Making music on the Nintendo Gameboy - LSDJ tutorial (basics)
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TIMECODES:
01:49 The interface: Screens and Hexidecimals
04:27 Controls: The basics
05:15 The Noise channel: Creating noise instruments
09:07 The Pulse channel: Pulse instruments and using commands
11:01 The Wave channel: Wave instruments, synthesis and kits
14:38 Percussion: Kits and basic synthesized drums
16:42 Tables
For more info, check out the LSDJ manual: www.littlesounddj.com/lsd/lat...
Confirmed retailers for cartridges:
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store.kitsch-bent.com/product/...
nonelectronics.com/cartridges/ems
www.retrotowers.co.uk/gb-gameb...
www.noiseandroid.com/36-ems-us...
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1:36 "LSDJ doesn't have an export function at all"
thats only partially true, there exist a tool called lsdpack which can turn your lsdj SAV file into .gbs file
Oh! I never knew about that! Thanks for pointing that out
Awesome, thanks for this!
no way
my journey has led me here
I am hopeful
This is by far the most detailed tutorial on lsdj ive ever watched thank you for the helpful tips dude
Glad to hear you got some use out of it^^
@@Roccowschiptune i did have one question do you think an ez flash junior cartridge would work for downloading lsdj?
@@D1777YB0T According to this thread, it should work fine!
chipmusic.org/forums/topic/24613/ez-flash-junior-lsdj-test/
@@Roccowschiptune thx man ^w^
Yeah I've been watching this over and over again, and at half speed earlier on!
But first evening trying this and I got myself a beat!
Really enjoying this! Thanks so much for the insight!
There's so many half-assed tutorials out there. It's so nice to see someone give a comprehensive overview
Great video, love your music.
Nicely done and very concise!
Great crash course! Going to go through every single thing this week
okay I loved this
This is such a great tutorial, thanks a bunch!
P.S. I love your music :)
wonderful!
Great video man! Very well explained and presented.
Means a hecking lot coming from you my dude
great tutorial dude, just got my flash cart today & a few hours later i’m already making tunes!! super helpful, thank you🙏🏻
Which flashcart you got? Im at the middle of following those steps :)
@@mais5762 its called the “game color”, its a cheaper clone vers of the EverDriveGB X5 🙂
I'm diving back into LSDJ after years since originally dipping a toe in, a lot of really cool tweaks since the 4.x release I'd been using. :) This video was an absolutely wonderful crash course and helped me immensely! I definitely hope you'll make more tutorials for LSDJ in whatever format you choose, you got the concepts across well and your examples were easy to follow. Thank you!
Oh, I saw in an update after this video that "manual" is now the default setting for wave instruments :D happier synths for all!
Yeah Johan actually patched that in after seeing this tutorial. Really cool, so many great small life improvements with the new versions!
Thanks for the kind words, happy to hear you found it useful!
@@Roccowschiptune Yohan seems like an awesome dude, I emailed him with some questions and he was crazy helpful. :) The whole scene seems to be super welcoming, I love it!
Got to the end of the video before realised it’s RoccoW. Been a fan for years. Not subscribed on this account though. Good video 😛
That's amazing dude. Thank you so much for listening and watching all this time. 'preciate u!
Compact and easy to get, nice Job! Will this be a one time tutorial or are you planning to make a series out of this?
Thank you for your kind words. I love talking about LSDJ and there's definitely more stuff that I'd like to discuss. It probably won't be as polished and edited though. This video took me a lot longer to make then I expected and I don't want to take more time away from writing music. So it'll probably be in something like a stream setting. That way, people can engage and ask for specific things that they'd like to see as well! I would definitely love to go more in-depth and discuss the more advanced stuff
Hey Roccow, what kind of live setup would you recommend? Love your music BTW.
If you just wanna do a Gameboy set, get two Gameboys running LSDJ (or Nanoloop) so you can transition between tracks quickly and a DJ mixer with some basic effects. Something similar to a Pioneer DJM-350, like a Numark X6
great video and presentation. which version of lsdj are you using here?
It's version 8 I think. This was released right before some major updates were done to LSDJ
thanks @@Roccowschiptune
Great tutorial, thanks!
I was specifically looking for software to write music for GameBoy. What would you recommend, if LSDJ isn't it?
The only other piece of software I've tried myself would be Nanoloop 1.0
@@Roccowschiptune Thanks, much appreciated
I seem to have a version that has more options than yours. But very great tutorial!
Yes, there was a huge update shortly after I released this
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Hey Rocco, thanks so much for this--I'm learning a lot in 22 minutes! Quick question: I've got a lot of practice writing music in DAWs but very little in trackers, and am dabbling in different software with the intention of one day writing/coding music for GBC games.
At 1:43, you say "if you're hoping to make soundtracks for Game Boy games, LSDJ is probably not the piece of software that you're looking for" because "it does not allow you to export songs to a format for Game Boy games." Do you happen to know what software, if any, DO allow you to export songs in that way (I've heard of one called Paragon but there seems to be almost no tutorials anywhere on how to use it)? Is LSDJ's usefulness for Game Boy songwriting end at being able to "preview" what a song would sound like if you programmed it into a Game Boy game?
Thank you, this has been super helpful!
Hi Tom, sad to say I'm can't answer your question confidently. But maybe I could point you in some directions. I've talked to some demosceners that have used Deflemask to create music that runs as an executable on the Gameboy. You mentioned Paragon, which I would also recommend, though with the lack of proper documentation it can be a bit tricky to use without any previous experience with trackers.
As for the second part of your question: LSDJ has some pretty powerful synthesis tools built in. Again, I don't have experience to answer this with full confidence, but all the automated modulation that LSDJ does would have to be programmed by hand. So yes, it might be a decent way to preview what a song would sound like. But it would be horribly inefficient since you'd have to reprogram the entire song structure in a different tracker, as well as put much more time in.
Hope that helps. If you want me to ask other more experienced musicians to help answer your questions a bit more thoroughly, email me and we'll try and figure things out :)
Thanks for watching!
Hey man I love your work, I play euphonium and I've been trying to play bleeps galore on it but I just can't figure it out. Would you be willing to help me out? I was going to ask you if you could send me a midi sample to look at, but I didn't realize you made it with a 1900's game boy
That's awesome. I can try and help you out for a bit. Get in touch with me through email so I can send you some stuff
@@Roccowschiptune email sent
i thought you named the hihat SHIT at first lol
Any Specific reason why the official lsdj cartridge aren't recommended ?
Main reason is it's difficult to back up your projects. The cartridges that use a Micro USB port allow you to transfer your save files to your computer much more easily, so you don't have to worry about losing your entire catalog of tracks
@@Roccowschiptune oh ok, thanks for letting me know
Quick question, I ordered a Junior Flash Cartridge (the og Gameboy kind) the other day for this, and I wonder if it will work on a Gameboy SP since that's the only thing I have. If you know it does, tell me please.
Yo. Can't give you a solid answer since I have never tried the cartridge myself, but if it works on the Gameboy Classic it should work on a GBA SP as well :) Please let me know if it works for you!
@@Roccowschiptune Oh, nevermind I searched it up and figured out it did work.
Although, I am not too sure if Gameboy games work on a SP, so I may need to try to find something. Last time I searched THAT up it gave me a bunch of unrelated things.
(edit: i literally just searched it up and it said yes.
@@Roccowschiptune I got it yesterday. I can confirm it does work, and I have to get my Micro SD I ordered now. I may be getting it tomorrow or yesterday. This is exciting, since I have been practicing LSDJ on my PHONE.
Can you get this card for the 3ds or on the 2ds consoles this would be clever if there's a possibility I know you have a load of music apps for every Nintendo consoles these days but this little program on nintendo 2ds/3ds+switch or say android tablets or more really would be perfect LSDJ added to a ds device like 3ds-2ds and other devices be great?
I'm sure there are ways of emulation that allow a user to run LSDJ on a 3DS, 2DS, or Switch. But I'd advise against it. There's a good chance that the emulation is not up to par with emulators available on PC, which can result in bad sound. Hope that answers your question :)
I know this was made a while back, but if you could let me know which version this was when recorder, I'd appreciate it. It's updated a bit since this was made and some things look a little different, so I'd like to at least learn on the same version this was done in before I jump into this new one
I think this was version 8. Not sure about the specific version. Good luck!
@@RoccowschiptuneI found it, thank you. The version seems to be v7.0.2 of the stable downloads section
What version of lsdj is this? I downloaded what I thought was the latest stable version but it works differently in a lot of big ways
Yea, shortly after I released this a massive update hit LSDJ. A lot of the things are still the same, but creating noise instruments, as well as the envelopes for pulse instruments, are different. I'd say, have a look at the manual for those bits. This tutorial should still help you get a grasp on the workflow and features of LSDJ
How do you install different equal temperaments?
I don't know what that is. Sorry
Is there a more up to date tutorial you made?
Unfortunately, no. Can't make any promises on an updated version, but I have gotten a lot of questions regarding the updates. If you're interested, LSDJ version 7, the version for this video, is still available for download and is still well suited for people trying to learn it
Does somebody know if it works with a gameboy pocket?
Yes, works fine :)
14:36
Does anyone know if there's a way to export your LSDJ music to gbdk C code?
Honestly, I couldn't tell you. I have heard of people converting LSDJ save files to executable files to run on a Gameboy, but I don't know the details. You might wanna consider getting in touch with Tronimal. He knows a lot more about this stuff than I do. Here's his website: tronimal.de/
quick question, is it possible to write the songs on an emulator & save them onto a flash cart version of LSDJ? Thanks.
Absolutely! When you load a rom on an emulator, it will generate a .sav file. Transfer that to the flash cart, along with the rom, and you're all set to continue working on your songs!
man you are the best. I'm just getting started. I have all the tools - I just wish I knew how to use them better.
Also they changed LSDJ since you last made this tutorial @@Roccowschiptune some things are different - not by much but there are a few things I had to work around.
@@CamelJam yeah, LSDJ received a major patch shortly after this tutorial. Thankfully, much of the info still holds up, but editing envelopes (among other things) works differently now. The LSDJ manual has some very useful documentation on the subjects not featured in this tutorial
Which Gameboys does this work for?
Classic, Pocket, Color, Advanced and Advanced SP :)
@@Roccowschiptune I have 3 SPs, so this is great news to me.
I think you mean monotimbral meaning one sound at a time. Monophonic means it is not stereo.
That's the first time I'm learning about the term monotimbral. In the context of synthesis, monophonic means producing one note at a time, as opposed to polyphonic. I chose that wording because I'm used to approaching each channel as an individual synthesizer. There are several things that could've been phrased better in this tutorial, and this is an aspect that probably could've been phrased a little better.
Wait... Are we using this on the Nintendo Gameboy and not in the computer...?
The program is made and distributed as a Game Boy ROM file, you can load it up in a Game Boy emulator on your computer or get it on a flash cartridge and compose on the systems themselves!
I bought one of these cartridges on eBay years ago and forgot about it. It’s a black shell with an LSDJ sticker on it I’m not sure if it’s official or not
Does it have a micro usb port? If so, it's an EMS cart and not the official one
@@Roccowschiptune Yes it does have a micro port! I just tried to check it but nothing loads up it just gets stuck on the Nintendo logo
@Twigge I usually have to do multiple attempts to get my EMS carts to boot properly. You could check if there's a rom loaded on there. The EMS carts require special flashing software to read and write on it. I forget what software I found that is the easiest to use, but if I remember I'll be sure to link you to it
@@Roccowschiptune Thanks for that 😁 I think I’ll spend a little while trying to get it working and learn more about loading a Rom onto the cart if I can’t get it to work
My noise instrument just sounds like a beeping alarm.
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i got it until you started on the part about TABLES ,then you totally lost me!!! Wut??
Tables can be very overwhelming. My advice is too just try placing some commands/effects randomly as well as transpose her and there. Just try stuff out and through hearing you'l be able to slowely figure out what's going on :) Good luck!
Hi can i make music on a gba with this?
Yes
am i the only one confused here?😅
All part of the process ;) Just try not to get discouraged and keep on keepin' on! If you have any questions, just post them in the comments!
@@Roccowschiptune i would reaaallly love to someday, hopefully this will be less complex haha
All retailers on your links dont sell anymore
Thanks for pointing that out. It's getting harder and harder to find retailers. I'll try and update the list when I get a chance