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G.A.M.E. 4.0 - Chiptunes/Retro SEXPLOSION!!!
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btkadams said:thank you very much for the response! here's a shot of my preferences. the advanced panel has nothing to do with it eitherplus i checked the cables and they're all correct.
EDIT: ok i got it so that it can be used as a midi controller. had to go to the actual mac audio/midi settings. now to find out how to use the mac as the controller and the keyboard play the notes inputted. hmm....
EDIT 2: it seems gb doesn't allow this, but i installed a plugin called midio that allows me to. very cool!
Good to know that it works now. I don't recall having to go to the system settings for midi myself though.
I'm having some trouble coming up with inspiration for this. I've been messing around with a software SH-101 as my lead and bass. I have some nice hats programmed, I just can't seem to pull anything together. Maybe it's my disdain for chiptunes :lol
Hopefully I'll have something going in the next few days.
Hopefully I'll have something going in the next few days.
SupraDarky
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It's definitely not easy. I'm trying to make chiptunes that sound like real 8-bit songs that could play in videogames back then. It's hard not to just think like a normal song and replace the instruments with 8-bit ones.
you guys we have to make a deadline for this thing. i can't start makin a third song when we havent even made a date. enough people have signed up for this thing that we'll literally have 100 songs when its done lol. so lets make a date. im going to work on some other stuff until you guys choose a date.
Bah chiptunes! :lol
I put the guitar aside last night to start on this project, primarily using Peach VSTi and the first hour was woeful, all this low bit rate raspiness is so hard on my ears. A couple more hours and something was starting to take shape, and now I even woke up with an idea for it!
Heres my WIP from last night, still got a lonoong way to go today but at least now I don't hate all the sounds in my tune anymore:
http://users.tpg.com.au/djfusion//Chiptune.mp3
I put the guitar aside last night to start on this project, primarily using Peach VSTi and the first hour was woeful, all this low bit rate raspiness is so hard on my ears. A couple more hours and something was starting to take shape, and now I even woke up with an idea for it!
Heres my WIP from last night, still got a lonoong way to go today but at least now I don't hate all the sounds in my tune anymore:
http://users.tpg.com.au/djfusion//Chiptune.mp3
lol uploaded a little mix onto soundcloud you guys, comment if you wish. its non game 4 but you never know what i could add in to make it fit
actually, i think making this chipstyle would be killer. gotta figure out how. but let me know if i should even attempt such an endeavour.
actually, i think making this chipstyle would be killer. gotta figure out how. but let me know if i should even attempt such an endeavour.
Ok, NES suits me way better than C64 SID. This time to make sure that it actually sounds NES and tracked I used an NES tracker It's been about eight years since I've used a tracker to make music but I got into it pretty fast. It took about two and a half hours to make this little test: Apenheul_test1.wav (work in progress of course, inspired by mega man)
If you happen to have the VirtuaNSF player you can download the actual NES track Apenheul_test1.nsf
It's been about eight years since I've used a tracker to make music but I got into it pretty fast. It took about two and a half hours to make this little test: Apenheul_test1.wav (work in progress of course, inspired by mega man)If you happen to have the VirtuaNSF player you can download the actual NES track Apenheul_test1.nsf
mine is pretty much done: http://soundcloud.com/atrix/cloud
btkadams said:lol uploaded a little mix onto soundcloud you guys, comment if you wish. its non game 4 but you never know what i could add in to make it fit
Where's your soundcloud?
Fusebox said:
Hey that sounds pretty cool! Some kind of hardstyle chiptune.
pixelated said:
I made it using Famitracker, a tracker made for producing NES music. It does have a couple of annoying bugs though (or maybe I'm just not used to the workflow yet). You have 2 square wave channels, one triangle wave channel and one noise channel (optionally there's a PCM channel too, which I don't use), but if I make a new instrument I have to export it and then reload otherwise my other instruments get messed up.
http://soundcloud.com/btkadamsApenheul said:Where's your soundcloud?
that sounds awesome! so cool!Apenheul said:Ok, NES suits me way better than C64 SID. This time to make sure that it actually sounds NES and tracked I used an NES tracker
If you happen to have the VirtuaNSF player you can download the actual NES track Apenheul_test1.nsf
I just started using Reason, and I made this short little 15 second thing. I'm still trying to figure out how to get it to RECORD properly, so I don't just jump in and export the file as a .wav. Anyway. Hopefully I'll figure out how to piece stuff together in time to get a proper song (my first ever!) out!
http://soundcloud.com/dartastic/drumandchelloslow
http://soundcloud.com/dartastic/drumandchelloslow
WindBelow said:
Lovely lead, the feedback or modulation or whatever you use works really well. The chord progression also works for me. Still I'm a little bit confused about what's going on, probably because the mix is still a bit muddy. I hope you can work that out in the final version
btkadams said:
You know what? I really dig 'Highs & Lows', the chord progression of the chiptune was nice and I was genuinely surprised when the vocals came in. I hear some pitch correction at work, perhaps you could exaggerate that a bit more by allowing the pitch to snap to less notes, that's what they did with Cher's Believe amongst others. Great music man!
Dartastic said:
I suspect a techno chiptune here
If you've only just started using Reason then I'm looking forward to hearing your entry, this clip sounded promising. Go easy on the compressor though LiveFromKyoto
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Well, if you guys want to talk about release dates, start making proposals. I can't even start really getting into my track until next week, so I'd rather wait until at least January. There are a lot of frequent contributors who haven't put up anything in this thread yet, so I know they'll need time too (where's m0dus?)
But we've got some things we need to organize first - mainly who's going to be doing the mastering and putting the final package together. Any volunteers?
But we've got some things we need to organize first - mainly who's going to be doing the mastering and putting the final package together. Any volunteers?
btkadams said:
I had to check a youtube video of autotune with Garageband, it works differently than I expected. I had a voice pitcher VST in which I could select the notes that the software should expect from the sound stream so if I only selected five notes it would skip and then snap to the nearest note which I selected. However I expect a similar effect from the autotune in Garageband if you maximize it.
That said the song is already fine as it is, I was just fantasizing about how it would sound like with Cher-like voicepitching
monchi-kun
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back from va-kay-kay...time to catch up on everyone's tracks....glad more have come out to join the compilation, this could be our biggest one yet
if we aim for a Jan release we might as well do it on Jan 20th for more impact
this way i have enough time to learn the ins and outs of Soundtrack Pro, take this as me volunteering for mastering duties
nice one man, how 'bout a really hard edge arpeggiated bassline about 30 seconds into your track.
also, are you adding that reverb/delay effect on the track or bussing the effect?
if we aim for a Jan release we might as well do it on Jan 20th for more impact
this way i have enough time to learn the ins and outs of Soundtrack Pro, take this as me volunteering for mastering duties
Fusebox said:
nice one man, how 'bout a really hard edge arpeggiated bassline about 30 seconds into your track.
also, are you adding that reverb/delay effect on the track or bussing the effect?
LiveFromKyoto
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monchi-kun said:if we aim for a Jan release we might as well do it on Jan 20th for more impact
To celebrate 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand release day?
Thx for the tip monchi but I these days I reckon arpeggiators suck ass compared to just playing in the melody or groove I can hear in my head with the keyboard, they're too automatic for me so I rarely use them, if ever at all. Just gimme a few more hours massaging my arrangement manually and with luck you won't recognise it.monchi-kun said:
monchi-kun
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rawk! dude, get a soundcloud account so we can all keep track of each other's progress
effect is maxed. i find it doesn't give as strong of an effect if the singing is really in key lol so the parts where it sounds coolest are probably where i went off key lol. i tried recording a few times and that was the best take i could get without going insane trying to perfect it. thank you for your input though! ill try and go more for that on my next vocal song.Apenheul said:I had to check a youtube video of autotune with Garageband, it works differently than I expected. I had a voice pitcher VST in which I could select the notes that the software should expect from the sound stream so if I only selected five notes it would skip and then snap to the nearest note which I selected. However I expect a similar effect from the autotune in Garageband if you maximize it.
That said the song is already fine as it is, I was just fantasizing about how it would sound like with Cher-like voicepitching
and i am soooo fine with jan 20th. wish it were earlier but whatever
Apenheul said:Lovely lead, the feedback or modulation or whatever you use works really well. The chord progression also works for me. Still I'm a little bit confused about what's going on, probably because the mix is still a bit muddy. I hope you can work that out in the final version
yeah I haven't mixed it yet
LiveFromKyoto
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Does anybody have any idea why I can't import an AAC file into logic? I converted it from mp3 in iTunes, it's got an .m4a extension, but Logic won't take it - stays grayed out. From what I understand this should work. There's no DRM on the file, it wasn't purchased.
Maybe a codec issue? I had a problem like this years ago on the old Cubase. In any case, why can't you just use the MP3?LiveFromKyoto said:
And I just want to make a point from something I realized this weekend with EQ. EQ with your ears, not your eyes
It's too easy and natural to want to look at an EQ curve in a GUI, especially if that's what you're used to seeing. A visual person will become familiar with what a curve sounds like. You know the character of a happy face EQ. Or a high Q in the mid vs high range. When you go to fix something in you mix that is off, you reach for a point on that curve and pull it in the direction/amount that you know works. You also know how not to overdo it. If something is too steep, it looks and feels wrong on that curve. Or... you don't want to pull that pass filter that far in, it doesn't look right. Or... wow I have 5 peaks, this curve looks like crap. And it will probably sound crap, because of phasing and distortion.
But that's bullshit.
If you have the option in your DAW, turn the visual curve display the fuck off. Trust me on this. Use the knobs and listen until it sounds right. Don't even look at the numbers. You not likely to have the same psycological visual impositions when looking at a knob. When you go back and look at the resulting curve, you might see that you made changes that you never would have thought. And it sounds a lot better.
LiveFromKyoto
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lil smoke said:
Logic wouldn't let me import that either :/
Good advice lil smoke, another thing I like to do is make a big sharp spike on a flat eq and drag the spike along the entire frequency range until that part just jumps out of my speakers, then I'll usually bring the spike back to around zero and bring everything around the spike down as much as needed. Kind of like dropping the whole tune into mono and then panning a part until it pops out, these are also best done with your eyes closed.
Are you sure it is an mp3? A file can have any tag associated with it. Might need to look inside the data of that file, but I forget what I read about the best way to check. If you're importing MP3s other times, than it must be a problem with that file.LiveFromKyoto said:
Also some programs can have problems with MP3s that were converted with variable bit rate (VBR), but I highly doubt Logic would have that issue.
SupraDarky
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I'm mostly working on my first chiptune, but here's what my 2nd submission could sound like:
http://soundcloud.com/supradarky/my-water-level
I'm going for the underwater feel.
http://soundcloud.com/supradarky/my-water-level
I'm going for the underwater feel.
I added a few of my older stuff to soundcloud
http://soundcloud.com/bit-mip-syndicate
soundcloud clips the hell out of my music, why?
http://soundcloud.com/bit-mip-syndicate
soundcloud clips the hell out of my music, why?
LiveFromKyoto
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lil smoke said:
Never mind, my mistake. It was the first time I was trying it and I was trying to do it via file -> import which wouldn't work, but just dragging the file in did.
had to take a break from GAME4 to make some other songs so during my break between classes today i made a remix of Phantom by Justice if anyones interested. Now i'm going to probably make another non-game4 song and then start my third and final song for the compilation.
http://soundcloud.com/btkadams/phantom-blake-adams-remix-justice
http://soundcloud.com/btkadams/phantom-blake-adams-remix-justice
blu
Wants the largest console games publisher to avoid Nintendo's platforms.
ok, gang, here's another one from me - http://soundcloud.com/blu/elle-mental - i'm not responsible for any damages, though.
timbaland made songs in famitracker and then sampled them?Apenheul said:I think I'm going to pull a Timbaland on myself: make a tune with FamiTracker and then sample it
Btw, I've just signed up for a soundcloud account so I can finally listen to the songs for which you need to sign in.
btkadams said:
Actually someone else made a song in a tracker and then Timbaland sampled it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4KX7SkDe4Q&feature=related
sheesh the ignorance in the youtube comments for that vid astonishes me. KANYE DID NOT SAMPLE DAFT they worked with him.Apenheul said:Actually someone else made a song in a tracker and then Timbaland sampled it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4KX7SkDe4Q&feature=related
interesting though, good luck with it!
monchi-kun
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monchi-kun
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i just want you to be jealous since i'm getting the new one next year
lol i just made a song for you guys. its dedicated to you!!! (except for monchi because he rubbed in getting the next mK) its about how everyone should be making music and giving back to music industry that everyone is so dependent on, yet steals the most from.
http://soundcloud.com/btkadams/music-2
http://soundcloud.com/btkadams/music-2
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