Sorry i know you get this alot but im a bit lost in how to make chiptunes.
This is what I know and understand (thanks to the people at the Kohina forums).
Chiptuning is a method of creating electronic music utilizing soundchips of old computers/game hardware such as commodore 64, NES, gameboy, etc. There are two methods of creating chiptune music, the first being hardware hacking and the second being a tracker. Trackers are the easiest way to make chiptune music, the first tracker was created in 1987 by a man named Karsten Obarski. So using Linux i decided to use Soundtracker (because this is the only one I could really find). Thanks to the helpful beginners documentary I understand how to load and use wavs as instruments, and edit the track. When I try to learn more about how to chiptune by scouring the various google hits i get, I keep reading "its best to create your own xi instruments." and "draw a line and put some drum beats in". Is there a certain app (perferably one that works on linux [slackware]) that I can use to create these instruments? Do i use a WAV editor? Also I read that you could "rip" wavs/instruments from MODs. Im not sure how to do this either (soundtracker doesnt come with a very comprehensive document
) Any help is appreciated
-terribly lost....
n0dl
