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MilkyTracker Support / Re: Odd space after a note-on.

« on: October 14, 2011, 08:14:56 »

You have (probably accidentally) increased the "Add" value in the tracker. Check under BPM and Spd. I'm gonna go ahead and say you've pressed the "½/§/~/`" key below Esc to do that. Pressing that together with Shift decreases the number of skipped rows. And it looks like these two might be missing from the manual, good catch.

Anyway, this is an editor setting that's easily changed so there's little point in explicitly disabling the feature. Which you can't do. Just stick to Add value 1 if you don't find the rest of them useful.

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MilkyTracker Support / Re: Effect column value interpolation, can it be done?

« on: October 12, 2011, 08:24:05 »

It is possible and it works just as you describe. Select anything and hit Shift-I (in FT2 mode) or Ctrl-I (in Milky mode) and the selection values will be interpolated.

In addition to this, in FT2 mode you also have the volume scaling feature, accessible with Ctrl/Alt/Shift-V.

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MilkyTracker Support / Re: Envelope & fadeout meaning

« on: October 05, 2011, 11:50:25 »

You can exchange envelope data between XI and PAT instruments. The tiny buttons above the envelope window are for storing and restoring envelopes. To store an envelope, first click the Store button, then one of the number buttons. The envelope is now saved on that # slot. You can then switch instruments and by clicking the # button, the stored envelope is applied to the current instrument. That's pretty much it for what you can do inside MilkyTracker, at least for now. The envelopes are saved in XI files, which could be processed outside milky though.

The smallest x-increment in the envelope editor is one tracker tick. The song Spd value controls how many ticks there are per pattern row. The BPM value sets the rate of the ticks. In other words the envelope speed is not fixed to time.

Shoot, I had the fadeout formula written down somewhere straight from the hors.. pailes' mouth. I can't find it right now but I'm fairly sure the fadeout speed is also related to ticks, not seconds. 0 never fades out, max fades out instantly. Trial and error is what I always say but I can try looking for the exact thing. In the meantime, it can be found somewhere in the source code.

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MilkyTracker Support / Re: beginners questions

« on: September 11, 2011, 16:25:38 »

1) Using a synthesizer. Hardware, software, standalone or plugin doesn't matter. Anything that produces sound and can be rendered or recorded to a sample is usable in Milky. If you want to use the basic wave generators in MilkyTracker's sample editor, beware, they're basic. But you can't use them in an empty sample slot, first you need to load a sample or create silent data via the sample editor context menu > New.

2) Press Ctrl-F or click the tiny F button on the top of the main display.

3) Sample is one audio wave form file. An instrument can contain 1-16 samples which have their associated note, finetune, volume and panning values as well as shared vibrato and envelope settings which can be used to automate the basic characteristics of the instrument instead of having to input everything with effect commands.

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MilkyTracker Support / Re: How to install MilkyTracker on a Jornada 720 (HPC - Windows CE 3.0)

« on: September 02, 2011, 08:09:22 »

And there is Linux, so maybe I can compile Chibi, Cheese, or Schism tracker for it if Milky doesn't work

In that case you can probably add Linux-Milky to the list

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MilkyTracker Support / Re: How to install MilkyTracker on a Jornada 720 (HPC - Windows CE 3.0)

« on: September 01, 2011, 12:58:16 »

Looks to me like it should work because of the ARM compatible CPU and Windows CE. Unfortunately I can't promise it will, though.

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MilkyTracker Support / Re: A possibly really dumb question about drum loops.

« on: August 22, 2011, 09:01:37 »

You could use an external app to find the sample BPM but since the BPM value in the tracker isn't related to real world BPM, the results won't be perfect. You can get close by using the Spd value of 3, 6, 12... but it'll get out of sync before you can say "goddamned obscure legacy software". So staying true to my schtick, Imma say trial and error.

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MilkyTracker Support / Re: A possibly really dumb question about drum loops.

« on: August 18, 2011, 08:31:52 »

You adjust the sample pitch (note the finetune slider in the instrument editor) and the song spd/bpm until it's good. Sometimes it doesn't work because the "natural" sample and song speeds are too far off. Not wanting to sacrifice your song, that's when you try other samples.

For 9xx the traditional approach is trial and error. Try different values and observe where the sample starts off playing in the sample editor to give you a visual hint on which way to go. Many trackers scale the 9xx scale to cover the length of the sample but in .XM it is fixed to 256 byte increments. See http://milkytracker.org/docs/MilkyTracker.html#fx9xx. Using the resampler to get exactly 0x10000 sample length is tedious because the dialog preview doesn't reflect the changes accurately enough when you directly input the frequency for example. But again, with trial and error, it can be done.

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MilkyTracker Community / Re: magnification

« on: August 01, 2011, 08:01:17 »

In Config > Layout > Resolutions there is a scaling option below the list of resolution options.

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MilkyTracker Support / Re: Some Noob-ish questions... Portamento to note weird behavior -- Can anyone help?

« on: June 19, 2011, 09:25:23 »

Sorry. I don't know for sure, but I doubt it.