TheoX's 8bit Music

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TheoX's 8bit Music

Post by TheoX » Mon Apr 19, 2010 8:28 pm

Hello folks! :D

Just thought I'd update you guys on what I've been doing lately. If anyone was wondering where I went, I've mostly been surfing 8bit music communities, and creating chiptunes. If you don't know, chiptunes are a style of music that emerged a few decades ago. A chiptune is a song made purely on a computer, with instruments represented by waves, that are saved with the song. Most music in older games on Nintendo or Sega are chiptunes. I like to study chiptunes and fiddle around with my own experiments, mostly made in ModPlug Tracker. I've been sharing my music with a lot of people lately so I thought I would stop by here!

Listed below are my 5 most recent tunes (newest at bottom) made in ModPlug Tracker; I hope you will take a listen and tell me what you think! Constructive criticism or praise, whatever, I'll listen to it.

(I think they sound better on headphones!)

Snow in the Sky

Ballad of Falling Stars

K.K. ChipRock (animal crossing remix)

Spectrum Circles

Freedom from Thought

Subscribe if you like them! I'll probably keep making these as time passes.
Feel free to update me with anything going on here at the forums too, I'm kind of out of touch. :P
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Post by MyNameIsKooky » Mon Apr 19, 2010 8:31 pm

Whoa, these are 8-bit?! They sound so good for 8-bit that they don't even sound 8-bit! :shock:

Pretty cool. I'll subscribe. :wink:
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Post by TheoX » Mon Apr 19, 2010 8:42 pm

Well 8bit may be a tad too specific, but I wasn't sure how else to describe them. :wink:

Thanks for the compliment!
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Post by ~xpr'd~ » Tue Apr 20, 2010 1:53 am

Wow.

These songs are perfect examples of what I wish I could do :P

btw, I'd call these 16-bit :3
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Post by TheoX » Wed Apr 21, 2010 2:05 am

Thanks!

Yeah, I guess they are 16bit, the style of music is just commonly associated with 8bit, so I refer to it as that.

P.S. Your avatar cracks me up. :lol:
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Post by Nobody » Thu May 06, 2010 7:10 pm

Just got around to listening to these. EPICNESS.

Do you do these thingies for projects-that-would-be-epic-if-it-were-someone-else-but-are-doomed-to-fail-instead-because-Nobody-stinks-at-properly-doing-stuff? No? Oh well.
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Re: TheoX's 8bit Music

Post by Technos72 » Thu May 06, 2010 8:36 pm

What program did you use?
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Re: TheoX's 8bit Music

Post by Blast!10 » Fri May 07, 2010 9:56 am

@Technos72:
TheoX wrote:Listed below are my 5 most recent tunes (newest at bottom) made in ModPlug Tracker
btw, welcome back TheoX! :D
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Re: TheoX's 8bit Music

Post by tyteen4a03 » Fri May 07, 2010 10:06 am

*is thinking of asking TheoX to make some TWM music*
and the duck went moo

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Post by VirtLands » Sat May 08, 2010 7:06 am

Hi TheoX,
this is amazingly nice music, has a dreamy feel to "Snow in The Sky".
I'm going to download these.

How come there is only an octogram in the visuals ? :wink:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octagon
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Post by Blink » Sat May 08, 2010 7:31 pm

Awesome music.
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Post by TheoX » Sun May 09, 2010 5:42 pm

Oh hey guys! I see this topic got bumped!

Thanks for the compliments! I can make some short tunes for people's games if they want; actually I've been experimenting recently with music that loops better - the above songs have very defined endings. PM me if you want to discuss anything game-related.

VirtLands - I am a bit obsessed with octagrams and other "stars" - the image in the video is a blown-up version of an image I made. I was too lazy to make big, individual images for the songs, plus I was putting my music up on several websites and didn't have time. :wink:
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Post by ~xpr'd~ » Sun May 09, 2010 8:19 pm

TheoX, I was thinking that if you could MAKE music this nice, if you made remixes they'd be epic :3

Maybe you could try it. What would be nice is the Ducktales NES Moon theme remixed :P
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Post by TheoX » Sun May 09, 2010 9:35 pm

I've thought about making some remixes, though I'd probably only do songs that meant something to me - never played Duck Tales. :lol:
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