OpenMPT FM+PCM example song compo (extended deadline 2018-11-16)

LPChip · October 03, 2018, 09:29:41

Is that the final date, or is that without the possible 2 week delay?

Saga Musix · October 03, 2018, 09:30:20

If you look closely at the calendar, that is the two week "delay".

ASIKWUSpulse · October 07, 2018, 22:07:37

I've messed around and came up with a small tune that I'll submit to the compo. May not be awesome, since I just rushed it together as it would've been taking nearly a month to come up with anything good

.

Otherwise, this was a feature that I never thought MPT was going to support. I dreamed about built-in FM instruments with the same capabilities as the samples Portamento, Volume, Vibrato and the other sound-manipulating effects. This kind of made the dream come true, cuz I had hopes for 4-op FM.

But I understand why just OPL2/3 are implemented, since it's a feature of scream-tracker 3, so I'm not disappointed

. MPT 1.28 has a whole new sector of features ready to be explored!

ASIKWUSpulse · October 11, 2018, 16:48:07

A little question, since I haven't used ST3.... Is the volume-curve for the FM supposed to be exponetial compared to the samples volume-curve being linear?
I have it really tricky to equalize the volumes, especially when using volume slides.

Saga Musix · October 11, 2018, 17:23:48

Yes, ST3 sends volume to the chip as-is.

ASIKWUSpulse · October 11, 2018, 20:04:12

Ok then it's only to start practicing those techniques

Saga Musix · October 11, 2018, 21:09:40

I have contemplated at least adding an optional linear mode in MPTM, but the problem is that the sample volume range is identical to the OPL volume range (well, almost - OPL only goes from 0 to 63 rather than 64), meaning that there would be some inevitable loss of precision. Maybe in the next version.

ASIKWUSpulse · October 11, 2018, 22:38:36

I can live with the exponential volume behavior

, it's just important that the FM sounds isn't hard-volslided like the samples, or they will barely be heard. I'm still happy with this new feature (I love tracking game-inspired music with FM-flavour, which is now possible with OpenMPT). Cool!

ballacr75 · October 16, 2018, 07:15:03

Hi all, where can I listen to compo songs?

Saga Musix · October 16, 2018, 07:43:09

You will be able to listen to the songs that made it past the pre-selection once OpenMPT 1.28 is released. This may still take a few weeks, so anyone who wasn't able to submit their tune in time can of course still upload it and contribute to the release package.

Exhale · October 17, 2018, 10:32:25

I dont know if it is just my version of 1.28.00.31 but sometimes (and it seems in a predictable way) I get sporadic sound interpretation on these instruments, is it a glitch or is it how the instruments are supposed to behave?
You can replicate what I mean by starting a new mptm, making the first instrument an OPL, taking the modulator attack rate to 12, and playing a few chords... at first it will slide in, and if you keep playing chords it will hit at 100% sometimes then eventually all the time... the other part of the behavior, which I admit I used on one of the songs I sent means that when you track with an instrument like this and save it, the slide in will happen on the first play through in a once off way.
If that is the way it is going to behave at all times, thats fine, the song I sent will behave fine, but if not that is also fine because it would be nice to have the instrument behave more predictably. I did it earlier and hit chords over and over again and somehow it played the muffled like at the beginning of the climb and then sometimes at 100%... so yeah its a bit unpredictable in its current form.

(example attached to this reply)
I admit I wasnt able to get the sporadic showing up in the tracked example and it might just be the way this laptop keyboard works or something else about how I am playing it... I put some c+f chords after those chords I played in the example in what seems like the way I play them by hand and they work fine at 100% with note cut and note off

Saga Musix · October 18, 2018, 07:01:50

Yes, this is how the OPL chip is supposed to work.

Exhale · October 19, 2018, 08:44:47

Quote from: Saga Musix on October 18, 2018, 07:01:50
Yes, this is how the OPL chip is supposed to work.

ok cool, got it

Saga Musix · October 21, 2018, 15:49:16

As there are still some improvements to be tackled before the OpenMPT 1.28 release, the deadline has been extended to the 16th November. Expect this to be a final deadline, and feel free to update your previous submissions.

ballacr75 · October 23, 2018, 10:16:43

Hi all, here my submission for the compo, my first track with OpenMPT and my first track with S3M!
Have fun
Ballacr75 (Emanuele)