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

Edit: I've heard that some people have trouble making there own chip sounds, so i've put together a collection of chip sounds, you can get it here at http://www.megaupload.com/?d=I1Y8NNKV

In this tutorial I will show you how to make the sounds you need for 8 bit chip style music in Modplug tracker. All you need is Modplug Tracker, Notepad and Ace of Wav (you don't need the full version of ace of wav, the demo version will work just as well). This tutorial shows how to make basic chip sounds in Ace of Wav. This tutorial also covers how to make the chip sounds with notepad and how to load them into ModPlug tracker and hear them.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• tutorial
• modplug
• tracker
• openmpt
• mod
• music
• module
• chip
• bit
• soundchip
• sound
• retro
• computer
• chiptune
• ace
• of
• wav
• acidwav
• notepad

[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.

[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

[duhskills129]

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

[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!

[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.

[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!

[ShadowGladiator21]

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

[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.