grumble grumble. i need more tracker/chipmusic friends to chat about my latest extremely specific fixation with
@typhlosion whatcha been doin or thinkin about with chiptuines friend!
@shoofle making a whole bunch of them for battle of the bits!
@shoofle and also just, thinking about trackers in general, and thinking about designing a new tracker with its own format, just for fun
@typhlosion what tracker formats do you like, also
@shoofle i've mainly used milkytracker, but i've been dabbling in others - i really like famitracker for NES, and i've juuust started trying out openmpt
as for the formats themselves, tbh they're all kinda weird and have some stuff i don't like about them, but my favorite is still probably gonna be xm just cos milky was my first tracker
@typhlosion that's cool!! I have done my chipmusic experiments in lsdj on my gameboy and would do more except that the flash cart died :(
@shoofle oooh i really want to try lsdj. it always looked really daunting to me though
@typhlosion it's actually pretty usable if you have the manual at hand! Just a lot of chording
@typhlosion oooooh whats battle of the bits?
@shoofle it's a competition website, mainly for music (especially chiptune music) but they also have other formats sometimes. there are one-hour battles and also bigger competitions
@typhlosion I'm out of practice, but not out of love for the form. Nearly all my music has been in trackers. And to test a new tracker would be just the thing to get back into it.... *grin*
Also I am responsible for several fonts in both the Impulse Tracker and Schism Tracker official distributions! (Relevant‽)
@ElectricKeet whoa, nice!
@ElectricKeet may i hear some of your music? :> also, what do you use these days?
@typhlosion I keep procrastinating on getting Bandcamp stuff finished, so for now... regrettably, I only have my terrible old page and terrible old MP3s at http://electrickeet.com/tune.html (with album packs at the bottom.)
These days? I haven't actually finished a piece of music for release in maaaany years now. I was most active in Schism Tracker and still know my way around it, but I've dabbled awkwardly in DefleMask, FamiTracker, and OpenMPT.
i want... to make my own tracker......