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MilkyTracker Tracks & Songs / ensuring proper "C-4" pitch of hand-drawn chip wave?
« on: March 05, 2008, 19:51:17 »
Hey guys,
I had seen some of the tutorial vids on milkytracker download section, they are very useful, and great! I didn't realize MT was as simple as that. I used PlayerPRO years ago on my Mac, and all of a sudden everything came back. Just a different GUI and shortcuts/keys/etc.
ANYWAYS, Here's my concern.
In those tutorial vids, they show the user drawing by hand some simple waves with the sample editor. One of them showed them doing a 40-sample length, another did 100-sample length with the loop points kind of placed randomly.
Thing is, when you program those samples to play the note C-4, it doesn't SOUND LIKE C-4. It's not the correct pitch. The note you actually hear is much different, potentially *not even a proper note*, but potentially halfway between two normal notes.
So, is there any solution to this? Is there a known proper sample-length that ensures any wave drawn within it is going to be looping at the proper speed to assure a truly correct C-4 pitch (which according to wikipedia should be 261.626 hz)?
I guess it's possible to calculate the exact perfect sample-length so that it loops at 261.626hz.... Will have to do some research here..
I had seen some of the tutorial vids on milkytracker download section, they are very useful, and great! I didn't realize MT was as simple as that. I used PlayerPRO years ago on my Mac, and all of a sudden everything came back. Just a different GUI and shortcuts/keys/etc.
ANYWAYS, Here's my concern.
In those tutorial vids, they show the user drawing by hand some simple waves with the sample editor. One of them showed them doing a 40-sample length, another did 100-sample length with the loop points kind of placed randomly.
Thing is, when you program those samples to play the note C-4, it doesn't SOUND LIKE C-4. It's not the correct pitch. The note you actually hear is much different, potentially *not even a proper note*, but potentially halfway between two normal notes.
So, is there any solution to this? Is there a known proper sample-length that ensures any wave drawn within it is going to be looping at the proper speed to assure a truly correct C-4 pitch (which according to wikipedia should be 261.626 hz)?
I guess it's possible to calculate the exact perfect sample-length so that it loops at 261.626hz.... Will have to do some research here..