Sample Editing Tutorial: Creating A Sine Wave

How to make a sine wave using the filters in MilkyTracker's sample editor. The same techniques can be used to create a variety of other wave forms. Video courtesy of raina.

Note: Please excuse the lack of sound in this video as it was made on a Pocket PC.

MilkyTracker is a multiplatform, 100% freeware music application, more specifically part of the tracker family. It attempts to recreate the module replay and user experience of the popular DOS tracker FastTracker II, with special modes available for improved Amiga ProTracker 2/3 compatibility. MilkyTracker is not "another Windows tracker" which should already be obvious by the plethora of supported desktop and portable platforms. In fact it started as a project to bring tracking to the Pocket PC. When this milestone was reached, the next one was creating a truly FT2 compatible tracker for portable as well as modern desktop platforms. We aren't there just yet but you can test it out yourself and see we're not far away either. Exported module formats are those of its ancestors - XM and MOD, but it can import 669, AMF, AMS, CBA, DBM, DIGI, DSM, DTM, AR, GDM, GMC, IMF, IT, MDL, MOD, MTM, MXM, OKT, OKTA, PLM, PSM, PTM, S3M, STM, ULT, UNI and XM and naturally, load _anything_ as samples.

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• chiptune
• electronic
• music

[Figowitzdk]

Sorry to spoil the fun, but I don't see the point of this in Milkytracker, since there's already a function that creates perfect sine waves for you. Notice the "generators" near the bottom of the menu when you right click? In there it says "Sine...". PRess it, and it asks for number of periods and volume.

[namayake]

See my comment below. This video was created before the soundwave generators were implemented in milky.

[PaperChaserzPCP]

Yo, u look like u usin a Super Nintendo to do dis!!! LOL!!!!!

[namayake]

There's no SNES port of MilkyTracker...yet. ;)

[RCM037224]

The absolute latest version of MT only gives me the option of NOISE under the GENERATORS menu when editing a sample. Did they do this on purpose?

[Figowitzdk]

Ah, didn't know that.

I should have added "But there's probably a reason for this vid" in the other comemnt, but I was running out of space :O)

[serXres]

thanks for this - just installed on my pocket pc!

[inthefade]

synths don't normally have "true" sine waves. Sine waves, when speaking about music, refer to soft-tone waveforms.

[namayake]

haha ;)

[LiquidChem]

there is always a reason to do this! if youre like us. people like us dont do these things cuz we have to, we do them cuz we can! fun times yo! but yeah, pretty damn close to the human naked ear, but think about how close is C2O and CO2, both seem ok right! know what I mean?! wtf!

n e way.. however you do it, keep making the sound!!!!!