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[Hayden Scott-Baron]

Thanks for the advice. I agree that in some circumstances it would be useful to hand over tracks to a musician to spruce up, or to make some remixes and derivative accompanying tunes. That's definitely a good idea and something I'll bear in mind in future.

I think for now, however, I'm quite enjoying the idea of working solo on my games, at least for now.

[raiten]

Your music sounds really good, makes me think of Pikmin. I'm trying to use Jamendo but it's hard finding music that would go well with most games.

[shrapnel]

I (sometimes) like combining chiptuney stuff with newer synths and instruments, if that is something you are into. Most of my stuff is very melody driven but I'm always working on being a slick producer.

Checked out your samples; you've got some great stuff there.  I like the presence of newer instruments.  Nice drumlines, too.  A sprite would need to bob its head to the rhythm, I think.

I really like "Morning" and "Suspicion".

[Hayden Scott-Baron]

Does anyone know how to get chiptunes, or indeed any non-apple, instruments into garageband? I tried the YMCK plugin, but it just created a horrible loud beep which I think messed up the audio in garageband, I had to restart the program.
 
edit: aha, the Bitcrusher effect has a number of retro filters which you can apply to any instrument. You can get some pretty oldscool sounding stuff.

[Kekskiller]

A few days ago a read an interesting thread about converting VST to Apple stuff. Check out this link: http://www.fxpansion.com/index.php?page=5 . Could be help.

[Hayden Scott-Baron]

Spent my lunchtime going through the tutorial for Musagi. It's a really great little program for chiptune style stuff, although it crashed on me a couple of times... ;_;  I can definitely foresee myself firing this up in order to do some game music in the future, even though I would have to fire up VMware Fusion on my mac at home to use it.

[increpare]

Spent my lunchtime going through the tutorial for Musagi. It's a really great little program for chiptune style stuff, although it crashed on me a couple of times... ;_;  I can definitely foresee myself firing this up in order to do some game music in the future, even though I would have to fire up VMware Fusion on my mac at home to use it.

be sure to give pxtone a whirl as well

[muku]

Spent my lunchtime going through the tutorial for Musagi. It's a really great little program for chiptune style stuff

Actually, via VST plugins, you aren't limited to chiptune style at all! It's a great little program.

Did you use the latest version? Because I found it quite stable, it didn't crash on me so far.