bryface
Chip musician on chipmusic-org. The wiki knows him from one place so far: the 2013 ghost-channel thread, where he confirms the technique from independent practice and states its cost.
Facts#
- Was building additive wave-channel sounds of the same kind at the time, but by ear rather than by drawing: "i'm doing something similar on a tune i'm working on, except the waves aren't hand-drawn and it was mostly trial and error to get the necessary overtones" (source: s-chipmusic-lsdj-ghost-channel).
- Named the headroom tax that the wiki now states on ghost-channel: "because you're additively piling on waveforms on top of each other, you need extra volume headroom, which means your wav sounds will sound quieter on average. But that can be worked around somewhat by making all your other instruments quieter."
- Asked, in 2013, for the tool that did not exist yet: "i wonder if there's a tool that can autogenerate these waves and spit out an lsdsng.." — answered years later by lsdj-wave-cruncher and liblsdj.
- On the wave channel generally: "few people realize the WAV channel's potential for doing neat stuff with overtones and additive synthesis."
Related#
ghost-channel · harmonic-series · lsdj · chipmusic-org · tyler-barnes