Hey all, I love NES music and I have studied composition in college, now its tome for some NES composition! but I get really condused when reading all the info about it. Is there someone who knows a good place for me to start?  What software would I need?   Thanks in advance. 

There's a program called FamiTracker that alot of people enjoy using. You build your own .nsf files out of it. There is also NerdTracker2, which I prefer since I am used to it. It's extremely outdated, though. Most likely you will be more comfortable with FamiTracker.

If you know 6502, you can try developing your own music engine and build it with an assembler. This info is a bit hard to understand, but check this page if you're interested in designing your own music engine:

http://nesdevwiki.org/wiki/NES_AP...

Make sure to post whatever you do, we're always interested to see things people are working on!

Hey thanks I will most likely dive right into this! and hope to understand it lol. But for sure Ill post up if I manage to make something worhwhile.

for all you mac users (or *inux folk) there's ppmck, which enters the notes in yr favorite text edit program (vi rulez- suck it emacs!1!!!!1!!!) and then compiles into an nsf file. famitracker is a fun easy GUI to kick some 8bit musical ass, but it's proprietary, which is mean. and short sighted. and cruel.

somewhere buried in the brewery topic is my latest 8bit project with ppmck using only the basic NES channels. you can do a lot with just those.

hmm, yeah I wanted to stick with stricly original nes sound capability.

But what do you mean when you said its "proprietary, which is mean. and short sighted. and cruel" Like its liscensed?

Probably the fact that Famitracker isn't nice to those of us who actually want to use SOUND EFFECTS in our games.

hmm yeah i can see that already after messing with if for a short time. What do you do in that case?

Posted a little track.
Just messing around so its not much of a composition at all but fun to listen to none the less. Dont break my spirits too much, its my first attempt lol.

Is that with one of the trackers? If so, that's way better than the first tune I made! hehe

http://robertlbryant.com/gaming/n...

Good stuff man, keep on messing with it and get different sounds and what-not : )

Yeah I used famitracker, still working out the kinks though. I liked yours too