It's gotten easier and easier to make chiptune music (or at least, music that sounds like chiptune music), but for the most part, you'll still need to have some sort of digital audio workstation ...

Chiptune music itself is based on early video game music and is all about capturing the classic tones found in games consoles such as the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Nintendo Game Boy and ...

Everybody’s linking me to Duty Cycle Generator, the web page of musician Neil Baldwin, where he’s cataloguing his complete works of 8-bit chiptune music. Baldwin generally isn’t the first ...

Nanoloop has been a cornerstone of chiptune music for years, but using one has meant either owning a Game Boy or making do with a mobile app. You won't have to make those compromises for much longer.

Most people who make music with Mario Paint’s limitations don’t actually use the SNES title’s original music maker.(As it turns out, trying to make any sort of complex music is difficult on ...

Astro likens chiptune to being the punk of electronic music. When he was a kid he didn’t have access to traditional instruments, so he learned to make beats on his Gameboy.

For a taste of classic 1980s chiptune game music it’s worth checking out the catalogue of Rob Hubbard. Spread across a bunch of compilation volumes, the Commodore 64 SID Anthology is a ...