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Making Chiptune Metal on Daemon Slayer | What I Used

You want know how to make chiptunes? How about how to make chiptune metal? These tools might help. The latest album was a bit of a departure in sound, though not in mood. It took some finagling to get the sounds used on the album, and I’ve received a few questions regarding this.  I’m not going to share all the secrets (mainly because some of it was complicated beyond the scope of an article), but I’ll let you know what VST plugins I used for the chiptune sounds and what effects VSTs I used on them (all links will be at the bottom of the post). Let’s get started with the most important ones: Tweak Bench free VSTs These are extremely useful. I mostly used peach, rebar, tapeworm, and monomate on this album. Peach has a massive selection of classic sounds named after classic game characters. I used several of these sounds with a little echo or reverb, and that’s about it. The various sounds from Peach were most prominently featured on “Daemon Construct”. You will hear the blips and rapid chirps during the song, especially during some of the crazy double bass sections.  Also, some of these sounds have …

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