8-bit noodly fun.

[Maindrian]

Hello dear friends, it's been a long while since I've turned up here, how are you all?

To the point, I've been having fun fiddling about with a program called Sawcutter for the past six months, using it to do simple little pieces of music for a daft little youtube film I'm still working on. Over time, I've figured out how to make the thing do 8-bit style tracks.

So, you guys being fellow chiptune/sid fans like myself, I could think of nowhere else better to show them off.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/view.ph ... &sub=72358

Sorry it's a newgrounds page, but it's been a pretty good online storage place for my stuff for quite a while now. The 8-bit stuff is marked out as such I think.

Feel free to browse my other songs as well, but it's mainly the chiptune stuff I'm interested in you guys hearing. Also, bear in mind, it's not really that Sid-dy. If anything, it's mostly inspired by Spectrum music as the first tune on the page will attest to.

I just want to see if you guys think I've captured the vibe really. I dunno...

Oh yes, one last pointer. If you do fancy having a flick through the other tracks, ignore the Touge Song. It might make you lose control of your bowels.

[Analog-X64]

Welcome back!!!

So were all these tunes done in Sawcutter? Any VST Synths? or just Samples.

[Maindrian]

It's VST, I think. Frankly, I've always been a "plug guitar/bass into soundcard, crank it and if it turns out bad, chop into little bits, hit with hammer and throw in a drum sequence" type musician. All this new terminology is a bit over my head. I often feel a little out of my depth discussing my on the fly music with you real musicians. Hell, I've recently uploaded a remix that starts off with 1 or 2 minuites worth of ragged nylon string guitar recorded on a distorted microphone sitting a couple of meters away.

http://www.cuttermusic.com/productsSC1.htm There you are. It's basic, extremely basic, good for a couple of bars at best. In order to get full tunes out of it, I have to record a lot of little bits to wav and then put them together in Audacity, but it works quite seamlessly. For a six year old freebie, it ain't half fun to play with.

Still, I'm thinking of shelling out for the 2.0 version.