finally.. thank you very much!

Done.

Hey, Merlin!
Thank you for your notice. The tracks will be assigned soon 

Thank you. We will fix it as soon as possible 

another replacement request from me.

please replace Free Flight and Movement by LAVender with this one and this one since they're have comments inside the modules.

Another week, another progress report.

After going off on a tangent foolishly attempting to optimize effects processing, I hit a rather nasty brick wall.  I ended up reverting most of those changes and going back to the way I had it working.

Plus ça change ...

Anyway, I added a few more effects:  The tracker now has dynamic song speed (Fxx) and pattern delay (EEx), among other new tricks.

Below is the latest list of effects and their status:

Code: [Select]

--------------------------------                ------
Standard Effects                                Status
--------------------------------                ------
$00: 0   Arpeggio                               Done
$01: 1   Portamento Up                          Done
$02: 2   Portamento Down                        Done
$03: 3   Portamento To Note                     Done
$04: 4   Vibrato                                Done
$05: 5   Portamento To Note + Volume Slide      Done
$06: 6   Vibrato + Volume Slide                 Done
$07: 7   Tremolo                                Done
$08: 8   ---                                   
$09: 9   ---                                   
$0A: A   Volume Slide                           Done
$0B: B   Jump To Order                         
$0C: C   Set Note Volume                       
$0D: D   Pattern Break                         
$0E: E   E Sub-Commands (Dispatcher)            Done
$0F: F   Set Song Speed                         Done
$10: G   Set Global Volume                      Done (Controls volume attenuation only.)
$11: H   Global Volume Slide                    Done (Controls volume attenuation only.)
$12: I   ---                                   
$13: J   ---                                   
$14: K   ---                                   
$15: L   Set Envelope Position                 
$16: M   ---                                   
$17: N   ---                                   
$18: O   ---                                   
$19: P   ---                                   
$1A: Q   ---                                   
$1B: R   Re-trigger Note + Volume Slide         
$1C: S   ---                                   
$1D: T   Tremor                                 
$1E: U   ---                                   
$1F: V   ---                                   
$20: W   ---                                   
$21: X   X Sub-Commands                         
$22: Y   ---                                   
$23: Z   ---                                   
                                               
--------------------------------                ------
Standard Effects                                Status
--------------------------------                ------
$00: E0  ---                                   
$01: E1  Fine Portamento Up                     Done
$02: E2  Fine Portamento Down                   Done
$03: E3  ---                                   
$04: E4  Set Vibrato Waveform                   
$05: E5  ---                                   
$06: E6  Pattern Loop                           
$07: E7  Set Tremolo Waveform                   
$08: E8  ---                                   
$09: E9  Re-trigger Note                       
$0A: EA  Fine Volume Slide Up                   Done
$0B: EB  Fine Volume Slide Down                 Done
$0C: EC  Note Cut                               
$0D: ED  Note Delay                             
$0E: EE  Pattern Delay                          Done
$0F: EF  ---                                   
                                               
--------------------------------                ------
"X" Extended Sub-Command Effects               
--------------------------------                ------
$00: X0  ---                                   
$01: X1  Extra Fine Portamento Up               
$02: X2  Extra Fine Portamento Down             

Aiming for Note Delay (EDx) next and a few of the other "global" control commands like Pattern Loop (E6x), Pattern Break (Dxx), Jump To Order (Bxx), etc.

Here's hoping for a smooth ride!

   -dZ.


P.S. One of these days I will have to start tracking a song for real to make sure it all works ... Someday ...

recent

i talk about what i recently downloaded. best of past 6 months. (5/6)

robric443.xm
finally different hihats! some instruments actually have pan envelope although not used. bit frivolous style. it is "a true story".

r0le_robot.it
we should have more songs like this. i had casio-vl, but the one sold at radio shack. i don't like the interlude for "reggae" song.

rudeusta.it
this "ninja" is another who teases with music length. doesn't last very long but i enjoy some of his work. i confess i didn't download from t.m.a.  also the "dagmara.it", needed to finish it. won't get a wife otherwise. fix the roof. pay the bills. what if he's like that song? be quiet.

SACE2_-_BEATDIS_-_1989.MOD
the original was one song i was looking for. just to know who did it. actually dorky song. played almost everyday at one time by wrks in new york and other radio stations in late 1980s. also rob base and easy-rock song. hit top of their charts for six months straight. which was laughable. thank you for memories.

sace2-CHIPTUNE.XM
might not be actual filename. artist put down for clarification. something is said in there. but why i find on "scene-dot-org"? generally this song sucks as chiptune.

SACE2_-_MALCON_MACLAREN_BUFFALO_GALS_-_1989.MOD
generally this artist has good stuff. but this is entirely different from what i heard before from same artist. give me wry smile to my face.

SACE2_-_Michael_Jackson_BAD_mix_-_1992.MOD
it's bad all right. likely m.j. wasn't very happy his song was sequenced into a glorified sampler that easily. i don't like how "another part of me" music was try to fit into this. harder to sequence, eh? new commission for artist of this module... um it's already on this module. nope. redo the song only for artemis the archer. must also find voice clips of astronauts and space exploration. the first time i checked out endeavouros was that release. quite fast xfce desktop. galileo with budgie desktop a hog by comparison. but arch linux made me fear.

saga_musix_-_snowflakes.it
i play one of his tracks on openmpt 1.31.05 32-bit and discover the bug is _s_t_i_l_l_ there. i converted to mptm. add plug-in, in this case "bl-gain60". (don't ask me why.) add track, had 38 tracks, increase to 39. make the plug-in play into that new track. when i play a sample on that track the plug-in doesn't function. then program could crash if i work on it further. must save song, quit the program, load song and try again. but this must be using it on linux. or 32-bit instead of 64-bit. in this case i used spirallinux with kde desktop (debian "bookworm" clone). but i have had this issue in another linux operating system before. with 8 tracks trying to add ninth track.

sbw-dnsn.it
this is like good-looking records (ltj bukem) style of first 10 years. a bit repetitive.

scatterbrain.mptm
real "gabba" starts at 230 bpm, sorry this is too slow.

seldom.xm
this has pretty good flangered beat. but with stupid swing. don't know why swing is insisted on so much. even worse on "rest" of patterns "26" and "27" it does not do swing. i talk about song from pattern "41" onwards. because it does something else entirely the first two minutes. this is a lot like "funky alienation," a song i have on commercial dance compilation. that other has heavy filtered beat. basically the same technique. "jazzed-up" with "busy" beat.

serfdom.it
i cannot be more hard-core than multivac, the artist. otherwise there had to be a contest going on. it's "forget line marking on patterns" and "i hate normal time-sig." try to do song away from beat and bar markings. even straight beat. too bad cannot go much more than one minute. requires too much concentration out of music. if not, what is the visual appeal playing this back? i understand many songs have singer begin at beat #4. or maybe even the eighth note before that. never at beginning of bar. like music trackers seem to impose. i understand someone does waltz or 5-beat or other. has to deal with ancient program not as flexible as openmpt about pattern markings. i understand part of trick is tamper with song speed. to get a trill. or to do jazz run of notes easier. but depended a lot on "classic" tracker timing. prefer that. instead of artist who allowed download of projects he did in renoise. did everything with twice bpm and speed of 3. patterns scroll too fast to see anything. hardly any pattern commands, what the use? this was before "speed is dead" in renoise.

sergeeo-Ser_21.it
odd sound. closest i think is "shake hands with danger" record by trs-80. they took layering to a new level. funk and rock from 1980s. but i also liked "mr. kickass", sad to find out arnold palmer died in 2016.

7.s3m
"dune" is the only thing written somewhere to identify artist. it's a shame. weird song. play eerie voices a bit softer.

SHA.XM
"a trip to heaven" is strange "jungle" track. i put "dmo/compressor" on it. probably whoever did this song did not play back all of it. because it is uneven in my opinion. around pattern "44" it gets louder than beats and bass.

SH3_02.IT
frustratingly, jeslan plays piano too loud. also dirty cymbal, he request we listen to this on monitors not headphones. also i reject "impulse tracker is best, others suck" attitude because use only that program. i cannot find anything better than this song by this artist.

sincow.it
this artist "xpinvert" sure love pattern loops. needs to pay better attention to detail while using impulse tracker. this song has only one sample/instrument. in sample properties the "set pan" is set, sending the entire song louder into right stereo channel. otherwise has channels set up for pan like i usually do in schism tracker. a much better song heed his name. good thing for orchestra hit, ding and other noises, right?

skaven-fourth_symmetriad.it
never impressed with his work. get flamed, there that feels better! this song is very poorly panned. the artist loves the low-pass filter too much. lot of dedication into the filter envelopes but not on the whole arrangement. i'd rather have "xm" song that is completely one-channel. with samples already have filter applied in creative way. i have heard it already. i will tell you which one if i remember.

SML_KUFK.IT
i downloaded more stuff by this artist, from before year 2000 to see if he always did idm like this song. i report back later. the portion after "+++" pattern to me is like μ-ziq.

SOFTUNE.S3M
by "samplemind" yet another spanish artist. this could be rendered in one channel wave file. message about telephone company is like carrier i had to leave. but now i miss modem-based internet.

sf_yr007.it
do not press shift+f9 for this module. you were given warning! to this artist: if you want to insult people, don't expect them to take kindly to doing cover. this goes down like "children" that other famous soft tarnce song. so this guy who did this module take insults to himself. yes what he says last in "comments" window could say it to himself and this module. proved it in another song. do not download "sf_yr027.it". if you do, do not play song right after "---" pattern. even worse this "yero", as he call himself. likes "dune" movie. enough said. i didn't like jokes by computer music magazine editors about vangelis. sad he died a couple of years ago. i admit i didn't care a lot about him. but this song isn't awesome to me. sorry. but i have many other songs in my head i heard on radio along with this one in 1980s. that i really would like to bring back. i actually make a pun. before getting to "southern awesome" version. this song by "yero" is better indeed.

s-trance_-_if_you_believe_in_it.xm
i would believe in the gag this artist trying to pull. i don't like his other tracks. or his tarnce remixes of songs not tarnce. this artist not the only one that does weak stuff like that. i prefer tarnce from commercial record.

s-trance_-_trancefusion.xm
on the scale of "nf-picts.xm"-ness. of 1 (forget it) to 10 (the other song) this gets an 8. actually for the first minute only. and neat organ. i resist this artist's contributions.
with this song i find very annoying thing openmpt does. i was working on other song which was "s3m" format. global volume slide for this is "w". it allows "fine" control, for example set "wf2" to slowly fade out. then i switch to this song. go to effect column of one track. then put down "h" because this is the letter for "xm" format. i get "hf2" which is completely worthless. fasttracker 2 does not do fine global volume slide.

stalker_-_club_soda.s3m
this wins, velvet and a-mode lose.

stalker_-_pale.it
i was beginning to look forward to stuff by this artist. but big pause in middle irritated me a lot. this would be disqualified automatically if i had to run a competition. please start another file for another song.

st-fence-rmx2.it
be honest now. was this fabricated by computer program? is this to play back on live session? if not fabricated, i don't like "+++" dominating the order.

stupe_15.xm
can you say "air liquid"? i wanted even more from their live sessions. played by wnyu way back in 1990s.

sunsets.xm
"ambient jungle"? i don't know "names" of break beats. but there is only one to use for "quiet listening" rapid tempo. this is too repetitive. or see "null_function.xm", too bad we don't know artist of that other one. put both songs into blender. "great red" not working so far, hackurr.

tan-etfi.s3m
strangely this "eternal fishing" is scream tracker format. very impressive. although i don't like big beat style like this. i got ahold of "orangator" program but it was difficult for me to use. i didn't like author's obsession with r.d. james. also forced "xi" instrument export. but it was a great program back in its day. need a program like that for linux. would make great companion for milky tracker or schism tracker. imho there is one i think was even better than aphex twin. sign me up if there is a music creator that mimicks the developing jaggie planet...

tan-nuwi.s3m
noises like "three-oh" were too loud for my tolerance. they are played for rest of the song after intro of 45 seconds. it involved five samples or more. play back in openmpt. so i convert to "mptm" format and lower track level for those sounds triggered. except for intro, keep those tracks at maximum level. this "nuclear winter" is big beat industrial by tangerine.

tears.xm
i don't care what it reminds the artist about. do not impose it on other people. don't say weak things like, "it should remind you of this guy who sings like a bum. but has great music. focus on the music. not what he sings about." not sure who it was but he never impressed me. the one who did "she's a little runaway!" i have to withstand him in supermarket once a week. if not really long song by diana ross or other disco lady. except most of november, december and january. you know the deal.

testsong.mptm
whoever did this module was very bored. homeless man was better off then. "doggy fleeing away."

THA_SYNT.XM
keep france out of it! it was perfect until going toward three minutes. i was going to keep this and erase wally's near-cover of enigma. but that other has no flute, so it stays and i forget about this. purposely i avoid this artist.

THA_TANG.XM
i got this from "scene-dot-org" archive. pretty good although artist might not have had 1970's "synthy" group correct. what do i know. i only have "book of dreams" and "zeit" by tangerine dream, quite good stuff. my favorite songs were "tyger" (don't laugh). and the original "birth of liquid pleyades". especially the first 13 minutes of it. too bad klaus schulze left band after first album. but created his own legend. i'm sad because he died last year.

timetravel.it
this song not a big deal. but author requests which player to use. "use xmplay on windows only, no mpt, schism etc." i don't think he's the author of "xmplay" program.

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Hi again admins!

Im claiming ownership of two additional mods:

https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=46458

https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=52816

Could you please associate them with my artist:
https://modarchive.org/member.php?85662

Thank you in advance!

Best regards
Merlin / Richard

Hi im looking for a lost mod.
It contains some text including "they are tough they are smart and they know how to deal with people like you"
or similar
Help much apreciated

Ah i found it it is Horizon-highquality

recent

i talk about what i recently downloaded. best of past 6 months. (4/6)

MERCDHI.IT
has anybody figured out what is the code in comments field?

MIRROR.S3M
by smash, could have helped channel pan. i did so for snare on the left, and piano on the right. but not too much. sounds better now.

mortimer_twang_-_anita.mod
baker? follow your own advice.

mortimer_twang_-_lament.mod
i wanna dance? nope. he decides to go "j.k.'s son mode" here.

MRGHOEST.XM
mr. gamer is the artist. stuff was written in another language so i couldn't understand. generally he does good stuff. as if contributing to video game.

Mt-Hulk11.xm
my first e-mail to this artist: "i eagerly await your first collab with smash. even if it's death metal." actually he says in song: "i am the musique." not angry or threatening enough. so maybe that collab would be a disaster. i am not great fan of marvel comics "incredible hulk." but i saw television series of 1980s. lou ferrigno doing the green beast. i thought he was even cooler in "hercules" movie. with beard and holding a sword. even better from "marvel universe" was incredible story of rick jones. how could one human guy be so frecking lucky? i also had the old issue. where hulk fought inhumans around new york city. i am fan of x-men so the story of alternative mutant race interested me.

MUSIC3.XM
"Chapi-Chapo Part III" this is awesome! this is like tap-dancing. now for the bad news: relies on long samples. please respect copyright!

naif-pap.it
another good one which is frustratingly undynamic.

necros_-_psyeval.mod
now or then. high or low. inspire boredom. this was quite near when they definitely stopped creating modules, right?

necros_-_sengzhac.mod
throw flames at me, because i think this/these guys are overrated. happens this one to be a good song. simple, not like their other overproduced stuff. irritatingly it's "mod". why obsession with flutes?
with this song i found bug with openmpt 1.31.05.00. press alt+o opens dialog with "mixer" and "dsp" tabs. seems to be hard-coded. previously i assigned that combination to "file/stream export" to create "flac" or "mp3" or "ogg". apart from "wav". so it opens the only render dialog first. then preferences on "mixer" or "dsp" tab. but i search in "keyboard" tab of preferences. there is no evidence it was assigned to something. that's why i say alt+o combination is hard-coded.

necros_-_zzz.s3m
this is another song. which indicates scream tracker was fiddly apart from fasttracker 2. cannot decide what is "default" track pan value. i get either 0x78 or 0x88 on every track with some modules. should be dead center. but they cannot decide. i've already said it, these guys never impressed me but they have their fans.

nemesis.mod
i don't like change in progression after three minutes. i actually changed the orders to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 etc. until 52. many patterns weren't used. i like effort like this from 30-year-old track.

neno-nn-reak.it
this compares to plova, i think is artist name. from mideastern europe. one i saw in "soundevotion competition." i only downloaded songs for renoise for it. the other artist liked using many short patterns. otherwise quirky idm like this.

NF-CHAEM.MOD
this loses a contest. should have told the truth: "i had a miserable amiga, but saw ibm pc compatible with intel-base cpu with program allowing eight tracks! two more wouldn't have hurt." this has absolutely no "0" commands. java player for "mod", that is new to me.

nice_time.mod
nice song. repetitive so i render each channel to wave and separately treat it with lfo-ridden filter and with delay. no author identified which is sad.

Nn-tune.it
comparable specs to a tandy1000rlx-hd i had for a short time. but overshoots the ears. i don't know how to do that in schism tracker without purposely saturating all the samples. i only want to amplify the bass.

NOVICE8.XM
by marathon man. argh make it longer! make it longer!

911_-_raw_as_3v3r.mod
i imagine this music playing. for advertisement for what looks like the fastest growing sport. three-on-three basketball.

911_-_rebel_briefing.mod
keep the second "song." i get bothered easily by slow beat suddenly speeded up. on other songs then slowed down again. what is the point of it?

Nose4.it
that is "i don't know" in spanish not the face body part. there are five others. this is "falling" by rayko. i struggle to dress in the style of this artist. there is another one which is tarnce. not impressed since he asks for "i3dlreverb" player for it. this song is single-minded. it doesn't have percussion.

oldschool_plm_-_internet.xm
another artist for me difficult to get into sometimes. i like the "old school" instruments combination. but artist might need few lessons about arrangement. one song is like 10 of them in one package. switch back and forth abruptly, it is distracting.

om.xm
this is like new age, pretty good. too bad artist doesn't say clearly who it was.

ONDRUGIN.XM
do you hate your studio monitors so much? load this song. turn up volume to maximum or close to it. then let play. maybe wait until the fence of "3" patterns. this song might be good to test "mp3" quality. play inside a car. hear how the whole car buzzes to the bass. then want to get away from high frequency zaps.

overload.mod
boy i really, really hate double-dipping. if you manage modules, having to add artist name to file name, what would you do?

pip-silverstone.it
got this from "scene-dot-org". better when this guy does away from cheap rock. he does song on openmpt old release then complains not to use it to play back. it's the true reason why this song sucks. not a lot but please appreciate program what allows for music production. not something that only plays back. how do i do a song then? with "clicks" on my computer...

PASSINGB.IT
it's a good thing i came across only this song. change the name of song 4 from your album please.

PATH.S3M
"path of hope" by smash. pretty good, but i shorten intro and put first four tracks to center. originally it was set up like "mod" file.

PLEASEME.S3M
i don't like song name. but yeah blues, want to sing to it. i like harmonica part.

raccoonviolet_-_starlight_surfin.it
i had to listen at least half of it. without "synth1" by daichi. this artist shares modules without caring if someone has same synths as him. i saw another module asking even for a payware. albino but the old one. but it wasn't downloaded from t.m.a. this artist use late enough edition of openmpt enough so this should be mptm extension. no excuse to use other file suffix if going to use vst plugins.

Raisingf.it
one of the best in this list. i don't like when the bass line is introduced. near 4-1/2 minutes. for a minute longer playback. this also teases with last pattern. has a bit of different music while faded out.

RAP-EMO.IT
call me naive. but i expected, "my bicycle tires are flat!" lyrics in the very least. with music more like violent femmes. i guess not. this module is terribly named.

RET-SAT.S3M
make "novice8" longer instead of paying attention to false prophets.

RIDE.XM
well done. this sound like "ibiza" style song on commercial record. but i have to go check. too bad this is only interlude.

ridingontheedge.mod
one day i downloaded a bunch of modules that have no artist signed on the module. i'm sorry but "i did it" on forum or on other website not good enough for me. "(this guy) uploaded (this module)" not good enough for me neither. please say who you are. even if it's lame nickname. better being original about nickname and you might get fans. i don't like flutes in ancient modules. because they are played louder than drums. but this is part of "lost" drum-and-bass of melodic type.

rm-small.669
there are not many "669" files around. this is good. especially the pitch bend on pad. but i don't like the change of key near end.

robric451.xm
"on the hill" this sounds more intense than his other tracks. many sound the same. but i said before i like two others at least. i put panning on hihats and few other parts so it doesn't sound so repetitive.

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