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TritoneAddiction
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11 Apr 2018

I wrote this mini album in 2014. My first attempt at writing chiptunes. I wrote the whole thing in a week. I just wrote and wrote and never second guessed anything. It was great. Before this I had made a very exhausting production heavy project that took forever to finish.
I just needed that contrast. The chiptune format made the quick workflow possible. Minimal production, all song writing.
I went for "simple and catchy".

All sounds from Thor and Subtractor.

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13 Apr 2018

Chizmata wrote:
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cool atmospheres and leads
Thanks :)

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13 Apr 2018

I simply like it ! It really remind me insane and crazy period of my C64's youth!
Really well done!
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13 Apr 2018

That was awesome!

Did you have to make a lot of those sounds? Or were there already patches in Thor and Subtractor?

Speaking of which, anybody know of good refills or whatever of authentic samples from the C64 era?

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Karim wrote:
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I simply like it ! It really remind me insane and crazy period of my C64's youth!
Really well done!
Thank you. :D

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Rothgarr wrote:
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That was awesome!

Did you have to make a lot of those sounds? Or were there already patches in Thor and Subtractor?

Speaking of which, anybody know of good refills or whatever of authentic samples from the C64 era?
Glad you like it.

I guess I made the "patches", if you can call it that. The whole thing with chiptunes is to use static waveforms: square, saw, triangel, PWM, so there's really not much to tweak in terms of making patches.
The most patch like thing in these tracks are the drums. Subtractos noise osc with different filter settings and amp envelopes for kick, snare, hi hat/cymbal.

Otherwise it's a little delay here and there, a tiny bit of reverb on some sounds, some vibrato automation in some places.

You can always try Chip64, a synth from Ochen K if you're into old chip sounds. I made a short EP with it some time ago. Here are two tracks from it in case you want to hear.


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13 Apr 2018

some parts I love!
Some parts I find too standard chiptune (if there is such a thing)

But as always you're musicality shines through! Even back in the day ;)

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Audiotic wrote:
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some parts I love!
Some parts I find too standard chiptune (if there is such a thing)

But as always you're musicality shines through! Even back in the day ;)
Thanks. Would be interesting to know an example of which parts you liked the best and what parts you thought were too standard. But I appreciate that you commented in the first place. No need to give examples if you don't want to.

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15 Apr 2018

Sounds are cool and nice melodies.

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As always, your stuff is a standout, Tritone.

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As a definite child of the 16-bit/Amiga generation standard chiptune sounds don't really do much for me as far as nostalgia goes, but I definitely agree with Audiotic that there's a musicality here that comes through regardless of sound style.
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25 May 2019

Nice work TritoneAddiction! I recently got the Super Audio Cart RE and am working on some chiptune songs. Searching the music forum for chip tune posts I came across this. Very cool! I hope to join your EP Challenge with a chiptune them but haven't committed yet. Cheers and thanks for the inspiration! :)

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MannequinRaces wrote:
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Nice work TritoneAddiction! I recently got the Super Audio Cart RE and am working on some chiptune songs. Searching the music forum for chip tune posts I came across this. Very cool! I hope to join your EP Challenge with a chiptune them but haven't committed yet. Cheers and thanks for the inspiration! :)
Thanks.
I haven't written any chiptuney song yet for my EP Challenge, but you never know what happens. :D

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