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Comment on Paper: Amiga Music Programs 1986-1995 by Amiga Music Programs 1986-1995 - Data Airlines

Amiga Music Programs 1986-1995 - Data Airlines — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:58:00 +0000

[...] post nicked from GOTO80 on his chipflip blog about paper written by Rolemodel (!) for a university technoculture-course (!!) about the early [...]

Comment on Demoscene Theory With Doctor Botz by Sander

Sander — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:36:01 +0000

Wonderful read! Some great insights.
Hope his work get published here once it’s done?
Props!

Comment on Demoscene Theory With Doctor Botz by ftc

ftc — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:45:30 +0000

Top Notch!

Comment on 4 x Mortimer Twang: (sound)chip(based)non(chip)music by M-.-n

M-.-n — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:02:39 +0000

@peter: I’m all for beer cheermusic !

Comment on 4 x Mortimer Twang: (sound)chip(based)non(chip)music by chipflip

chipflip — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:29:14 +0000

or washing machines, door bells, TIA, 2A03, etc. i think we need a jury to settle this, once and for all.

imho, beepers and pokey is all good. and plenty of the above ones aswell.

Comment on Italo Disco Noise Digi Screen-music by Demoscene Theory With Doctor Botz « CHIPFLIP

Demoscene Theory With Doctor Botz « CHIPFLIP — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:39:18 +0000

[...] of art but constantly referring to their basis of creation. Also, I enjoyed recently reading your (chipflip-)comment on “Fanta in Space”. Insane chip hacking of the C-64 hardware to play an italo disco [...]

Comment on 4 x Mortimer Twang: (sound)chip(based)non(chip)music by peter

peter — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:20:06 +0000

Is beeper music chipmusic? What about pokey, which is really a keyboard controller? Not being snarky just wanted to ask.

Comment on 4 x Mortimer Twang: (sound)chip(based)non(chip)music by chipflip

chipflip — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:10:42 +0000

@m-.-n: it’s intentionally provocative to call osdorp posse chipmusic. and with a strict definition the Amiga doesn’t have a soundchip. (maybe it should be called a soundcard?). neither does the gameboy :) still, the word chipmusic was invented on the amiga, and so were the (sound)tracker standards (e.g. Protracker, LSDj, Renoise). and as you say, software is very important in defining chipmusic. imho, the soundtrackers encourage more delicate programming than a lot of other trackers. in that way, i can still say that osdorp posse is chipmusic :D

and life is for losers!

Comment on 4 x Mortimer Twang: (sound)chip(based)non(chip)music by M-.-n

M-.-n — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:41:04 +0000

“Paula is primarily the audio chip, with 4 independent hardware-mixed 8-bit PCM sound channels, each of which supports 65 volume levels and any sample rate from roughly 20 Hz to 29 kHz”

so, AFAIK, the amiga DIDN’T have a ’soundchip’ per say. It was just a 4 ch sample playback engine. If there was any synthesis, it was purely generated from samples and modulation of these.

If anything “defines” the style, it’s the tracker’s command-style mecanism leading to heavy modulation and it’s tight integration with the sound generation parameters, *not* the synthesis style that is behind

Barriers should be blurry, genres should mix.

People should also get a life.

Comment on 4 x Mortimer Twang: (sound)chip(based)non(chip)music by peter

peter — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:49:19 +0000

I think at the end of the day itll come down to two kinds of artists: ones who are defined by the tools they use and ones defined by the music they make.

My favorite chip artists tend to be the ones who style would shine through on whatever instruments they write their tunes on.