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FamiTracker
I had this idea for a music tracker the other night. It would be like an NES tracker, but a bit more, and not quite the same... so it would be an "NESque" tracker.
Basically, what if there were a program that composed music for a theoretical version of the NES that allows one to use up to some arbitrarily large number of channels? The channels would have no restriction on the kinds of instruments they could play, so they could use custom waveform instruments, like the N163, only with better resolution and audio fidelity, or FM synth, or noise, or DPCM (where there would be no limit to the number or size of the samples used).
On these channels and within these instruments, there would be more than just sixteen steps of resolution for the volume control, and volume control and all effects would be available to all channels and instruments. There would also be control over stereo panning, and per-channel volume balancing, not just intra-channel volume (as with the volume column in FT).
The idea sounds more and more like a traditional music tracker, like MODPlug or what have you, but it would still generate waveforms in a chiptune style (except in the case of DPCM, of course). And it would certainly be able to generate authentic NES-style audio (perhaps it would have built-in functionality that would limit itself to whatever chipset you wanted, and maybe even be able to export NSF files under such limitations). The question is simply, would people want it? Would we use it? Sometimes the goal in chiptune composition is to go for authenticity, and then we praise jsr's rigid adherence to the 2A03's phase reset bug and the N163's multichannel hiss, while other times the goal is just to make a cool-sounding piece of music, where people like DjJizzer5 make wild multi-chip compositions that probably have no place on an actual Nintendo. This software would certainly appeal to the latter category, while still preserving the "chippy" sound of FamiTracker and the like.
Thoughts? This is mostly out of curiosity, though maybe, someday, I might have the time and skill to try something like this. (Or maybe something like this already exists!)
Some other places I've tried to conquer:
[url=http://chipmusic.org/ch3dd4r]Le Chipmusic
[url=http://battleofthebits.org/barracks/Profile/CH3DD4R/]Le BattleOfTheBits
[quote=CheeseGuy99]What you're looking for is trackers suitable for FakeBit. DAW trackers (like renoise) would work. [/quote]
Yeah, Renoise is what you want, man.
People make great 8-bit stuff on this with mixtures of other sounds and tool thats not 8-bit.
