plugin for making chiptune music

Post by **grittykitty** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 9:24 pm

i haven't personally tested it myself since i don't have garageband installed on my mac, but i finally found what i had been looking for! it was made by a member of the japanese chiptune jazz (i guess you could call them that?) band ymck:
http://www.ymck.net/english/download/index.html

just thought i'd share this info with anyone who interested in this sort of thing. guess i should install garageband pretty soon...

Post by **HeavyMetalMe** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 10:24 pm

Great find! I've been using Nanoloop and Nanovoice myself via GB emulator, but this seems better! Thanks!

Have you ever checked out Milky Tracker? I've seen people make some pretty neat chiptunes with it... I think there is a video floating around the net of a chiptune in action on it. Thanks again.

Post by **baphomet_irl** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 10:50 pm

also if anyone is interested, there's a Commodore64 SID emulator VST plugin which is very good (IMO) called Unkown 64, which can be used in any VST host (i.e. Cubase, Live etc.). Some of the arpeggios will bring you right back to your childhood by just holding down one note on the keyboard

. The demo (which is still very usable) can be gotten here:

http://www.odosynths.com/

it's very nice looking too

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Post by **selfdestroyer** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 10:56 pm

There is also Triforce

Its a great VST plugin that emulated the NES sound chipset.

http://www.tweakbench.com/triforce

Post by **baphomet_irl** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 11:01 pm

Nice - im gonna get that now

I really like the clean look of all those tweakbench synths

Post by **selfdestroyer** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 2:18 am

Yeah they have some great "Free"synths and FX. I have donated to them a few times.. I used a few of their plugs with in a set I did and I decided to kick them back some money for their programing time.

Post by **Bimmy** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 11:15 pm

HeavyMetalMe wrote:Great find! I've been using Nanoloop and Nanovoice myself via GB emulator, but this seems better! Thanks!

Have you ever checked out Milky Tracker? I've seen people make some pretty neat chiptunes with it... I think there is a video floating around the net of a chiptune in action on it. Thanks again.

Milkytracker is really great for making chiptunes, and because of its sample / waveform draw feature, you don't have to rely on any 3rd party samples to create chiptunes

Also, If you're interested in making NES-sounding music/chiptunes I recommend trying FamiTracker, a very good NSF tracker for windows. Very easy to work if you're familiar with tracker like programs.

Post by **HeavyMetalMe** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 3:12 am

Bimmy wrote:
HeavyMetalMe wrote:Great find! I've been using Nanoloop and Nanovoice myself via GB emulator, but this seems better! Thanks!

Have you ever checked out Milky Tracker? I've seen people make some pretty neat chiptunes with it... I think there is a video floating around the net of a chiptune in action on it. Thanks again.
Milkytracker is really great for making chiptunes, and because of its sample / waveform draw feature, you don't have to rely on any 3rd party samples to create chiptunes

Also, If you're interested in making NES-sounding music/chiptunes I recommend trying FamiTracker, a very good NSF tracker for windows. Very easy to work if you're familiar with tracker like programs.

Sounds cool, but damn this Mac!

Post by **baphomet_irl** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 7:30 pm

I'm too stupid to use trackers :s lol

I've tried a few times too eheh

Even Renoise and Aodix, which I heard were the easiest ones to use, I just can look at things moving downwards eheh

Post by **HeavyMetalMe** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 7:47 pm

I sat for hours and hours trying to figure out Renoise.

You slowly get the hang of it, but I don't believe it's as easy as some people make it seem. There is a link on Renoise's help page with video tutorials. Those were what got me over the hump.