Making Gameboy/8-bit music

[Eisenwinter]

I'm looking for a music creation program, which will allow me to create 8bit music, or, "Gameboy music".

If anyone can point me towards some, I'll greatly appreciate it.

[robeast]

I found this not too long ago:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom7/midimml/

I haven't tried it, but it might be what you are looking for. Looks like you could have some trouble compiling it in Linux. Check the documentation.

[Eisenwinter]

Thanks.
I can't figure out how to compile it, though.

Also, there is no direct archive file for Linux (targz, tarbz2, etc), only a ZIP for Windows users.

[robeast]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure this was written for windows (lame : P ), but some finagling could probably get it to compile. I wonder if anyone would be interested in making a program like this for linux. It seems that it simply converts ay midi file so it is playable by an NES emulator.

[Stochastic]

Isn't it entirely possible to take any music you make and resample it to be 8-bit using a wav editor? Or am I missing something?

[robeast]

Yeah, you could simply find the sounds you want...or as Stochastic said, down-sample whatever you want to 8 bits :), but you know that's not what we're talking about. You can get some great "NES-esque" sounds with simple combinations of oscillators and simply use Rosegarden, Muse, etc. I think Seq24 would be appropriate for the job.

[warbread]

Could this (http://www.delamancha.co.uk/basic.htm)work?

You could also check around freesound.org or hammersound.net for 8 bit samples and/or soundfonts. Sound fonts would be easy; you could load them into something like Qsynth and then control it with Rosegarden.

[Eisenwinter]

All plugins are Windows VST only.

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I downloaded the ZIP file for basic64, but it only included a dll and a readme.

[warbread]

You'll need a VST host to run it. LMMS has one. That's where my VST knowledge runs dry, though.