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#1

Help and Questions / Re: modules sound out of sync

Last post by Saga Musix - Yesterday at 23:23:56

I think after some time you simply develop some experience with guessing tempos. Guess the general range the tempo might be in and the refine using the methods mentioned above until you get it right. The tempo tap feature found in the General Tab can also be useful for drum loops (keep playing the loop in one tab, open a second window via Window -> New and then click the Tap button on each beat until you get a good estimate).
For a machine it's not so simple to figure this out automatically, hence there is no way to do this with a single click in OpenMPT:
- You cannot just take the whole sample length and deduce the tempo from that, because the loop may end with a trailing reverb etc.
- You can do some sort of beat analysis but this depends on the time signature of the beat being known, otherwise it would not be known if e.g. three drum hits in a row are supposed to be triplets or 8ths (which would result in a completely different tempo estimate). This context is not available to the machine.

#2

Help and Questions / Re: modules sound out of sync

Last post by aRealHamster - Yesterday at 23:02:48

Wow, thanks for all the info! Really appreciate it.
Is there any way that i can figure out the tempo of a sample?

#3

Help and Questions / Re: modules sound out of sync

Last post by Saga Musix - Yesterday at 22:56:00

In general - completely independent of OpenMPT, trackers, or even software in general - you have two possibilities: Match the song tempo to the samples, or match the sample pitch to the song tempo.

Matching the song tempo:
- If there are audible gaps between the samples, increase the song tempo
- If the samples appear to play short (incomplete), decrease the song tempo

Matching the sample pitch:
- If there are audible gaps between the samples, decrease the middle-C frequency (sample rate) of the samples
- If the samples appear to play short, increase the middle-C frequency of the samples

Matching the sample pitch is usually more flexible (as only the MPTM format supports fractional tempos in OpenMPT), but of course it is not always desirable to change the timbre of the sample that way.

It can be helpful to select the sample-data (double-click to select all), in which case you see the sample duration at middle-C in the status bar expressed as beats. So if one of your samples is expected to be exactly one beat long, fiddle around with the song tempo or middle-C frequency until the value in the status bar is approximately 1.0 beats.

#4

Help and Questions / Re: Note missing playing chord...

Last post by FWL - Yesterday at 22:15:41

  Yes that's my dreammachine right there! Impeccable timing of this guy, I could almost see that invisible snare and crash cymbal 

#5

Help and Questions / Re: modules sound out of sync

Last post by aRealHamster - Yesterday at 22:15:23

Yeah, I want to be able to bridge two samples together through a portion of a drum break consistently so that it sounds like someone is actually playing it.

#6

Help and Questions / Re: Note missing playing chord...

Last post by Saga Musix - Yesterday at 21:12:15

If you want a self-contained environment, the Creative Prodkeys would have been your thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEnQPQvbuog

#7

Help and Questions / Re: modules sound out of sync

Last post by Saga Musix - Yesterday at 21:11:04

Unfortunately the question doesn't really contain a lot of information so it's hard to answer. Like, what are you trying to sync up to each other? Do you want to match the tempo of your song to a drum loop sample, for example?

#8

Help and Questions / modules sound out of sync

Last post by aRealHamster - Yesterday at 20:17:25

Hi, i'm new to OpenMPT and trackers as a whole, and i'd like to figure out why anything i try to make sounds wrong. I understand it's something to do with the BPM of the module as opposed to the sample, but i don't really get how all of that works. If anyone could point me in the direction of any resources on this topic, that would be great. Thanks!

#9

Help and Questions / Re: Note missing playing chord...

Last post by FWL - March 24, 2023, 17:45:34

Yes that's also an option and I allready have a midi keyboard but that's connected to the hardware/dawless side of my 'studio'. And I like the idea of this selfcontained musicmaking environment and that all you need to bring with you is a laptop with openmpt and a good memory filled with keyboard shortcuts 

#10

Help and Questions / Re: Note missing playing chord...

Last post by LPChip - March 24, 2023, 10:41:55

Or you could invest in a cheap midi keyboard and play notes using that. Entering notes manually is not a problem anyway.