Chiptunes!

Chiptunes are so awesome. Anyone else listen to them?

(for those who don't know: think video game music, sort of. Lots of square and sine waves, extremely electronic sounding. Very unique.)

The name says it all :smile: Chip tunes...

Never heard of em... :rolleyes:

never heard of them but it do listed to the theme tune from Chip's (god I love that show).

gimpinthesink said:
never heard of them but it do listed to the theme tune from Chip's (god I love that show).

you scare me, honest you do :/

somehow, the mental image of your bedroom adorned with eric estrada pictures make me nauseous.

lemme fill you in, the posters of the FFX chicks are preferable :dodgy:

yeh I don't have Eric Estrada pics on my walls I have film posters and half naked women that I took out of a FHM calender and one life size poster of a Lara Croft lookalike.

I just realy like the show I preffer alot of the late 70's early 80's shows to todays shows and its a shame that its on arount 4-5 am.

gimpinthesink said:
yeh I don't have Eric Estrada pics on my walls I have film posters and half naked women that I took out of a FHM calender and one life size poster of a Lara Croft lookalike.

I just realy like the show I preffer alot of the late 70's early 80's shows to todays shows and its a shame that its on arount 4-5 am.

whispers

i watch them too, i remember when they werent re-runs..

the show never ceased to amaze me that some dumbs**t causes the accident, but drives away not looking in his mirror at the carnage they caused :biggrin:

http://www.snarkpit.com/pits/hornpipe2/junk/dubchip.zip

XM file. Listen in Winamp.

Parts of that track have the classic video game style - think Tyrian - but much of it is just dissonant :/

chiptunes? never heard of em... Get some Helloween

Thats worse than busted. Well almost, I suppose nothings really worse than busted. Music with sine waves? pah!

http://www.gibdon.com/necros/scene/necros-blahblahblah.s3m

classic

Iron Maiden!!! :vampire:

Gollum said:
Parts of that track have the classic video game style - think Tyrian - but much of it is just dissonant :/

Much of it is just AWESOME, you mean.

Yeah.. I grew up watching the same shows. Did anyone ever see that show called Highway Man, about these guys that drove around in big trucks, and protected people between cities on the highway? Had that guy from the Energizer Commercials.. OI OI OI!!! Well anyways it was a very short run show.. the Truck cab turned into a Helicopter.

Orph there is nothing wrong with having them Female CHIP Cops on your wall is there?

I listen to chip tunes... some are very cool. Mech Warrior had some awesome music.

Iron Maiden, Yeah BOI! Alexander the Great is my favorite song.

But I also Like Buck O'Nine.. they rock..

When I first saw this I thought he was talking about the Chipmunks.. I have thier Christmas Album. =) lol

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Hornpipe2 said:

Gollum said:
Parts of that track have the classic video game style - think Tyrian - but much of it is just dissonant :/

Much of it is just AWESOME, you mean.

If that's what I'd meant, I would have said it :razz:

Whats wrong with dissonance?

Nothing, if that's what you like. Personally I tend to dislike parts of music that clash horribly, unless there is a clear dramatic effect intended.

From Tennyson's "Maud":

And the soul of the rose went into my blood,
As the music clashed in the hall;
And long by the garden lake I stood,
For I heard your rivulet fall


Often it just depends on whether you're "inside the hall" or not. Dissonance never draws me inside, but if I'm already there I might overlook or even enjoy it.

I quite like the "blah-blah-blah" one though (for a start, it's in tune).

Thats the spirit Moneyshot, but Alexander the great? naah, there are better songs IMO, heard their newest album Dance Of Death? Some good music there...

I enjoyed the Enter the Matrix music. If you search hard enough you can find a track called "Go" by Andy Hunter on Microsoft.com

You can make your own music with a program called Acid, which can produce really good tracks of this type. The old address was http://www.sonicfoundry.com

I'd consider Acid pretty much useless for producing chiptunes. It's a very useful program but can't really capture this style correctly. If you've got musical talent you could opt for Modplug Tracker. It's the standard program for produces XM, S3M, IT and MOD modules that nearly all chiptunes are composed in.

A lot of technical ability goes into this style of music - fitting as much as drums, chords, lead, bass, and sound effects into four channels using very lo-fi instruments is a tricky process.

Also, maybe I'm deaf, but I don't hear this dissonance you're talking about, unless it's the pitch bends everywhere (which are really cool). Anyway, here's another one that people seem to enjoy. Dualtrax is getting better at this stuff:

http://www.snarkpit.com/pits/hornpipe2/junk/dt_orion.zip

Edit: Winamp's XM playback tends to be sub-par at times, so maybe that's it...

You're not deaf. Just [i]tone-deaf.[/i]

Not likely, I'm a musician...

Loco said:
I enjoyed the Enter the Matrix music. If you search hard enough you can find a track called "Go" by Andy Hunter on Microsoft.com

You can make your own music with a program called Acid, which can produce really good tracks of this type. The old address was http://www.sonicfoundry.com

I enjoy Andy Hunter a lot, but was it in "Enter the Matrix"? I don't recall it...although I do know it's in The Italian Job. Personally I learnt about the song at summer camp (he IS a Christian Artist :razz: )

Which Italian Job?

The first film, the game, or the second film?

"Go" by Andy Hunter was in the new Italian Job film when that woman was driving around in the mock building in the mini. The track also featured in Enter the matrix in 2 places:
1. When Ghost fights Trinity in the zen garden
2. If you leave it one the menu screen for long enough, the game switches to an advert in which the second half is this track.

Hope this clears it up!

Hornpipe2 said:
Not likely, I'm a musician...

Oh, bad luck :wink:

Anyone here like the warcraft 2 music?

mazemaster said:
Anyone here like the warcraft 2 music?

Quite a bit, actually.

Someone plz explain what chiptunes are, I'm too lazy and too drunk to download some :razz:

Personally I love the tetris theme tune....

The other day me and about 9 m8s were all singing in the lobby of a cinema before watching "Kill Bill" (wicked film, go watch it!), sounded so cool, some were doing bass, others drums and the rest doing the synth :biggrin:

Haha, a friend and I did a rendition of the Crashman theme (Megaman 2) that's sure to convince Gollum I'm tonedeaf.

http://www.mp3.com/ornopay_usicmay/

Download "Crash Symbol".