Ibanez Posted February 14, 2006 Share Posted February 14, 2006 (edited) I've been looking to start making my own chiptune for a while now, and I'm not quite sure where to start. At the moment all I've got to work with is Theta Music Composer 2.0f on the Atari 800 win 3.0 emulator, and FastTracker II (If there's anything else I should have, please let me know). Apart from that, the problem is I have no clue how to use a tracker. I've been searching like crazy for the past 3 days and all I've been able to find were a few rough manuals that don't really explain things clearly, unless I'm missing something obvious. I was wondering if anyone here would know of any good manuals/tutorials, or if they could give me a quick explanation of what I'm looking at here. Either way your help would be greatly appreaciated . Edit: If it helps at all, I'm pretty knowledgable about music theory. Edited February 14, 2006 by Ibanez Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pseudografx Posted February 14, 2006 Share Posted February 14, 2006 I've been looking to start making my own chiptune for a while now, and I'm not quite sure where to start. At the moment all I've got to work with is Theta Music Composer 2.0f on the Atari 800 win 3.0 emulator, and FastTracker II (If there's anything else I should have, please let me know). Apart from that, the problem is I have no clue how to use a tracker. I've been searching like crazy for the past 3 days and all I've been able to find were a few rough manuals that don't really explain things clearly, unless I'm missing something obvious. I was wondering if anyone here would know of any good manuals/tutorials, or if they could give me a quick explanation of what I'm looking at here. Either way your help would be greatly appreaciated . Edit: If it helps at all, I'm pretty knowledgable about music theory. 1018083[/snapback] If you really don't need to use the emulator, I'd suggest trying the RMT (Raster Music Tracker), which runs natively under Windows. There are many examples included and a detailed help. It is also one of the most powerful trackers for the POKEY sound chip. Supports export to Atari executable as well. If you want to use the real machine (or emulator), perhaps you might start with CMC, which is a tracker with fast learning curve due to its simplicity. TMC is a good tool, but maybe a bit too complex for a start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ibanez Posted February 14, 2006 Author Share Posted February 14, 2006 Thanks pseudografx, I've downloaded RMT, and I've figured out what my real problem's been. I was trying to play a few of the samples that were included in the .zip file but there's no sound, which makes it just a little hard to figure the program out on my own. I can't find anything on the problem for RMT or any other tracker, but I was wondering if anyone could guess at what's wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted February 14, 2006 Share Posted February 14, 2006 have you downloaded the SDL sound libraries? which are not included in the RMT archive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted February 14, 2006 Share Posted February 14, 2006 http://raster.infos.cz/atari/sa_libraries/sa_libraries.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ibanez Posted February 14, 2006 Author Share Posted February 14, 2006 I guess that would help . I don't remember that ever being in anything I've read on tracking. Is everyone else this clueless when they start out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jericho_21 Posted September 3, 2018 Share Posted September 3, 2018 (edited) Concerning RMT, it may have a detailed help, but i am wondering if there are specific tutorials on how to create music on Raster Music Tracker. Is there a site I can look at to find tutorials on this app? Or is there anything I can look at to learn how to use it? Thanks. UPDATE: Sorry, as Ibanez asked that already. I did not see this earlier on. But, really, are there any tutorial videos and sites for RMT? I guess it would also help if I learned music as well. Thanks again. Edited September 3, 2018 by jericho_21 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makary Posted September 3, 2018 Share Posted September 3, 2018 https://makarybrauner.blogspot.com/ However there are many reasons why you can find it useless : it's in Polish, it's just part #1 at the moment and it deals with extremely basic usage of RMT. Still with some help of google translator it's better than nothing. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R0ger Posted September 3, 2018 Share Posted September 3, 2018 Some info in English is here: http://battleofthebits.org/lyceum/View/Raster+Music+Tracker/ I suggest loading the demo songs, and analyzing them track by track, instrument by instrument. Also you should know that many sounds use 2 channels, either for 16bit frequencies (1+2,3+4) or for filtering (1+3,2+4). 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makary Posted September 4, 2018 Share Posted September 4, 2018 This one is quite general. Nevertheless some useful insights can be found, no matter what platform one is using for making chiptunes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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