For this release, the tracker used actually varies by track. This is because of the limitations imposed in the rules of Battle of the Bits Winter Chip IV, for which about half of the tunes were written.

The first track was intented for the “under 24k” competition and was programmed in ChibiTracker. The NES tunes were coded on SchismTracker and converted through Mukunda and reduz’ s3m2nsf program. The Sega tunes were coded on MOD2PSG2, which does its job very well though it’s a bit slow on my laptop. “All My Days” was done according to the rules of SounDevotion competition (in Renoise) and the rest were done in Renoise using VSTs without any restrictions.

To provide a bit more uniformity, all the tracks were put into Reaper for “mastering,” which for most of the tracks just meant an EQ to take some of the chip “harshness” off and maybe a compressor.

In the future, I can make a point not to use competition tunes since I won’t be limited to a month for the whole creation. With that in mind, I’ll probably use Renoise for almost everything, though I’m definitely a “right-tool-for-the-job” sort of person. I want to use more guitar and vocal, and I want to use DS-10 in the next release since I didn’t get around to it this time around.

Thanks for listening!

Best wishes

..::hunz..