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Tracking / XM's with Skale

« on: January 03, 2007, 15:56:48 »

I'll have to agree that Milkytracker would be the best way to go for a FT2-driven fellow (as I myself am too). Skale lacks a lot of effects that even FT2 had and the editing of effects track per track gets awfully tedious when a lot of channels are being used. Even with that said, I have some interface issues with Milky, so that's why I mainly use Skale because my tracking limits nowadays to one hour compos. :grinno: I haven't tried using FT2 with Dosbox yet, maybe I'll have to give it a try too. 8-)

Also you might want to try Renoise to see how you like it, as it has a lot of similarities with FT2. It isn't free but it does take a few advancing steps from the FT2-clones. I can't say much more about it yet as I've just done a few stumbling tests with it.

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The Lobby / Introduce yourself - s-go (TheNuke)

« on: August 21, 2006, 23:23:02 »

i think you reviewed many tracks of Poison Mick Ivy... didn't you?

Hmm, atleast I don't recall reviewing his tunes (atleast many of them). My old reviews were written a long long time ago (mostly in 1998-2000) so I don't really remember them so specificly. Btw, sadly I lost the textfiles on which I had gathered all of my written reviews for MA and TiS, but that's a whole different story.

EDIT: And ofcourse thanks for the welcome  :lol:

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The Lobby / Introduce yourself - s-go (TheNuke)

« on: August 21, 2006, 22:59:17 »

Hi, I'm s-go from Finland and I'm a 23 year old student. I got familiar with tracking back in 1995 or so and started to track some time after that. I used the handle TheNuke back in the days, and still do atleast while reviewing. I was quite active with tracking when I was younger and composed some modules and did a bunch of reviewing at Modarchive and Traxinspace. My www-button directs to my artist page at MA where you'll find modules of varying quality from the years '98 to '03 so give them a go if you're interested.  

I'm not really active with tracking nowadays, but been trying to catch up with the scene now, after having a few years of barely even touching a tracker. I'm infact quite pleased to see that Modarchive is still being cared of as much (if not more) as it was in the last century and I'm trying my best to be a useful contributor for the site. Due to lazyness and lack of free time I probably won't release that much in the future atleast in tracker format :-|  but you can count on me for a ohc tune here and there and hopefully many good reviews too. Oh, and my face is in the avatar.

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Tracking / Ten tips for beginner trackers

« on: August 17, 2006, 21:05:42 »

Nice article with useful tips as in the other sticky topic here in the Tracking section  :thumbup:

One thing that can't be underlined too much in my opinion is patience. As good as these tips are, I think that the great majority will have to have certain amounts of determination and true intrest in music to keep oneself focused on the matter. If one can track good tunes in a few days, that's extremely good for him/her, but I doubt that a few beginning artists can manage to learn to track even as soon as Eagle did. So if your tracking doesn't seem to work in a week or a month or a year, but you're still having fun, then keep on doing it!

Back in the days when a friend showed me a tracker and played some tunes and it was so exteremely cool and interesting but I mostly spent the first year playing Nibbles on FT2 (I was about 12 at the time, it was really neat back then :oops:) and listening to the best modules I could find. Then slowly I started to create something and then after a moderate evolvement curve from your basic-itsy-bitsy-spiders etc to some original material I suddenly noticed that my songs were listenable and even other people then myself were enjoying them  :lol:

Maybe if I had seen these kind of tips I might have gotten the hang of it sooner, but that's a big maybe. I'd have probably done just as I did    There's no easy solution that would qualify for everyone, and I'd like to underline that a beginning tracker needs patience and healthy confidence. Ofcourse tracking gets frustrating at times, it does for everyone, but if you still get back to your favourite tracker after a while, you've chosen the right path on tracking.

Sorry for the long post, one last note that came to mind while ranting and getting even cheesy at times, is the fact that when you get criticism from a song, take it the right way or atleast learn to try to do so. Flames and such can be disregarded but good constructive criticism is really a priceless tip and a pathway to find things to develop in one's songs. Ok, now I'll just shut up and post this.  :roll: