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Community => The Lobby => Topic started by: the Deviant on May 31, 2007, 10:09:39
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Go on, then, peel back the mists of time and think! think!
what was that first mod a friend played to you whilst raving about some free music scene?
so what was your first experience with a mod?
back in the heady days of secondary school a German friend of mine introduced me to an artist called Alien... the specific track being In the dawn (http://modarchive.org/view-songinfo.php?action=inst&query=bafcb81d6958416da5114a4aeefa53c8). I was hooked, I got me a copy of mptracker and started playing around, listening to all the tracks I could download on weekday evenings and weekends on a crummy dial-up (plus the ones I sneakily downloaded at school behind the IT guy's back, drilling holes in the 800kb floppies I had so they'd hold more tunes..) I've never looked back :D
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The first mod I ever heard was my own, dunlending.it... and it sucked - bad. I probably caught on pretty quickly how to use ModPlug Tracker (just took 2 minutes actually for me to figure out the basics, I think), but it's obvious that my early 2004-2005 modules were all, well, crap.
The first mod that I didn't make myself that I heard were probably a bunch of module soundtracks from old school classics on the Amiga like Blues Brothers and a few others (I forget).
Basicly, my personal tracking biography is pretty dull...
EDIT: Remembered the names of the games.
Oh, and how did I find out about trackers to begin with? It's quite a dull story, too. I wanted to make my own music for my games and found my old tools to be rather inadequate (MS-Sound Recorder, my Yamaha PSR-280 and a microphone on the speakers. I also did some stuff by fiddling about with my voice, which can be heard in my oldest games).
I asked my friends about if they knew any free program that could make music and my friend Tony (Chunitana) told me that ModPlug Tracker was good. I asked another friend later over MSN who also appeared to be tracking for some samples and he gave me a few .XI instruments, I loaded them up and got going. The result after half an hour of tracking: dunlending.it - A fairly bad, partially out-of-beat drum and bass tune (the bass melody was pretty OK, though, the drums were incorrectly timed in two patterns by 1/16 or 1 row).
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unluckily, i never had friends who really supported the scene. The first modules I found were some files in Jazz Jackrabbit 2: The secret files (only some modules of homemade maps included modules, the rest of the files was encrypted) - the first time i knew that those files are music was when i started to play around with modules in some qbasic programmes. there was a tool called "mo3" - it converted modules to the mo3 format. i noctied that i saw these extensions in JJ2 before (IT, S3M) - and so i found the first real modules. lateron, i found the BWSB Sound system for quickbasic that had its own format. zylim recommended to compose tracks in scream tracker, so i searched the net for scream tracker, instead i found modplug tracker :) that was in 2004, when i started to compose modules. a short while later, i discovered TMA :)
btw, my first module i downlaoded at modplug central was quest1.s3m (http://modarchive.org/view-songinfo.php?action=inst&query=71c7c27a1f722a8860cc51a03bae74c3) - don't even bother to download it. it's a very bad module, it's a shame that this was the first file i got my samples from :hrrhrr:
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The first mod I heard was WAVE's 911....about three years ago....
my interest was sparked pretty deep...after uncovering more and more modules...and from there, I started actually tracking...
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popcorn.mod and sandman.mod were the first modules i've played in a module player. I don't remember what my first player is called but it was for DOS, text mode, blue background with yellow text.
My second was Cubic Player :D
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Mine was hearing the soundtracks to 2 demos on the Amiga, Phenomena's Enigma and one of those funny Budbrain demos..... That was back in the early 90s..
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Mine was hearing a MED modules "amiganuts", mindblowing... and then occ-san-geen, which had a totally awesome panning introduction.
There was also "snakes" or something, it's long gone - it was one of those with multiple tunes inside it, and it was from a game - had a couple of cute jingles and then some electric guitar bits which i thought were neat at the time.
@Axxy, you don't happen to recognise this do you? :D
Found (http://modarchive.org/view-songinfo.php?action=inst&query=67a3b554edbd860c9fd4d8b4e53d9768) it!
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The first mod I heard (in a tracker aware it was a mod) was probably Uncle Tom's occ-san-geen too. I had ordered a some disks from some "PD library", and there were mods on some of them.
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First mod I ever heard (apart from my own first failed attempt) was Last Ballad by Siren.
Still one of my favvy tunes to this day. It changed my life :D
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well, for me it started with radiohead posting cave story on their blog, which somehow led me to indy gaming, which led me to nifflas, which led me here
so i suppose the first one ever... was probably vast silence by dfast
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For me it was a joke song made by our neighbours (I think it was called "Ripsipiirakka"). It had live guitars and vocals, and it actually sounded quite good sound-wise; that was exceptional at those days, now that I think about it. The neighbours just never released anything over the internet but just made those drunken joke songs for fun. I was around 9 years then, but well, somehow I catched the infection and had ft within a year. Never managed to get anything done with it though, so changed to IT and been stuck with it since then.
So in short, a couple of drunken, anarchist teens changed my life. Or at least half of it. :)
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it was in 92 or such, i was attending basic school and my brother's friend (already at grammar school) brought some modules and a basic mod player (mp.com i think), i remember you could display gif files during playing mods. i had extra low memory so i couldn't play many of the mods because of this, only several worked (goblins.mod, short.mod (great one from walkman) and maybe some i already forgot...)
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Oh jeez. It had to be 1992, now. A friend of mine going to university brought over a couple floppies, which I don't recall. Eventually, I got Amnesia, Unreal, then Crystal Dreams. I was hooked.
I remember using DMP and DMPc under DesQview so I could listen to my music and dialup into the uni's digital.. and the 3 days spent trying to figure out the best options to pass to 'sz' to download the files after I got them to the uni. :'(
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It was Night of the Dragon, first heard three years ago.
http://modarchive.org/download.php/A/a-drag.it
I cringed when I saw the line in the review guide. However, I'm just getting back into TrackTunes, and my small collection with my notes is stuck on a half-dismantled computer, so this was the only one I could actually recall. As far as that went, I was as fair as possible.
When I carve out some project time, I can post some reviews of my other favorites.
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My brother (of all people :P) provided me with an early version of Fasttracker, together with some tunes. I played the songs Agony and Just Can't Get Enough probably a thousand times...