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Re: Chiptune.app

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The classical piano pieces sound great in the Pianoteq VST.

Yes! Proud owner of Pianoteq myself. Performance MIDI + Pianoteq is better than a recording, because it's so tweakable, and has a noise floor of zero.

Can't tell you how glad I am to hear that at least one other person has used Chip Player JS this way.

Re: Chiptune.app

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Sample-based tracker music and the Amiga scene is where the term and the artistic style was born. The Amiga scene and the musicians of that era are the authority.

That's where "tracker" originated. "Chiptunes" are a more recent denotation and imply hardware generated sound different than a tracker.

The term chiptune, and the technical approach and associated musical character, was firmly cemented in the Amiga scene already in the first half of the 90s. The composer who coined the term (in the beginning of the 90s) was legendary computer musician Matt "4-Mat" Simmonds. Everyone understands the difference between oscillators and sample playback, but notwithstanding the term being "technically lopsided" this is still the history of it.

Re: Chiptune.app

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I was with you for the first paragraph. But that's just despicable thinking: > Besides, it's the hardware's job to optimize for the capabilities of the SDK. You can't possibly blame the hardware manufacturers for how poorly React Native runs. Even if the CPU engineers wanted to target React specifically and make it run better somehow (and you seem to think they should), where would they begin? React sits on top of 35…

I don't have any performance issues with React Native[0], so as far as I'm aware the status quo is fine with regards to how well the hardware is optimized for the SDK. The specific SDK I'm referring to is JSCore, obviously everything on top of that is third-party. [0] My main beef with React Native is the total lack of useful stack traces. Also, when running on a device, when you tap Debug before manually setting you…

"The app is bricked"... .Surely thats not the case ? Rebooting the device or killing the process is not sufficient ?
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