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Tracking / How to destroy Tracker's Block (and other things)
« on: September 05, 2007, 01:00:16 »
Greetings, everyone.

....*drops the professional front* Who am I kidding... I'm going through yet another tracker dilemma...

1) Other than some of my old tunes, I can't get good inspiration for the life of me, lately.
I tried everything: Theme, Mood, Surroundings, even listening to other trackers. *blasts Elwood's music with others*

2) As my artist page screams daily, my tunes are..well... 90% some of them are...pretty lousy.  :-\ I barely use the effects at times, and I can't shake that "Video Game MIDI" mindset when I try out instruments. Yeah, I could try chiptunes, but that strains my creativity drive even harder.

I really have no idea where to go from here.

So, any tips/feedback/comments? After dealing with Trackers, I just can't go back to MIDI, period.


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The Lobby / Introduce yourself - GaijinPayne
« on: July 24, 2007, 01:11:19 »
*ahem*.....

Yo, everyone. I found out about trackers about a year ago, while looking for a MIDI sequencer. At first I thought ModPlug Tracker was just that, but obviously I was mistaken.
Before I was about to delete it, I took a quick look at the formats it loaded, and found out I had a game that had the exact type of music. Sooo, I loaded it up, and I was amazed; Just looking at all the effects and seeing how the pattern arranged notes, it looked very straightforward...about 6 months later, I tried making a song in Modplug and....it sucked. Really bad. But then I wanted to see what other songs used this tracker format..so after a few minutes of googling, I found ModArchive and snagged me XMPlay while I was at it; I've been a tracker freak ever since, and even got my "MIDI4LIFE" friend hooked on it.

So after making a bunch of simple tunes from boredom, I realized I had no source of critique that I can improve from, so I registered here a few days ago.

*cough* From there it's history, I suppose. I started downloading instruments and trying them out, and I hope I'm able to improve my tracker skills from lousy to half-decent.

<.< >.> Okay, and I'll comment on songs too.

*Paynekiller/GaijinPayne, 17 year old code addict from the USA*

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