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A chiptune, or chip music, is music written in sound formats where all the sounds are synthesized in realtime by a computer or video game console sound chip, instead of using sample-based synthesis. The "golden age" of chiptunes was the mid 1980s to early 1990s, when such sound chips were the most common method for creating music on computers. In their desire to create a more complex arrangement than the restrictions posed by the medium apparently allowed, composers developed creative... full article at wikipedia
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Created by Metaweb Oct 22, 2006
Last edited by mw_template_bot Jul 19, 2008

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