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CTM 0.0.0: What a version number
Failed at getting my recap in over the weekend, because I was working hard on a new feature for the tracker: Load! And it's got a co-conspirator as well: Save! That means I'm officially at a non-negative version number, because I don't want to deal with storing negative values where I st...
CTM hits -0.2
Quick video today...It seems like just yesterday I was musing about matching frequencies so that the sound/synth boards are tuned. Oh wait, it was yesterday! Anyway, I got it working late last night and fixed a few bugs. This doesn't really demonstrate the tuning insanely well, but at least you ...
CTM development log recap
It's been six days since the tracker video (please watch it if you haven't) and I've made some reasonable progress on the tracker. Let's take a look at some of my commits, which I'll paraphrase:While making the video, I noticed DEL didn't work right. It's because I moved ...
Synth / CTM update: We've got boops!
I've got a lot to say, and I say most of it in the video.First off, thank you to all my Patrons supporting me while I develop this. It's been a lot of work, and there's still a long ways to go. Balancing life and composition with development isn't easy, and this is a milestone that I...
SlowTracker becomes CTM, synth update
After a whole lot of behind-the-scenes background under-the-hood nonsense, not to mention the year known as 2017, ice is back with my brand new invention.Okay, clearly this is the same old invention, but progress has been made. Back in my "tale of two chippies" post I showed off that I had w...
Patreon changes charge structure, then backpedals
Hey everyone,If you didn't catch the news, I had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity after Thanksgiving where I could go to Japan, travel and room covered. There are some awesome pictures on my twitter, facebook, and instagram.While I was away, Patreon announced they were going to roll out a fee ch...
Atari Cover of Mental Abrasions by Jane in Space
Here's a little something that has been under wraps for a short while... One of the guys in Jane in Space contacted me as a fan of Pretty Eight Machine (and came to a show in NYC) to meet up awhile back, and we've kept in loose contact since. A few months ago, he mentioned he was working on ...
New material in Spicy Meatball
Hey!I've been working with a guy named Cheese on various music and sound effects for a game called Spicy Meatball. This is a "first person text adventure", which is to say you use your mouse/keyboard/gamepad around to look and interact with an environment that is described to you with te...
Wanna watch some Sega composing live?
Click that link there and let's do a chiptune!
A Tale of Two Chippies
Here's another glam shot of some sound chips and boards!If you read my SlowTracker update, well, I'm not quite doing audio output yet, and I decided I would make use of some spare time by getting better at surface mount soldering. To that end, you can see a new board on the left sporting a Y...
SlowTracker is Slowly Improving
With the recent progress on synthesizer boards, it's time to resume software development. I've honestly meant to do this for awhile... In the past I did do co-working jams with some of my creative friends, but one of them has been dealing with personal issues recently and the other moved awa...
Connect Discord to Patreon for extra rewards
Hey all!I finally broke down and created an inversephase Discord "server". Right now it hasn't been advertised much, but I've gone ahead and connected Patreon to it. There's a supporters-only channel, a tech channel, and of course a general channel.So if you're a Patron and y...
Custom Synthesizer Adventures with the 6581 SID
Hey Patrons, it's been awhile!How've you been doing? I've been quiet (sorry about the lack of posts), but busy. I'm preparing a sort of mega-update; I'd like to post an update every day or two with everything that's been going on, if possible. With travel coming up, I'm c...
My Piece of the Pi Day
Hello, my lovely Patrons,As I sit here working on a mastering commission, I've been reflecting on this past week and just wanted to let you know how grateful I am that you're here.Why the slightly weird, cryptic title to this post? Well, two things, I started on this on the 14th (Pi Day) so ...
Welcome, new patrons!
Hey, there's been an influx of support recently. Whether you're a long-time supporter or a new one, I really just want to shout out and let you know you're appreciated, each and every one of you.So, everyone please give a warm welcome to Matt, JT, Kieran, René, Nikola, and Stephen, now ...
Bad Apple video ported to BBC Micro
If you're not familiar with Bad Apple, it's a a song from ZUN's Touhou game series. It was remixed and featured in a promotional silhouette video and quickly became a meme in the demoscene as a bar for video compression and streaming. Demo groups have been actively "porting" the ...
Seminar Sunday returns! The Demoscene: US vs Poland
Today I'll be joining Polish #demoscene organizers. We'll be talking about the differences between the US and European scenes on their video livestream in about one hour. Sorry about the late notice! That's 4pm eastern US time, or 10pm if you're in Poland =] Direct link to the channe...
Is it okay to shout you out? Vote!
Hey there!I recently livestreamed a chiptune seminar. Some of you were there for it, and some of you are here because of it. Thanks to everyone that did or could participate, seriously. It was a huge success!I want to chop the seminar up into digestible bits and put it up on YouTube, and I'd lik...
New Game Audio: Slime Boss
Hey Patrons!(update, for some reason the link to the song does not work, it is: https://inversephase.bandcamp.com/track/slime-boss)Last year, around the time I was working on Sega Things and testing it at shows, I was also working on this cool POKEY piece for Fabraz. I'm on a big, solid list of ...
Public sneak peek: Beatdown City Stage 2 (NES)
Welp, if it's good enough for Shawn, it's good enough for me!Just in case the video embed isn't working, http://pic.twitter.com/IPEb4PxdlH - likes and RTs appreciated!One of the things I've been working on in the background of all of the tracker and synthesizer madness (updates on th...
Chiptune 2: The Trackening
So, here we have a rather sparse image that is a source of excitement. If you remember the synthesizer post from earlier this year, well, I need a way to control it...so I'm writing a tracker from scratch. Sure, I could hack up an existing tracker, but I've kinda been-there-done-that with th...
Sega Things video in progress
Hey everybody,I just wanted to let you know that if you haven't gotten your Sega Things download, well, you should! I'm working on a music video for the song, and once that goes live, the track will probably change from free to $1. I can of course give Patrons a download code at any time, bu...
If you like Stranger Things, you're gonna want to listen to this
It looks like bandcamp links posted to Patreon are still broken, so I'm just going to drop the link to the link to my latest, which is a rework of the Stranger Things theme on a Sega Genesis / MegaDrive.https://inversephase.bandcamp.com/track/sega-thingsThis song is an interesting case. Last yea...
Sega Things
Here's that Sega synthwave thing I've been teasing about on social media. I've got to run out for a few, but keep your eyes on your Patreon messagebox things. Download codes are coming in the next 8 hours. In the meantime, you can listen on bandcamp!Please help me spread the word on soci...
I'm moving to Monthly
Hey! I'm gonna keep this one short and sweet - I've gone back and forth on this a whole bunch and even posted and asked about it here and on social media. Long story short: One of the things I've found out from asking around is that the "monthly maximum" system is too complicated...
Pretty Eight Machine shirt reprint
Hey Patrons! I'm doing a limited reprint of the Pretty Eight Machine shirts, and I'd like to do a cool offer for all of you that are supporting me. I appreciate you so much.These shirts are being printed to order so if you want one, please comment or send me a Patreon message with whether yo...
Live, raw, uncut, uncensored, SYNTHESIZER ACTION
Hey! Sorry it's been so quiet, there's so much going on and I've been working on catching up with gigs so I can get you all MORE CONTENT. Here's a livestream from just under two weeks ago of me populating one of my synthesizer boards, in preparation for the Muff Wiggler DC synth meet...
New track coming up: "4:40am"
I've spent a lot of time on FM lately, and I've felt a strong urge to get back to my PSG roots. Granted, once it is operational, my synthesizer will enable me to do that a great deal, but right now I just need to churn out a ditty in my native composing environment. Coming shortly is a PSG t...
What does the DOS say?
Image credit: Chris McDonald, http://www.sigcis.org/user/256First of all, a huge thank you to everyone that read, liked, and shared my synthesizer post on Friday! Before I go full-bore on the synth, I have a few "loose ends" to tie up. =]The original way I got my hands dirty with computers a...
We're going on an adventure... Please read!
Hello friends, family, and patrons!This picture embodies something I've wanted to do for awhile now. I've been daydreaming about this for at least the last eight years in various incarnations. One of my Patreon creator milestones, though intentionally ambiguous, has been "design a new in...
