{"id":588,"date":"2011-03-30T12:28:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T20:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/?p=588"},"modified":"2011-03-30T12:28:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T20:28:39","slug":"how-to-make-8-bit-covers-in-2-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/30\/how-to-make-8-bit-covers-in-2-seconds\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230; how to make 8-Bit covers in 2 seconds &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.armanbohn.com\/blog\/pictures\/2011_03_30.jpg\" title=\"... DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION ...\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I completed <a href=\"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/13\/synthlove-ep-has-been-released\/\">Synthlove<\/a> (an EP of 80s covers sequenced on my Nintendo DSi) last summer.  I spent many long hours on public transportation coaxing something that sounded good from the minimal capabilities of the Korg DS-10+ cart.  Alas, another method was unknown to me at the time.  Would I have know about this time saving measure, I wouldn&#8217;t have needed to think about how to arrange the song, voice the instrumentation or even manually input the notes!  All that time &#8230; wasted on what &#8230; creation and exploration?  I shoulda&#8217; known.<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays, it seems anyone can make 8-Bit &#8220;covers&#8221; with virtually no experience or effort.  This is how you do it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n1) download, unzip and open gxscc (<em>you<\/em> google it)<br \/>\n2) download a MIDI file of any song you can find<br \/>\n3) drop the MIDI file into the gxscc and press play\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You are now a hipster, retro musician and a genius*.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t wish to sound too snarky about gxscc.  I think it rules to be able to hear bad MIDI arrangements voiced through basic sine\/saw\/square waves.  I&#8217;m <em>not<\/em> so excited about people calling this process &#8220;covering a song&#8221;.  C&#8217;mon people!<\/p>\n<p>ALSO:  My previous <a href=\"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/18\/friday\/\">8-Bit Rebecca Black<\/a> cover was done by hand the &#8220;old fashioned way&#8221; as well.<\/p>\n<p>* I do not condone selling your work of genius unless you obtain the appropriate licenses from the current publisher of the music of which you are derezzing.<\/p>\n<p>Oh and &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>HEY KID GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I completed Synthlove (an EP of 80s covers sequenced on my Nintendo DSi) last summer. I spent many long hours on public transportation coaxing something that sounded good from the minimal capabilities of the Korg DS-10+ cart. Alas, another method &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/30\/how-to-make-8-bit-covers-in-2-seconds\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8230; how to make 8-Bit covers in 2 seconds &#8230;<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-rant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}