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The Lobby / Re: An oldie returns...

« on: March 19, 2014, 13:14:20 »

Listening to snowflakes now - not bad 

I get what you're saying about sharing.  Way back when you'd see everyone ripping samples and sharing mods all over the place.  Guess we can thank people like Timbaland for making people more cautious?

I see the scene is still ticking along too - just wondering, do you know of any demoscene section for websites?  I wrote a phase mod synth and a basic tracker in javascript in under 2k - if there's any form of scene for that kind of thing I'd be inspired to try and build on it to create a full demo.

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Website News Archive / Re: 20 years of Impulse Tracker

« on: March 19, 2014, 12:59:35 »

So many days and nights lost in front of its mustardy glare.

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The Lobby / Re: Hi from a Milky Junglist (Plus a problem I need help with)

« on: March 18, 2014, 15:39:09 »

First you need to understand the problem that causes the pops and clicks.  

If you're familiar with a waveform, you'll know that it oscillates around a central point, so a sine wave goes over or under the center line of the oscilloscope, for instance.  When it's above the center, the speaker cone is pushed out.  When it's below, the speaker cone is pulled in.  When the waveform is stopped, the speaker cone sits in the middle of the two extremes.

If a sample is playing and the speaker cone is pushed out or pulled in to a certain degree, and then is stopped abruptly, the cone will suddenly return to the center, hence the "pop".  Similarly, if a sample is suddenly triggered (and the offset is not in the central axis of the waveform), you'll hear a pop.  

So the trick is to avoid the speaker cone suddenly returning to the center position from some extreme.  So you need to avoid both the sudden triggering, and stopping of an audio sample that is far from the center position.  

If you are talking from a purely sampling perspective and can't use envelopes then you can avoid popping by only stopping or starting samples at a "zero crossing."  These Zero Crossing moments occur when the sampled waveform crosses the center line.  If you can trigger and stop sounds at the zero crossing there will be no pop.

Of course...  This means you'll need to have a very high sample accuracy in your tracking to prevent this, which can be a mathematical and musical nightmare.  So...  Realistically depending on which tracker you're using you may be able to use a relatively fast attack to prevent popping when samples are triggered, and a fast release when they are stopped.  This can smooth the sudden return to zero which causes the popping.

I come from an Impulse tracker background, and Schism tracker is similar in that you can use the Instrument Panel (F4 if I think) to edit the envelope and make sure these sudden leaps to and from zero don't occur.

Hope that helps?

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The Lobby / Re: An oldie returns...

« on: March 18, 2014, 15:23:05 »

As I feared - but still a lot of great memories holed up in this place.

Genuine question - are people still making mods?  Even as just an anachronism?  Any good examples of recent mod music?

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The Lobby / An oldie returns...

« on: March 16, 2014, 05:26:36 »

Hey all,

I was pretty active here back in the late 90's, and a bit of a typical teenager at the time I have to admit.

I used to kick back listening to Mick Rippon and anything by Skaven & Purple Motion.  Catch that Goblin anyone?  Anyone?  No?

When I realised this place was still going I was excited to see all my old stuff was up too!  Had a bit of a laugh at my lovingly crafted tunes that I'd slave over day and night and used to think were awesome (lol).

Anyway I want to try and get back into my account, update the profile and maybe upload some new tunes.

Great to be back - what have I missed?