I'll pass along the word to him. He's a great guy and an extremely talented musician.

That's the thing about chiptune, it's not just VGM like a lot of people think, it's been described as having a punk rock aesthetic due to the DIY nature and because of the fact that presets and other user-friendly things are typically rejected by the community. Case in point: Little Sound DJ (LSDJ) comes with some preset drum kits that don't sound bad, and some of which we all use from time to time, but for the most part we all create our own drums. I would say that 95% + of the instruments that you hear across chiptune is musician-created instruments.

Similarly, everything that you hear is programmed from the instruments to the tables that Dan briefly showed (which are the most useful) to the song structure. It's not really intuitive and definitely has a bit of a learning curve.

Also the best part of the scene is something he touched upon, which is the workshops and generally friendly nature of it. If you make chiptune everybody else in the scene supports you and vice versa. Everybody is willing to share their knowledge with everybody else for the sake of making good music.