RUSTY ROBOT by gusse_dsx

“Rusty Robot”
By gusse^digisonix
Track started on PC / FastTracker2 some time back in 1999.
Tune finished on Mac / MilkyTracker July 2014.
32 Channels.
Post mix/master in Audition.

A few years back a friend told me I might consider using more arpeggios in my tunes. That suggestion has stuck with me as I go on making this kind of music.

I found old patterns with the first arpeggioriff of this song in my archives a few years back. Continued building on it from there. This is one of those tunes I have been fiddling with now and then over a long period of time. Many parts and versions have come and gone. I think that might be evident now when you listen to it. Not sure if it’s coherent any more but I hope this release version is at least a fun mess.

I think this might be my first full on 32 channel chiptune. And I know it’s the first time I have resorted to more extended mixing and mastering outside the tracker. Feels like cheating, but I got fed up trying to do all the smaller tweaks inside Milkytracker so I gave it a runthrou in Audition.

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This tune is dedicated to Hendrik Österdal Djurfelter for igniting my current overuse of arpeggios. Thanks for the push!