Wow, good tutorial with lots of solid advice! Thanks WritersBlock!
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Cheers, man!
I'm starting to think that you know everything there is to know about music, you are GOOD!!!!
I'd like to submit stuff to the audio portal, but I was banned for submitting a recording of myself saying "Hi! I'm Omochao! I'm here to annoy your brains out!"
Lol, must have caught a mod in a bad mood.
And I don't really know EVERYTHING about music, I just finished 5 years of high school analyzing classical music and techniques and such, and I've found that it's a lot easier analyzing sonic tunes than it is with 20th century Concertos, because then it's a lot more diverse and there's a lot less conventions being followed and difficult for more people to understand.
It is fun to know that my classical learnings weren't just a waste of time, and they can apply to the music I like most.
I don't think I caught a mod in a bad mood so much as I caught Wade Fulp: Destroyer Of All in a bad mood, I probably pissed him off when I complained about how I couldn't submit stuff after the thing was blammed while under judgment (first submission to the audio portal is put under judgment by default) so he probably made it worse
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Nice tutorial, man! I suggest adding a link to a free sequencer, like Reaper - <a href="http://reaper.fm">http://reaper.fm</a>
Yeah, sure. I'll put that in now.
Thanks.
uh, rig? it says you have to pay after the trial period, that does not mean free
Reaper is free. You don't have to pay after trial period is over, you just get a message saying you should pay. Everything still works fully.
rig my man, have i never told you how much i love ( backspace) appreciate you?
that magical 8bit vst is by far my favorite 8bit one. altho i will be hard pressed to find a use for it....
woops replace rig with writersblock... lol why did i type rig...
lol :D
I can't remember who gave me the link...
Thats for all the vsts links!
btw, I found that entry on google, more pageviews!
Yes, most chiptunes have four channels (Amiga modules originally had four channels, since that was all its hardware could support, but eventually that was expanded to eight channels; I think the AY chips have four channels also), but some (99% of the Commodore 64 chiptunes out there; although the SID chip technically only supports three channels of specific waveforms, similar to the adlib chip (although a lot better-sounding), there is a way to simulate a fourth channel that could play real samples (although with a very low bitrate(?) through some hardware flaw in the chip) only have three, some (eight-channel MODs) have eight, and some (most PC formats) have 64, I think.
Also...
Ctrl+F
arpeggio
No results found.
WHAT
Although I know you were talking about console game remixes and not actual chiptunes, you should probably add some things about traditional chiptunes. If you listen to any real chiptune made by anyone who knows what they're doing, they will most likely use arpeggios, since when you only have three or four channels (SID/original MOD), you can't afford to waste three on chords, and I hear a lot of people using chords in their chiptune attempts now that they have fancy sequencers with 457963597435639475 channels.
Of course, none of that applies to adlib things (although they don't really count as chiptunes, mainly because they don't sound like them, and it's completely useless for me to add this because I don't think anyone else on Newgrounds has ever touched an adlib tracker anyway) because there are nine channels and some trackers don't even have an arpeggio effect.
Also, you might want to add a link to some real trackers (I recommend ModPlug: <a href="http://modplug.com/trackerinfo.html">http://modplug.com/trackerinfo.html</a> ) and chiptunes ( <a href="http://chiptunes.back2roots.org/">http://chiptunes.back2roots.org/</a> ).
Of course, if this is about making Sonic remixes and not chiptunes, I just wasted ten minutes of my life typing this shit that nobody will ever read.
This was a very helpful tutorial!
Thank you very much!
Very good article, even more than 2 years old!
(Specially for chiptune beginners like me :)
knuxrouge
Now I really want to make music for the audio portal.
WritersBlock
hehe
I could do this with some of the other sonic tunes =P but this is basically it.
But, yeah, it's not too hard to make VG stuff, but you do need to know the basics, and there's still other things that I haven't mentioned, either for not knowing, or knowing that if I start expxlaining, it'll lead to other stuff and turn out much longer than it already is, and it's unfinished, so I may just add links to stuff I don't want to explain =P