Let’s all send the developers of This oddly-named chiptune tracker (DefleMask?! I guess it goes well with “Mednafen” :-P) a barrage of requests to include VB/SPU support! (And some donations wouldn’t hurt, either…)

Together, we can end the MIDI-conversion scourge once and for all! (j/k; the MIDI-conversion stuff is really impressive and useful! ;-))

I’d really look forward to hearing more proper VB chiptunes! I wanna hear what the VB was really capable of!

This looks awesome, gonna send an email.

Oops… I was so excited by the prospect of VB chiptunes, I put SPU instead of VSU 😉

I tried it out last night and the sound quality is great for the currently-supported systems. I’m no musician, so I can’t really comment on the actual tracking process…

Thanks Runnerpack! I’m totally gonna check this out (and send them an email of course too!)

Posting this for relevance – popped up in my subscriptions on the way home form work yesterday: https://youtu.be/s9EAzJMMJp4

I thought there already was a VB tracker of sorts in existence, used in homebrew?

I appreciate a download link!

Is this to compose your own music or record from current games?

To make music.

Plus, I think the interface is a little bit similar to SnoozeTracker, a SN76489 tracker tEFFx wrote.

I’m really bad at making music, but I was at a VG convention a few years ago and met up with Brendan Becker (chiptune musician known as Inverse Phase) who was giving a talk on composing VG music, trackers, etc. Anyway, we had met previously when I loaned some arcade games to MAGFest (which he was running at the time), so as we were talking, I brought up composing VB music, making a tracker for VB, etc.

His suggestion was to use MilkyTracker. I’m going from several year old memory here, but he mentioned that you could create a customized set of VB instruments, so at a high level, you could create music that would be 1:1 with the VB’s capabilities. He offered to help me set it up, and even sounded excited about composing music for the VB (asked if I wanted some new music for my Mario Kart game <- I said it needed it very badly 😉 ). Anyway, somewhere it fell apart... I think I was supposed to send him details and audio samples of the VB's audio capabilities, and maybe I did, or maybe I dropped the ball. But after the conversation and a couple emails back and forth, it never went anywhere. But, if anyone's serious about a VB music tracker, you may want to look into MilkyTracker, and if you'd like assistance from someone with a lot of experience in the field, I'd be glad to try reaching out to Brendan again and see if there's anything he can help us out with. DogP

Looking at the DefleMask forums it looks like they do a poll when they’re looking to add support for new systems. We should keep our eyes out for that.

Otherwise, all they other options sound great too. It would be awesome to have multiple options available to choose from.

I’ve been learning more about the VB’s sound capabilities, as well as making samples that would be possible on the VB, and then using them in a sample-based tracker similar to MilkyTracker. So it’s more or less like what you’re talking about, DogP.

But there is a limit to this, and that is: you’ll just be making music that *sounds* (almost) exactly like what you can get on the VB. You won’t be able to actually get it on the VB unless you went through the effort of coding a player for every intricacy a complex sample-based tracker provides. Something like Deflemask or Famitracker would definitely be closer to what I’d say everyone wants, because it provides everything you need to both make the music and get it exported into something you can put into your homebrew.

And the video L__E__T posted is exactly that… It’d be VERY exciting if something like that were freely available. 🙂

MK opened a crowdfunding campaign for his tracker, its respective sound player code, and a brand new VB homebrew game entry. All after more than a year since the “debut” video was uploaded.

I am wondering if anybody has heard from M.K. lately and would be able to let us know if he is okay. I’ve tried e-mailing him at an address that he used to use, but I haven’t gotten any reply. It is the only private contact method that I’ve ever had for him.

As one of the higher contributors toward his VB Music Tracker and Bombenleger game, I don’t even care if he is not able to follow through with that project for some reason. Since he contributed so much to the Virtual Boy community free of charge, I would simply consider my support for that to go towards all of the other wonderful things that he did for us over the years.

I hope it is possible that we can find out that he is okay, so that we don’t have to keep worrying needlessly. If something tragic did, in fact, happen to him, and we might never find out what, then that would be really heart-breaking.

it seems he’s alright! and the tracker’s in a final state:
https://www.planetvb.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=456&com_id=1681&com_rootid=1679&#comment1677

there are screens of the tracker in this thread too. no word about Bombenleger just yet, but I’m to assume that’s probably of similar state..? hopefully more details on the both of these will be revealed soon, I’m anxious to see them in action (and with luck, maybe play with em too) !

Glad he’s ok, I was worried about him too.

Benjamin Stevens wrote:
I am wondering if anybody has heard from M.K. lately and would be able to let us know if he is okay. I’ve tried e-mailing him at an address that he used to use, but I haven’t gotten any reply. It is the only private contact method that I’ve ever had for him.

As one of the higher contributors toward his VB Music Tracker and Bombenleger game, I don’t even care if he is not able to follow through with that project for some reason. Since he contributed so much to the Virtual Boy community free of charge, I would simply consider my support for that to go towards all of the other wonderful things that he did for us over the years.

I hope it is possible that we can find out that he is okay, so that we don’t have to keep worrying needlessly. If something tragic did, in fact, happen to him, and we might never find out what, then that would be really heart-breaking.

I got an e-mail from him 14/2 with an apology of the delayed release after sending him an e-mail. A downloadlink was included in the mail for the tracker.

So it seems like he is ok now atleast.