{"author_name":"Boberro","cat":"LD #24","comments":[{"author_name":"sorceress","time":"August 18, 2012 6:51 am","epoch":1345290660,"text":"Overlaying two copies of the same waveform is called either:","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Gaeel","time":"August 18, 2012 7:24 am","epoch":1345292640,"text":"Also, I want to point out that buzzing and other artifacts caused by interfering pulse waves are actually a desirable effect of Chiptune. Take note that original 8 bit circuits didn’t push out perfect squares, they have a bit of a DC offset correction and some aliasing and other oddities.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1345281360,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"55312","p_author":"Boberro","p_authorkey":"500610","p_urlkey":"91030","p_title":"A note about 8bit style music","p_cat":"LD #24","p_event":"LD24","p_time":"1345281360","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"3","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"500610","us_name":"Boberro","us_username":"Boberro","event_start":"1345766400","event_key":"12","event_name":"LD24"},"text":"

While checking all those “I’m in” post I’ve found out some of you are using YMCK’s magical 8bit plugin. While I prefer 16bit arcade style music than 8bit chiptune I’ve decided to fool around with it, and found out one problem that may emerge while creating 8bit style music.<\/p>\n

I’m no musical expert, so I wont tell you what is exact name of this problem, but two instruments playing same note (even different octaves) may distort each another. It’s known problem in music recording, but since 8bit sound is so minimalistic, it’s hard to correct it using equaliser. One approach to this problem, is to lower the volume of both tracks, but I needed them to be lead tracks of my song.<\/p>\n

What I did, was to export each track to audio, import them in new project and move one of them a little (like 5 ms), so oscillator sound don’t reach their peak in exact moment:<\/p>\n

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Another approach would be to detune instruments a little, maybe using S&H LFO (unfortunately there’s no \u00a0LFO in plugin I’ve been trying). I believe this problem wasn’t as crucial in original hardware that is today, because sound chips never kept perfect tune.<\/p>","time":"August 18th, 2012 4:16 am","title":"A note about 8bit style music"}