I listen to a significant amount of chiptune music, but it’s been a while since I’ve tried working on any. However, I’ve recently been playing with a small synth called MiniBit that I picked up during holiday sales. It’s devoted entirely to that chiptune/lo-fi sound, and has some quite intriguing tones, including a mini-“additive” waveform editor. I’ve been throwing some algorithmic rhythms at it and the results are far more intriguing than I anticipated.
The following tracks feature a couple of randomly-generated and subsequently edited waveforms, along with some default drum patches, with some processing by BYOME to get the “squishy” sort of extra ambient drum bed. These are more demo loops than full songs, but the second one seems like it could have served as the background music in a rudimentary platformer back in the day…