5: Milkytracker, chiptunes, and that intro music

<p>Chris's journey of making the intro music is used as a backdrop to explore how to make music in <a href="https://milkytracker.org/">Milkytracker</a>, a FOSS program for making tracker music, as well as to explore a bit of sound theory, what chiptunes and tracker music are, and even a bit of exploring what it's like to learn something new even when you aren't necessarily very good yet.</p><p><strong>Links:</strong></p><ul><li><p><a href="https://milkytracker.org/">Milkytracker</a></p></li><li><p><a href="http://www.drpetter.se/project_sfxr.html">sfxr</a></p></li><li><p><a href="http://www.drpetter.se/article_sound.html">drpetter's sound theory and synthesis page</a></p></li><li><p><a href="http://www.drpetter.se/project_musagi.html">musagi</a> and the <a href="http://www.drpetter.se/tutorial_musagi1.html">musagi tutorial</a></p></li><li><p><a href="http://impulseproject.info/">The Impulse Project</a></p></li><li><p>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64">Commodore 64</a> computer and its famous <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6581">SID chip</a></p></li><li><p><a href="http://www.c64.com/">c64.com</a>, an archive of Commodore 64 games/programs (pretty much all proprietary though). Many of these have interesting cracked demos that are as interesting as the programs themselves.</p></li><li><p><a href="http://www.c64.com/games/570">Monty on the Run</a> with its music by the famous Commodore 64 composer, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Hubbard">Rob Hubbard</a></p><ul><li><p>Listen to the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EcgruWlXnQ">Monty on the Run main theme</a></p></li><li><p><a href="http://sid.kubarth.com/articles/rob_hubbards_music.txt">Rob Hubbard's Music: Disassembled, Commented and Explained</a></p></li><li><p>Not shown in the podcast but you really also ought to listen to the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrQuR1LHAVI">Commando theme for the Commodore 64</a></p></li></ul></li><li><p><a href="https://milkytracker.org/songs/Mr.Lou-Moments.mp3">Moments by Mr. Lou (mp3)</a> and the original <a href="https://milkytracker.org/songs/Mr.Lou-Moments.zip">XM file (zipped)</a> Really worth listening to the XM in Milkytracker so you can see how things work.</p></li><li><p>More cool music on the bottom of <a href="https://milkytracker.org/downloads/">Milkytracker's downloads page</a> and especially on <a href="http://modarchive.org/">The Mod Archive</a>.</p></li><li><p>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene">demoscene</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiptune">Chiptunes</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_tracker">Music trackers</a></p></li><li><p><a href="http://www.famitracker.com/">Famitracker</a> (Free software so why the heck is it Windows-only still? Someone <a href="https://github.com/Prichman/famitracker-qt">finish porting it</a>!)</p></li><li><p><a href="https://milkytracker.org/documentation/">Milkytracker's documentation page</a> has of course <a href="https://milkytracker.org/docs/MilkyTracker.html">its own manual</a> but also a number of interesting historical music tracking guides</p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2s04YYO0Wg&amp;list=PLgQLAgklMBxEuPzQUNKc2xSJu5pXx7xVx">Brandon Walsh's milkytracker / chiptune tutorials</a> (Content warning in that he does say an ablist slur somewhere in those videos.)</p></li><li><p>Music theory stuff</p><ul><li><p><a href="http://openmusictheory.com/">Open Music Theory</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeZLO2VgbZHeDcongKzzfOw">8-bit Music Theory</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgaTLrZGlk0">Learn music theory in half an hour</a> (well, some of it)</p></li></ul></li><li><p><a href="https://freesound.org/">freesound</a>, amazing commons of useful samples for your music composition needs</p></li><li><p>I guess maybe you want to look at Chris's sound file sources (but probably not) (All CC BY-SA 3.0, like the show)</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://dustycloud.org/misc/conversations-with-a-computer.xm">Conversations with a Computer</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://dustycloud.org/misc/dollhouse.xm">Dollhouse</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://dustycloud.org/misc/ecto-house.xm">Ecto House</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://dustycloud.org/misc/siddy-start.xm">the arpeggio example shown in the show</a></p></li><li><p>And yes, the <a href="https://dustycloud.org/misc/foss-and-crafts-intro.xm">FOSS and Crafts intro theme</a></p></li></ul></li></ul><p>Made it all the way to the end of the podcast <em>and</em> this blogpost? I guess you really did <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1_fDwX1VVY">stay awhile...</a></p>