The Smiths "Girlfriend in a Coma" as 8-bit Chiptune

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did my first chiptune last night-- 'girlfriend in a coma' by the Smiths. hope you like it.

thanks for listening,
-Michael
 
reminds me good old times playing with screamtracker !! awesome
 
lol, excellent


now if you could only get morrisey through a vocoder or a speak n' spell it would be perfection
 
I thought that was fun. Sounds like intro music to some old Atari game.

So what exactly is a Chip Tune? Never heard that expression before.
 
TripleM said:
So what exactly is a Chip Tune? Never heard that expression before.
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TripleM said:
Sounds like intro music to some old Atari game.
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Answered your own question! Chiptunes - depending on how much of a purist you are - is music that either uses or emulates old video game hardware and noises.

So this is a pretty pure chiptune in that it's only composed of sounds you could produce on an old SNES or Commodore 64 (or whatever). (Although I didn't listen to ensure that you got the number of channels right?)

A lot of the stuff I do is really impure chiptunes in that I sample old VG noises and add them to other instrumentation.

Other examples would be Horse the Band and I Fight Dragons (who both use old VG controllers as control/midi interfaces).
Then if you youtube chiptune, you'll find about a bajillion covers of popular songs in the more pure style.
 
Ha. You learn something every day here. Thanks VHS.
 
No problem. Always happy to nerd out over video games and music!
 
Impressive stuff technically, and the 'step up' at around 0.40 is good. I get the 'what' and 'how' but I'm struggling with the 'why'. Does anyone listen to this type of music for pleasure or is it more of a technical exercise? I don't mean this to piss on anyone's parade (not that the original poster appears to be around anyway), just curious.
 
robgreen said:
Impressive stuff technically, and the 'step up' at around 0.40 is good. I get the 'what' and 'how' but I'm struggling with the 'why'. Does anyone listen to this type of music for pleasure or is it more of a technical exercise? I don't mean this to piss on anyone's parade (not that the original poster appears to be around anyway), just curious.
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Laughs and Ringtones. However, I have no idea why ringtones exist, so to me it still doesn't answer the question of why.
 
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