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Tracking / Re: The 10 most common tracker mistakes
« on: September 30, 2008, 16:01:13 »
After 2 years, the tutorial has finally received a well-deserved update! Enjoy everyone!

Some credits goes to Saga for helping with proof reading!

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The Lobby / Re: Hello
« on: September 30, 2008, 15:13:11 »
Welcome to the modarchive, Jannerd! Leave your sanity at the door and enjoy stay! :D

Saga's point is: Monkey see, monkey do.

Find your own style and build on it. It's easy to get stuck in technicalities, but the more errors you make, the more you learn. Just focus on the music and you will improve.

Some basic music theory could help, however. You may want to read a little on that. We are all ears if you have any questions or need any help. :)

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Tracking / Re: The 10 most common tracker mistakes
« on: September 30, 2008, 13:30:53 »
I have been away for a long time but now I am back to finally make a rewrite of this sticky. It pleases me to see it's still here despite my weak formulation. Practically going to keep similiar points to what I have had but rephrased in a way more suitable.

Also taking in some good points from others who have replied to this really old work of mine.

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The Lobby / Re: Toy guns?
« on: September 30, 2008, 13:19:44 »
If you already have this toy gun, I suggest you somehow photograph the internals so we can examine it further. I could probably help, but I don't know what exactly their internal parts consists of.

Most likely, like m0d said, the board consists of a memory and a small processor, which pushes data to a D/A, and then sends the analog signal to a small piazo speaker or similiar device for play-back.

Modify the toy gun extensively and you could have something really interesting. I hope you have some experience with fundamental electronics (ohms law, blah, blah) before you sink your teeth into this little project, however. ;)

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The Lobby / Re: what are you learning/working?
« on: September 30, 2008, 13:11:27 »
I am studying for a college degree in electro-technical design and engineering. That means a lot of playing around with transistors on test boards (and blowing some, too... I do it all the time) as well as studying math to the point of despair.

It's all good and hard work! ;)

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Look what I made! / Re: [Trance]Callisto - Ganymed (.mp3)
« on: November 01, 2007, 16:44:29 »
This is without doubt very enjoyable atmospheric techno (or dance, or trance? I am no good with classifications of electronic music genres...) music. It has great balance in the frequency spectrum and provides with lots of ear candy. It is very well varied while still remaining minimalistic. I really like the pads and that quiet passage around 3:00, very well progressed.

This could very well make it to the radio stations, if it was shorter. But that is only due to media-market preference.

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Tracking / Re: IT tracker with FT2 GUI/edit mode
« on: October 31, 2007, 20:51:01 »
I can basically add that tracker design appears to have a lot to do with idolism and tradition. Basically, those that take the time to code a new tracker often make it like whatever-a-tracker the coder's favourite tracker was. Therefore you can clearly see 4 stereotype designs in many trackers:
Scream Tracker III (or IT) style, ProTracker style (or FT2), the ModPlug kind of style (characterised by tabs and a horisontal screen-wide order list) which I can't really trace back to any specific origin and then there is the more niched modular synth tracker interface (e.g. PicaTune, Aero Studio and so on).

Furthermore is that the generic features of new trackers usually follows what this supposed favourite tracker had, plus and minus a handful of features. Those who do make trackers with more thinking out of the box-ideas generally appear not to be very experienced coders, which is why I see a few ideas left in the gutters - like a multi-format tracker in FT2 style.

P.S. I have actually worked on a study over tracker design history for quite a while, which is also one reason why I collect trackers as some of the regulars on this forum may know. Eventually I will publish a lengthy literal work about it. We will see.

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Tracking / Re: What's within the realm of possibility?
« on: October 25, 2007, 09:46:05 »
Saga, this lad is a newbie. I bet he may barelly even have a clue what you are talking about with all that technical jargon. :]

But yes, trackers are in theory just as capable as a sequencer, if not more. It's just two different mediums but with many things in common. If you have the creativity, the tools and the imagination, you can create professional music dependless if you use pen and paper, a sequencer or a tracker. It's all up there in your head.

About the vocals, there are plenty of ways to create those. In fact, you do not even need to be able to sing yourself. You can let your computer sing for you! Of course, finding a virtual singer is not the easiest. The only one I know you can use for free is Virtual Singer that comes with Melody Assistant - which is a sequencer.

If you got the time, you can use a vocoder and record whatever voice you have and then modify it to sound good. It will probably sound a bit like the lyrics in Boten Anna, though, and also require quite a lot of time and technical insight. But hey, it's an option!

The cheapest and easiest way is just to record someone or yourself singing and put it in fresh and raw into the tracker. Not everyone has the voice of a winner from American Idol, but hey, with the right mixing, maybe no one will notice that you sing like a crow. ;D

Just have fun if you get into it and see where it takes you. There's no limit to the options, you know, so if tracking does not work for you, just try something else. :)

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Tracking / Re: i... i think i'm late for the party...
« on: October 25, 2007, 09:25:48 »
The 'golden age of tracking' in the 90's may be well over, so to speak. However, with the power of the internet, the community of trackers is larger now than ever and there are new additions to the scene popping up every day, both in new artists and in new creative works.

The tracker scene is far from dead and buried, instead it is well-established and here to stay.

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Tracking / Re: taketracker question
« on: October 25, 2007, 09:14:43 »
I remember composing in TakeTracker through DosBox and remember it working perfectly fine. May be your CPU that lack a bit of firepower or you forgot the Ctrl+F12 combo for over-clocking DosBox.

I have not yet tested running TakeTracker on my new box with Windows 98SE which I got some month ago or something, but I'll get to it and see if there's any clear difference between running it in DOS and running it in DosBox.

By the way, did you install the latest version of DosBox? Version 0.72 is out.

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