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Heya :) Just started converting some of my old original acoustic guitar melodies into chiptune versions for anyone out there to have fun with in their projects.

I'm not a professional or anything, but would love to share my melodies with indie projects (games etc.). 

I'd probably need a bit of guidance to give you the tracks as I'm a bit new to Itch...

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/kidsekoya 

A few picks:

Style-wise it's pretty "soda-pop"-ish, I guess, but something I love vibing to myself when coding. 

 I'll try to post more tracks and versions as I have a lot of old melodies lying around. 

 Stay safe out there!

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it's just a matter of doing "upload a new project" in the interface on the upper right corner

then classifying it as "album or soundtracks"

and then doing a file upload similar to someone uploading a game.

and then once you tell it whether AI was involved (there's a little mandatory question)

you can save it as public instead of a draft

I've been on Itch from July 2024 as only a musician for 8 months until starting to also do games in March 2025 which was a slow process so my being only a musician effectively spanned more like 14 months before really coding hard.

Good to meet a fellow musician on here!

If you choose there are tons of music jams on here where submissions compete for ratings (for many of us, it's more for the socializing and networking but there are also those who actually make revenue at this).

Cheers!

--D

main website:

https://exedexes1.com/

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Very kind of you! I'll give that a look as soon as I can.

Good point about the AI part, since they are chiptune conversions of acoustic tracks recorded a long time ago. I'll make a note of that.

Likewise! I've mostly played rock and indie acoustic stuff in the past (with and without a band), but I've always loved the indie game dev scene. So it would be cool to help someone out instead of the melodies "gathering dust".

I'm all for networking/socializing, I don't have any plans for revenue or that sort of thing. I'm happy with just sharing. Would be cool to hear some of it in a game project at some point.

Thanks :)

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Wow, fantastic chiptune vibe. Also loving the 8-bit sound mixed with analog guitars. I stuck my toes for into the genre for the first time since the 90s with a tune I called Chiptune Baroque, but I guess that's more of an homage than a pure 8-bit sound piece :P

May I ask what software do you use to create your tunes? Is it a regular DAW with plugins, or do you use old school trackers? Sorry if I come across a bit nosy. Just genuinely curious :O

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Hey Garman! Not nosy at all, glad you like the tunes. Awesome that you dove into the genre, I love the Chiptune Baroque track. I could imagine slaying some vampires in an old castle to it xD. I can hear the rigidity that you mention, ties well into 8-bit imo.

As mentioned in my initial post, and my reply to exedexes, these are conversions of acoustic melodies, so just to curb your enthusiasm a bit they are generated in Suno. My old bandmate and I usually work in Cubase and GarageBand for our acoustic and alt. rock tracks (the sources of these chiptune conversions), but the chiptune versions are prompt-based, although heavily modified after an intensely fun day playing around with it.

Since we had such a blast with it, we did talk about if we should dig out our old synths from our respective storage units and re-recreate these conversions into "analog" versions. For now, I was just thinking they would be fun to share for free to indie devs to play with. As mentioned earlier, I'm not a professional or have any commercial interest, just an indie game nerd who would like to give back :P

Now that you mention DAW with plugins, it reminds me that we did try that once way back, must be at least 10 years ago,  but I can't remember the names of those DSP plugins anymore (I'm old...).

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"I'm old..." Hahaha, I feel you on that one. I guess the 8-bit retro love comes from the source at the beginning of the thing, right?

Thanks a million for checking my work out and for your kind comment. Chiptune Baroque is my first and only track inspired on that genre so far, but I'm looking forward to expand my portfolio on that direction.

I enjoyed reading the whole story behind your tunes. Nothing wrong with that, really. It's amazing what one can do nowadays with just text, and I love that you guys have fun with it. That said, I believe that analog synth sound would be a true step up. I would really encourage your bandmate and yourself to give it a shot some day! In the meanwhile, I'll see you around and I'll keep an eye for new post from your side. Cheers

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Absolutely, C64 and Gameboy all the way as a kid ;) Chiptunes have been my go-to work tunes since forever, so it certainly has stuck.

I'll keep an eye (ear?) out for your new tunes!