5: Milkytracker, chiptunes, and that intro music
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Chris's journey of making the intro music is used as a backdrop to explore how to make music in Milkytracker), a FOSS program for making tracker music, as well as to explore a bit of sound theory, what chiptunes and tracker music are, and even a bit of exploring what it's like to learn something new even when you aren't necessarily very good yet.

Links:

- Milkytracker)

- sfxr)

- drpetter's sound theory and synthesis page)

- musagi) and the musagi tutorial)

- The Impulse Project)

- The Commodore 64) computer and its famous SID chip)

- c64.com), an archive of Commodore 64 games/programs (pretty much all proprietary though). Many of these have interesting cracked demos that are as interesting as the programs themselves.

- Monty on the Run) with its music by the famous Commodore 64 composer, Rob Hubbard)

- Listen to the Monty on the Run main theme)

- Rob Hubbard's Music: Disassembled, Commented and Explained)

- Not shown in the podcast but you really also ought to listen to the Commando theme for the Commodore 64)

- Moments by Mr. Lou (mp3)) and the original XM file (zipped)) Really worth listening to the XM in Milkytracker so you can see how things work.

- More cool music on the bottom of Milkytracker's downloads page) and especially on The Mod Archive).

- The demoscene)

- Chiptunes)

- Music trackers)

- Famitracker) (Free software so why the heck is it Windows-only still? Someone finish porting it)!)

- Milkytracker's documentation page) has of course its own manual) but also a number of interesting historical music tracking guides

- Brandon Walsh's milkytracker / chiptune tutorials) (Content warning in that he does say an ablist slur somewhere in those videos.)

- Music theory stuff

- Open Music Theory)

- 8-bit Music Theory)

- Learn music theory in half an hour) (well, some of it)

- freesound), amazing commons of useful samples for your music composition needs

- I guess maybe you want to look at Chris's sound file sources (but probably not) (All CC BY-SA 3.0, like the show)

- Conversations with a Computer)

- Dollhouse)

- Ecto House)

- the arpeggio example shown in the show)

- And yes, the FOSS and Crafts intro theme)

Made it all the way to the end of the podcast and this blogpost? I guess you really did stay awhile...)