{
  "name": "Bit Music",
  "description": "Created by sound chips, cards, and sequencers found in video game consoles, personal computers, and arcade machines, as well as synthesizers emulating these sounds.",
  "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/bit-music/",
  "parent": "Electronic",
  "level": "sub",
  "children_count": 4,
  "children": [
    {
      "name": "Chiptune",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/chiptune/",
      "description": "Used primarily in the 1980s within the context of 8-bit Video Game Music, combining simple synthesized waveforms and noise in a compositionally limited but overtly melodic style.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Bit Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "FM Synthesis",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/fm-synthesis/",
      "description": "Sound synthesis that combines the simple waveforms of Chiptune with modulating oscillators to create a bouncier synthesizer sound that would be used in arcade cabinets and home video game consoles like the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis in the late 1980s.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Bit Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "MIDI Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/midi-music/",
      "description": "Intended for real-time sequenced playback via MIDI protocol on MIDI devices and used primarily in 1990s PC Video Game Music, arranger keyboards and karaoke.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Bit Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Sequencer & Tracker",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/sequencer-and-tracker/",
      "description": "Composed for early home computer and game consoles from the late 1980s to the late 1990s, primarily for video game soundtracks.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Bit Music"
    }
  ]
}