I have always been interested in writing music, and for my creativity project I chose to try my hand at making chiptune music. Chiptune music basically sounds like what you'd hear in an old 8-bit Nintendo game. I had heard that the program that was originally used to compose that music was now available free to the public, so I got a copy and tried to learn the basics. I quickly learned that making chiptune music is an extremely painstaking process. The length, tone, pitch, volume, and variation in each note has to be put in manually, at least until you start getting some sequences you can reuse. For my first project I tried to mimic the style of a certain electronica composer I knew of, and had to improvise to try to fit all the different tones into the limited tracks of the program. It was fun trying to use each channel in different ways to try to achieve different sounds. Anyways, after several hours I had managed to get about 15 seconds of music. It's just sort of an intro and it's not great, but if you want to hear it I've uploaded it to my blog here.
http://jacksonhadley.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/test.wav
-Jackson Hadley
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