Good Chip Music Source?

[bigsofty]

Hi,

I've been looking for music for my game, its a retro looking game so it will need some retro music. I am looking for some chiptunes that can be used in a commercial game. I have tried Google, there are tonnes on the web but I cant find any decent ones that are not non-commercial. I don't mind paying as long as I can afford it but it's difficult. There's lots of old Atari music demo tunes that I would love use but its a cloudy area, as there's no copyright on those old demos unfortunately and I don't want to offend any oldschool authors. I have contacted a (very)few authors I could find but to no avail.

Is there a simple music store site(that has chip tunes) that has game tunes that are reasonably priced and commercial, non-exclusive is not a problem, free would be great too if possible!

Any links suggestions will be very appreciated. 

[matchy]

Not exactly a solution but reminded me of this:

[Ian Price]

The ModArchive is a fantastic repository of old (and newer) Amiga style MOD and tracker tunes. Many of the MODs are uncredited, but most have uptodate links via email to the authors. Everyone I've asked permission from has given it freely and are often more than pleasd to still be heard and enjoyed

[mentalthink]

Hi matchy, if you want not it´s too much comples you can use this software, it´s free.

http://arkos.cpcscene.com/

The sound it´s an Ay-chip emulation, how I say it´s very easy and the sound it´s like amstrad spectrum or some MSX...

Another way it´s use some acrtual software, and takeing samples in example from Dr-Petter Sound FX.

Another way and only it´s for advice, the friend ZXevios, comment me about Magix Music, a very cheaper software (about 60€), but you can make awsoming music, hyper easy... this it´s for make somthing more actual...

[erico]

I was going to recommend you give a try on nudge,
but the site seems off, damn it.
http://inudge.net/inudge

it may be possible to find it as a download somewhere.

it is like a visual music creator, quite chip tune, and fun to mess around.
if you have a tablet you can draw on it a music comes of it.

I wonder where they went...such a neat tool.

[bigsofty]

Thanks guys, just what I hoped for, lots of good links and tips here, much appreciated! 

[spicypixel]

There are a number of trackers that you can dabble with here are just a few...

http://milkytracker.org/
http://openmpt.org/
http://www.skale.org/ <-- Has Online Tracker too
http://famitracker.shoodot.net/ <--- NES style tracker
http://www.spicypixel.net/2007/12/21/blipgen-v086-chip-sample-generator/ <-- Chip sample creator (RAW output only)

[erico]

don´t forget mad tracker:
http://www.madtracker.org

it´s quite a complete one and has been my favorite for quite a while.
I have been moving to milkytracker lately but mad tracker seems like a more complete tool, with a recorder and everything you need into it.

If you are the tough buggie woogie man, you can also try buzz:
http://www.buzzmachines.com/

buzz is wonderful , but missusing it can easily blow your speakers and do other harm.
You can get many different trackers into it, from complex to easy and drumm machines or other emulated hardware. lot´s of engines.
It sounds to me as one of the best audio thing around, but it is complex.

[spicypixel]

MadTracker used to be shareware so I didn't include it I'm glad I looked at it again because it's now freeware. It is awesome too with VST support

[bigsofty]

Yep me to, thanks for going to the bother of posting your links guys! 

[erico]

nah, fine.

no one looked down buzzmachine? I hoped to find someone around who knew it.
It´s worth.


edit: could this help you out? http://www.chiptune.com/
dont forget to press the sotb demo...

[bigsofty]

edit: could this help you out? http://www.chiptune.com/
dont forget to press the sotb demo...

Bah, sucky iPad Safari choked on it but I got good old PC Firefox to run the site...

What a wonderful site, I love the Amiga desktop theme! I think the submissions to this site must all be "CC Attribution Noncommercial (BY-NC)" but I will try my luck with a few authors and see if anything pops up!

Again though, what a great way to run a website!

[Nathan]

I agree, what a great looking Amiga site!  Ahhhh, brings back the memories.
I haven't tried it myself yet, but apparently is very good, here you can generate your own sounds...

http://www.superflashbros.net/as3sfxr/

[Ian Price]

I agree, what a great looking Amiga site!

Seriously? I loved my Amiga, but Workbench always looked so primitive - even back then. The Amiga was capable of great looking graphics and all we got from WB was boring boxes. It looked crap back then and it looks even worse now, compared to Windows 7. Even Windows 3.1 looked better than Workbench - and that looks and looked awful too. I can understand rose tinted glasses on old games (due to the charm of the graphics and gameplay and the limitations of the time), but not on a dull OS on an incredibly powerful machine like the Amiga.

I do have to say though that the apps and widgets on the site do work wonderfully though. Seeing Juggler and SOTB bring back wonderful memories. So, nice site, but not a nice looking site!

[Nathan]

Yeah I sort of agree with you, but I didn't think it was that bad and I thought it looked a lot better than it's main competitor's Atari ST desktop, which I think just used the off the shelf GEM desktop (or something).

Also it allowed Multitasking, which no other GUI could do that at the time.

Massive icons always made me laugh, you get some that are so large they would take up half or more of an 880k disk.