I've always wanted to do chiptune, but the demand people place in terms of 'authenticity' irks me a little as a generic outsider to pretty much everything else as well. I do some sounds that qualify as fakebit I guess? I mostly just really like the raw feel of simple waveforms in subtractive synthesis, especially anything with the grit/distortion of detuned square. I feel like I'd miss the power of FL too much to avoid it altogether, but you mention emulator VSTs and it had never even occurred to me that might exist haha. Will have to check some out tonight. If you have any you can recommend/any that seem popular, I'm game =3
3xOsc Invasion is probably closest to actual chip, but the smooth tempo changes probably instantly disqualifies it or something
I love that you did PASSPORT. I was trying to drum up enthusiasm for a CANYON remix thing in the furry music chat I'm in, but no dice. Your tutorial is intriguing too - PMD seems close to ABC for ease of directly writing compositions, with the power of FM synthesis instead of midi. I really want to find something like this that has more conventional programming features too, like flow control with conditionals and functions - Supercollider sort of clicked for me, but it was too low-level to get started composing quickly.
(man, the bots are out in force today on Botcloud. Got like three while typing this)