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FamiTracker
Hi everybody! I'm new to the forums, but I've been messing around with Famitracker the past 3 or 4 years. I've finally made some halfway decent sounding music, so take a listen and tell me what you think! Especially the noise/DPCM channels--I'm not very good at chiptune beats.
[b]"Undou" Notes[/b]:
The song title is the romanization of a Japanese word meaning "movement", but that really doesn't matter. What does matter is this song is a good 3:31 long and chock full of cheesy chiptune sounds! I'm happy with the overall structure of the song--especially how it starts and ends. I actually wrote this song as an exercise in restriction. Usually, I like music in odd meter--7/4 and 7/8 specifically--but after trying and failing to make coherent songs in 7/8, I came up with this song, rockin' the 4/4 150BPM all the way down.
I'm not entirely pleased with the drums, however. I've never been in to the Triangle drums, so I've been using this kick DPCM sample I found off of freesound.net. It serves me well, but I've always felt restricted in terms of beats in famitracker, as compared to, say, Renoise--which I've also messed around in a little.
[b]Sonata k.545 - Mozart Notes[/b]:
This is a straight dance/chiptune cover of a fairly well known Mozart piano sonata. This was mostly and exercise for me to dissect the structure and chords of Mozart's music. You'll probably notice the noise/DPCM channels are the same all the way through the song--I mainly focused on straight transcription, so I got lazy on the drums. If anybody wants to replace the drum track I have in the .ftm now with something more 8bit sounding, please post it, because I'd like to hear it!
Undow - half of track is OK, half is way too random for me. I can't hear any problem with DPCM, but noise channel require some work, for sure. You could use different volumes and note durations to define rithmic pattern on the noise channel.
