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MilkyTracker News / Re: Milkytracker now available on Haiku
« on: June 08, 2013, 20:52:47 »
Naturally, I'm a little behind.  I've been trying out Haiku recently and just found out about Milky Tracker being available on Haiku.  I was running Haiku alpha 4, but switched to a nightly (r45686) before downloading Milky Tracker.  It runs great on Haiku, and reminds me very much of FastTracker II.  But someone should post an entry for Milky Tracker on Haikuware.com. 

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The Lobby / Re: Found a bunch of .mods
« on: October 12, 2012, 22:48:00 »
Yes, that's a great thing about mods, but what I say is that you shouldn't upload those "personal modifications" to online module archives unless there is a very good reason to do so.

Oh, no, I just modified them for my own personal use, not to upload them.


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The Lobby / Re: Your favourite website...
« on: October 12, 2012, 02:26:02 »
...is now available under a completely new, extravagant and indeed very awesome URL:
http://mod.xm.s3m.it/

Try it! ;D

Neat!

 :P

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The Lobby / Re: Found a bunch of .mods
« on: October 12, 2012, 01:20:26 »
I haven't checked them all but the ones that I checked were on the archive already. The problem with those old MODs is that they have been passed through many hands and people have modified them (e.g. by adding "this mod has be downloaded on BBS x") so that the *exact* same files might not be on ModArchive, but an identical duplicate.

Well, that's one of the interesting things about mods--taking them and modifying them.  I really loved the Allnite Groove mod, so I loaded it into FastTracker, copied all the tracks so that it played twice as long, and then saved it as an XM.  It's been on my WinAmp playlist for years now, along with my mp3's and midi files.

Another mod I liked was Cycles of the Mind, an XM track.  It's a truly beautiful song, but he does this little quirky bit at the end for humor, so I loaded it up and chopped off the quirky bit. 


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The Lobby / Midi/Mod/Digital Audio Recorder-Tracker
« on: October 11, 2012, 18:35:58 »
Call me nuts, but I'd like to see a sequencer/tracker program that combines the various ways sound can be created on a computer: midi with the built-in midi sounds, mod tracking with samples, softsynths, digital audio recording, maybe even the old FM/Adlib sounds all in one program, with midi input (for playing/recording) and a common sequencing/tracking interface.  Effects and output to WAV/MP3 would be nice, too. 

I know there are various programs that can do some of this, like Buzz, which does softsynths and mod tracking/sampling, but I'm not aware of anything that does it all.

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The Lobby / Re: Need Help (Newbie)
« on: October 11, 2012, 17:27:48 »
Many samples in one instrument to make it sound better. Dark piano sounds can sound bad on high notes for example then you make so that they automatically play other (brighter) piano samples as you go. I know how to map like that in OpenMPT but not in Schismtracker.
Anyway listen to how you want things to sound then try to make it like that using all the available effects etc. then you'll find out techniques!

Right--multiple samples in one instrument allows the instrument to "track" better over a larger range.  Take a sample, any sample, and then play a really low or really high note.  It'll start doing strange things, playing really long or really short, and sounding unnatural.  So, if, for example, you want a decent piano sound, you would take multiple samples of the piano at different octaves, and then associate each one of them to the appropriate range in your tracker instrument.  The result will be a more natural sounding piano, even if you play really low or high notes on it.

Of course, sometimes you want a really weird or unnatural sound, but that's another issue.

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The Lobby / Re: Newbie Poll
« on: October 11, 2012, 17:21:39 »
Lol, I remember using Usenet many years ago, ie. a.b.s.m and the like...  ;)
Yep, I was on several newsgroups for a few years.  But this was only after I stopped dialing up bulletin boards because I had discovered the Internet!

Geez, I'm starting to feel old...

 :P

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