carlsson wrote:Hm, a live play mode (as it is called in other trackers) may be a good feature. Currently, the best you can get is to set start and stop to the same block, mute the other channels and edit while playing the same block over and over.
That's one quite efficient way to do it, although you may get bored with the same loop going over and over again.
I find myself usually just editing some pattern combination, and when I really want to hear it I just run it with "F1". (and stop it with 'P')
This plays the combination of patterns from the current pattern list row.
i just sent my track
is there really only me and carlson?
that is kinda sad
but the tracker is rather cumbersome
did my best with a couple hours before work and what was left of my track from before
I was meaning to compose one more, but I got a request to compose music for another production, so I put my energy into that. I'm not sure which kind of music that fits the other prod, so currently I have a half dozen different ideas and musical sketches going on. Perhaps a few of those will materialize into complete songs one day.
At least, Daniel got some more people to really try the editor, and in my case find a list of bugs for the future. I suppose people on VORC and other places where skilled computer musicians hang around are busy enough with their own projects and systems to not experiment with yet another one. Maybe the VIC-I sound chip is considered too inferior to be fun to play with?
I thoroughly enjoy it's inferiority. Especially the fact that certains notes are out of key. If you take away the NES 2A03's DPCM channel and the ability to set pulse width they would be equals. Well, but, the 2A03 chip is in tune... and each channel has an 8 octave range.... But that doesn't stop me from doing work in both!
I suppose that other chip is at least five, if not ten years newer too? The VIC-I chip was developed in the late 70'ties and supposedly ready to be sold in 1978 or at least 79. Of course, it is not an excuse why Commodore decided to reserve one bit for on/off and the remaining seven bits for frequency, unless setting frequency with gate bit off really has a special meaning (changing pulse width or so).
aneurysm wrote:i just sent my track
is there really only me and carlson?
that is kinda sad
but the tracker is rather cumbersome
did my best with a couple hours before work and what was left of my track from before
A bit sad, but hey, two entries is still a competition.
I'll put yours up on the page during the evening!
If anybody wants to do a late submission, it's fine until this weekend.
aneurysm wrote:I thoroughly enjoy it's inferiority. Especially the fact that certains notes are out of key. If you take away the NES 2A03's DPCM channel and the ability to set pulse width they would be equals. Well, but, the 2A03 chip is in tune... and each channel has an 8 octave range.... But that doesn't stop me from doing work in both!
Yes, I find that quite charming too. I really enjoyed doing that piece I did with the VIC-20 synced to Cubase.
aneurysm wrote:the demo track for victracker is really, really sweet
Thanks. (Although I don't know which of them you mean.)
I uploaded your entry on the page. Please load it up and check that it sounds like you intended. I'm not 100% sure my song compiler did a correct conversion.
