FOSS and Crafts

5: Milkytracker, chiptunes, and that intro music

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Chris's journey of making the intro music is used as a backdrop to

explore how to make music in Milkytracker,
a FOSS program for making tracker music, as well as to explore a bit
of sound theory, what chiptunes and tracker music are, and even a bit
of exploring what it's like to learn something new even when you
aren't necessarily very good yet.

Links:

  • Milkytracker

  • sfxr

  • drpetter's sound theory and synthesis page

  • musagi and the

musagi tutorial

  • The Impulse Project

  • The Commodore 64

    • computer and its famous SID chip

  • c64.com, an archive of Commodore 64 games/programs

    • (pretty much all proprietary though).
    Many of these have interesting cracked demos that are as interesting as
    the programs themselves.

  • Monty on the Run

    • with its music by the famous Commodore 64 composer,
    Rob Hubbard

    • Listen to the Monty on the Run main theme

    • Rob Hubbard's Music: Disassembled, Commented and Explained

    • Not shown in the podcast but you really also ought to listen to the

    Commando theme for the Commodore 64

  • Moments by Mr. Lou (mp3)

    • and the original XM file (zipped)
    Really worth listening to the XM in Milkytracker so you can see
    how things work.

  • More cool music on the bottom of

    • Milkytracker's downloads page
    and especially on The Mod Archive.

  • The demoscene

  • Chiptunes

  • Music trackers

  • Famitracker

    • (Free software so why the heck is it Windows-only still?
    Someone finish porting it!)

  • Milkytracker's documentation page

    • has of course its own manual
    but also a number of interesting historical music tracking guides

  • Brandon Walsh's milkytracker / chiptune tutorials

    • (Content warning in that he does say an ablist slur somewhere in those videos.)

  • Music theory stuff

    • Open Music Theory

    • 8-bit Music Theory

    • Learn music theory in half an hour

    • (well, some of it)

  • freesound, amazing commons of useful samples

    • for your music composition needs

  • I guess maybe you want to look at Chris's sound file sources (but probably not)

    • (All CC BY-SA 3.0, like the show)

    • Conversations with a Computer

    • Dollhouse

    • Ecto House

    • the arpeggio example shown in the show

    • And yes, the FOSS and Crafts intro theme

    Made it all the way to the end of the podcast and this blogpost?

    I guess you really did stay awhile...

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