2 Squirrel Havoc
Layers of sounds is in fact what's happening if playing back several pattern-channels at the same time.
A channel could be there in the pattern, but silenced. Like transparancy with bitmaps.
2 speed-goddamn-focus
Obviously I missed something, because I didn't know about the link between compo and competition.
I always used compo for the sake of efficiency to replace composition.
You can use VST's to do a phasing effect. I don't want to limit people.
Using them for the effect one wants is fine by me, if, as said, no default presets are used.
But you don't have to fear to limit people by excluding VST's. Lots of existing effect-codes inside a module.
The limitation ranges depends on the purpose of the final sound with the current material after all.
So sometimes it can be done without plugins, because the result is acceptable, and sometimes one seeks a specific area which is not available within the basic options of the tracker.
One doesn't need a plugin to want a certain sample twice as loud in a pattern. Just add a channel with the same data.
If I use fruity loops, and use like sytrius plugin to make a nice sound, that would mean that none of you can then recreate what I made unless you have fruity loops too.
An essential point you touch here..
I checked fruity loops too and it was hardly composing, but more playing around with presets. Not very satisfying.
[OT] This has been the main problem from the beginning of electronic music. Somebody else, playing the same piece.
Almost no electronic composition in the past 50 years has been 'covered' by somebody else.
Because the climate is, until now, to still use the classical pop or serious notation to find a solution.
This leads to the exact definition of the available instruments, with each their own score on a line.
A score line for a violin starts and ends with commands for the same violin.
With electronics an instrument can switch to anything else within the options during the playback of that score.
I think maybe more emphasis on the actual codes as part of the composition should be there, instead of the actual sounds involved.
If you make a module, what happens to the piece, if you replace all the samples by others ?
