Musical Concepts

Use of ChiptunesSAK requires a basic understanding of musical concepts; we will not attempt to include a primer on music or musical notation.

However, some key concepts are important to the understanding of music and how ChiptuneSAK processes it.

• Tuning
  • Base Tuning Frequency
  • Pitches and Cents
  • Chiptunes Tunings
• Quantization
  • ChiptuneSAK Quantization
• Polyphony
  • Polyphony in retro computers
  • Polyphony in ChiptuneSAK
• Metric Modulation
  • Tuplets background
  • Metric Modulation in ChiptuneSAK