A Conversion with Cerror. Geek Of The Week Profile
June 12th, 2007Recently I found Cerror on MySpace and immediately liked his chiptune stylings. smooth laid back minimal chiptune beats that would be perfect for a 70s action film starring pitfall harry on a VGA screen. I asked for an interview. He accepted.
Nerdarts:what hardware/software do you use in creating your pieces?
Cerror:For my xm’s and it’s I use my crappy 1.7 celeron pc. Not a great pc but it runs what I wanna run. For my sndh’s (atari format) I use my 8mghz Atari 1040STf (with 1 mb of ram!) with the program Musicmon 2.5d.
For my mods I use my Amiga 500+ (workbench 1.3) and protracker 3.1 or I just use my pc…For commodore sids I sometime use Odin Tracker ( Download Odin tracker ) or just goattracker (download goattracker) on my pc.
Nerdarts:How long have you been composing music? What was your previous training?
Cerror:I used to be a drummer since I was 10, but I kinda lost interest over the years. Then in 1997 I found fasttracker 2 but I hated the GUI so I searched for a better one and I found modplug tracker. Drum&bass was the first music I made and I totally sucked at it. Then I found music from zalza/dalezy and rez plus a shitload of c64 music and I rememberd the good times I had on the commodore 128.
So I dug up all my old hardware from the attic and bought some extra stuff and got busy.
I can’t read any notes and I make all my music on hearing.
Usually it takes around 3 to 8 hours to make a tune depending on the type, complexity and inspiration (and beer consumption).
Nerdarts:Where do you draw most of your influence from?
Cerror:Radix, zalza and rez mostly, but that’s no secret if you listen to their and my tracks. The best way of becoming an chipartist yourself is by listen to others work all the time. That’s how I learned to use the tracker and how to arrange effects etc.
Nerdarts:Favorite video game/ Film?
Cerror:My favourite game all time is Wing commander (all parts) absolutely beautiful. I am also an avid Mortal Kombat player (still playing that) on my Sega Megadrive. These days I just play call of duty 2 online (nickname Bloq) and I play a lot of games on my atari and sega.
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