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Music Production => MilkyTracker => Tracking => MilkyTracker Community => Topic started by: teenagejesus on October 21, 2008, 22:02:16

Title: very very newb
Post by: teenagejesus on October 21, 2008, 22:02:16

hey, I'm pretty new to the world of tracking, I love chiptunes and gamewave and I really want to make some of my own, but I have a slight problem.

I try to use the sample editor and I follow all the right steps, but for somereason I just get a not very chiptune beep, even when I change pitch and all lol. so yeah, any advice on how i can correct my problem?

I usually just open the sample editor, click either foward or no loop, select new instrument and then I draw, but It just comes out as like this annoying little thing that makes me sad....

Title: Re: very very newb
Post by: m0d on October 21, 2008, 23:28:52

This is the general forum for introductions on The Mod Archive, you obviously are asking for help in some tracker program, which one is it? When I know, i'll move your post to the right forum so you'll get the responses you need :)

Title: Re: very very newb
Post by: teenagejesus on October 22, 2008, 00:17:17

I'm using milkytracker...

Title: Re: very very newb
Post by: jivatma on November 01, 2008, 13:29:41

Hello teenagejesus,

this is what i found for ya:

http://modarchive.org/forums/index.php?topic=45.0 (http://modarchive.org/forums/index.php?topic=45.0)

It shows Chipping Techniques and the Sample-length thing.
Your Sample should be a multiple of 8 in hex-length, e. g. 64 to be tuned to e. g. C-4  :)

If you need a more typical chipsound then just a beep, you have to use effects for that beep sound in the effects collumn.

For typical Chip-Chords please try:

Code: [Select]

C-4 1 40 047
--- - -- 047
--- - -- 047
(and so on)
(The first thing - C-4 - is the Note you want to hear; 1 is the Instrument number; 40 the volume of the Note and 047 is the Chip-Chord - maybe you want to use 037 for a variation)

Maybe you want to download some nice chiptunes and learn from looking at how they are done? As a good example in MOD Chiptunes, here is the her-Collection: http://www.seele07.de/musik/her.zip (http://www.seele07.de/musik/her.zip)

greetings,
Ingo

PS: you need to define a starting and end point for your chipsample-loop (e. g. for forward loop)

Title: Re: very very newb
Post by: raina on November 01, 2008, 16:11:12

Techniques of Chipping is also available at http://www.milkytracker.net/?documentation with all the ASCII diagrams fixed.

Title: Re: very very newb
Post by: jivatma on November 01, 2008, 16:40:33

Thx raina ^_^

Well, i made a little and rough example what you can do to avoid the beep-like sound in your chip-songs @teenagejesus.

Here it is: http://www.seele07.de/musik/beep.zip (http://www.seele07.de/musik/beep.zip)

the first Pattern (00) shows the beep sound (in this case a square-sound), Pattern 01 shows the same with a Vibrato Effect and Pattern 02 with a Tremolo Effect. The Vibrato lets the Sound vibrate in frequency and the Tremolo lets vibrate it in Loudness. :)

Hope it helps you :)

Ingo