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So, I was wondering. What's your motivation? Like, why do you make music. Why do you work with what's essentially a novelty and only popular as such. Chiptunes and working with limitations.. why would anyone want to do that?
My reason is I enjoy doing so and I really only make music for myself. Even though I can't stand the thought of working in a tracker FamiTracker is one of the few trackers I can use and it isn't an issue. SGEN chiptunes via SMPS is fun as I can pen down ideas that sound good with limitations and can later be applied to the bigger picture on a real instrument one day. My chiptune covers help me learn how to transcribe and are a novelty that I like after working with ROM hacks and wanting custom music in them; people seem to like the novelty.
The sad thing is I prefer doing non-chiptune stuff but I really only have a name in doing that and not my metal/EDM stuff. It's a shame and I'd really prefer it the other way around. I think I've matured enough to do the bigger scale things.. and no one listens to them. The people who listen to me seem to only care if it's YM2612 or 2A03, which bugs me. But, ultimately, as long as one person enjoys what I'm doing, I don't care what it is I'm doing in the end, so that's what ultimately drives me to do anything with audio, as whilst I do it for myself, I want to entertain others and make them feel what I feel.
If this has been discussed before and I'm an idiot, please don't bite!!
I'm really not sure, to be blunt. Maybe it's because I love music and want to make my own, and really, making chiptune music is super easy for me, even with tons of limitations. Not a massive amount of people really look my way and listen to my music, or offer much feedback, but I guess I just make it for fun.
Working on my first non-free album right now, not sure what made me do that when barely anybody has downloaded my free stuff, but it's probably just the promise of at least one buyer and having money for once.
Motivation...that's a question I've been trying to answer to myself for a long time now. Originally, it was just the music itself sounding nice, but now I've started to fall a bit...again. I'm not even sure what motivates me to make anything anymore, but whatever it is...I hope it stays.
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RE: What's your motivation?Posted: 2013-09-16 02:58 (Last Edited: 2013-09-16 03:06)
[quote=DalekSam]So, I was wondering. What's your motivation? Like, why do you make music. Why do you work with what's essentially a novelty and only popular as such. Chiptunes and working with limitations.. why would anyone want to do that?
My reason is I enjoy doing so and I really only make music for myself. Even though I can't stand the thought of working in a tracker FamiTracker is one of the few trackers I can use and it isn't an issue. SGEN chiptunes via SMPS is fun as I can pen down ideas that sound good with limitations and can later be applied to the bigger picture on a real instrument one day. My chiptune covers help me learn how to transcribe and are a novelty that I like after working with ROM hacks and wanting custom music in them; people seem to like the novelty.
The sad thing is I prefer doing non-chiptune stuff but I really only have a name in doing that and not my metal/EDM stuff. It's a shame and I'd really prefer it the other way around. I think I've matured enough to do the bigger scale things.. and no one listens to them. The people who listen to me seem to only care if it's YM2612 or 2A03, which bugs me. But, ultimately, as long as one person enjoys what I'm doing, I don't care what it is I'm doing in the end, so that's what ultimately drives me to do anything with audio, as whilst I do it for myself, I want to entertain others and make them feel what I feel.
If this has been discussed before and I'm an idiot, please don't bite!!
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Well... because I like it. Even if I can't write music it's an efficient emotional outlet for me. I love the sound of the waveforms (to an almost disturbing level), and I fell like, in a really weird way, I can connect with the hardware in ways most other people (i.e. not chipmusicians) can't. Think about it, if you have a powerpak, or jrlepage has recorded your music on his TNS or use you LSDJ or NTRQ, or any other hardware tracker or similar, you are directly causing an actual device that's long out of production, that no one but us cares about, an obsolete, uninteresting, piece-of-shit part of a computer, to do what you want. The way I feel about everything in this hobby is completely indescribable, as cheesy as that may sound.
Also, the people are nice and... stuff... not that I like you guys or anything like that... [color=#363636]*hugs you guys*
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I like using trackers! They're the easiest way for me to make and share music+source. Most MIDI "source" files exported from a DAW don't even remotely resemble the actual song. Another problem with actual DAW source files is that most of them won't play properly unless you decide to go through the pain of buying/pirating all the external VSTs it uses.
I don't really care about the chiptune and "authentic" part of it. Modding your hardware to make it easier to use or sound better (i.e. disabling $4011 crackling or filtering out N163 multiplexer hiss) has always been a part of the chiptune community too, after all. :P
[quote=Im_a_Track_Man]Also, the people are nice and... stuff... not that I like you guys or anything like that...[/quote]
That's only because the not-so-nice people are banned! (or at least most of them behave on these forums. :P)
New guy, hi. Just felt like i had to reply to this.
[quote=Xyz_39808]Someone asked an odd question in my Theory IV class and professor Fankhauser's answer applies I think.
"Why do composers compose? Because they have to"[/quote]
This.
Guilty of this myself, just woke up from a 40 hour session working on audio and other random crap. I just cannot see myself doing something else... at all... ever. But then again, i only picked up famitracker today. (I generally am filling the 'audio engineer' role.)
[quote=PalmMute]New guy, hi. Just felt like i had to reply to this.
[quote=Xyz_39808]Someone asked an odd question in my Theory IV class and professor Fankhauser's answer applies I think.
"Why do composers compose? Because they have to"[/quote]
This.
Guilty of this myself, just woke up from a 40 hour session working on audio and other random crap. I just cannot see myself doing something else... at all... ever. But then again, i only picked up famitracker today. (I generally am filling the 'audio engineer' role.)[/quote]
Mr. Mute, did you push the submit button twice? Don't worry--it's just a game of patience. Here's my welcome to you and complete respect of opinion.
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[quote=PaulMannIV]
Mr. Mute, did you push the submit button twice? Don't worry--it's just a game of patience. Here's my welcome to you and complete respect of opinion.[/quote]
Appearantly i did. Excuse me, my bad!
And thank you for the welcome!
[quote=PalmMute][quote=PaulMannIV]
Mr. Mute, did you push the submit button twice? Don't worry--it's just a game of patience. Here's my welcome to you and complete respect of opinion.[/quote]
Appearantly i did. Excuse me, my bad!
And thank you for the welcome![/quote]
...here we go again...
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