Everything that you saw in youtube people made from midi files, there are some midi2xm converters but it's not accurate and usually everybody just fixes errors by hand.
To learn this art, you need some skills in music. The most modern that's still actively being developed is Milky Tracker Milky Tracker based on Fast Tracker which is DOS most famous mod tracker ever been created.Īnyway that kind of music called Chiptunes, and that kind of method to make music that way is called MODS To create music like that you need software called 'Tracker'. Console like c64/sega/nintendo had a microchip which had some kind of 'instruments' like a midi chips has nowadays. first of all in old consoles there were no sound cards or anything like this to process the sound. It's not about 8bit, to make it sound that way. In fact you completely mistaken about what is console music.
