Famitracker Tutorial Part 5 - Finishing the Cover

[aamericuslakota]

Awesome tuts dude, posting my recreation as a video reply shortly ^_^

[Shatterband1]

they helped a ton but I'm still somewhat lost since I'm not really doing covers more of original works but I guess thats where writing sheet music might come in handy anyway it helped to know some new effects and many different ways to make songs. especially since it's my job lol.

[97bmhn]

How do you make 8 bit drums? The drums in your other videos are awesome, and I would love to learn how to create them. Thanks :)

[WindyWheel678]

@97bmhn you dont make them you import them

[PolyRuni]

Thanks for the great tutorial, man. I was completely lost on how to even work with famitracker before but after seeing your video I'm more than half way done chiptuning a GB song by ear.

[SolarbearChiptune]

Loved the tutorials! Thanks a million!

[DeadsySG]

Realy helpfull guide, do u have some drum tutorials?

[spartennum0117]

Amazing tutorial man, thank you!

[RoboRager1]

The tutorial really helped, thanks.

[songsofsorrow]

You rock so much. Thank you.

[iamblue337]

This is pretty cool. I really don't know where to begin with working with this but I guess I just start screwing around

[Rayston620]

Thanks this really helped a lot! soon I'll be able to make my own chiptune thanks to you :3

[Terracorrupt0]

A successful cover achieved thanks to your tutorials mate, thanks a bunch. Hoping to utilise this knowledge for a game making competition next month :)

[dirkandterra]

This sample helped a lot, thank you!



[Denzien2]

THANK YOU SO MUCH

this REALLY helped thanks ^^

[KirbyY15]

thank you very much for this tutorial

it was extremely helpful and giving me an idea how this program works

it's alot easier now and more self explainatory than ever before

you are really awesome and i can't thank you enough!!!

[devilsatan666man]

Finally finished my song. This tutorial was EXTREMELY helpful. But when I put in the 'stops' it kind of doesn't pay attention to it. Oh well.

[SpriteDuel]

Thx man, really helps.

[r0b0tniik]

ah! this program was an enigma to me when i first saw it. thanks for the tutorial, it really helped.

[Raikousei]

Thank you very much. This tutorial was very helpful.

[s0nlxaftrsh0ck]

Amazing tutorial man to the max! My question is guess is a music theory question i guess you'd say?

How do you know when to use sharps and stuff like that? Did you take music classes? Or had music lessons?

[trumpeta2010]

@s0nlxaftrsh0ck Its all by ear, you just match pitches. If it happens to be a sharp, then its a sharp.

[chaos0987654321]

is this the last part of your tutorials?

[Gyrosquatch]

I did remake this song, and I'm hoping that I'll be able to get it up asap. Thank you so much for helping me out with this, knowing that this all seemed foreign to me, now I feel much more comfortable in knowing what I'm doing lol. Cheers :D

[Cuddlemuffin36]

Thank you so much for posting these videos. they've been a big help. The only thing i'm really conufsed about is: When you made the intro to kraid's theme, how did you make it flow over all the blank spaces into the next frame. I have alot of empty space at the end of the first part of the intro and it just holds the last note for a fews beats before going into the next frame. Is there a way to skip the remaining empty part of the frame so it goes from one to the other without a gap?

[namco003]

Thanks a lot for the tutorial. The best part is in it, you covered the very song i would have covered first!! By far Kraids music is my favorite nes song and getting to cover it was just awsome. it came out perfect. I tried my best to do the notes by ear when i could, but went back to see the exact note when i would get stuck. I'll cover a few more songs and then start making my own original songs and such. Thank you again!! Looking forward to seeing more of your work!!

[Quadunit404]

This is by far the best Famitracker tutorial out there. Now I know how to write a song in it. Thanks for taking the time to make this.

[Iguy005]

please help me, I made a cover of "Battle of the Holy", in famitracker it sound fine but when I export it into a .NSF or ROM it sound all glitchy , I used the konami VRC6 chip , Why it sound weird ..... it my first time whit famitracker :( and I failed :,(

[lotuswatcher]

This is the first video tutorial I found on the subject of chiptuning of any kind. It really helped to demystify a lot of the concepts just to have a guided session, and places to look for more information. Thanks!

[PostApocolyptica]

I still can't figure out the right settings to make the whistle sound in the echo-ey part of "We're The Robots". Can you help?

[Roccronoics]

Nice tutorial! Learning the basics of using Famitracker (i'm a total noob about this and never used any tracker or sequencer before now) following your guide was intuitive and fun. Thanks a lot! ^^

[noisyqtip]

dude....i watched the tutorials, and great cover, i learned a bunch. and the finished product... epic...i geeked out....it was messy

[Pyro25100]

Success!! :D

[Pyro25100]

How do you get B-1?

[7savo]

very helpful. thanks a ton!

[OTNAKR2]

Great tutorial, But my question is, Why would you do a cover of a song thats exactly the same as the original? Isnt the point of a cover to make your own Variation of the song?

[Themastertee]

@OTNAKR2 A cover isn't supposed to be a variation. It's the same music, just done by someone other than the original artist.

[OTNAKR2]

@Themastertee Yes, but when i think of a cover, i think of more of your own personal Spin on the song

Thats just my thinking

[8BitDanooct1]

@OTNAKR2 The point of the cover in this case is to be as precise as possible so you can learn how to use the software and how to use various techniques that will allow you to make decent sounding original music.

[mootbooxle]

Great stuff again!

[devinnorth01]

@8BitDanooct1 thanks so much but i want to make a video responce and how did you record off of your computer screen or do you know how to record the NSF sound into a mp3 format?

[skimmer538]

how do you make the drum sounds on your other covers?

[hi19hi19]

This is a REALLY good tutorial. Simply put for someone new to this kind of music like me.

There's surprisingly few Famitracker tutorials, written or video, which is strange considering how relatively widely used the program is.

[MeTheColaCan]

I'm going to do a Tetris Theme A (Korobeiniki?) remix now...

[MrTanookiMario]

Thanks for the tutorial! Famitracker is kinda hard to just jump into with no prior experience.

[Kyuureisan]

Thank you, following your steps in making this cover made me understand quite well how all this works.

Nice job, i'll try to make a cover myself now ^^

[murasakitsune]

Great tutorial! I just started with Famitracker today and was able do follow you perfectly. Thank you so much!

(You really do have a good ear to discern those pitches.)

[Warhodes12]

This helped me so freaking much. When I first saw all the options and controls with no proper tutorial on the website I nearly died.

[PonyturdFly]

This is an INCREDIBLY helpful tutorial. Seriously, now I understand what this program can do.

[didogazeto]

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[Ronin3y]

SOOOO very helpful! Thank you!!!!

[ChuckFinleyIsForever]

Excellent tutorials, using them along with reading the manual made things very easy to understand. Thanks, bro.

[EppleGetOut]

This was one hell of a great tutorial, this helped so much, thanks man.

[x3Roenie]

Download doesn't work anymore :[

[thomwd]

Quick question: for the drums, do you make different instruments, or do you simply use noise with different pitches?

Helpful tutorial by the way, thanks.

[RadicalPresident]

make more tutorial videos of like different effects and sounds u can do

and good loops shit like that would be very helpfull

[AgentMidnight]

1. This was very helpful, thanks for making this.

2. Is it possible to make frames with different amount of rows? I try changing an intro frame to just 8 rows (where the others are 32) but it changes all frames as well, is this avoidable?

[Bidon45]

How do you know what all the notes are so fast and easily, you heard it and immediately put down the correct notes

[kornhornio]

Awesome tutorial - thanks a lot!!

[globeclk]

thank you so much!

[TommittajaFIN]

do you know a SNES tracker? not that i'm going to do that, just interested. holy crap that would be hard.

[TenmaAkuma]

Your tutorial is amazing. Thank you! I posted my video in response, but unfortunately it just has a static picture because camstudio doesn't like me >_>

[doomsdayman107]

I love you for this.

[azurekenshin]

I tried copying what you did and it was flawless. Thanks :) It helped me a great deal.

[ClassicRockGuy4]

Hey, I just started using Famitracker. I have a good idea how to make songs, but there's only one problem. The notes are just sustained and there's no way to cut them off. I even tried using the 'Note Cut' button on the notes, but it does no good. Is there a setting or something where the notes will be staccato and will not sustain unless I need it to? Thanks!

[xan1242]

I can change octaves on my MIDI keyboard...It makes it MUCH easier.I really recommend to you go get one MIDI controller!

[el3dlu]

Thank you!

[austinhg]

This video helped a lot man. Thanks!

[ewjf]

Thanks for your help, I really needed that support!

[Tdog283]

Wow. This is an awesome tutorial. I can't believe I actually can use famitracker.

[ExxonMenelvagor]

Best tutorial I've seen for famitracker yet.

[ExxonMenelvagor]

Best tutorial I've seen for famitracker yet.

[BaderFTW]

Awesome tutorial, man. I would love to see more like this!

[MiniGlitchi123]

Did it all! Seems so much simplier now that you've explained it all, not at all overwhelming as I'd expected it to be - and also great song choice!

Just one question though: What software do you use to capture the footage? Is it a camera like you do for you DOS viruses or do you use something like hypercam?

[geepit]

great tutorial thanks a lot helped so much

[FastAsADonut]

Great tutorial! With other tutorials I didn't get this program, but now I do! One question though: with the Konami expansion chip, can instruments be of higher quality or do you just have more of them?

[iAmMortos]

Question though: how did you record the tracks into audacity? Is there a way to record sound coming directly from the sound card, or did you have to do microphone-to-speaker nonsense?

[Sparkcloud]

your tutorials are so great! Man! I have to say you have a real nack for counting the beats in the measure and knowing which notes go for each beat in the measure. Did you take ear training and rhythm classes?

I'm still a little slow at picking up on whether a beat is held for a single beat or more, or if I just have the speed for the whole track incorrect. I'll try covering some of my favorite songs before I try to make my own original nes tracks. (which is a little daunting to get started on)

[Sparkcloud]

Also, follow up question, have you made any original nes tracks yourself? if so, do you write it down on sheet music before going into famitracker?

[8BitDanooct1]

I've made a few original tracks, but I mostly like to do covers/remixes. You can check out some of the original stuff by searching my channel for my songs Abysmalaria and Flood Man. I generally just write what I hear in my head, I don't bother with writing things out in another medium before diving into the tracker. I played piano for five years and cello for seven years before taking up the tracker, and love to play songs by ear, so that most certainly helped a bit. Above all, practice.

[Witzind]

How did you get audacity to record the sounds from VirtuaNSF? I've tried switching my audio input devices to 'wave out' or 'stereo mix' or whatever, but I don't seem to have the option in vista.

[8BitDanooct1]

@Witzind In VirtuaNSF (or in any other NSF program) you should be able to mute all the channels that you don't want to play, and then export the sound as a wav file. You can then do this with all of the channels you want to solo and compile them in Audacity. Makes it much easier, and doesn't require time wasted due to recording, and then trying to get everything to line up.

[Themastertee]

@8BitDanooct1 Where should I export the wav file to? I've tried several places, but then it won't show up when I try to import it in Audacity.

[zer0hvk]

this was awesome, thank you so much for these tutorials, seriously.

[MrBlitzcracker]

really fantastic tutorial man, tyvm!

[BirdValiant]

The link to the FTM file isn't working for me.

Is there any way to upload a big archive of all your ftm files somewhere?

[ratchetxrc]

Thanks for the tutorial it really helped!

[Imbriums]

Thank you for the tutorials, they proved very useful!

[schilling399]

Very helpful! Thank you.

[mehcks]

Great tutorial, really helpful!

[OnniBuchtProductions]

Where did you get the .dmc files?

[2DMax99]

This tutorial certainly helped, but you picked a song without percussion. How do I get clean percussion in the Noise Column?(aka drums)

[hamstaman]

Excellent tutorial. Thanks!

Can't wait to try to make a few covers using famitracker.

[B0hnj3]

Thanks this really helped me understand how to user famitracker, best tutorial I found for it.

[DanBano]

I don't know how to play any instruments but I love music and new rhythms and beats play in my head all the time. FamiTracker finally seems to be the program simple enough for me to use in order to make my creations come alive. And your tutorial was excellent in helping me get started. Thanks so much!

[GM77]

Great tutorial, I am wondering how you got low to the c-1 notes, most I got was c-3 to c-5(or whatever is the highest.)

Also how can you tell what notes the target music is giving off? like taking a audio file and go 'that is a e-2' or whatever. lots of practice most likely?

Granted I barely started to take a interest in making music and do enjoy the 8bit sounds.

[aquablade10000]

Where did you download VirtuaNSF?

[animefanclay]

Awesome tutorial man, it really helped!

[bnpshkbsbll27]

thanks very much this was really helpful and i think i posted my video response even though its not showing up. If its not there search "Zelda: Song of Time 8 bit"

[BrianRingeisen]

Oi, I can't seem to find the post video response button. I have my first attempt up on my channel, though!

[BrianRingeisen]

Hey, thanks for this!

I always thought there were some fancy things I was missing... I actually knew everything I needed but never knew that I already had the power that I needed.

I'm going to try to cover something soon and I'll post a response here. :)

[kazamslam]

I really enjoyed this tutorial. Just one question, do you have any tricks for getting the right instrument sounds? Like earlier you said that the pitch thing was used for Megaman's drums. How did you figure that out?

[Blackmage777]

Thanks for the tutorial. I didn't get it perfect, but it's pretty damn close and your explanations are pretty good. I feel like from here I can start making original stuff pretty soon.

[andrewmystery23]

Great tutorial; when I first looked at the software, (earlier today) I had no idea what to do, but the tutorial cleared it all up. Thanks a bunch for the tutorial!

[Dreamwishon]

very good tutorial!

[ArchdemonMack]

ummm, when i press play i get no feed back, help?

[sinoredzeb]

@ArchdemonMack maybe you forgot to enter an instrument..

[Sx2Kirby]

Thanks for the tutorial!! I'm defiantly going to try and remake some more classic NES songs then move onto converting newer music to NES then original stuff.

[Fishy009er]

Thanks so much for this tutorial. I've made the get item music from megaman II and the final fantasy prelude already. Thanks heaps!

[xXHevionXx]

thank you very much for this tutorial. helped alot

[otterboi26]

Loved your tutorial, made a lot of sense and was easy to follow. Been making 8-bit for awhile but always used lo-fi vst's in FL Studios. Now i feel ready to concur to the tracker realm. Keep it up

[ZachyMassacre]

This opened my eyes. I'm not too sure I want to do a lot of covers, but to make my own 8-bit music would be sick. Thanks so much for your help!

[Hanfredible]

Thank you so much for this awesome tutorial!!! I went from thinking wtf to actually understanding what the hell I was doing. This helped me out tons!

[KingDando]

Excellent tutorial! I'm just wondering; in terms of the "instruments" themselves, what are the differences between the lead and echo, if any?

[Mdawg]

thank you for your guide :D

[x1NeMeSiS1x]

awesome tutorial, I've been trying to figure out how to use Famitracker for a while now. Its actually a lot easier then when I first tried using it.

[GreenTeaAT8]

Thank you for writing this tutorial, but how exactly do you make the dash to cut off the note like you did at 4:58? It's the one thing I don't know how to do...

[8BitDanooct1]

@GreenTeaAT8 You can set up a note cut by setting a key for it in the configuration of Famitracker. Just go into settings and choose what key you want to use.

[WhenFearFailed]

HOW DO I GET THIS GOOD!!! i want to create my own songs instead of covers but ur INSANLY good dued have you thought of making money off of this

[coasterkrazy90]

Awesome work with this tutorial. I've been working with FamiTracker for quite some time now and know how difficult it is to explain, but you do a great job. Your covers are also extremely accurate, even in the more complicated Mega Man songs, which is where I start to have trouble.

[coasterkrazy90]

My favorite game is Castlevania III, which feels like it has the most complicated instruments. I feel like I've gotten so close, but there's some kind of odd vibration going on that's neither vibrato nor tremolo that I can't seem to figure out. Would you be interested in looking at it? You seem to be able to catch every small detail about instrumentation and this has been bothering me for a while, but I can't seem to find anyone who cares as much. :P Keep up the good work!

[8BitDanooct1]

@coasterkrazy90 I've actually had designs on covering the song "The Beginning" from Castlevania III, but never got around to it. It actually sounds pretty daunting to me, but I'll gladly take it on as a challenge after I finish up Mega Man 9's OST. Thanks for the kind words.

[coasterkrazy90]

@8BitDanooct1 That's awesome! Thanks. I may try completing a cover of Clockwork I was doing as an instrument test. It seems like the vibration is some sort of feedback on certain notes that actually does occur once the FTM is exported.

[Bucketheadisgod94]

Hey man, I love chiptunes, but stuff like this and Fruity Loops confuses the heck outta me. I watched all 5 parts and now I understand Famitracker a little better so thank you so much! Great tutorial and my song sounds just like yours but I cant upload a vid response so Im sorry about that :/ But hey man, thanks so much!

P.S. Thank you for picking a good song to cover! :D

[T3HM4N244]

This tutorial helped a lot. I would post a video response, but my pc is too crappy to record without lagging video or audio.

[shalpp]

how do you make rests? I didn't see any mention of them in the video

[CPUMaster500]

@notjustakill Now was that shit really necessary? You better not be talking about Dan you bitch!

[awsomguitarman]

first! and this has been helpful. thanks!