Making Chiptunes on a Raspberry Pi
8-bit music composition with MilkyTracker
Presented by:
porkostomus
A proud member of the Oregon Trail Generation. Clojure programmer, Raspberry Pi chiptune composer.
As a music student at Portland Community College, I decided that I wanted to produce an entire album of electronic music on a Raspberry Pi. Part of this motivation was from having been seriously burned in the past by relying too heavily on proprietary music software and having too many expensive instruments and machines broken or stolen. As a result of constantly having to start over from scratch on a new platform, I sought to completely abstract away my process of musical composition so I would always be free to migrate my work to whatever format of my choosing.
This prompted a long search spanning the history of electronic music and the different types of software used in its production, along with the various cultures and the programs they tend to use, from notation editors to multitrack workstations, to try to find one that I would be happy using, that would be up for the task of encoding my life's work of chiptunes, and that meant first and foremost that it would have to run well on the Pi.
In this hands-on session we will introduce MilkyTracker, a free cross-platform music tracker application following in the tradition of FastTracker for DOS. With it we will create classic chip waveforms for bass, drums, leads and arpeggios for the authentic C64/NES sound.
- Date:
- 2018 April 29 - 02:30
- Duration:
- 2 h
- Room:
- CC-201 TUT1
- Conference:
- LinuxFest Northwest 2018
- Language:
- Track:
- Education
- Difficulty:
- Easy
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