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Tracking / Re: How often do you track?
« on: January 16, 2009, 04:31:54 »
It varies for me... Sometimes a couple of times a week, sometimes once a month. :) I do tend to get lots of little ideas, though...

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Feedback & Suggestions / Re: Recommended players list
« on: January 14, 2009, 00:04:27 »
Well, I fired it up, loaded up a couple of tracks (taken from m0d's Orgasmod listings, actually) and played 'em. Sounded ok to me! :)

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Feedback & Suggestions / Re: Recommended players list
« on: January 12, 2009, 23:55:07 »
@m0d: That's fine. TBH, I think that XMPlay would probably run quite happily under WINE. (If I have time later today, I might test, actually).

@Jojo: Dunno about that. :/ When I listen to mods, it's actually mostly in OpenMPT, in Windows. :)

Edit: Yup, XMPlay works beautifully under WINE. Just as easy to install and use as in Windows, in fact. :)

Edit 2: Except that closing the main window just makes it disappear, and inaccessible. Hooray for 'kill'!

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Feedback & Suggestions / Recommended players list
« on: January 12, 2009, 04:38:12 »
The 'regularly updated list of Recommended Players List' (that sentence has an unnecessary 'list' in it here) has information on it which is no longer relevant, or indeed correct, about XMMS.

XMMS has ceased development. There exists XMMS2, which is not a Winamp lookalike, but which has a client/server architecture and lots of different front-ends. The Linux media player most like the old XMMS is Audacious, which was forked from the BMP project before that turned into BMPx. Audacious still has libmodplug etc. support, though. So too does Amarok, Nautilus (the GNOME filebrowser, through Totem, I think), Banshee, Exaile, and Rhythmbox. As far as I know, they all make use of the same plugin for mod playback -- libmodplug.

I thought I should bring this up, because anyone looking to play mods under Linux would get confused by this (particularly given the fact that XMMS2 is most often not a standard package, and requires clients to be separately installed -- not particularly apparent for novices).

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The Lobby / Re: Greetin's!
« on: January 07, 2009, 00:57:22 »
In OpenMPT, you can even change the highlighting of the rows to make it easier. :) You can write stuff in just about any time signature you want that way.

As to triplets -- well, they're a slightly different kettle of fish. Say your crotchet (quarter note) lasts four rows. That means that two quavers (eighth notes) fit nicely (two rows each). Three quavers, however, don't fit as nicely -- they take 1.333 rows each. There are a few ways that people use to get triplets, though:

1. Use the note delay effect (in IT, SDx). This isn't that precise, but it gets pretty close. It's the method I use and recommend, especially if you work in nice large groups (personally, I always have eight rows per crotchet.)
2. Change the tempo (or speed) for a while, then change it back. In other words, increase the speed by 133% for the duration of your triplet, which will 'look' like normal quavers, and then change it back afterwards. This has the drawback that everything in the pattern will be sped up.
3. What most people seem to do is to use dotted notes, rather than triplets. In other words, instead of having three quavers as a triplet, they have two dotted semiquavers and a semiquaver. In terms of rows, this means that in eight rows of crotchet, notes would be on rows 1, 4, and 7 (indexing from 1).

Hopefully I haven't expressed myself too unclearly... :D Let me know if I have.

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The Lobby / Re: Greetin's!
« on: January 06, 2009, 14:42:49 »
Hiya UberBobby!

I'm also a Modplug (OpenMPT) user. You should head over to the Modplug forums -- you can download the latest version of OpenMPT, and ask questions from people who use it all the time. :) There's a link to a great tutorial written by LPChip on the Modplug wiki there, as well, but I'll include it here for convenience. :)

http://lpchip.com/modplug/viewtopic.php?t=1994

You will want to stay here at TMA, though, particularly for download MODs. Most of the people at Modplug (myself included) use a lot of plugins etc. which means that we tend to distribute music as MP3s or OGGs, which isn't that great for learning from. :)

Enjoy your stay, and enjoy tracking!

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Website News Archive / Re: News from the staff
« on: December 22, 2008, 04:35:46 »
Quote from: m0d on December 22, 2008, 03:08:08
P.S By the way, a little message is hidden on the background image of the Seasonal Theme. ;-)

My eyes! My beautiful eyes! :'(

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Tracking / Re: Ten tips for beginner trackers
« on: December 16, 2008, 14:08:44 »
Personally, I work in OpenMPT, and although I don't use channel-based plugs, I keep everything nicely organised. Hey, I even leave an empty channel between instruments. :D Basically, if you've got the facility, use it, imo.

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Project / Coder's Corner / Re: FT2 source code
« on: November 28, 2008, 00:16:53 »
:D I like my tracker of choice! Yes, OpenMPT is completely open source, so you can poke around as much as you like. In that way, it kinda combines the best of Renoise and Milky -- it's got all the great features you expect from a modern DAW, and it's innards are available for poking around in. :)

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Project / Coder's Corner / Re: FT2 source code
« on: November 28, 2008, 00:11:09 »
Of course, neither Renoise nor Milkytracker can hold a candle up to OpenMPT. :D And the community's great, too! :D Visit it at http://lpchip.com/modplug .

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