This song is a mix of ambient melodies and fast idm-like percussion, made within 2 days on 2 OSes with 2 versions of MPT :)
Childhood
memories (http://axd.10e.net/mods/2007/childhood_memories.it.zip), 1.6M, 8:23
Beautiful start. Clever introductions to rhythmic parts. Nice gamelan-like melodics. And the watery noises make it complete.
A OT question, because I'm not familiar with VST's : After loading the song I noticed the adding of some DirectX reverb plugin as FX1, although no channel is making use of a plugin. How come ?
Hi Sam
Quote from: "Sam_Zen"Nice gamelan-like melodics.
Thx :) I was searching for a word describing these melodies. Now i've got it :)
Quote from: "Sam_Zen"After loading the song I noticed the adding of some DirectX reverb plugin as FX1, although no channel is making use of a plugin. How come ?
In the short time when i used windows for making some more samples and adding them to the mod (this is still the best platform to do this), i must have have added the reverb. But when i switched back to linux this was rather useless since i have not installed directx on wine.
After inspecting the file and looking at the message dialog i found another "flaw" :D
made with ModPlug Tracker
( 0.17.2.28 (win) and 0.16.0202 (wine) )can't be true ::)
sounds interesting :) ;)
one hint concerning the samples, which is not only addressed to you:
Lots of your samples have a "wrong" DC offset. you see this as most wave data is "above" the center line. you can remove this DC offset in wave editors like wavelab. it's a good idea to do this as you can amplify the samples more and mixing goes on better aswell.
moin Jojo ;)
Quote from: "Jojo"sounds interesting :) ;)
thanks :)
Quote from: "Jojo"one hint concerning the samples, which is not only addressed to you:
Lots of your samples have a "wrong" DC offset. you see this as most wave data is "above" the center line. you can remove this DC offset in wave editors like wavelab. it's a good idea to do this as you can amplify the samples more and mixing goes on better aswell.
This can also be done using MPT by just putting a sample into a pattern and saving this one-pattern-song as wav file. This DC thing (that term was new to me :oops: ) is on the line then. But it was once more my laziness which prohibited me to do this ;)
Quote from: "cubaxd"
This can also be done using MPT by just putting a sample into a pattern and saving this one-pattern-song as wav file. This DC thing (that term was new to me :oops: ) is on the line then. But it was once more my laziness which prohibited me to do this ;)
This is something I keep meaning to do, I use VSTi's almost exclusiv ely with no samples anymore..however, a lot of VSTi's bogs down the CPU so on some patterns you can't actually play it properly in MPT as it stutters, so I have to save the track as wav to hear it properly. what I might do for the more repetative parts is just save as a wav and then load into the track and loop it, less cpu use in samples, and it'll still sound exatly the way I want it to. Thanks for reminding me! :D
PS, Nice track too :)
hm, i use modplug for so long now and i have not noticed that his works with wave export... :D or maybe it did not work with the old releases? don't remeber...
I didn't notice the fact, but Jojo has a strong point about the DC-offset of a sample. Maximum amplification etc.
Besides the basic rule, that a sample should begin and and end with a 'zero' value anyway.
2 cubaxd
Laziness ? It seems to me that correcting the sample in the first place is much less work than putting the sample with a code in a pattern, then adjusting the speed and the length of the pattern, to get the same wav file saved again. :)
The DC also plays an important role with older player which don't use click avoidance mechanisms. So if the DC offset is not at zero, you will always hear a click at the beginning and the end of the sample.But that's maybe a bit too off-topic here, maybe someone can put this in the "technical documents"? :)
I checked "technical documents" and it would be indeed a useful issue : How to treat samples ?
I've covered part of this item here already : http://www.louigiverona.com/webarchive/samzen/samps/smpvoluk.html
No longer available :(
http://cubaxd.net/music/mods/2007/childhood_memories.it.zip <- worx
awesome, thanks.