The Ambient Chiptune Dare

[Ahornberg]

D.N.P and I brainstormed about an Ambient Chiptune Dare.

So we thought, just give it a try.

To make it not that hard, use any basic chip sounds & analogue synth only.
Of course, playing on old hardware-devices is also possible and desired.

Fade in/out & delay should be the extent of the effects, no Paulstretching or modern niceties.

Deadline for submitting entries is Sept. 22th.

Let's see what comes up!

[D.N.P]

Pixitracker or 1-bit pixitracker hmmm....that is the question http://www.warmplace.ru/soft/pixitracker/

[D.N.P]

Or nanoloop http://www.nanoloop.com/about.html or do I just wire some Korg Monotrons together? There are loads of possibilities...this is beginning to blow my mind...

[Ahornberg]

Intuitively I started out wiring some aliasing square and saw waves into cascaded delays ... and it's so easy to make it microtonal and weird :nuts:

[Ahornberg]

Some useful sound-sources:

Famitracker http://famitracker.com/ is a fine tool to re-create the sound of old NES-consoles.

GoatTracker http://cadaver.homeftp.net/tools.htm is an emulation of the C64 SID.

For all u-he Diva users I attached a tiny collection of simple chiptune-patches I created.

[Ahornberg]

here is my entry

https://soundcloud.com/ahornberg/ambient-chiptune


it is done entirely in Reason. I used the RackExtension https://shop.propellerheads.se/produ...modular-synth/ with has slightly aliasing primitive waveforms and two cascaded TheEcho-delays. The track is rendered down to mono - as chiptunes often are.

and yes, it is microtonal ...

[D.N.P]

Bliley that was quick, still working on mineral. You do realize we're probably the only 2 people who thinks this is a good idea!

D.N.P web presence https://dnpdarkness.wordpress.com

[D.N.P]

Nice tune that, trying to work out which C64 game that would fit.

D.N.P web presence https://dnpdarkness.wordpress.com

[Tuonela]

Bliley that was quick, still working on mineral. You do realize we're probably the only 2 people who thinks this is a good idea!

D.N.P web presence https://dnpdarkness.wordpress.com

I think it's a good idea, but as I'm an old fart just missed that era completely, never had an Amiga etc & wouldn't know a chiptune from a chip dip. :uh:

[synkrotron]

I had a C64 and an Amiga... I still wouldn't know how to approach this dare...

[a220]

Wonderful dare! I LOVE nanoloop and actually created a project a while back to feature my strange little creations I make with nanoloop 3.1 for android. I call it RECT FM NOISE because i only use the rectangle, fm, and noise synth channels (the idea at the time was that I wanted to focus on experimenting with the nanoloop synthesis engine) Anywho, this was a lot of fun
https://soundcloud.com/rect-fm-noise/bell-tiddlies


also if you have nanoloop 3.1 and you'd like to play around with it here's the .nan file

to this date all my REC FM SYNTH work is

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

[D.N.P]

Go for it!

[D.N.P]

https://soundcloud.com/brumcast/dnp-requiem-for-a-machine-ambient-online-chiptune-ambient-challenge

Here's mine, all done in Caustic 3 as usual. Extra big use of the 8-bit and Modular synths in there

[D.N.P]

I had a C64 and an Amiga... I still wouldn't know how to approach this dare...

Have a go, you'll be surprised with the outcome

[Ahornberg]

seems like this dare works! :thumbsup: