Style
Generally chiptunes consist of basic waveforms, such as square waves and sawtooth or triangle waves, and basic percussion, often generated from white noise going through an ADSR envelope, low-quality PCM samples, or FM synthesis.
For the above reasons the classic chiptune sound can be recognised from its simple instruments, white noise or low-quality samples used for percussion and heavy use of ultra-fast arpeggios to emulate chords of three or four notes on a single channel (due to hardware limits, several notes must be placed on the same channel).
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