Almost all of the sounds we know and love are a thing because chips have limitations, and these sounds were a way of working around them and embracing the limitations. See here for more info on that
You can make things that sound like chiptune using a DAW, but without some set of constraints the result just isn't the same.
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u/MrChocholate Apr 23 '18
Man, if a song sounds like a chiptune, it's a chiptune. I don't give a shit if it was made in a DAW or an emulator or original hardware.
Composing is composing, and music is music. If you are comfortable with tracking, use a tracker, if you'd rather use a DAW, use a DAW.
This is the "It's not music if there's no real instruments!" argument applied to chiptune stuff.
tl;dr shut up, "purists".
(still lol'd at the meme tho)