Thank you for all your hard work in these videos. You are clearly really experienced at this! It makes you think there's so much possibility with just 4 channels of 8 bit sound. It is a real skill to do a good track with only 31 samples. You need all the tricks in the book! Limitations are what push people..........
+axs203 Thank you for your kind words! Yes, limitation really is the mother of invention and creativity. This is without doubt one of the reasons I enjoy this so much.
kinda late on these videos, but i found them by chance and watched them all in a row this evening. very nice indeed, most of things i did actually know and remember from back in '90, but you gave me insight on several things i did never learn by myself and by studing "master's" mods passed over from a friend of a friend of a friend from a copy of a copy of a copy of a compilation disk... if you know what i mean ;-) i would like to mention something i did often in my modules (they never came out from my room though) i used to exploit what you call "tick tempo" and E9/ED commands to create triplets (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tresillo_(rhythm)#Triplet_(formal_usage)) after getting my hands on a protracker, in which i found that distinction between below and over F1F, after having learned and played with those E commands, even as a clueless teenager i figured that that speed below F1F defined something like "sub-notes" for each row. now, having care to leave the "tick tempo" to 6, and set the speed of your song to your liking only changing the bpm (F20+), try these out: C-201000 C-201000 C-201E94 C-201ED2 C-201000 C-201000 ---01000 C-201000 ---01000 C-201000 C-201ED2 C-201ED4 ---01000 C-201000 C-201000 ---01000 C-201000 ---01000 C-201000 ---01000 C-201ED4 ---01000 ---01000 C-201ED2 ---01000 ---01000 C-201000 and so on. also, as with a tick tempo 6 you can squeeze groups of 3* notes in a 4/4 tempo (triplets), likewise with a thick tempo 8 you can squeeze groups of 4* notes in a 6/8 tempo (quartolets (?)), etc., lots of possibilities. i'm sure i'm not saying nothing new to you, but maybe someone who is here to learn can take some useful hints also from what i wrote. cheers and good job!
is there anyway t o save your tempo of your project on a .mod? i tried saving a mod file of a song i made but when i go to load the mod file it dosent have the correct tempo i used to make the song and forgive me if this is a dumb question.
Back in the long-ago there was no such thing as a project. I think you'll have to look at a module as a project with samples, pattern data and so on but in the end, all you really save is the .mod file.
@@TomBudin I have an episode coming up about keyboard shortcuts. It's to be released any year now.. ;) The clone supports saving using "ctrl+s" (same on mac, not cmd), something not utilized in the original Protracker for Amiga. As soon as you feel you have something good going on, use it. Then save it as a new name to create alternate versions. It's like a project system, but not quite as handy.
@@waspamiga yo man please do i cannot for the life of me figure out how to copy patterns and such, i've tried all the protracker clone keyboard shortcuts on mac and it just doesn't work even disabled the option settings in the OS but still no dice
I'm not sure how octamed works, but to handle a pattern, use alt-f3 to cut, alt-f4 to copy and alt-f5 to paste it. I'm planning an episode about keyboard shortcuts. It may be a while, but stay tuned! :)
I'd say learn them in the order of the episodes. I did this series in the order of what I believe to be the most common way to learn. When it comes to these Exx commands, I'd say EAx/EBx is pretty useful. Well, most of them are, but It's nice to be able to fade things in/out slowly. E9x is also quite common.
***** No, not directly into Protracker. There are some other trackers available to import MIDI files and then convert them to other formats. These formats are not very similar though, so it's going to be a lot of craftsmanship to convert it. Simple melodies and notes should not be a big issue though. Regarding MIDI I think it's possible to use with Protracker to enter notes from a keyboard, but that's probably it. When it comes to key release, knobs and filters Protracker will not recognize anything.
Got my Amiga, got ProTracker, and now i have the knowledge/confidence to get started ! Thank you for making these videos. Greetings from Austria :)
Great to hear! Happy tracking!
Thanks for all these brief descriptions on the commands. Nearly forgot all of them the past 20 years :D
Thank you for all your hard work in these videos. You are clearly really experienced at this! It makes you think there's so much possibility with just 4 channels of 8 bit sound. It is a real skill to do a good track with only 31 samples. You need all the tricks in the book! Limitations are what push people..........
+axs203 Thank you for your kind words! Yes, limitation really is the mother of invention and creativity. This is without doubt one of the reasons I enjoy this so much.
kinda late on these videos, but i found them by chance and watched them all in a row this evening.
very nice indeed, most of things i did actually know and remember from back in '90, but you gave me insight on several things i did never learn by myself and by studing "master's" mods passed over from a friend of a friend of a friend from a copy of a copy of a copy of a compilation disk... if you know what i mean ;-)
i would like to mention something i did often in my modules (they never came out from my room though)
i used to exploit what you call "tick tempo" and E9/ED commands to create triplets (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tresillo_(rhythm)#Triplet_(formal_usage))
after getting my hands on a protracker, in which i found that distinction between below and over F1F, after having learned and played with those E commands, even as a clueless teenager i figured that that speed below F1F defined something like "sub-notes" for each row.
now, having care to leave the "tick tempo" to 6, and set the speed of your song to your liking only changing the bpm (F20+), try these out:
C-201000
C-201000
C-201E94
C-201ED2
C-201000
C-201000
---01000
C-201000
---01000
C-201000
C-201ED2
C-201ED4
---01000
C-201000
C-201000
---01000
C-201000
---01000
C-201000
---01000
C-201ED4
---01000
---01000
C-201ED2
---01000
---01000
C-201000
and so on.
also, as with a tick tempo 6 you can squeeze groups of 3* notes in a 4/4 tempo (triplets), likewise with a thick tempo 8 you can squeeze groups of 4* notes in a 6/8 tempo (quartolets (?)), etc., lots of possibilities.
i'm sure i'm not saying nothing new to you, but maybe someone who is here to learn can take some useful hints also from what i wrote.
cheers and good job!
Thank you so much for this series!
A very rich resource, thanks again!
Nice, this will be my PT Go To Tut. I needed some inspiration to start doing some noise in PT again.
Really enjoyed the tutorial, some really cool tricks. Especially the pattern demonstrating EFx, mindblowing.
Great work wasp. Thanks. I found some of your MODs on my phone-app "modizer"... Awesome stuff. Impressive.
Thank you so much for this great series of wonderful tuts (imho the best ones for PT). Thumbs upppp... ;)
Good work on the whole series! And impressive work to figure out how to actually use the EFx command!
+1, excellent explanation on the EFx mofo
i use the ED1 on track2 with the same note/sample of track1 to create a nice stereo effect !
How do I transpose the selected block or whole channel/track or pattern? I think in Amiga it is Amiga modifier and D or C...
02:40 That's basically how a flanger effect sounds like
is there anyway t o save your tempo of your project on a .mod? i tried saving a mod file of a song i made but when i go to load the mod file it dosent have the correct tempo i used to make the song and forgive me if this is a dumb question.
forgive my naivety how do you save projects with protracker clone
Back in the long-ago there was no such thing as a project. I think you'll have to look at a module as a project with samples, pattern data and so on but in the end, all you really save is the .mod file.
@@waspamiga ended up saving the mod but didn't save the new version over it lmao
@@TomBudin I have an episode coming up about keyboard shortcuts. It's to be released any year now.. ;)
The clone supports saving using "ctrl+s" (same on mac, not cmd), something not utilized in the original Protracker for Amiga. As soon as you feel you have something good going on, use it. Then save it as a new name to create alternate versions. It's like a project system, but not quite as handy.
@@waspamiga yo man please do i cannot for the life of me figure out how to copy patterns and such, i've tried all the protracker clone keyboard shortcuts on mac and it just doesn't work even disabled the option settings in the OS but still no dice
How to copy a pattern into another like "Copy Block" in octamed?
I'm not sure how octamed works, but to handle a pattern, use alt-f3 to cut, alt-f4 to copy and alt-f5 to paste it.
I'm planning an episode about keyboard shortcuts. It may be a while, but stay tuned! :)
What are the most common commands you recommend to learn by heart?
I'd say learn them in the order of the episodes. I did this series in the order of what I believe to be the most common way to learn. When it comes to these Exx commands, I'd say EAx/EBx is pretty useful. Well, most of them are, but It's nice to be able to fade things in/out slowly. E9x is also quite common.
That’s basically the catchphrase reveal
Is it possible to import a MIDI to the tracker?
***** No, not directly into Protracker. There are some other trackers available to import MIDI files and then convert them to other formats. These formats are not very similar though, so it's going to be a lot of craftsmanship to convert it. Simple melodies and notes should not be a big issue though.
Regarding MIDI I think it's possible to use with Protracker to enter notes from a keyboard, but that's probably it. When it comes to key release, knobs and filters Protracker will not recognize anything.
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