[Music] Casket of Star 8bit

[Kommisar]

This is what I had originally intended to do before casket of weed hehu. All made on LSDJ, a gameboy tracker using 100% legit 8bit hardware.


http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/448693

[Anunsew]

It sounds incredible~

The silence transition around 0:45 is well placed too. XD
The padding and kicks are exciting, as well as the countermelodies.

Is this the power of a hardware synth?

[DX7.EP]

VERY NICE. My interest in chiptune style jumped a lot. Reminds me a lot of Tim Follin works which really pushed the limits of these sound chips (albeit with a very different musical style).
You should learn other chips, such as the SID, next. ^^

Is this the power of a hardware synth?

Yep. Or rather a synth program that uses the hardware to process sound.

I find that using hardware may be much more expensive and harder to integrate, but the results really pay off. I prefer using software for specific libraries and for controlling hardware, but the latter has many of the general-purpose sounds and quite a lot of flexibility - especially good if the controlling system is rather low-spec.

[Kommisar]

I'd love to work with different chips. If I could make anything even CLOSE to what Tim Follin did, damn.

I might try to work with 2A03 next for some more nes-oriented sounds. Thanks for the feedback guys!

Also the thing about using hardware (in my case, and old grey brick gameboy) is that it looks baller for live shows and it's, well, portable! I can just whip out my gameboy and play stuff on the go and the sound is much more authentic than using vst's and such. I'm using a game for the gameboy that is uniquely designed to produce music and push it to its limits.

[DX7.EP]

Personally, I think the 2A03 is a bit overdone, and moreover Famitracker does a very good job with emulating many of its nuances. Still sounds good though.

Try making raw 1-bit music with the ZX Spectrum beeper next, given that Follin started with that. :V

I can just whip out my gameboy and play stuff on the go and the sound is much more authentic than using vst's and such. I'm using a game for the gameboy that is uniquely designed to produce music and push it to its limits.

Ah, so I guess purity of sound is one of the factors in your work, then?

This makes other chips difficult, though a few have hardware implementations outside original hardware (notably the SIDStation and the Yamaha DX200, latter being a portable DX-7 + drum machine for live gigs).

[Kommisar]

Oh I've worked with spectrum beeper a few times actually!

https://8bc.org/music/Kommisar/1bit+Loli+Witch+Hunter/

[DX7.EP]

Oh I've worked with spectrum beeper a few times actually!

https://8bc.org/music/Kommisar/1bit+Loli+Witch+Hunter/

...oh, well then! Quite good stuff, I'll say!

Any plans to learn FM synthesis while you're at it? :3

[Kommisar]

absolutely. as soon as I figure out the tools to do it haha. I've been listening to some pretty neat FM albums lately

[DX7.EP]

I find Native Instrument's FM8 quite good, but going by your lean towards a more purist sound, I'd recommend getting a DX-7 or DX-7IIFD off somewhere and hooking it up with MIDI cables. Those synths seem to be the de facto standard for FM, even though they are only sine wave-based.
Yamaha's DX200 is also quite good, albeit monotimbral and rare. The PLG150-DX can also be used on supporting Yamaha synths to get that FM sound, but once again it's monotimbral and expensive.

[Kommisar]

I've worked with some native instruments stuff before, might look into that.

I've had fm7 since forever but haven't done much with it lol

[Ragathol]

Splendid stuff here. I've got some of your older songs as well, you're good.