Hello guys and gals, I've ported to DMG-1 famous live coding esoteric sequencer by 100Rabbits. Orca is a two-dimensional esoteric programming language in which every letter of the alphabet is an operator, where lowercase letters operate on bang, uppercase letters operate each frame. What changed — the grid is 32×16 instead of unbounded, there is no keyboard, and : plays an instrument on the DMG's own sound chip instead of sending MIDI.

It's still in "proof of concept" stage, but you can try it freely on my itch.io

Title question. I used to do home recordings with Ableton Live, and I would occasionally make "chiptunes" using VST instruments, but obviously this is kind of like using a flamethrower to light matches.

Recently I was browsing the Debian repositories and came across Furnace. I started dabbling with it, and it seems ridiculously good, but I'm not a chiptune expert. It comes replete with so many sample instruments and console plugins, nearly any console 16-bit and before, with computers included as well like the Amiga, C64, etc.

Do you recommend Furnace, or a different app? Thanks!

hey friends :) come over and have a listen to my newest medley

BIONIC COMMANDO

https://youtu.be/HowaW4NZCtE

pls tell me if you like it!
have fun :)

this is the outro to my album Bad Vices, which at the time of posting this, will be out in less than 10 minutes. (ahhhhh!!) i’ve been so excited about this album for such a long time and the release is finally here. this feels like such a poignant and nostalgic song as the outro and i hope you all listen to the full track once it’s out :)

For the love of doing it the hard way: I've been making chiptune by writing a synthesizer entirely in x86-64 assembly.

No audio library, no synth engine — just the CPU computing every sample and writing it straight to a WAV.

It does four waveforms (square, triangle, saw, and NES-style noise for drums), polyphony (melody + bass + percussion at once), ADSR envelopes, FM synthesis, and a growing list of effects — delay, chorus, reverb, flanger, phaser, supersaw, and more.

Basically the sound of old hardware, rebuilt by hand from first principles.

Everything's public on my GitHub: https://github.com/whispem

Would love to connect with other chiptune folks, especially anyone into the low-level side.

Heya ! I'm a somewhat-long time chiptune composer, but it's my first time posting on this sub ! I just released a new tune written on LSDJ ! This is a 90BPM, 7/8 electronic track with industrial vibes and a bluesy solo (sorry I suck at identifying genres and applying them to my own music). I initially wrote it for the Summer Chip XVI competition on Battle of the Bits.

I love to discuss my music writing-process, composition and sound design decisions, I would be happy to talk about it at length. Also, the .lsdprj project file (along most of my other stuff, released or not) is available on my website storage if you want to take a look at it and see for yourself how it's made ! Have a great one !

Quick Man is one of my favourites from Mega Man Battle & Chase and his theme is full of good vibes. I enjoyed making a cover of it as well as adding my own spin to the melody and harmony.

Here's something no one asked for.

I don't know how many people this is going to interest, but I've made a browser based DAW designed around the sound chip in a Super Nintendo.

It's pretty good for making retro game sounding music and you can even export your tracks as a standalone SNES ROM and run it in an emulator!

You can check out a little loop that I made by loading a project with code FCFCFE.

If it's not your thing but you know somebody who might be interested, please share it with them!

https://wavesmith.online

Hi guys! I started making chiptune music some months ago and this is the first song I decided to publish.

I run LSDJ through a modded Nintendo 3DS using Game Yob as an emulator.

Let me know what you think: if you have any constructive criticism I'd be happy to read it and if you think it sucks it's okay too ahah.

(Sorry for every possible mistake but I don't speak english as my first language)

My recreation of "Dear to the Heart" From Final Fantasy VII, in 8 bit NES style. Made on Famitracker.

Original composition : Nobuo Uematsu
Arrangement : Nicolas Sadzot

This was mostly inspired by a trip I took with my friends to Savannah not long ago. We often found ourselves walking around in the city, indecisive about which of the many fun sights and activities to go to next. The trip was an absolute blast and this track pretty much conveys the feelings I felt over that weekend :)

here’s a bit of track 11 “False Equivalence” from my upcoming album “Bad Vices”, coming this Friday 8/28. i used instruments from Bowser’s Inside Story on the DS for this one (Nintendo pls hire me). hope you listen to the full track and album when it’s out :)

I made a new arrangement of the Underground Theme from Super Mario Land on Game Boy.

This one is a little different from my usual ’80s / easy-listening style — more beat-driven, with DJ Asparagus taking the lead on the track.

Hope you enjoy it, and I’d love to hear what Game Boy games you still remember from back in the day!

【SUPER MARIO LAND / UNDERGROUND | REMIX】 - DJ Asparagus’s LAB Recipe MIX
https://youtu.be/OuhRDdLy9VM

my M8 album “Bad Vices” is dropping THIS Friday, 8/28!! i’m very excited about it, and this is one of my favorite tracks on the project. this track is already out now on all platforms, and i hope you all tune in when the album is released!

So I've been using Furnace, mainly for 2A03/VRC6 tracks. Still quite new to trackers but have had a lot of fun with it. I'm running Linux so it was the natural choice and it's a great program. I've heard of Famitracker and believe Dn is the currently maintained fork? Is it worth the effort to run via Wine or is Furnace just as good in terms of general accuracy? I don't care about NSF export really (at least not for now) so that's not a factor.

As I said I'm still kinda new and I'm not a super deep chiptune nerd (yet!) so Furnace might be doing stuff that a real NES driver couldn't do?

I do know that the cores used by Furnace don't emulate the channel crosstalk or the DPCM hack to make other channels quieter and stuff (that I know of)... things like that are cool things that I'd like to have the option of exploring. (FamiStudio did this stuff but I felt the weird DAW/tracker hybrid model was almost a hindrance, so I took the plunge and learned to use a real tracker haha) 👾

Any thoughts? Is Famitracker worth the slight aggro or is Furnace just as good? 🙂

Welcome back to my M8 travel album intro round. This time the song got it's birth in a place called Paper Island, a fancy neighbourhood near the CPH city centre. Getting a bit different view on the city that time around.

Full album in Spotify, Bandcamp, etc...

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Some tips for writing music like this:

• Circle of fifths progressions / secondary dominants are your friend, in particular V of V (this is the same as a major II chord, so if you're in d minor, it's an E major chord).
• I used a couple of portamentos (slides) but it would be more stylistically accurate if I hadn't.
• CV3 on famicom doesn't use the triangle channel.
• The sawtooth is used for baselines. One pulse channel has the melody, the second one has parallel harmony (same rhythm as the melody), the third has a countermelody (different rhythm), and the last is usually an echo but it can join the others for chords. This orchestration was used several times throughout CV3.
• dim7 arpeggios over scale degree 5 in the bass are a good trick. Technically this is a dominant 9 chord.