Backwards Compatibility

By jegasus on June 2, 2024 10:20 pm

Hello and welcome, fellow musicians!

This week I'm trying something kinda different, but not SO different. My main music-making tool for the past year or so has been the Dirtywave M8 Tracker, which took heavy inspiration from LSDJ. As a long time chiptune fan, I had always wanted to (at least try to) make that specific style of music. I remember this one time, after listening to a bunch of chiptune artists I loved and just trying to figure out how they made their music, I learned about LSDJ and saw it was super easy to access! So I hastily downloaded the ROM from their website, booted it up and immediately regretted my decision. I had absolutely no clue what to do or how that thing worked. Instead of looking up how, I just closed the whole damn thing and didn't look at it ever again.

Until now.

I imagined that my past year with the M8 Tracker would have given me a good basis to work off of, and surely enough, it did! I was able to cobble something minimally approaching music!!! Hahahaha... The song is very rough, repetitive and I am overall very unsatisfied with my final product, but hey, they can't all be winners, right? Hahahahaha... At least I accomplished my very basic goal of "making SOMETHING with LSDJ".

I will say that going from the M8 to LSDJ was pretty rough. There were a lot of functions and quality-of-life little things that were put into the M8 that I reeeeeally missed while messing around on LSDJ. But the knowledge is SUPER transferable. I mean, the two are practically siblings, so it's no surprise.

I might come back and try to work on more LSDJ stuff in the future, but for now, I think I'm just gonna go back to my dear old comfortable M8, hahahaha...

Looking forward to listening to y'all's submissions!!!

PEEEEEACE!

PS: See how I called you and me "musicians" up top? It's true! Leave the impostor syndrome at the door and accept the title! And yes, this message was mostly written for me.

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June 3, 2024 12:12 am

PeterM

Oh nice! Back to the source of it all! Yeah, this sounds so raw and stripped down with nothing hide behind. Very cool!

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June 3, 2024 2:03 am

Cosmic Cairns

I dig the rawness of it. It sounds like lo-fi chiptune, which is honestly not a bad thing at all.

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June 3, 2024 4:35 pm

Tone Matrix

This sounds like an ominous box is slowly unfolding upon itself and building a miniature city I like the feel of the gritty beat too. *musician_hai_five*

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June 5, 2024 8:27 am

rplktr

Very promising. Keep at it! Feels great to accomplish a goal you set out for yourself, right? Especially with something as unforgiving as vintage digital tools for music. Those can be brutal sometimes to achieve even the simplest things with. Now that you passed the initial cliff, it will get easier.

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June 5, 2024 4:29 pm

prophisee

You accomplished the goal!! Idk I kinda like it

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June 5, 2024 7:34 pm

jwh

AS WE MORCH INTO BORTLE

f>>>u>>>n

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June 10, 2024 1:18 am

jegasus

PeterM wrote:

Oh nice! Back to the source of it all! Yeah, this sounds so raw and stripped down with nothing hide behind. Very cool!

Hahahaha yeah, "raw" is definitely the word I'd use here, hahaha... Thanks for listening!!!

Cosmic Cairns wrote:

I dig the rawness of it. It sounds like lo-fi chiptune, which is honestly not a bad thing at all.

My heart has a very special place for super raw chiptunes ❤️❤️❤️
So you telling me that this sounds like that makes me super happy, hahahaha...
Thanks for listening!!!

Tone Matrix wrote:

This sounds like an ominous box is slowly unfolding upon itself and building a miniature city I like the feel of the gritty beat too. *musician_hai_five*

Thabk you so much! I think that the beat itself was my favorite part of the whole thing, moreso than the little melodic lines I made.
*MUSICIAN HIGH FIVE, HELL YEAH*

rplktr wrote:

Very promising. Keep at it! Feels great to accomplish a goal you set out for yourself, right? Especially with something as unforgiving as vintage digital tools for music. Those can be brutal sometimes to achieve even the simplest things with. Now that you passed the initial cliff, it will get easier.

Than you thank you thank you!!! Indeed, the big leap is done and behind me. Now I just gotta work at it a bit - that'll make each iteration easier to deal with. That's exactly how I got comfortable with the M8.
Anyways, thanks again for the kind words!!!

prophisee wrote:

You accomplished the goal!! Idk I kinda like it

Aww, thanks!!! That's super kind of you
I can see how there's a kernel of something cool in there. But as it stands, I still think it's a bit too raw for my taste.
still, I super appreciate you taking rhe time to Lauren and comment!!!

jwh wrote:

AS WE MORCH INTO BORTLE
f>>>u>>>n

HAHAHAHAHA... Dude, this comment actually made me laugh out loud, no joke. Like, I can see a glitchy ass half-working toy captain ordering his army of banged up semi-functional toy soldiers to "morch into bortle" to the sound of this tune, hahahaha... Love it!
Thank you so much for listening!

[quote=PeterM]Oh nice! Back to the source of it all! Yeah, this sounds so raw and stripped down with nothing hide behind. Very cool![/quote] Hahahaha yeah, "raw" is definitely the word I'd use here, hahaha... Thanks for listening!!! [quote=Cosmic Cairns]I dig the rawness of it. It sounds like lo-fi chiptune, which is honestly not a bad thing at all.[/quote] My heart has a very special place for super raw chiptunes ❤️❤️❤️ So you telling me that this sounds like that makes me super happy, hahahaha... Thanks for listening!!! [quote=Tone Matrix]This sounds like an ominous box is slowly unfolding upon itself and building a miniature city :) I like the feel of the gritty beat too. *musician_hai_five* [/quote] Thabk you so much! I think that the beat itself was my favorite part of the whole thing, moreso than the little melodic lines I made. *MUSICIAN HIGH FIVE, HELL YEAH* [quote=rplktr]Very promising. Keep at it! Feels great to accomplish a goal you set out for yourself, right? Especially with something as unforgiving as vintage digital tools for music. Those can be brutal sometimes to achieve even the simplest things with. Now that you passed the initial cliff, it will get easier.[/quote] Than you thank you thank you!!! Indeed, the big leap is done and behind me. Now I just gotta work at it a bit - that'll make each iteration easier to deal with. That's exactly how I got comfortable with the M8. Anyways, thanks again for the kind words!!! [quote=prophisee]You accomplished the goal!! Idk I kinda like it[/quote] Aww, thanks!!! That's super kind of you =) I can see how there's a kernel of something cool in there. But as it stands, I still think it's a bit too raw for my taste. still, I super appreciate you taking rhe time to Lauren and comment!!! [quote=jwh]AS WE MORCH INTO BORTLE f>>>u>>>n :D[/quote] HAHAHAHAHA... Dude, this comment actually made me laugh out loud, no joke. Like, I can see a glitchy ass half-working toy captain ordering his army of banged up semi-functional toy soldiers to "morch into bortle" to the sound of this tune, hahahaha... Love it! Thank you so much for listening!

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June 10, 2024 7:52 pm

jwh

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