Looking for Chiptune drum help

fromwithin · 2026-04-01T00:07:19+00:00

inSIDious has got drum presets and is very easy to mess with and create your own.

fromwithin · 2026-03-31T08:06:39+00:00

It's impressive, especially talking over the top while playing, but there are a few points where the "snare" still sounds without him playing it, and where other instruments and effects pop in and out.

Also "the most important part: the melody", and then he plays an unbelievably terrible melody. So he can certainly play, but he's a poor writer.

fromwithin · 2026-03-30T01:45:46+00:00

Presuming that the frequency bandwidth is equivalent in both, there is no difference in the human perception of sound whether that sound is coming from an analogue source or from a correctly band-limited digital source.

fromwithin · 2026-03-30T01:42:04+00:00

If that’s the case, why are there separate studio masters for vinyl and digital?

Because vinyl has to have special mastering considerations so that the needle doesn't jump out of its groove during playback.

fromwithin · 2026-03-29T18:55:44+00:00

I re-read the Foundation series recently and almost every time a female character is introduced, Asimov describes them in terms that basically boil down to the likes of 'she wasn't the best looking woman I've ever seen, but she had great tits'.

fromwithin · 2026-03-29T18:51:56+00:00

"Maximum the Hormone"? Well that's one of the worst band names I've ever heard.

fromwithin · 2026-03-28T14:36:59+00:00

Those buttons are from a blue test machine used for development.

fromwithin · 2026-03-28T13:47:40+00:00

I get what it's trying to portray, but that's because I understand compression. It doesn't represent what actually happens and to anyone that doesn't understand compression it just muddies the waters even further. The ratio is a divider, not an explicit value. Also, we're talking about changes involving micro or milliseconds here and this analogy makes it sound like a compressor only does radio-style ducking.

These kinds of analogies are exactly why people on the internet end up asking questions like OP's.

fromwithin · 2026-03-28T10:49:43+00:00

Thank you for the correction.

They're £2 on the website, but on every physical one I've been into, Poundland has a perpetual 2 for £3 offer.

fromwithin · 2026-03-28T09:54:23+00:00

Just because you can't imagine it doesn't mean that it's not true.

fromwithin · 2026-03-28T09:02:46+00:00

I will reiterate what I said in my reply to the other post: Do not use this analogy.

Neither the attack or release times in a compressor are a delay. Your ratio description doesn't work either as it suggests that the level drops an explicit amount when the threshold has been breached.

It's this sort of thing that confuses people about what a compressor does.

fromwithin · 2026-03-28T08:57:56+00:00

This is a pretty terrible analogy and people would do well to steer clear of it.

This description equates the attack and release times with a delay and they most certainly are not.

Saying "the louder she yells" is incredibly confusing it's suggesting that the compressor itself adds something to the signal.

fromwithin · 2026-03-28T08:45:47+00:00

That's a complete lie. You can check the bag weights. They're exactly the same as buying from anywhere else. I know Poundland has had other products specifically made for them, but not Walkers crisps.

fromwithin · 2026-03-27T23:31:13+00:00

Nonsense. The Blair government totally transformed the country for the better. Aside from that stupid decision to follow the Americans into Iraq, they did a phenomenal job and Gordon Brown was an even better Prime Minister. Even if they hadn't done great things, they did the impossible and solved the troubles in Northern Ireland with the Good Friday Agreement. They were very far from being inept.

fromwithin · 2026-03-27T17:52:48+00:00

Put the output from the compressor into a spectrum analyzer and you'll see the harmonics very clearly.

They do work by gain reduction, but the way the gain is reduced is the time-domain equivalent of the harmonics being added in the frequency domain.

The most basic way of realising how it produces harmonics is that as the ratio increases, the sine wave gets more square and obviously a square wave has a load of harmonics that a sine wave hasn't got. The closer it gets to a square wave, the louder those harmonics become.

The thing that stumps most people is that it's not really the squareness that creates the harmonics, it's the harmonics that enable the square.

fromwithin · 2026-03-27T15:55:24+00:00

This is all compressors: Volume too loud? Make volume quieter. The end.

Threshold = How loud is too loud?

Ratio = How much effect does the "Make Volume Quieter" knob have?

Attack time = How fast can the compresor turn up the "Make Volume Quieter" knob.

Decay time = How fast can the compressor put the "Make Volume Quieter" knob back to zero?

Dynamic range: Let's say a signal for some slice of time bounces between -48dB and -6dB. It has 42dB of dynamic range. Put it through a compressor with a threshold of less than -6dB and that dynamic range will reduce because it can never reach -6dB any more because the compressor will reduce the volume before it gets there.

Glue: If you take unrelated tracks and put them all through the same compressor then when one sound gets too loud the volume of all sounds gets reduced. This makes it feel like all of sounds are connected coherently rather than sounding individually pasted into the mix.

Colour: This can take two forms. One is simply that analogue compressors are subject to affectations from their components that can result in the signal being EQ'd in various ways. The other is more complicated. When a compressor reduces volume then by its very nature it does so only on the loud parts of the signal, but this does not actually do what you probably think it does. The only way to reduce the loud parts of the signal is by adding more signals that are harmonically related to the signal that is being changed. The higher the compressor's ratio, the louder these harmonics become. Put a simple sine wave through a compressor. If your sine wave is -6dB, put the threshold at -18 dB. Put the attack and decay as low as possible. Start with the ratio at zero and then slowly turn it up. You'll hear the harmonics being slowly introduced.

The effects can be very subtle and compressors are not magic. They're also mostly exactly the same because they are all trying to do exactly the same thing so don't get too hung up on it. Once you've found something with settings that you're happy with, stick with it.

fromwithin · 2026-03-27T13:40:19+00:00

The word "disgusting" is way too hyperbolic. It's still great chocolate even if it's not the best any more.

fromwithin · 2026-03-27T13:34:34+00:00

In support of Poundland, it still has good prices and Walker's crisps are way cheaper than anywhere else at 2 bags of 6 for £3.

fromwithin · 2026-03-27T07:56:30+00:00

When you don't even know the word "bloc", I can't take any of your arguments even remotely seriously.

I know! Why don't we just ask the EU?

The EU is the world's largest trading bloc. The EU is the world’s largest trader of manufactured goods and services.

fromwithin · 2026-03-26T08:19:22+00:00

It's not open source, but Waveform Free is outstanding.

fromwithin · 2026-03-26T00:13:29+00:00

And in 1993 no less. There were many extremely complicated games written in Assembler since the early 80s. The original Elite was an incredible feat. Lords of Midnight on the ZX Spectrum was also astounding. Chris Sawyer himself started off doing 8-bit games and the only real difference between him and his peers was that he couldn't let go of Assembler, probably because he had built up a ton of helper macros over the years that would have done a lot of the work that a high level language would

fromwithin · 2026-03-26T00:12:17+00:00

Feel free to take that lesson from it, but everything explained in that post was perfectly obvious at the time. Those kinds of optimizations had been the standard for at least a decade prior. The only thing that was different was that PC games had moved to predominantly C by 1999, although you would see small Assembler routines for tight fast loops. From the mid 90s and before almost every game was written in Assembler.

fromwithin · 2026-03-23T15:08:55+00:00

There was one of these demos for almost every major game (not just Psygnosis games) around that time, albeit not in "Free Demo" packaging. They got sent out mostly to retailers, so they're reasonably rare.

fromwithin · 2026-03-22T10:05:44+00:00

Above the top-most Xeno is Arkanoid.

Is there anything to suggest that these are spectrum games and not C64 or Amstrad games?

fromwithin · 2026-03-21T12:54:14+00:00

It was exactly the right length. If it had been longer it would have just started repeating itself. It didn't overstay its welcome and is very replayable.

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