.....but I can't write a top line to save my life!

What to do? I can write basslines, chords, tiny licks, drum patterns. But leads? I just can't.

What to do?

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How do you perform chiptune music live?

Specifically, I'm interested in finding a synth player for our band and having them play midi keys through a gameboy using mGB for the tones.

Is this a viable setup? What things could be done to make it really feel like we have a gameboy accompaniment? What would you do differently?

Hi, so I've understood and learned just about all of Goattracker's interface, aside from the order list. I get how inserting new patterns works per channel, aside from the numeral ordering. The starting channels have 00, how would I make each channel have a sequential pattern that follows, so that they don't repeat. I don't care about reusing patterns in individual channels. Would that be, for instance, channel 1 going from "00, 01, 02", and so on horizontal, or does each channel follow on from the last number, like this:
"ch1 00
ch2 01
ch3 02"
Again, the point is not to repeat or reuse any patterns. Help would be appreciated, I'm blind, so help files and online guides haven't helped clear this up.

In a live setting, which of these two systems do you think would generate punchier hits? I’m beginning to arrange some tracks to then transcribe them into either LSDJ or Famitracker and I wanted to see if you guys had any input. Thanks!

I'm looking for a tool that can convert any audio file into a dcpm format. the best example i can provide is this: https://youtu.be/V5YkTgnlFko?si=nZgwamG1-ZlrGAFT

if anyone can let me know of a tool that can do that sort of thing, let me know.

Also, im pretty sure fami studio and fami tracker can convert to dcpm, but its only limited to 2 second samples.

I did find this: https://pineight.com/nes/#18 and https://github.com/Trirosmos/DawPCM
but im not smart enough to compile them

and i also found this: https://github.com/Trirosmos/DawPCM
and got it to work with a flash player, but it dosent seem to work with wav files (witch im pretty sure is the file type it wants lol). plus its in japanease so i have no clue what it says (i only knew it as the wrong teletype, as the error popup was the only text i could copy and paste into google translate)

Greetings, ladies and gentlemen! With absolutely zero delays whatsoever, it is time for another epic chiptune contest. This month's theme is...

Spooky! Back by popular demand, this theme commemorates this absolutely terrifying month of October that we are in! Create a ghoulish, haunting tune to get your spooky on this time of year.

If you haven't seen, I've lately been hosting monthly chiptune contests on this subreddit, each with a theme. Each month, there are two weeks to submit. As such, submission time starts today, October 23rd, and ends in two weeks, on November 6th. Halfway through, there will be a reminder post to remind those who are already submitting and hopefully draw in some more voters. Your submission must be chiptune, but the definition of this is very lenient: true chiptune, fakebit, fusion, and more are all welcome! Feel free to take the theme however you want to - it's honestly up to you to create the tune that feels the most fitting to you.

Submit here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfYKX_bQt8r9GhzX63B3hFBawm-CjJSJyGJeAvDNvgJOIzm8w/viewform?usp=sf_link

Also, as this is the 37th month, we have now been doing chiptune contests for 3 years! Pretty baller if you ask me. I have something special planned for next month in celebration...

And other than that, there's not much to say! Don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions whatsoever. In the meantime, check out some of these goodies:

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Thanks so much to kevin81 for making this NEW awesome table of all the past contests!

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