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Project / Coder's Corner / Re: Smallest possible XM?

« on: June 17, 2009, 02:27:14 »

Lamb's "among the stars" is 4KB (I think it's 4 drivemakers' KB actually - 4000B), but it's probably not the genre you're looking for.

Two notes:
1. I highly recommend that you look at it in a tracker, you may get some ideas. Note that there are a lot of speed changes.
2. It plays on almost nothing. It breaks in mikmod and modplugplay, and theoretically would break in vlc. It doesn't quite play right in SchismTracker. I have confirmed that it plays fine in XMPlay. It SHOULD play fine in FastTracker2.

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Tracking / The 10 most common tracker mistakes

« on: March 03, 2007, 03:55:51 »

OK, here's my comments on these:

#1 - Looping and using the same theme
I often gather riffs and vary them slightly. The weird thing is I don't intend on doing that, but when I'm at a tracker, I often do.
But generally I'm not too bad with that.

#2 - TOO LOUD, TOO QUICK!!
Never done it.

#3 - No depth, no panning, no nothing.
I hardly ever use panning, and I only leave panning in when I'm working with the MT2 (MadTracker 2) format. But yeah, echo / fading is quite nice

#4 - Out of beat
I have a good sense of rhythm. Hardly ever had problems with this; I often adjust it if I don't get it right first time. Or second, et cetera.

Oh, and by the way, you CAN have a 4/4 beat over a 3/4 beat if you use compund time (6/8 time). Use 12 lines per bar, and then you can overlap it. If you have the right beat, this can sound REALLY good (I tried it just before).

#5 - Finishing the song abruptly
Generally I just let it finish, or I loop it if it's too short.

#6 - Forgetting to add contact info
Well, I give a name as a bare minimum. My email address and website are a bit too big to stick it in the instrument headers :\

#7 - Spelling your mail-adress wrong
Well, I spell my name right, and I can't quite get enough space to fit my email address in, so that's not a main problem.

#8 - Cutting a note by using another note when you should not
I used to use a volume of 00. Then I used the note cut. Now I go back to using a volume of 00, because note cuts are NOT interpreted correctly when loading MT2/XM modules in SchismTracker (the note cuts are interpreted as note-offs) when I do a WAV export.

#9 - Using relative values
I like to know what volume / speed I'm at, thanks.
I also like to know what note I'm at, but I have to do it for a smooth fade.

#10 - Ripping
Why bother? I prefer going from scratch.

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You forgot to mention "Out of tune." I can spot these EASILY, seeing as I have perfect-pitch, so it's not hard for me.

Yes, it's an old thread, but it's stickied, so it doesn't hurt.