Making a Chiptune: 3-Octave Harmony

[tontonkaos]

I start Traker with your tutorial. thanx from France.

[Dominickbmusic]

Ugh, screw that. If I want 8 bit, I'm gonna cheat and make my own sine wave sounds on Reason, rewire that shit to Cubase and play the music with my mighty midi controller. :P

[Chrissss698]

hey im a total newbie to milky tracker ive always had this question (that might me stupid): what r the blue numbers between the green notes?also what r the yellow and red ones on channel 3? can someone please answer ?i would really appreciate it

[ThinkOneMoreTime]

3-Octave Harmony, does that mean a minor arpeggio with a delay track?

[ScrewFearMe]

how long did it take for u to make this track?

[ScrewFearMe]

@ScrewFearMe stupid question :P

how long did it take for u to learn something like this i mean

[zxbryc]

@ScrewFearMe @me? it doesn't take long to figure out the keys, but if you mean making chiptune music, it takes practice, took me a year or two of practice and looking at other chiptunes to get good. of course i already knew musical theory and my way around trackers / daws

[ScrewFearMe]

how do you add one of those G-5 D-5 and so on? im lost when it comes to that and what buttons are you using on the keyboard?

[zxbryc]

@ScrewFearMe most audio production software map notes to keys on the keyboard, and that's how you input notes into the tracker while in record mode

[ScrewFearMe]

@zxbryc ok

[nrdesign1991]

you are a WIZARD!

[FischKopfD]

1:43 that typical sound

i wish i could do that

[kw1ksh0t]

@FischKopfD It's so easy once you get the hang of it :) just 037 and it will sound like that

[FischKopfD]

@kw1ksh0t

i can do it now xD

i used to think its complicated but once you get the hang of it its very easy. milkytracker ftw.

[BlackRain100]

Thanks a lot, cool melody

[dwaynedibbly]

everything this fellow touches turns to gold! :D

[littlesk8rdude]

how do you do the arpegio every time i try to press 0 it just deletes the effect

[geminyo]

@littlesk8rdude That one was tricky for me too. What you do is skip the the effect and just add your value. That sets the effect to 0.

[FearsomeDragonfly]

I've noticed that people making chiptunes always put the loop point somewhere in the middle of the samples instead of just resizing the sample and putting the loop at the end. Why is that? It seems like extra work to get the loop in just the right spot.

[sutasman]

@FearsomeDragonfly: Same reason people drive in the middle of a lane rather than driving right on the edge of the lane, or getting a car that barely fits in the lane.

[sudyl]

how do you copy the first column to put it into the second column

[perplexedmoth]

shift + f4 to copy the column.

shift + f5 to paste it.

[anabelenski]

How do you get that c-2 sound on?

its realy bugging me.

[NomisGSR]

How did you do that fast sound in the background?

[iggy4323]

Looks like column 3 to me..

[LaurentVKeulen]

Arpeggio, 0xy.

[zkc8]

very cool

[frikkato]

I used to use Protracker on an Amiga 500 first then Fast Tracker 2 on the PC...OMG how much I miss those times!! :) Awesome dude, thanks!

[kobejonez]

WOW thats fucking awesome, I hated trackers didnt liked the way they worked....but now I want to try.

[eJnooB]

Thanks dude! :D