Name: We Come From Saturn (SPC700 Original) by Tobikomi
Duration: 2 min 11 s
Description: A li'l house track for the Super Nintendo. :)

This reminds me of the Amiga-developed Super NES games that me and my friends used to rent twenty-seven years ago. Great work!

Entered into BotB's Summer Chip XI. My first ever entry!
https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/Major+Conflict%21%21/47626/

Major Conflict!!

A li'l house track for the Super Nintendo. :)

Summer Chip XII

We Come From Saturn (SPC700 Original)

JummBox link: https://tinyurl.com/2gtowy8o

Hubert The Potted Fern

Hi! I've been quietly and skeptically studying machine learning for a few years, and this is my first result worth sharing.

What you're hearing is not AI-composed, it's a cover of my own chiptune, created by Riffusion, a spectrogram-finetuned ML model based on Stable Diffusion. No external samples, effects, or synths were used, just the original unaltered NES chip track (https://virt.bandcamp.com/track/the-buzz-in-the-grotto-troupple-pond) and the following text prompt:

"A rocking latin jazz fusion track, recorded 1960, big brass sections, muted trumpet, acoustic guitar, piano montuno, flourishes and high energy throughout, salsa pop dance, it's time to party yeah boiii"

To create a stereo effect, I incremented the seed and the denoising value a tiny bit to create a slightly different mix, and panned these left and right. I suspect the reason it works is that the chiptune was already written to imitate "live instruments" in chip form. The model is eerily good at inferring the same timbre and performance techniques that I was actually trying to go for. 

In other words, you can now write a chiptune as an "MSpaint scaffolding version" and then turn it into amazing future sounds. I named the technique neurochip, and I'd love to hear other people trying it out!

I'll post a guide as soon as I can get some good screenshots of my process and maybe get in touch with the people working on Riffusion.

Neurochip 01 - Buzz in the Grotto

Woo boy, this one's a doozy.

This is the second attempt at an MSX/SCC+ cover, that I started last night and finished minutes before uploading this lol. It's rare that a cover I finish so quickly is one I'm so proud of, but it believe it, cuz it happened.

The first attempt was around September of 2021, where I was making a pretty promising attempt with TriloTracker, a program that runs on the MSX computer itself (I had to emulate with openMSX), and is honestly really cool. It's quite powerful, and it's shockingly usable, though not at all intuitive or straightforward, you have to read the manual quite a lot to know how to use it.

Apart from the fact it only lets you navigate the UI with the keyboard, it also has no options, at least as far as I could tell, for automatically modulating a wavetable synth. If I wanted the bass to have a bit of clang, I would have to, by hand, draw up dozens of individual waveforms to switch between later, manually, with nothing but the goddamn arrow keys. Suffice to say, it really wasn't the best solution, so I put it down, and didn't return to the idea for ages.

In the years since, I've discovered Furnace, and watched it get so good that it's now my primary chiptune tracker, and one of its biggest draws for me was the allure of being able to make MSX/SCC music with a bloody mouse as well as a keyboard lol. Which made drawing up waveforms much easier, and Furnace's own feature like the "Synthesister" were really cool to play around with.

Idk why it's called that, cuz it's not actually a synthesister, and is actually more of an effects/LFO tool that you apply to waveforms and instruments that you've already made or imported. Using it is how I got a slight clang to the bass without having to draw shitloads of waveforms (that is, apart from the bass solo towards the end, that was done with two layered and detuned sounds).

It's also how I got the chords to have a slight modulation to them, which is meant to mimic the slight FM operator detune that the original version has, as well as give them a bit more life.

I had a lot of fun screwing around with the MSX/SCC, it's certainly a combo I'll be returning to in the future, especially since Furnace makes it easier than its ever been to squeeze out its full potential. The ease of which it lets you design complex sounds on an otherwise simple chip is insane, I actually can't believe I made it sound like this haha

Hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I did making it! ^^

[MSX\SCC+] - Bosconian (X68K): "Blast Power !"

KAJA, the composer of Triggerheart Exelica, is famous for being the author of PMD, a sound driver for NEC PC. So I decided to make this song with PMD.

[PC-9801] Trigger Heart Exelica - Exelica, Dancing At Dawn (PMD+PPZ8)

喜望峰でダンス(サウンドウェアver.) / 大航海時代【FM音源版】

Made for ThatArtisan, check his stuff out! https://thatartisan.carrd.co/

This was an absolute treat to work on, super happy to have been given the opportunity!

Candrin's Theme - The Vagrant

The final boss OST I wrote for the upcoming game, BE Witches.
Song Name: Crystal Guardian
Composers: A M 4 N 
Software: Tildearrow's Furnacetracker
System, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis [YM2612,  SN76489]

VGM: 
https://www.mediafire.com/file/uak8dbigoad0e02/crystal_guardian.vgm/file

WARNING: NOT SAFE FOR WORK! nosebecc.itch.io/b-e-witches

Crystal Guardian | BE Witches [YM2612, SN76489]

The Dragon

(C)NCS/MESIYA
composed by Masanao Akahori
FMP/PC98 arranged by yantako(1994/2019)

[YM2608] "We've Gotta Do It" from VALKEN (emulated by FMP7)

Hi!
This is where I post my recent stuff.

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I like writing tunes for these chips:
-YAMAHA YM2151 (OPM)
-YAMAHA YMF262 (OPL3)
-TI SN76489
-GI AY-3-8910
-ATARI POKEY
-ATARI TIA
-MOS Technology SID 6581/8580
-MOS Technology VIC-I
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Here are some sound chips I hope to learn more about:

-YAMAHA YM3526 (OPL)
-YAMAHA YM2413 (OPLL)
-YAMAHA YM2203 (OPN)

We Come From Saturn (SPC700 Original)

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