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M8: Chip Shortage

By jimmac on September 21, 2022 2:46 pm

For a little pixe art project I needed a chiptune. A genre I don't particularly care about, because it doesn't allow me to cheat my way into making you all think I'm a musician like you. You really need to know a bit more about harmonies. I brute forced this with a lot of iterations, but you can still tell I don't know what I'm doing. Nevertheless I accomplished what I set to do.

Oh and here's the pixelart it was meant for (trimmed track):

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Love the animation, love the funk of this tune (how that bass does growl!) heart

kind of disappointed to see they aren't using those gorgeous pixel icons!

Ipaghost wrote:

kind of disappointed to see they aren't using those gorgeous pixel icons!

Using them everywhere possible! https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-ba … els-d.webp

Love this for the new tones out of you, but also for that classic jimmac shuffle

Bass is king

The bass is smooth delicate and sinister at the same time, so pleasing.  I’m no chip tune expert but really enjoyed this so you must have accomplished what you needed.

Jason Nijjer wrote:

The bass is smooth delicate and sinister at the same time, so pleasing.  I’m no chip tune expert but really enjoyed this so you must have accomplished what you needed.


gesceap wrote:

Bass is king


noggin wrote:

Love this for the new tones out of you, but also for that classic jimmac shuffle

Thank you for the kind words and thanks for stopping by!

This song has a really nice and ominous feeling to it. I like it.

you are the music maker

"We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams.
World-losers and world-forsakers,
Upon whom the pale moon gleams;
Yet we are the movers and shakers,
Of the world forever, it seems."
-O'Shaughnessy

Back in the last millenium, I was a member of (possibly the first) internet forum dedicated to making pixel art, and by association: chiptune.  Real-time 3D graphics still felt new & exciting and it hadn't been long enough for pixel art or chiptune to be considered retro.  So, in some ways the forum felt like a refuge for the few enthusiasts still trying to master a creative culture that was already over (very much like tracking, before Buzz & Renoise).

When I see and hear a video like this, I remember those times and think of how jazzed we'd all have been to know that works at this level would still be made in 2022―and to realize how much there room there still was for advancing those arts.  (Some of us would also be intrigued that https://circle.gnome.org/ exists, because back then everyone I knew who cared about such things had switched to KDE, under the general assumption that Gnome was on the way out.  TL;DR: we were terrible at predicting future trends).

On the subject pixel art: I loved the video.  It was fascinating just to see all the different creative ways each icon gleamed, like the delay in the shine across each level of the Dialect icon or the gradient-ish shine on surface of Podcasts' tape cassette. cool


jimmac wrote:

because it doesn't allow me to cheat my way into making you all think I'm a musician like you

Stop that.

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