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First time using Milkytracker. All done with drawn/generated waveforms. I could probably have made this longer by repeating things. But in the end I didn't do that. 2022 Creative Commons CC Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works (BY-NC-ND)
Chris and Morgan reflect on one year of FOSS & Crafts, as well as announcing... FOSS & Crafts Studios!Links:FOSS & Crafts Studios on Patreon (still also the right place to support Chris Lemmer-Webber's FOSS work)Thank you to our guests: Nick and LP, Zack, Kate and Frankie, Sebastian, Bassam, Tristan, Sumana, Mallory, Vicky, Steve, Elana and Katie, and Steel.3: Textile production and a nostalgic past28: FOSS Stitch w/ Elana Hashman and Katie McLaughlin5: Milkytracker, chiptunes, and that intro music22: Crafting the past… or trying to9: What is Spritely?11: An Ethics of Agency20: Hygiene for a computing pandemic26: Dr. Morgan Lemmer-Webber, an academic journey1: Collaborative Storytelling with Dice6: What Escaped from the Demonic Z.O.O.O.O. (part 1) and (part 2)10: The What Goblins Saga, Chapter 1: What Are Goblins? and Chapter 2: Trees, Friends, and Static25: Governance, Leadership, and Founder's Syndrome30: Gender and Sexuality, A Personal Perspective23: Nerdout! Fuzzy and crisp systems and 27: Nerdout! Game Design and Social SystemsShrini's toots about the Hack and Craft:Post1 Post 2 *We did extrapolate a lot more than the posts say ;)
Steel Wagstaff joins us to talk about their work at Pressbooks, a FOSS based book publishing suite particularly focused on Open Educational Resources (OER), as well as talking about OER generally, open access, and education as a fundamental human right!Pressbooks (git repos)Pressbooks DirectorySteel Wagstaff's website, Twitter account5Rs of open contentUN Sustainable development goals[Cape Town Declaration (September 2007)](https://www.capetowndeclaration.org/read-the-declaration + https://www.capetowndeclaration.org/cpt10/)Charles Reznikoff, First There is the Need (Santa Barbara, California: Black Sparrow Press, 1977)Achieving the Dream's Art History I, by Associate Professor Emeritus Bruce Schwabach of Herkimer Community College. (CC BY!)Open Music Theory (which was also mentioned in Episode 5: Milkytracker, chiptunes, and that intro music) (CC BY-SA!)Fundamentals, Function, and FormSMuFL: Standard Music Font LayoutInclusive Spectrums ("This exhibition presents the preliminary major research project ideas of OCAD University's Inclusive Design 2019/2021 cohort.") (CC BY!)White Jaw by Laurel BastianRebus FoundationScholarLedRadical Open AccessManifeold (GPLv3!)editoriaKnowledge Futures GroupPubPubScalar
This is my first time making music in a tracker. I used MilkyTracker (the only software that I found still being updated + available for Linux). (This is the 5th version of "Piano Player" ; the original is a piano version.) 2021 Creative Commons CC Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works (BY-NC-ND)
Chris's journey of making the intro music is used as a backdrop to explore how to make music in Milkytracker, 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.Links:Milkytrackersfxrdrpetter's sound theory and synthesis pagemusagi and the musagi tutorialThe Impulse ProjectThe Commodore 64 computer and its famous SID chipc64.com, 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.Monty on the Run with its music by the famous Commodore 64 composer, Rob HubbardListen to the Monty on the Run main themeRob Hubbard's Music: Disassembled, Commented and ExplainedNot shown in the podcast but you really also ought to listen to the Commando theme for the Commodore 64Moments by Mr. Lou (mp3) and the original XM file (zipped) Really worth listening to the XM in Milkytracker so you can see how things work.More cool music on the bottom of Milkytracker's downloads page and especially on The Mod Archive.The demosceneChiptunesMusic trackersFamitracker (Free software so why the heck is it Windows-only still? Someone finish porting it!)Milkytracker's documentation page has of course its own manual but also a number of interesting historical music tracking guidesBrandon Walsh's milkytracker / chiptune tutorials (Content warning in that he does say an ablist slur somewhere in those videos.)Music theory stuffOpen Music Theory8-bit Music TheoryLearn music theory in half an hour (well, some of it)freesound, amazing commons of useful samples for your music composition needsI guess maybe you want to look at Chris's sound file sources (but probably not) (All CC BY-SA 3.0, like the show)Conversations with a ComputerDollhouseEcto Housethe arpeggio example shown in the showAnd yes, the FOSS and Crafts intro themeMade it all the way to the end of the podcast and this blogpost? I guess you really did stay awhile...
Composed in 2019. I made this song using as the only instruments' source a very low-tek toy-keyboard: MS-003 (also called Music Fairy, hehehe). It's an extremely cheap and extremely plastic machine (also in its sound :-P ). It is actually sooo low-tek, that it has no headphones output! Hence I had to sample sounds via microphone - later I used MilkyTracker as a sequencer. Cannot play by hand this time, as the keyboard's clicks would be audible. But MilkyTracker does do the job perfectly. I recorded all the instruments + some loops, noise-gated them, normalized - and so on. The toy-keyboard has no bass (at least not for the user to play with), so I had to sample the lowest possible note of the guitar and later I used it here as the bass :-) ). Also - actually I always wanted to try this method of using toy-keyboards - to sample those lo-fi instruments and put them into some normal, modern sequencer. Btw, the toy was a Christmas gift from my girlfriend, haha! ;-) Thanks!! :D OK then, enjoy the casio-core Utsuro-bune adventure. :-) https://youtu.be/IpQxRFpLQpU 2020 Creative Commons CC Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works (BY-NC-ND)
FastTracker II XM track (done with Milkytracker). Get the XM here: http://indiegamemusic.com/diskspace/mr_lou/A%20belated%20farewell.xm (Moderator: Feel free to replace mp3 upload with this XM. Not sure what's preferred?) 2020 Creative Commons CC Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works (BY-NC-ND)
Passione mai persa.Fare musica elettronica.Originale.Dai tempi di Amiga fino ad oggi, ci sono tool fantasticiPartiamo da Milkytracker http://milkytracker.titandemo.org/downloads/e dai campioni su http://tracker.modarchive.org/Il paradiso musicale e' con noi !
LHA self-extracting archive – update to version 2.15 link MilkyTracker for MorphOS link A500 replacement case campaign on IndieGoGo just made its goal. Stretch goal not reached, but the team are investigating the possibility. Vampire cards registration ends in June. link RNOWidgets link The Art of Breaking Ground – is a documentary by Michał Barański … Continue reading "Commodore Power"
Another 4 channel .xm tracked in Milkytracker. Hope you enjoy it. 2020 Creative Commons CC Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works (BY-NC-ND)
Not my usual style (I usually try to recreate the sound & style of classic NES soundtracks) but I liked the beat I came up with so I went with it. My first submission here. Please let me know what you think. This is a 4 channel .xm made in Milkytracker. I just resumit as mp3 since there's no xm player apparently. 2020 Creative Commons CC Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works (BY-NC-ND)