Chiptune. Musical style. DJ information blog.

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August 11, 2008 (11:32)

posted by djwriter

Chiptune. Musical style. DJ information blog.

Since hiptune or chip music - music written in sound formats, where the synthesized sounds in real time or computer sound card game console, and not in the program with sample-harvesting. Golden time this style lasted 10 years starting from 1980 on, when the sound chip was the most common method of creating an electronic music.
Chiptune directly linked with music from old video games. Current projects are trying to update the sound, complicating technology.
Sound chip consists mainly of the major wave forms, such as sinusoid, meandry, serrated wave fluctuations and other non-sinusoid species, as well as basic drums, which are generated by a white noise, passing through ADSR converter.
Classic 8 - bit sound can be identified by its pulsating synthesized noise. Sample pulsation "white noise" and ultraspeed arpeggio mimic linkage diffrent tones three or four channels of sound (due to limitations in hardware have to put a few shades in one channel).
Chip scene is far from dead, and even not obscurity. New chip tracker make sound more accessible to musicians. For example, Little Sound DJ from the Nintendo Game Boy designed the interface design that can be used in the living environment and synchronize MIDI. Established on the platform of Windows Fast Tracker - is one of the most famous chiptune instruments because, create and stretch the samples with a mouse.
Musicians playing chiptune: Ben Daglish, Tim Follin, Matt Furniss, Matt Simmonds (4-Mat), Martin Galway, Jean Sebastien Gerard, Richard Joseph, Gary Gilbertson, Jochen Hippel, Rob Hubbard, Chris H Lsbeck, Koji Kondo, Yuukichan's Papa, Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka, Jeroen Tel, Nobuo Uematsu, David Whittaker, dubmood, Joey Mariano, YMCK.

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