Name: Obstacles (Syd Matters) Chiptune Cover by Dex in cool 8bit
Duration: 2 min 46 s
Description: A tribute to Life Is Strange and another piece that was lying on my harddrive for quite some time. I hope I'm getting better :)

Reminds me of all those Life is Strange moments.. :)

cool 8bit

On the way home

Portalman's Stage

This track was written to demonstrate the harmonic possibilities of using higher harmonics freely whenever the composer wishes, without the bounds of a traditional scale, but within the bounds of major/minor/seventh harmony. It is also quite funky!

Harmonics of 11ths, 13th, 23rds etc are prominent in this composition, without being overwhelming in their unusualness. The highest prime harmonic used was the 127th harmonic in the final melody! E#''' was also used (125th harmonic)

It was written using a new notation system which has been devised to make accessing higher harmonics as intuitive as possible (it still takes a bit of getting one's head around!). Please contact me if you would like to see the score written in this notation system, or for details about how this notation system enables interesting harmonic composition outside of the bounds of the Western 12-note scale to be realised.

It qualifies for chiptune since although it is (much to my shame) 16-bit 44100Hz audio instead of the pure 8-bit, the sounds were synthesised from scratch using modified sin/saw waves, with a bit of band-limited noise thrown in for good measure. The synth took as input CSV 6xN matrices as sequence files, and processed in Octave/MATLAB to give MP3 output which you hear here.
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update 10th Apr 2015:

Here is a brief description of how the MP3 track was generated:

Just Intonation Notes (1/1 4/3 7/4 etc) <-> New Notation System (C F `Bb~7 etc) which is easier to read than pure numbers and where the letter corresponds (roughly) to the position in the 12ET scale
-> Excel block of chords and melody notes for visual presentation to composer (.txt)
-> Excel long (~1700 columns) of calculated note letters, frequencies, note lengths, etc
-> Excel final sequence file with 6 columns: channel, start time, frequency, note length, loudness, stereo position (.csv)
-> Octave/MATLAB code to take the 6 columns and turn them into chiptune (.mp3 or .wav)
-> Sometimes extra post processing in Audacity for final .wav

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See also:
- https://arxiv.org/a/ryan_d_1 (arXiv) for a list of my academic paper pre-prints, including my writing on music theory and Just Intonation
- http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4785-9766 (ORC ID) for my academic profile
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidryan59 for my LinkedIn profile

Sonata 1 'Cheery' - Chip Synth, Justly Intoned

made in 2008 - 
a song to test the workflow and possibilities of Renoise without using any VSTs or VSTis. Module is about 1 Megabyte large.

New Goat Order

A tribute to Life Is Strange and another piece that was lying on my harddrive for quite some time. I hope I'm getting better :)

Obstacles (Syd Matters) Chiptune Cover

Soundtrack for the Conspiracy 64k intro "Vessel" - http://conspiracy.hu/release/64k/vessel/

I was so incredibly nervous about this; doing "emotionally charged" music on cue was something that I felt was way out of my comfort zone, and I wasn't sure if I was up to the task - I especially struggled with the first part, which I felt was the most important. In the end, I think that fear permeated the music itself, and I was able to draw on experiences I lived through or witnessed to deliver this, turning all of how and what I felt like into what ultimately became the song.
Influence-wise, I decided early on that I wanted to take the minimalism of Vector Lovers and somehow merge it with the soaring energy of post-rock (like 65daysofstatic), with the mid-section being heavily influenced by - oddly - Nine Inch Nails, The Lion King and Shadow Gallery. If none of this makes sense to you, I can assure you that it didn't make sense to me either until the track started taking shape, but I somehow instinctively knew where to look when I needed certain elements.
In the end, I think the music ultimately ended up carrying a lot of the intro on its back, and it might eventually become one of the favorite pieces of music I ever did.

Download at
http://gargaj.umlaut.hu/music/Gargaj_-_Through_My_Veins.mp3
http://gargaj.umlaut.hu/music/Gargaj_-_Through_My_Veins.flac

Through My Veins

Quick little track I made for the FieldFX demoparty hosted at EMF Camp! Made in an hour at work during friday drinks. 4 channel mod.

It's not v good, but got 4th place out of 6!

blep

okkie - blep

After nearly 25 years in the demoscene I've created my very first SID on the Commodore 64. And boy, was it an absolutely horrifying experience! Made in GoatTracker v2.73 with incredible wavetable help of No-XS/Desire! 

Used in Poo-Brain's very first c64 demo 'Ladekast' released at X'2018! Get it here (it's not v good) https://csdb.dk/release/?id=170958

edit: oh, it starts over halfway in cause I had no idea how to convert a .sng to a .sid and sids don't actually end and jesus christ what a fucking mess that machine is.

okkie - ladekast

Castlevania III - Evergreen (Vanux Cover)

From the album "Islands" available now from http://www.demoscenetimemachine.com

More music by me at https://soundcloud.com/vitling

Cavalry

If there's anyone who wants to get into making covers on FamiTracker but doesn't know where to start, I'd recommend trying out this song. It's pretty simple but also is groovular.

Program Rhythm (2A03 + MMC5)

My entry for PABAT 2020
FLAC Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aiOSNPbbA_WLUxfu9t1Uwp0nJN4U7Y44/view
OGG Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15rTjRVDE2G4SWdO6E0krqa3nWw9yxqmB/view
BMS Download: http://k-bms.com/party_pabat/party.jsp?board_num=20&num=24&order=reg&odtype=a

Welcome to the Digital Sunshine

Cover of Lonely Rolling Star from the Katamari Damacy series by Yoshihito Yano.
Stereo POKEY, 4x player speed, NTSC timings. Uses patched version of RMT with "A" type bass table by R0ger.

Katamari Damacy - Lonely Rolling Star (POKEY Cover)

keep that chin up!

follow your dreams!!

(made with famitracker!!!)

you gotta have ambition

My first real attempt at an original. Made in Famitracker with the VRC6 sound expansion using moviemovie1's instrument pack

Here thar be no title

a little bit of everything  including  Christmas  music 

Obstacles (Syd Matters) Chiptune Cover

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