This was fun to make. I gotta remember to follow my own 35 rules, that I learned observing Karsten Obarski's work. I used a drum loop from Spyro's soundfont and used a Fasttracker 2 instrument! This is because Protracker can import raw data, so I can import any file into Protracker as if it were a sound sample. My fella,
, gave me some of his instruments and many XI files came inside of it, one of them called Air Choir. Protracker was capable of reading the sample inside of the instrument, although the header of the file was interpreted as noise. So I cut the noise away using Protracker's built-in sample editor, enabling me to stay with the sample. Handy stuff.
First of all, thank you.~ Glad you dig my tracker work, although I'm still an amateur at tracking... I still use LMMS for requests and collaborations, as it is what I have most experience on. I do not memorize the rules.x3 I have them written in a file:
Set the song's mood at the beginning. Reuse old ideas in new songs. Control the instruments' volume. Sustain a song in chords with several voices, if it only has melody and accompaniment. Consider starting the song with the bass and the percussion. Consider starting the song with the bass and accompaniment. Use one channel for melody, one for accompaniment, one for bass, one for percussion. Use both octaves of the keyboard. Use minor notes too. Do not feel obligated to make a complex melody. Put several melodies over the same bass line, one at a time. Use ornamento. Suspend the melody as a form of transition. Play different sections of the melody with different instruments. Make the instruments "talk to each other" in the same track when composing the melody, giving the impression of more than four voices. Do not use portamento to note in notes too close to each other (use slide up or slide down instead). Make chords become counterpoints and turn counterpoints back into chords. Make echo. Make chords when possible. Make arpeggios, if you are going to make arpeggios, with the values 33, 37, 38, 44, 47, 49, 55, 58 or 59. Use octave jumps in the bass. Use similar, but not identical, bass lines. Pass the bass line to other bass instruments. Repeat notes in sequence. Use sequences of repeated notes as a form of transition. Alternate, in a same channel, different instruments, with different functions. Make the beat simple. Leave spaces in the beat for the reverberation to show, if the drum sample has reverberation. Do not make an exact copy of the beat, if you copy it from one track to another. Change the song's mood between patterns. Lose the shame of repeating patterns. Put the patterns in the most convenient orders, not in the most logical. Change the base note as the song progresses. Make the whole song (except the ending), repeat the whole song (except the introduction), do the ending. Do not feel obligated to make a long song. Reuse finished songs to make new songs out of them.
First of all, thank you.~ Glad you dig my tracker work, although I'm still an amateur at tracking...
Interesting to hear that you got some new sounds to experiment with. Based on what you made with them here, I'm looking forward to what else you can come up with.
Interesting to hear that you got some new sounds to experiment with. Based on what you made with the
