Elements of chip music
This is my chip music seminar from Revision 2011.
When working with a soundchip such as the SID or the 2A03, the artist faces a number of technical constraints that limit, guide and inspire the creative process. The seminar will highlight and briefly explain some of these constraints, with particular emphasis on how they influenced artists during the golden age of chip music to give rise to some of the clichés that now define the genre. We will also see (and hear) how variations of the same constraints have emerged in other genres and ages, and how composers such as Bach have tackled them in similar or different ways.
- lft_elements_of_chip_music (DivX, 427.6 MB)
Here's a technical description of the slide show presentation hardware.
Posted Monday 2-May-2011 19:18
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Tue 3-May-2011 09:55
Cheers, Markus
Thu 5-May-2011 06:24
/Max
Tue 10-May-2011 22:08
Sat 14-May-2011 18:16
Your comments about the "famichord" made me wonder: to what extent are chip tunes is influenced by Japanese music? That chord (minor[no 5]m7) is quite reminiscent of the pentatonic minyo scale, and I couldn't help noticing that all the composers on the famichord demo are Japanese.
An interesting experiment if you have a piano synth is to set the number of channels low (mine does 2 and 4, but not 3) and see how this influences your playing style. Its surprising how much you can do with few voices, and how the ear seems to "retain" notes that only sound momentarily.
[SG]
Hisham HM
Sat 4-Jun-2011 23:55
Thu 17-Nov-2011 21:36
/Max
Thu 29-Dec-2011 22:12
Sat 12-May-2012 15:17
Dr. RemiX
Thu 17-May-2012 08:25
/Per
Max Porshnev
Fri 16-Nov-2012 19:11
When you use HBlanks for updating the waveform (like in Craft project) how do you keep the sample rate constant during VBlanks?
In Phasor project, does the output signal contain interlaced video? Do I understand correctly that generating a blackwhite composite video signal is much less difficult?
Fri 5-Jun-2015 07:22
I was wondering what is the name you give to channel oriented trackers (in opposition to pattern oriented). I hear something like "hyper trackers" but I'm not sure.
The question, if picky, is because I am in the process of searching for such software.
Thanks a lot!
Linus Åkesson
Mon 8-Jun-2015 06:26
https://chipflip.wordpress.com/2012/12/30/soundtrackers-hypertrackers-and-acidtrackers/
Tue 9-Jun-2015 11:51
Thu 26-May-2022 18:48
Cheers, Markus