#bass
- Channel interleaving (one channel, two jobs) techniqueWhen channels are scarce, interleave: bass note on every even 16th, melody notes on the odd ones. Played fast, the ear separates them into two lines — a bassline and a lead — from a single channel. The same idea works …
- Filter programming on the SID techniqueThe sid has one filter shared by its three voices: an 11-bit cutoff, a resonance nybble, per-voice on/off switches ( $D417 ) and a band selection — low-pass, band-pass or high-pass ( $D418 ). Sweeping cutoff and …
- Octave bass techniqueThe oldest trick in dance music and chiptune alike: alternate the bass note with the same note one octave up ( 0 12 0 12… ) in straight 8ths or 16ths. Instant drive, zero extra channels. Variants: octave on the …
- Pitch slides and tone portamento techniqueGliding into a note (tone portamento) or bending a note's pitch up/down (pitch slide) — the cheapest way to add emotion. Classic uses: slide up into the highest note of a phrase, slide down at the end of a phrase, slow …
- Sanxion (C64, 1986) songrob-hubbard 's music for Thalamus' Sanxion . Newman's example of a noise transient on a pitched instrument : channel 3's pulse-wave bass "is augmented with digital noise in its attack", so a 16th-note bassline "appears …
- roboctopus — The Kinda Sorta Supersaw-lite; or, a Beefy Saw Bass (2013) summaryA short post with one instrument and one abandoned idea, both worth recording.