This is an official announcement that the mystery format for Spring Track IV is officially bytebeat. This is an exiting new experimental format! I tried to write it up best I could --

http://battleofthebits.com/lyceum/View/bytebeat+%28format%29/

Right now, it is set to give Mixist points. I could see an argument that it's a Chipist format and am open to that discussion. Because of the nature of this format entries are in .txt!

...also, because of the nature of the output, normalizing renders to 100% might be too loud?!?!?!

this sounds crazy cool, seems like a v. good ohc format actually

Neo-MML

(MML's been around since BBS days of the internet)

hoooooooo-leeeeeee crap i am so pumped

one algorithm per entry only? or can we layer/link two or more together?

jangler bait!

I looking forward to trying out this.... (as soon as i've finished my current song)

(-_-)

yibbon made those clickbait articles

RIGHT i just read the OP properly and realise now that the format is .txt so MAYBE it was silly to ask if we could layer or chain algorithms!

or was it? :O

One of the HTML thingies supports stereo output. That's a maximum of two algorhythms. (-_-)

In case you need somewhere to get started on ideas, botb's very own Qitano made a bytebeat generator here;

https://www.dropbox.com/s/lo8nnmjq2q0giho/ByteBeat%20Generator%20v1%20by%20QiTaNo.zip?dl=0

Looks like I have some noise to make happen

why not hackist points since it is coding????

Heh, hackist maybe? But yeah, I definitely see this as chipist over mixist, since the former has the geek creds. It falls into a similar genre to things like MML, in my head.

In other news, I'm prolly gonna wire up an arduino board to play these, since I realized I could get away with making that a school project. Way more interesting than writing a damned paper. :P

if it outputs 8bit than is chipist because 8BITZ FAR VIDYA GEAMS! OLO,O,LOLOL

also, could somebody write a slightly more extensive tutorial for retards like me who can't program or math?

I've noticed most of the renders are 30sec but many also sound like they continue to go on in a non-repetitive way. Let's try to make the renders an appropriate length!

hmmm..... chipist or hackist.... prolly chipist...

i'd say chipist; hackist points don't have a musical connotation (yet)

I'd almost suggest a hybrid split, but I doubt the database supports that.

[though if it does, there's my vote. O: ]

YYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW Ahw yisss! Mothafukkin' bytebeatssssss!!

I haven't really had a look at the how the create and playback is suggested but I have somewhere on a desktop that only runs for 15 minutes before the powerblock hits a spark and makes the thing go down an evening of bytebeat trial and errors. Had a website that you could make formulae for left and right separately, choose the bitrate and such...... ah gonne dig it it up right away!

edit: can't find it :'-( but it was the wurstcaptures site as mentioned in the lyceum :)