The charming blips and scratching synth of chiptune soundtracks has never really lost its appeal among gamers and musicians alike, with many examples of retro sounds being used in new projects even today. From Anamanaguchi to I Fight Dragons, there's plenty out there to discover, and now electronic pop maestro Doctor Popular is enabling anyone with a Gameboy Advance to do a little remixing of their own.
His latest release has been created almost entirely on Nintendo's device, using a synthesizer card to manipulate those awesome gaming sounds into a ten-track album named Destroy All Presets. It's available now on his Kickstarter campaign for a donation of your choosing, but if you pay $88 then you can get yourself a physical copy of the album...on an actual GBA cart.
Plug it in to any kind of Gameboy Advance and you'll be able to remix every song using the same pre-loaded toolkit and resources that Doctor Popular himself utilised. It's a great start for anyone looking to try their hand at electronic music, and if the project reaches a total of at least $11,000, the good Doctor will even release a series of video tutorials to guide you along. The album's release is already funded, as it's passed $8000 (with a target of $6500) with 16 days to go, at the time of writing.
Check out the video below for more information and a suitably wacky few clips of sample tracks. If you've been itching for a simple way to start remixing, then this might be a fun option to consider.
[source kickstarter.com]
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Looks kinda cool, auctualy.
What does he need the $8000 for (Presumably he already made the hardware and the album already - why can he not just sell the album ?).
I thought this was a synthesizer for the GBA.
@Blue_Yoshi It is but its just for high backers. What the kickstarter is for is the album. I think it only allows you to remix his stuff. If it was a generic add on for the GBA that would be totally different.
I miss my gba micro.... good thing i still have my Glacier blue one though!
He lost me at, "On your GameBoy DS..." Nice try, dude.
@Darthziggy I think he was refering to the GBA port on the DS, just didn't know what to call it
This man is the ultimate hipster, and I don't know if that's a good thing.
I've heard some great chiptune authors. My personal favs are 8-bit Weapon and ComputeHer to name a few, but the songs the guy demoed in the video just sounded lame and uninspired. Pass...
cool
If I was that interested in this kind of stuff, I'd work more on Rytmik Retrobits. I haven't touched it in like, a year. I should go back someday and figure it all out and make some loops, but I just never took the time to in the past.
Noup. @SebCroc
He ment "Gameboy SP", but he said "Gameboy DS".
@Sherman Ah, that would make sense.
@MuchoMochi No, it is not a good thing. He was pretty inconsistent, and honestly what he was singing (and singing along with) didn't really appeal to me at all... If I made an album where I play my ocarina terribly, and sing along with it, and told you "pay X amount of $ and you can remix it!!!", would you really want to? xD Honestly, you're better off just looking up a chip-tune making program on the interwebs...
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