly recommend looking at. There are tutorials online (youtube search it) so if you not sure where to go/ start they are a tad helpful. It is free for linux, mac, and windows. For mobile devices it costs some money, but relatively inexpensive. It also hooks up nicely to my USB synthesizer, and when not using a synthesizer, the computer keyboard set-up is well designed.

Here is the link: http://www.warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/

Tutorial link: http://www.warmplace.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1223

I'm trying to get into mech keys, but my wallet won't let me ...hehe.

Kubbi's album "Ember" was just the gateway! I actually love his 2012 Singles, which I'm pretty sure is actual chiptune mixed with VST edit: the above track was "made with ModPlugTracker" (but I've never dabbled, so thx for all of the links! Might give my daughter and me something extra to do this summer!)

8bc is pretty much for n00bs these days, mostly. their charts arent going to be representative of whats going on, as a significant portion of the top names have boycotted the site... id suggest the "releases" section of chipmusic.org to hear whats really going down.

also, browsing the bandcamp "chiptune" tag charts is always great: http://bandcamp.com/tag/chiptune

and, if you dont already, definitely check the releases on the legit chip labels: 8bitbeoples, pause, C'n'b, Data Airlines, and Bleep Street. All A-List stuff.

it makes me sad when i hear weak chiptunes being represented on the radio :(

Maybe a modern DAW as opposed to trackers.
Can add multiple virtual instruments.
Not as difficult to get the hang of to begin with (for me at least) as some trackers.
Free option e.g: LMMS (has a decent tutorial/overview of usage on homepage).
Example track I made using this a few years ago (though not really chiptune...)

Hope this helps :)

Indeed, I liked that one quite a bit more. Wasn't sure at first (mod guitar samples always sound a little 'off' to me), but I liked the ambience you added to the guitar riff and all the other little developments throughout.

I don't have any finished songs that aren't covers of other artists, and as I mentioned, all of my chipstyle attempts were (somewhat intentionally) lost several computers ago. Check these out if you want; it's mostly just me playing around with texture and guitar tone, and riff ideas. "Autumnal," "a bad dream," "let's just pretend" and "Losing Touch" are probably the most polished things there.

edit: oh, and "moog murf #5" is pretty trippy

Ahh, I understand the hesitation. They make kits you can plug together. Easier than leggo.

maybe something like this?

If you have an android device this app and a usb-otg cable will be all you need to manage a 64M cart: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shiftfypixlz.aread.emsflasher

(I helped with testing and highly recommend it)

Not exactly a tracker, but a chiptune tool nonetheless.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.famistudio

-Mat

Thanks :) I'm working on a homebrew Gameboy game but I'm not quite ready to make the music for it yet.

According to this thread Deflemask can be used to make music and put it in a game, so I'll keep it in mind!

https://www.deflemask.com/forum/general/can-music-made-in-deflemask-be-added-to-a-homebrew-game/

He wrote the song on a tracking software called LSDJ or Nanoloop. You write the song, push play (start), and it plays the song in the sequence you wrote it using the gameboy hardware. If you set it up in such a way you can mix the 4 channels of sound live. The common miss conception is that you are just playing old games with it hooked up the an stereo, but that is not at all the case.

If want to know more About the scene I really recommend you watch a documentary called Reformat The Planet on Hulu. It's a little over an hour and really gives you a good sense of the scene.

Well, we can't know what exactly you're downloaded. Maybe you got the source code instead of the binary.

I guess you need this one: http://hertzdevil.info/programs/0CCft_v0315r3.7z (latest Windows binary release in the official repo).

TL;DR

Deflemask is a multi-system tracker available for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and IOS. There are two versions: the new paid one with a lot of features and the legacy which is an older unsupported but still works great application.

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DefleMask is very good, but before you buy the new version (it's £10, or whatever the equivalent is for your currency), i recommend playing with the legacy version which is free. I personally still use the legacy version. With DefleMask you can make music for a lot of systems in one app (right now you can make music for the Sega Genesis + Without Channel 3, Sega Arcade, Sega Master System, NES, Gameboy, Commodore 64, NEC PC-Engine and on the new version you can make music for the NEO GEO Pocket).

The first hyperlink in the comment should tell you everything. The new version has a ton of new features which are really cool (Check one of the videos on their homepage), but if you're like me and don't feel like paying then the legacy version will do just fine.

Do you have a DAW or are you starting from nothing?

Obviously, I have to recommend my very own inSIDious, for which you'll need something (like a DAW) that can host VST plugins.

Listening closely to (and replicating) others' work is very important. You can also learn a bit about music theory to help interpret and apply what you're hearing. This is a good book.

I also have some other tunes on my main account: https://www.bandlab.com/zaccmusic

my main genres include: electronic (and subgenres), and metal (and subgenres). I also do a combination of both sometimes.

I have not. I did a fun code experiment which came to be a JS GBC emulator. I'm also doing a GBA emulator atm.

Johan or anyone can use this for themselves, since the emulator is open source: https://github.com/grantgalitz/GameBoy-Online

P.S.: If you're wondering about some mario running too in your browser, you're not far off: http://www.grantgalitz.org/get_the_hell_out/SuperMarioBros/

The game can be found as part of The Couch Bundle on itch.io or if you buy it on the official website here you can purchase the game AND the soundtrack. Thanks!

Btw all, it looks like the show is sunday (as noted by Daephex in comments). Info here

It's not that hard. Go here, and pay 2 dollars for the "right" to use LSDJ. https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=_IsxPXu5voEytVx8W4vW-mNHKQBuARPoM7LycSSqwMcSR06pq_rdPXLxFhu&dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f8e263663d3faee8d5fa8ff279e37c3d9d4e38bdbee0ede69 after you are given your log-in info for the LSDJ index page head over to this page http://nonelectronics.com/catalog/ and provide your log-in info showing that you own a legit copy of the rom and it will be flashed free of charge.

Virtualmin is my current primary project (which has a GPL and commercial version with a couple of extra features, so I can make a living; but 95% of the code is in the GPL version). I've also been working on Webmin for ~16 years. I worked on Squid for about 8 years, and I have patches in dozens of projects spanning all sorts of areas (yum, Drupal, SciPy, OpenACS, Joomla, various Perl and Python modules, Gnome, etc.). I can't really even remember everything I've poked at over the years, or everyone I've sent patches to.

Working from that I've found that it is Ukigumo by Hige Driver and the animation was made by a user on nico nico douga by the name of TSJD.

EDIT: This is awesome. I find when I'm the most cheerful I do the worst job of letting people know.

Goattracker 2 if you want to make authentic C64 music (SID) on PC. Synder and Deflemask are two other options, but goattracker actually exports SID as a file format. This assumes you're comfortable with the tracker interface - if not, OpenMPT is a good first step, but it's good to learn since most chiptune music is made in a tracker interface as opposed to a piano roll / DAW.

Musagi. Maybe not as 'legit' as lsdj or famitracker, but you can make chip sounds with it. It was developed by the guy who later made Sculptris and ended up working for Pixelogic on Z-Brush. He no longer works there, tho.

http://www.drpetter.se/project_musagi.html

If you head to the forums on that page, there's a section for Musagi. A while back Dr Petter released the source because he was busy with Sculptris and could no longer update it. Someone took it upon themselves to update it and he added quite a few features as well as stabilized it a bit more. Definitely check out that version. There are also a number of examples of tunes made with it. It's maybe not the most advanced thing on the planet, but it's super easy to use. It does have a few quirks to it, tho, and a few bugs that never really got ironed out.

He originally designed it to make music for his games, and you can get an API for it to use the tracks in games and keep all the loops and whatnot working. He's used it in a few of his little games projects.

Currently he's working on a 'sequel' to it called Paramole that looks interesting, tho is probably a ways off from having a public release.

It is!

http://hertzdevil.info/programs/

Big learning curve as there would be for most music software, but I feel like even after learning a good bit of the Reaper DAW, my FamiTracker workflow is way more fluid and efficient.

you mean in the app, Help > FAQ? It opened for me. What version windows you running? You can use the wiki, http://famitracker.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Here's one on the Famitracker forums. You'll have to dig through all the posts, but there's quite a lot in there. I've used some of their instruments for inspiration.

Here's the continuation.

I'm a gameboy user, so I'm probably not the best person to answer this, but your best starting point would be Famitracker. It accurately emulates the NES and is widely considered a good starting point for using tracker-style programs.

I think if you really get into Famitracker, you can buy a powerpak for your NES and put your Famitracker songs on it for live NES play.

Hopefully some NES peeps can chime in though.

I created the actual music in FamiTracker, and then exported it to Propellerhead's Reason Limited to add stereo, reverb and the samples at the drops.

I've been using FamiTracker since the beginning of 2011, when I came back to PC after using a Mac during college. You can see some of my early attempts over on the FamiTracker forums (specifically here).

The .ftm for sushi parlor can be found over at Battle of the Bits on its entry page if you're interested!

From the author's notes on this track:

> The track is supposed to tell the story of a man in the throes of death - he's just not aware of it for the first half of the tale. Up until that point Death is sort of whispering in his ear... it's an itch he can't scratch... an ominous feeling that won't go away.

> Somewhere around frame 21 he realizes what's happening and the initial reaction is shock. After that he begins to understand the true gravity of his situation and reflects on some of the things he will never have another chance to appreciate...

> ...after THAT he begins to fight desperately against that which he knows is inevitable... but ultimately the battle is in vain, the song slows to a crawl, and, well... he dies.

> Kind of depressing, I guess, but these are the places my imagination take me. :P

Enjoy.

I'm going to avoid the ever-so-obvious wub-wubs-aren't-real-music argument. You're on the right track! Here's a cover someone did on the famitracker forums that you might find both good and handy! http://famitracker.com/forum/posts.php?id=3541

Famitracker is really confusing at first. I don't know how much you know about trackers already, so I'll do my best to hopefully spew out something helpful.

In the "song settings" section, the number of rows is the maximum number of notes you can have in a pattern, and the number of frames is how many patterns long your song is. (each channel has its own patterns). I make extensive use of the Famitracker Wiki whenever I'm trying to use any of the effects. I would definitely recommend using the tutorial in the help file if you haven't already. Remember that the effects and volume parameters are in hexidecimal, and that volume can only be changed on the square and noise channels (there are also only 16 volume levels). Also, to be able to place notes, you have to press the spacebar to set it to "edit mode". The selector will turn red when in edit mode.

Quick Keyboard Tips:

• Press spacebar to switch between edit and record modes, and press enter to pause or play.

• The numbers 1-9 on the num pad will quickly select instrument number.

• I recommend using the Delete key for removing stuff rather than the Backspace key because the backspace key fucks up all of the stuff in front of what you're removing.

Sorry if I'm not very helpful. Ask me if you have any more questions. I'd be happy to try to help you out.

I am afraid you will have to do it manually. And as maep said, actually the best module player is XMPlay with too much difference. Give it a try and you will listen the difference. It supports an option to separate by samples/instruments but I am afraid It doesn't support separate by channels (I looked for this myself some time ago). So you will need to open a tracker and manually "solo" one channel, write to wav, start again with next channel and so on. If you want a clone of Scream/Impulse Tracker you could use Schism Tracker.

Edit: But maybe Milkytracker (I don't know the software too much) could be easier for this task, looking at what maep said.

yay for milkytracker :) for those looking for more professional software with a "tracker feeling" renoise is worth a look. I know a dude who uses it for realtime sync with atari and gameboy for live sessions.

Most are .XMs, so you can convert them using MilkyTracker. It has a render-to-WAV feature.

A couple are Atari-ST .SND files. Sadly I don't know how to convert these, however there are a variety of players (and, if all else fails, emulators) available on the Internet, so I'm sure you can figure something out.

Caustic is one of the better mobile audio workstations and comes with an "8bitsynth" that is great for chiptuney sounds, as well as an FM synth if you prefer Sonic to Mario.

DefleMask came out with a mobile version recently but is harder to use. (Also way more authentic, though.)

This is a tune for the soundtrack of an RPG I've been working on. Made completely using Sunvox in Kubuntu Linux 18.04. It's intended to be the background music for when the player is navigating the world map.

I love di.fm for music and am a subscriber, but just wanted to point out that's not a channel, it's a playlist with 94 tracks on it (6 hrs of music).

I know it's not the same thing, but synthwave really gives me the same feeling as chiptunes, it's my go-to these days: https://www.di.fm/synthwave

Ah, okay. No Operator for you, then. :(

Try the 8-Bit Treats plugins.

Unless you asked for VST for some particular reason, get the AU since you're on a Mac.

Famitracker is okay. It's takes some time to learn the ins and outs. The cool thing is you can add channels of sound beyond the capabilities of an NES.

You could also check out:

https://milkytracker.org/

Or

https://openmpt.org/

1) download a music tracker app such as openmpt https://openmpt.org/

2) download some chip tunes from famous chip music makers such as 4mat https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_artist_modules&query=83394

3) load them into your music tracker app and press play.

4) as the songs plays you can see all the notes and effects being used in real-time. Feel free to make any changes you want to the songs. Speed, notes, effects, samples. Nothing is locked down. You can do anything you want.

You're aware it won't sound like a chiptune afterwards, right? MIDI files are like sheet music, if you play them back with a different instrument it won't sound the same. You could get a similar sound using a chiptune soundfont to play the MIDI, but it won't be authentic to the NES or any other sound chip.

If you just like the tracker workflow, OpenMPT does what you want.

I'm afraid there's no way to properly import soundfonts into OpenMPT, other than extracting the sounds from the SF2 with the help of external software.

I was asking myself this same question about a month ago, all I got was this thread, which more or less explains that SF2's will probably never be supported in OMPT.

As a suggestion, if you aren't willing to extract the sounds manually, there are multitude of free sample packs out there, you can also get samples from other's songs or try VSTs.

Yeah I haven't really been able to find anything under that specific genre title. I suppose the exact definition is a bit up-int-the-air, though, since it's not exactly an established genre. Forgive me if my comment sounded rude, I just thought it sounded very much like complextro with a couple of chip elements in it. I always thought chip-house would be more heavy on the chip elements but with some beefy drums or something. Actually I've been told that some of my stuff tends to sound like Chip-House, but I think it leans more towards electro-house:

I Broke My Light Gun

Shooting For Fun (shhhh, that's not public yet!)

foobar2000 + foo_sid plugin works great as well. You can specify the Songlengths.txt in this plugin and the lengths are added automatically.

I still have to listen to the other 112 albums first :p
I wish they would create 1 big download! (or one could use Firefox + DownThemAll. If you don't want to install Firefox, download FirefoxPortable and then the DownThemAll addon :3)

on Android you can try FakeSid, it is decent even on touch screen, and it is free

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.twobit.fakesid&hl=sk

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on iPhone/iPad there is plenty of chiptune tools, such as Sidtracker 64 or Deflemask mobile are my personal favourite.

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And on computer you can also try Deflemask, any tracker like Modplug where you can use single cycle waveforms with arpeggios, or emulators, for example Vice x64 for Commodore 64 and there is also some trackers like defMON

DefleMask Mobile 0.12.3 released!

New version! So what's new?: * You will never lose what you were doing. DefleMask will save the module and restore it on startup automatically. * Files support on iOS! Open, share, move modules, organize your instruments, samples and wavetables! * Fixed a crash while sharing files on some devices. * Fixed a sudden black screen that was preventing some users to use the app. * Fixed NES performance, now works fast as light. * 32 and 64 bits devices support. * Note Off input now writes to the patterns if you have record mode turned on. * Corrected a ram length issue with the ROM exporter. * Now you can delete "C" notes too in the selection area. * Fixed an issue while calibrating the UI while in BView mode. * The playback floating menu disappeared sometimes when exiting the file menu, this is fixed too. * Fixed a bug while editing the macros in the instrument editor. * Better UI organization. * Fixed a bug that was, in some cases, preventing the tutorial to continue. * Fixed link to the Discord server. * Many minor bugs were fixed too.

Defle iOS users, your 0.13.1 files are in "Library/Application Support/delek/deflemask/". Defle 0.13.2 and above use "Documents" folder to achieve a better integration with Files app and iOS system.

iOS

https://itunes.apple.com/ar/app/deflemask/id1390797126?l=en&mt=8

Android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.deflemask.mobile

Thanks! Little Sound Assembly was a blast!

> How do you get audio out of a GBA SP?

You just need a GBA SP headphone adapter. Plugs into the link port. I use this one

I consider a public service announcement to mention the following:

• This song and the other song from this album, also posted to Youtube are very good songs

• When you buy and download the album (at least from Amazon) you'll find that the songs are recorded in some abysmal bitrate, complete with pops and hisses and it's generally just a terrible recording.

• Whether or not this is an artifact of the songs being recorded on a legit GameBoy or not this is something that needs to be mentioned before you pay for the album.

• My best guess is that youtube performs some magical audio restoration on all their videos that hides all the pops pulls extra detail out of the songs.

• The rest of the songs on the album kinda suck. "Zoloft Blues," "I Love Your Music" and "I Don't Really Exist" must have been the diamonds in the rough...

TLDR don't rush out and buy the album because this is a good song.

It's worth it. Here's the CD on Amazon if you'd prefer (just don't buy it new). I started checking out x-dump after I heard this album and have been very impressed.

Chipper for Android is a jukebox of keygen chiptunes, and has a green circuit board icon. Maybe this is what you mean?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.r0adkll.chipper&hl=en

In any case, it's a great app, amazing how much great chiptune music there is solely from keygens.

This is what I use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shiftfypixlz.aread.emsflasher&hl=en

I've had driver issues getting Windows to recognize my EMS carts, but the Android app does it just fine.