One of my favorite sound chips in retro consoles has always been the Commodore SID-chip. The Pulse-Width Modulation and really cool arps. that the SID-chip could pull off were always just really intriguing to me and so today I wanted to just try emulating a little bit of that. 

It's a bit subtle, but I did my best with my limited know how to put something together that should at least show some of my inspiration. Hope you like this Weekly Minute!

WMM - 009 [Way-V-Form Collapse]

The Multimedia Quest

I think, I'm made this a few months ago maybe...

Pseudo Continent Voyage

This weeks track utilizes arpeggios again, although I wouldn't say I did it as well as I did in Inverse Sphere. I do like it for the melody here, but it's still something I wish to work on. I did also do a little testing with panning in the harmony instruments, but it was more of a gimmick than anything else. Overall though, I'd say the track is a pretty fun listen either way and so far has become one of the pieces I've enjoyed making and listening to the most with what's been released up to now. 

I do really hope you end up liking it too and the improvement that comes with it. I'll see you next week for the next minute!

WMM - 010 [Flightless Underground Travel]

For all of my Weekly Minutes of Music thus far, I've exclusively used a tracking software by the name of Klystrack. I was informed of it a few years back and it became my first tracker. It doesn't emulate any single chip, but has a wide range of features that made it good for learning how generalized trackers work. Although, as I've been doing these Weekly Minutes of Music, I've realized I should probably expand my horizons a bit with other trackers. 

So this week, I bring you my FIRST test track for learning Famitracker! Fami emulates the 2A03 Ricoh sound chip for the NES and has a very nostalgic sound for anyone who played the many NES games of the day. Thus, I figured it would be a good first tracker to learn how to use after Klystrack. I'll admit, I'm still not fully comfortable with how Famitracker works, but that's what these Weekly Minutes of Music are for. I hope you like this small piece here, and enjoy!

WMM - 011 [Fami-Test 1]

Here's my cover of Till Our Heads Turn White by Jan Valta and Adam Sporka from the videogame Kingdom Come Deliverance OST. Enjoy and thank you for listening!

Till Our Heads Turn White

Ethereal yet driving, cute but cosmic. Playful synth textures & pixelated melodies collide with deep IDM-style beats. 
Retro game energy reimagined in a dreamy futuristic club setting.

🎥 Watch the visualizer → [https://youtu.be/uv1jnUhSDfk]

Original composition by anime4life. 
Mixed, produced and released by Eclectic Whiz.

Give it a listen to its original by anime4life 🕹️ [https://soundcloud.com/rissaboo31/spooky-n-scary-mp3]

Spooky’n Scary

Take Home

Spooky'n Scary

Sorry it was almost late today! I ended up getting a bit sidetracked on this one and had to add in a little more flair. Originally this piece was meant to be a sort of redux for W.M.M. 8, Calmly De-sinking to give a more appropriate sea vibe. However, I guess you could say I went a bit further than that in the final product. 

The animation was a last ditch effort to try something new. I've never been great at pixel art, but after giving this song it's name, "bottle of deep sea" I couldn't help myself in attempting to add a visual to the title. If you like it then let me know, I could see about doing some more of these in the future. Although I will say music will be the first and foremost thing that I care about here. It is Weekly Minutes of Music after all! Either way though, I do hope you enjoy this 12th entry into the Weekly Minutes, and hopefully I'll throw something new at you next week!

WMM - 012 [A Bottle of Deep Sea]

Heyo! Got the next weekly minute here. Originally I was wanting to make a cool PWM beat-em-up styled song. Furthermore, the main theme was heavily inspired by the Amiga System's "Hybris main theme" which I've always loved. However, I did end up running out of time a lot this week in getting it finalized. Because of that, I'm not entirely happy with it and might redo it sometime later down the line. 

The bass notes are a bit too muddy for my liking and the groove is rather simple in places. I do hope you guys still end up liking it, but just due to some irl changes in my life I've had to cut back on my quality for this week a bit more than I'd like. I'll try to make it up to you in the coming weeks though. In the meantime, at least enjoy this test here as I delve into reverbed Pulse Width Modulation. (I do really like the sound and effect it brings, I just need to get better at using it) 

WMM - 013 [AnHydris]

Coming back again with another track this week for your listening pleasure. I will admit wholeheartedly that time has been a bit of a hard resource to gather recently so I haven't had as much time to put into stuff, and I don't expect that to change for a little while now. 

I'm am still doing my best to work on these tracks though and continue to learn more and more about how to properly chiptune. This track here is one that has been on the backburner for awhile I will say, and I finally took the chance to finish it up. Honestly, there is a lot more I want to do with this piece here, but for now I at least have it up to the time slot I set out for myself. Hopefully someday though I can come back to all of these pieces here and see if there are any that need a refresh. Hope you like it and I'll see you next week with what I'm hoping will be another Famitracker test.

Dekatronic After Images

Hello, I'm make Chiptune music, which is a subgenre of electronic music, I hope any of you will enjoy my music.

Wait what was I doing here again? Ah right! I'm a chiptune composer using this to improve my music skills. Check in weekly for 1 minute of new music!

Brewing genre-bending beats, sparking with glitches, and a little chaos or magick

Welcome to my 8-bit universe, where pixels and nostalgia merge with the energy of the future ✨ I’m Neon Pixel and I love reimagining modern melodies and timeless classics into chiptune covers. Join me on a journey through memories and imagination! Ready to press Start? 🎵💾👾

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