Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This mini-series about sound design is part of a larger series about making NES style 8-bit chiptune music with FamiTracker. This educational clip demonstrates how the Noise channel interacts with your MIDI controller.
The noise channel allows for the use of white, brown, pink, blue, and violet noise for sound design. Since FamiTracker operates using hexadecimal (base 16), the Noise channel pattern is composed of 16 musical half-steps.
#NES #chiptune #8bit
This mini-series about sound design is part of a larger series about making NES style 8-bit chiptune music with FamiTracker. This educational clip demonstrates how the Noise channel interacts with your MIDI controller.
The noise channel allows for the use of white, brown, pink, blue, and violet noise for sound design. Since FamiTracker operates using hexadecimal (base 16), the Noise channel pattern is composed of 16 musical half-steps.
#NES #chiptune #8bit
![Sinfonia No.4 in D Minor BWV #790 [Chip Tune Arrangement]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yWKX7pETfRQ/mqdefault.jpg "Sinfonia No.4 in D Minor BWV #790 [Chip Tune Arrangement]
The fourth of Bachs 15 Sinfonias (three part inventions) arranged for FamiTracker.
I took a different approach with this project than I did with the Two Part Inventions. Since latter is composed of only two voices, I used the empty channels in the FamiTracker to simulate reverb and delay effects to give the pieces a sense of depth, space, and life. I also kept them in mono, so they were generally a more pure representation of the NES hardware.
Since the Sinfonias introduce a third voice, I decided that I would do most of the sound design inside FamiTracker and export the stems to process inside Ableton Live. The result is less pure to the Chip Tune ethos, but I think service the music in a deeper way. The use of stereo mixing allows for the 3 parts to be spread out across the stereo field, giving the piece a wider sense of perspective - and the use of more conventional reverb and delay effects puts it in more of a real world environment.
As for the pieces themselves, I was less familiar with the Sinfonias than I was the Two Part Inventions. I also didnt do as much consulting of existing recordings for reference. Instead I tried to rely more on my own decisions about tempo, phrasing, and articulations so the interpretations may be less conventional.
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