Oh hello! Can i upload this song to youtube? I will ofc. set link to song.
And do you have a homepage where they can support your music? :)
Reviews for "This is Chipstep"
wandschrank responds:
Hay! I already have a YouTube channel & this song uploaded: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbeg1_X-C18
Feel free to link to it or use it for your (noncommercial) projects as long as you credit me. I have no homepage yet, but NG / YouTube (and Soundcloud) if you want to contact me. :)
Hey, why does Chipstep get an own category when Duptune doesn't >:( Anyways nice track. I expected faster drums, with more impact, but I'm not sure if that would make it better. I like the instruments you used. The furby especially.
wandschrank responds:
Yep, I also wonder where the categories for chip & bass and darkchip are. And were is wandschrankstep?
Anyhow, it's hard to make drums with a lot of impact using old soundchips as they mostly consist of noise. I did not want to compress them to death.. maybe I can achieve "better" sounding drums the next time with more tweaking. :D
I recorded the Furby with my Shure SM-58. I guess I have to buy a better microphone for my next track so that the furby sounds even nicer. And, like already mentioned, it caught a cold. Let's all pray Furby recovers from it soon. :(
Thanks for your review!
Chipstep is the new hip hop? ha. glad to see others getting involved in the genre.
I think if you focus less on the bass this tune would be fantastic. chip music isn't all about bass even if it has step in it. :)
wandschrank responds:
Sadly, there is no chiptunes category, so I keep putting my "bassless" chiptunes into the video game category. This chipstep category on the other hand looked very empty, so I decided to help filling it. ;)
Apparently you got another definition of "chipstep" than most people; if you search it on YouTube, of those overwhelming 922 results (!!), most songs I heard by now had a lot of bass. Many are also not really chiptunes, but normal Dubstep songs with some Chiptune influences (check out the great songs from User N3z-3 on NG, for example, he mixes "traditional" Dubstep with Chiptunes).
Even those made with LSDJ on Gameboy only (search for Cybercrime for example, that stuff is great) are very bassy. Those good old chips were capable of producing quite a nice bass, as you can hear in that Gameboy example. I used the (nicely emulated) chip of a Super Cassette Vision / Yeno console for my bass in this song and did not change it a lot - to make it less bassy, I would have had to play higher notes, which does not sound that nice, or equalize it A LOT - which I did not want, it would have ruined the authenticity . This song, however, may not be an "authentic" chiptune. I wanted to show how it can sound when you mix the sounds of the most awesome old pcs / consoles. The result was surprisingly punchy.. and chipstep.
So overall, I think "chipstep" is a very vaguely defined style that can be interpret in many ways. Most "chipstep" songs you find on the internet mix Dubstep with Chiptunes or make Dubstep-like tracks with chipsounds only, sometimes even with a single Gameboy only.
You are completely right when you say chip music wouldn't be all about bass - and more about melody - but this category is called "Chipstep", and believe me, I will celebrate the day when there will be a "Chiptunes" category for "real" chip music with more melody and less bass and without the "step". But for me (and many others), the "step" in chipstep results in focussing on the bass.
This is only my opinion, though, and maybe it would really sound better without that much bass, who knows? :D
Thanks for your review!
Regards,
wandschrank
This was the first time i actually really enjoyed to listed 8bit!
Many congrats on the song it sounds really good buddy.
wandschrank responds:
Thanks a lot, mate, I'm glad you like it, especially if you're normally not into chiptunes !:D
who let the chipstep bark?! 8-bit wub wub 8-bit wub wub :D
wandschrank responds:
"Grrrrroooaar" (Quote: Furby 2nd Gen)