I Fight Dragons' tutorial for making chiptunes

By at 5:13 pm Friday, Oct 14



[Video Link] Brian from the band I Fight Dragons generously made a tutorial that explains how to create your own chiptunes (music made on old videogame soundcards).

Many of you have asked how we do what we do, so now we're starting a series to explain the inner workings of our tech for those of you who wish to make chiptune and/or program controllers too!

Forthcoming Tutorials:
-Little Sound DJ (gameboy) programming
-MidiNES (nintendo) programming and usage
-rarer chips programming and usage (Commodore 64, Atari 2600)
-Chipsounds (plugin) programming and usage
-How to hook up videogame controllers as music controllers
-Recording and Mixing with Bill and Stanley

And possibly more! We'll try to do one every week or two from here on out!

Here's a video of I Fight Dragons performing "Money."

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