I have been working on this gb rom for couple of months now and getting close to a public release! would love you guys thoughts on it. I made a little website to collect emails and offer a free demo (with handbook). please have a listen and let me know your thoughts :)

https://gb-z.myshopify.com

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New music program to make beats on the Gameboy (wip)

I became a music transcriber during the pandemic; I watched a ton of videos on music theory, harmony, instruments, and much more. I used to figure out songs by ear, but one day I wanted to know how to write them down, so I started by transcribing bass and guitar lines, then added drums and more instruments, eventually recreating the entire piece.

when making my track “Liminal Space Interlude” for my M8 album Bad Vices, i aimed to recreate/nod to that classic eurodance sound. one of the songs i used as a reference was “Better Off Alone” by Alice Deejay. i played my track for a few friends and they said it reminded them of Better Off Alone, which made me very happy! but it also gave me the idea to try and mash them together. so, i took her vocals and put them over my track. it’s not an official remix at the moment but who knows what the future holds :) my original track is on all streaming platforms under my name amateurLSDJ, as well as my Bandcamp.

(I wrote a whole description and Reddit nuked it... sigh... here's the jist...)

I had writers block so decided to remake the main theme to the roguelike game Pixel Dungeon/Shattered Pixel Dungeon in 8 bit NES style. Made in Furnace with mix tweaks and mastering in Cubasis (iPad). 2A03 and VRC6.

I chose to worry less about hardware accuracy and give it a little bit of polish (mainly rebalancing the triangle which was way too loud and raising the noise which I had under mixed... added some parallel compression, limiting, little bit of EQ, and some tasteful stereo space/reverb... I also didn't like the crunchy DPCM samples for this track, so ran them in normal PCM mode for clarity)

Credit to u/CubeCode for the original comp and Lumine Thomas Haaristo for the Shattered rearrangement that I'm more familiar with.

I've been working on Guava DAW, a chiptune DAW made specifically for indie/game-jam developers.

The idea is basically:

You have 48 hours to make a game and need music, but you don't want to spend 20 hours learning FL Studio/Ableton/etc.

So I made something much smaller. It already has a Piano roll, Track arranger, 25 synth instruments, ADSR controls & WAV + MP3 export.

It's built with Electron and is currently preparing for an early-September release on itch.io.

I'd genuinely like to know: does this look useful to you, or am I solving a problem nobody has?

What would make you actually want to use something like this?

Anyone a fan of Megaman :)

Dippin' my toes in FamiStudio and its capabilities. Tried making something using 2A03 and VRC6.

trying to make a chiptune using only basic soundwaves in the internal synth and no effects

written for Carfdarko's Contest 03: "It's Time to Burn!"

I have known about tracker music for a very long time. I used mod files in the 90’s but I have always wanted to produce the music.

I used midi with a keyboard many years ago. Could someone please link me to a tutorial for an absolute beginner to do demoscene and/or tracker parts?

Thanks!

my track “Don’t Lie to Me” on my album Bad Vices uses vocals from “Plastic Love” by Mariya Takeuchi. here’s the process of how i sampled her! hope you enjoy and stream/buy my track. it’s on all streaming platforms as well as my Bandcamp page :)

Again in Copenhagen... That's the theme of this song as the city happens to be the most frequent destination for me. Nine more songs to go after this. See y'all in a few days again!

https://reddit.com/link/1w21b6r/video/cibpxzt5eemh1/player

my chiptune M8 album “Bad Vices” is finally out everywhere!! it’s on all streaming platforms under my name - amateurLSDJ - as well as on my Bandcamp for purchase :) a big thank you to everyone that’s listened so far!

I want to get into tracker music, but I've been using "traditional" DAWs for years, and one thing that has stopped me from using trackers is the fact that chords are less "readable." On a DAW I can see the position of notes relative to a piano and change an individual note with ease by dragging, but on a tracker, it's all letters and numbers, which isn't as easy to understand to me. This is one of the main things discouraging me from giving trackers a try, along with not knowing how to make things that sound cool and memorizing hexadecimal for things like changing volume. I know I could just stick to the thing I'm more used to, but I've been wanting to learn trackers, and if I did I'd be able to participate in Battle of the Bits more often.