aevado people ever mix traditional instruments with chiptunes or is that like watching a serious guy get dunked on by a muppet
Chip@aeva What do you mean by “traditional”? There’s plenty of bands with guitars and chiptunes.
@bytex64 i don't have a precise definition, nor do i want to litigate one. keeping that in mind, i think acoustic guitars would absolutely fit most reasonable definitions of "traditional instrument", but the guitar is a funny case because it's had pretty much unbroken popularity over the past century or so, so it doesn't really sound out of place anywhere
@bytex64 whereas i think if you were to play the banjo or the hurdy gurdy with a square wave accompaniment people might reasonably assume you were being ironic
halcy 
@aeva @bytex64 this feels like a thing that is impossible to figure out without trying. Like maybe it rules? or maybe it doesn't? I actually feel like specifically a hurdy gurdy could work
like it fits real well into dark sounding techno beats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6msesBTcuNM so why not?
Hurdy-gurdy techno - Welcome from my studio vol.01
cancelthe main problem you will have is sort of the same problem you get trying to blend acoustic instruments with distorted electric guitar. the guitars have an overwhelming amount of high frequency content and it's hard to hear anything else playing at the same time. unfiltered chiptune waveforms are even brighter. so you have to build your arrangements around dealing with that (folk metal is a good example)
@cancel @halcy @bytex64 also i should clarify that i used "chiptunes" somewhat arbitrarily in that first post because that's one of the easier sounds to make with mollytime but i really just mean that most of the time i post something i made with mollytime there's at least one reaction comparing it to a retro console. "chiptunes" was a more concise thing to say