Making chip tunes in mod-plug tracker tutorial 1 - How to make 8 bit chip style sounds.

[drperson12]

can you reupload the chip sounds to mediafire or something since megaupload no longer exists?

[AzureFlammeKite]

Can you please release your chiptune sounds on rapidshare? You probably now that megaupload is trolled by the fbi :3

[duhskills129]

What happened to megaupload? It got seized by the FBI!

[rebelsquareddubstep]

You can do everything you did here with only notepad and mpt, please let your users know:

1. make wave in notepad

2. load into mpt like you did

3. click normalize (2nd button top row sample tab)

4. click signed / unsigned (10th button)

5. click normalize (2nd button)

6. click remove d/c offset. (10th button)

[digitalfemdroid]

Very Very intEresTing to use a NoTepAd to make basic sine wav files for instruments. Good TuToriAL ! . . =)) . . . ∞♫♪♪♫∞

[lasagnamonster]

Mega upload is down for me, any other way you can get those samples to me?

[StarWolf3000]

Besides this method of making synthesized WAVs I also sometimes use the "NES Font Advance" SF2 Sound Font (search for it on the web). This Sound Font contains: 28 variants of general square & sawtooth instruments, 2 GameBoy square synths, 1 GameBoy sawtooth, 6 different synth basses, a NES triangle, NES base square, NES sawtooth, 4 different NES square (14%, 25%, 50%, 87.5%) and a synthesized Tom.

[paultendoUK]

awesome video, really wish you'd stop saying 'zee' though!

[Barachem]

Have you ever used the GM.DLS for sampling?

I use it very often for my own projects.

It's the samples table for the midi sounds, as far as i know.

The track(s) i have on my own channel is made purely with samples from GM.DLS, though most of them are just 16 bit polished stuff.

[Mr300millz]

Yay! 8 Bit Guy uses Audacity just like I do!

[Koetaification]

ace of wav: setup is unable to find instalation languages... setup.lid file error. what should i do?

[Shakkol]

Can't you use the 'Normalize' function in Audacity to do what you're doing in Ace of Wave but without using a shareware program?

[Burital26]

hey man tnx for the notepad trick , awesome tip ill use it for sure

[BallawdeQuincewold]

A to Z Z to A. What the heck is that about? How does that define a waveform?

[Shakkol]

@BallawdeQuincewold Z is the highest pitch of the waveform and A is the lowest. So in a 52 segment waveform you're defining the pitches of the tune.

[AerialMage]

i've found my own way of making samples,

it uses formulas,

this, for example, is a sort-of bass drum:

r*(sin(10000/0.1*t)*(512/0.000­01*t*t))+127

this is basically what got me onto that

because, the space character is an ANSI-value of 32, and a z is a 122, which means there's a fair difference, that's exactly what's happening

whats happening is mpt is turning the ANSI value to the volume level (0-255) of the sample

i'm using a formula to calculate them with a program i made

[AerialMage]

basically what the formula does:

r = random, so it adds a noise factor to the sound

t = time, increases by 1 for each sample

sin(10000/0.1*t) is a sine wave with a decreasing pitch

(512/0.00001*t*t) makes the sound noisier at the start, and turns down the volume over time

+127 centers the sample

[RetardedxVideo]

i have been making a couple of songs using a few buttons on my computer, like when i press a key it will make a beeping noise and im just making music out of it. Is there any program of way of making different sounding keys, like A=1 sound and B=another sounds and i can just press them and make music?

[AerialMage]

@RetardedxVideo in MPT you can put a different sample on each key of an instrument if that's what you mean?

[RetardedxVideo]

@AerialMage whats that?

[Stickheadz32]

you can center it using "remove dc offset" in modplug

[gravywpg]

so you can't just generate a waveform from within the sample editor, as you can in milkytracker?

[The8bitGuy1]

@gravywpg No, it cant do that, maybe that's a feature they could include in the next release.

[duhskills129]

@gravywpg You can draw your own waves, though. Just click "Add silence/resize" near the magnifying glasses in the left of the sample window. And at the resize box, type in the sample size, to create a single silence wave. Then click the pencil, and start drawing!

[jeremycainebowen]

wow thats cool i didnt know u could make sounds from notepad

[Stickheadz32]

1:28 wrong zoom way

1:38 censor

[MrLewisMHarris]

u sound like the guy from braindead/ dead or alive :P

[8bitbubsy]

There's no problem in having a sample not in line with the DC (center), you won't hear any difference, but the volume spectrum is lower (so you can't do 0-255 values if 8 bit).

Also, in the newer versions of OpenMPT there's a button for automatically centering the waveform.

[zickery12]

MAN you have a great voice, have you considered voice acting?!@

[AltXproductions]

ace of wav keeps throwing errors, so i can't run it. :(

[The8bitGuy1]

@AltXproductions tommorrow I'll put all the wavs that i use on rapidshare (or megaupload (i can't remember wich service it is i use)) and send you the link

[ShadowGladiator21]

@The8bitGuy1 I had the same problem too, but I tried running it as administrator and it seemed to work. Have you tried that?

[SakuraElyse]

@The8bitGuy1 If you still have that download of all your wavs, I'd really appreciate it if you could send that link my way too!

[paradigmshiftdocs4u]

@AltXproductions Audacity is 100% free and can do what ace of wave can do, and more! :) Audacity has Linux, Windows and MAC versions. Modplug Tracker runs great under Linux via WINE and of course, Ubuntu Linux can install to an Intel and / or PPC MAC -- no problems! So in short: PC or MAC, Windows or not -- regardless, its all good! :)

[ApOkwARG]

Oh, you may find the video "Making a Chiptune: Basic Chiptracking" by stormblast0891 very helpful :)

[ApOkwARG]

I must admit being quite suprised about that notepad trick, I never knew that was possible! Ah, the wonders of the internet :) You may want to take a look at MilkyTracker though because it will save you assloads of time. All you need is the inbuilt sample editor that allows you to draw waveforms in any way you please. It is also much easier to hear the results this way.

Happy chipping!

Grtz, ApOkwARG

[MajorasFlask]

you had me at beep :P

[njvandus]

sounds like 2 much work.

[shadowcannon]

Superb! Looking forward to the next part!