Can't Find Instrument Tutorials

[xdavidx]

I'm new to making instruments and I was looking for some good instrument making tutorials but can't seem to find any.  Can someone point me in the right direction?

[psishock]

I'm not sure that i got you perfectly... did you mean:

1. "working" with instruments in OpenMPT?
For that, there is a nice wiki, explaining how to use the sample/instrument editor:
http://openmpt.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Manual/InstrumentEditor
http://openmpt.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Manual/SampleEditor

2. You can get countless number of pre-generated synthetic, or recorded real instrument samples from the net, plenty of sites are hosting these stuff.

3. generating your sound (from zero) with the synthesizers (VSTi stuff):
This may be more tricky for the beginners, but fear not, there are tutorials even for this. =)

Adam Szabo made these nice tuts., they might look technical and need a little knowledge of VST technology, but i assume your determination is enormous, so here it goes:
http://www.adamszabo.com/tutorials/adam_synth_tut_part_1.pdf
http://www.adamszabo.com/tutorials/adam_synth_tut_part_2.pdf
http://www.adamszabo.com/tutorials/adam_synth_tut_part_3.pdf
http://www.adamszabo.com/tutorials/adam_synth_tut_part_4.pdf

(bare in mind that you cannot "make" sound with OpenMPT alone, you need external sound sample(s) to work with, or external VSTi to generate the sound)

[bvanoudtshoorn]

The links to the OpenMPT wiki that psishock provided are an excellent resource; you'll find that most 'standard' questions can be answered there.

Basically, you have to look at an instrument as consisting of two distinct objects:
1. Some set of samples, which provide the actual sound, the waveforms.
2. An instrument header, which says when to play which sample, and allows you to shape the volume envelope (curve), panning envelope, filter envelope, and even pitch envelope.

In OpenMPT, you edit the instrument header on the "instruments" tab, and the samples on the "samples" tab. If you've ever fiddled with soundfonts, they're very similar in concept.

One of the best ways to work out what does what when you're working with instruments is to download some IT files and start fiddling with them. A great place to build up your collection of mods is The Mod Archive.

[LPChip]

You might want to try this one as tutorial.

http://forum.openmpt.org/index.php?topic=2203.0