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MilkyTracker Community / Re: Song does not loop correctly when played

« on: December 27, 2009, 20:35:03 »

Thanks for the advice, and for introducing me to some of those features. Unfortunately FMOD does not honor the repeat setting. For the moment, I've hacked together something that works by putting everything that needs to repeat into one pattern with a very long length, and using E60 commands. It's a horrible setup, so I've kept the originals around for editing and showing others.

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MilkyTracker Community / Re: Song does not loop correctly when played

« on: December 22, 2009, 20:26:06 »

I've looked all around MilkyTracker, and I can't find any "song-editor-repeat-start" option, or any other option like it. Where would I find this?

I've asked a friend to upload it to his file-space. This is a direct download, so you should be able to get the file without a problem:

http://www.byond.com/members/SuperSaiyanX/files/sea_chanty.xm

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MilkyTracker Community / Song does not loop correctly when played

« on: December 22, 2009, 10:13:54 »

First, thank you Raina, Deltafire, and DasKreestof for the help this past week getting MilkyTracker up and running.

I've composed a couple songs in XM format for a project I was hoping to release on the 24th. The problem is that the platform I'm using to play them isn't obeying all my pattern break commands, specifically the ones at the end of the song. I have several songs that use an intro pattern that should only be played at the beginning of the song. At the end of the song I have an effect that should make it jump back to pattern 01 (the second pattern, the one after the intro), but it jumps back to the intro (pattern 00) instead. To be clear, MilkyTracker plays the song as intended, it's the other platform I'm using that doesn't. I'm confused because that other platform uses FMOD for playback, and FMOD is supposed to support XM.

I'm wondering if I've done something wrong. If you have any tips about using a different effect, using the effect in a different way, or anything, please clue me in. The file is here:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/zwmim1mxqjc/sea_chanty.xm

If you cannot access the download at mediafire.com, just tell me and I'll try a different site.

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MilkyTracker Community / Re: Is there a list of effects anywhere?

« on: December 20, 2009, 00:06:54 »

Thank you for the link to the online manual. I would have appreciated the tip much more without the roll-eyes, though.

Pro tip: The file MilkyTracker.html which came with my installation includes no such information on effects.  

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MilkyTracker Community / Re: Is there a list of effects anywhere?

« on: December 16, 2009, 19:07:09 »

Thanks for the link. I had actually already visited that page (I've been doing a ton of Google searching), but they don't have much info on the commands. For instance, all they say about the loop command is "Exy: Extended MOD Commands".

One thing that would really be helpful is knowing what effects set MilkyTracker uses. It's the same set as FastTracker, right? Does it deviate from this command set in any way?

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MilkyTracker Community / Is there a list of effects anywhere?

« on: December 16, 2009, 01:58:37 »

Google is failing me. Is there a list of effects somewhere? Ages ago I remember seeing on for FastTracker and book marking it, but I've since lost that computer. All I remember is that E60 set a pattern repeat point, and E64 would repeat from that point 4 times. The E60 command doesn't seem to work in MilkyTracker, though, and I don't remember any of the other commands.

Is there an effects list or something like that around here?

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MilkyTracker Community / Re: Samples not playing at correct frequency

« on: December 14, 2009, 23:33:14 »

Thanks for the link. I've followed the advice there and have been able to get some little songs going. This is more progress then I ever got with MadTracker. If you don't mind my asking more questions in this thread:

I've noticed that some of my samples start to sound out of tune when they get further away from their "natural" note (the note I originally created the sample at). What's the best way to reduce this effect? And is it possible to load multiple samples in the same instrument, and specify that one should be used around the 5th octave, while another is for the 4th?

I've looked online and searched the forums here, but I don't see the option for changing the octave of notes as I place them (so that a note will be placed as "c-2" instead of "c-4" when I press the Z key).

Thanks again for the help so far.

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MilkyTracker Community / Samples not playing at correct frequency

« on: December 14, 2009, 05:21:57 »

Hi. I just downloaded Milky Tracker earlier this week. I've been using Mad Tracker off and on for a year now with little to no success, and thought this tracker might be more of what I'm looking for (specifically the sample creating and editing features). So I downloaded it, read the starting tutorial up to the point where it talks about editing samples, and try to make one.

I right-clicked the sample editor and made a new sample, choosing to make it 22050 samples long. (I'm guessing MilkyTracker plays samples at 22050Hz, as this sample lasts 1sec when I play it.)

I then right-clicked again and generated some square waves, 440 of them, to be exact. With 440 waves in one second, I expected that MilkyTracker would play the note "A" when I hit play.

Instead, I heard a note which was definitely note A. I noticed the buttons that change the note at which the sample is played back, and tried fiddling with those both before and after I generate my sample, but I can't get it to generate the proper note. (It seems to be generating a note about a 5th higher).

What am I doing wrong? How can I just generate a sample that's 1 second long and has 440 square waves?