Also, I can use a microphone, record any noise sound with it, including me stomping it, then edit that sample by adding a loop to it, cut the rest and have a chip sound. Its more work but I can create the sounds I could otherwise get with a synthesizer simply because I know how a waveform works. for example, if I have a simple nearly sine wave, and I amplify its sound by 1000 times or so, eventually its a square wave. if I then cut it properly a few times, I have the filtered square waves I always use in my chiptunes.