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GenreNomad - (week7)

By Apticx on February 15, 2026 7:47 pm

Hi there, this week is something very different than what i uploaded so far but somehow closer to what i usually write.

I stumbled upon ChipNomad by accident on a discord server and decided to check it out. Its basically the M8 workflow and system (so LSDJ navigation layout but with all the M8 improvements attached to it) but for the AY-3-8910/YM2149F soundchips. So basically 3 channels of bleeps and bloops.

This was my first attempt at writing something on it and i decided to go a bit more sound design oriented instead of melody writing to learn about the soundchip some more. Its very funny to use because you can play noise at the same time as melodic waves but from my understanding the noise oscillator is shared between all channels so there is tons of fun fooling around with envelopes and using noise to give square waves some more attack.

Overall im very satisfied but it could have used some more variation but i ran out of time so its basically just a copy paste for the „second part“.

The reason why its called GenreNomad is basically me not being able to stick to genre „limitations“ and just do whatever i want no matter if its a desktop daw or a soundchip used on the 1982 ZX Spectrum.

It also has a slight stereo shift between the 3 channels (a slightly left, b center, c slightly right) which adds a lot of separation for „same“ sounding channels.

Overall im very pleased with the workflow and the interface so if you feel like trying it too check it out over at https://chipnomad.org/ and make sure to share your stuff in the discord!

These bleeps and bloops go hard!

Very cool, man!

Love how crunchy the sounds are.
Would be cool to hear what you'd do if you resampled something like this into the M8, and blended in sounds from your usual palate!

Great stuff, man!

P.S. I feel you on the genre thing. I'm very bad at sticking to one thing.
But I think it's cool that the tool used here has it's own limitations in terms of sound design. So you could make a collection of very different genre songs, and they'd still fit together as a collection.

GregVK wrote:

Very cool, man!

Love how crunchy the sounds are.
Would be cool to hear what you'd do if you resampled something like this into the M8, and blended in sounds from your usual palate!

Great stuff, man!

P.S. I feel you on the genre thing. I'm very bad at sticking to one thing.
But I think it's cool that the tool used here has it's own limitations in terms of sound design. So you could make a collection of very different genre songs, and they'd still fit together as a collection.

Thanks for checking it out! Make sure to check it out too. Its basically M8 workflow for a super old soundchip. Its tons of fun to fool around with it and explore whats possible with just 3 channels.

I remember always feeling like i need to stick to genres because its important to fit into a category for years up until around 2020 when i decided to just roll with it. It usually was like "today i wanna make dnb so let me set the bpm to 174, write down that exact drum pattern and only then work on the idea" but now its more of a "imma write something down and mess with bpm and rhythms afterwards and then struggle to tell my distributor which genre its supopsed to be" lmao.

Huabun wrote:

These bleeps and bloops go hard!


bleep blooping hard is important for a bleep blooping song

You did great here. 3 channels is really not much, and you totally maximized them. Sounds great! Wish to see more of that in the future.

Some fierce blooping.

Making those 3 channels work for it.

RPLKTR wrote:

You did great here. 3 channels is really not much, and you totally maximized them. Sounds great! Wish to see more of that in the future.


thanks so much! i plan to add more chipnomad and also LSDJ to my todo list and maybe add the occasional famitracker track too. Its what i enjoy most but usually i default to the m8 because i rarely get to sit at home and make music so m8 and daily commute is the goat

NickLong wrote:

Some fierce blooping.

Making those 3 channels work for it.

may the bleeps and bloops be with you!

Holy cats - that's a lot of full sound and blippy chaos for just three channels! Brilliant work (and a catchy tune)!

Holy cow that beat goes HARD at the 1 minute mark. Super crunchy.
Nice job squishing all all of this into three channels!

MRDRCAT wrote:

Holy cats - that's a lot of full sound and blippy chaos for just three channels! Brilliant work (and a catchy tune)!

thank you!

Dustsucker wrote:

Holy cow that beat goes HARD at the 1 minute mark. Super crunchy.
Nice job squishing all all of this into three channels!

thanks!

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