Kjmann

hi everyone! I Added a new one to my home page. Hybris! Title Screen Music Tell me what you all think. =)

Thanks for the complement. Sorry, but the reason I don't release the RMT file is so that someone can't Take the song and Manipulate it just a bit and claim that it's their's. I may not have wrote these songs but on almost everyone of them I have Put the songs into RMT note for note by Ear or by Staff Reference. The two times I've tried using the Import Feature the song has come out so sloppy and the song configuration ends up so disorganized that it's not worth messing with. By that time I could have put the song in myself like usual and it would have taken the same amount of time. So ultimately I end up with a better result by inputing the notes by ear or reading the staff rather that trying to import the song. So to make a long story short (Too Late!) It's for security reasons that I don't release the RMT file. =) BTW: The XEX files run directly on an 8 bit. hope that helps. =)

Well, I found the correct notes for the ending of obliterator. The Song is now listed in the completed list. Hope you all like it. =) post your comments.

Alright Folks, Obliterator is all but finished. I still have some tweaking to do at the very end of the song. haven't quite got the chords correct yet. they're close though. I revamped the instruments and fixed several harmony problems. Tell me what you all think. =)

I did some more work on obliterator. added some more to the song, changed the key, added the chorus sound and spruced up the harmony. hopefuly it sounds better. =) Check it out and let me know y'all.

Ok Folks! Here's another Work in progress that I uploaded to the website. If anyone would like to make some suggestions on this one it would be appreciated. this one has been difficult for me. there are no note references in existence for me to look at so I've had to this one by ear completely. ladies and gentlemen, Obliterator! Don't forget to refresh the page when you get to it. =)

That's what I plan on. glad you liked it. =)

Hi everyone. I have working hard on some original work for a couple of projects so thats why i haven't done much else. so i took a break and did some other songs and uploaded them. the new ones are: Crocketts theme Every breath you take Mega man III - Title Screen Music I also Finished R-Type Check'em out. and don't forget to refresh your browsers. =)

This new Outrun tune is really good, I think your best so far :-) I'd only slightly decrease the volume of hihats, as currently they seem to me a bit too loud (though this could be my equalizer setting, which stresses higher bands). You could also start to experiment with the multispeed instruments (2-speed or more), which can help create some really fresh sounds, try them for improving percussions first. Check my Lotus and Somewhere remakes for example: doublespeed - http://asma.atari.org/asma/Various/Eisenha...Challenge_3.sap triplespeed - http://asma.atari.org/asma/Various/Eisenha...k/Somewhere.sap I can send you RMTs of these SAPs if you want. I would love to see the RMT's If you don't mind. I'll send you my email in a PM. Thanks pseudo.

Alright Everyone. I updated R-Type and Added Outrun's Splash Wave. Check'Em Out! Don't Forget to hit Refresh on your browsers! =)

Added a new song the site. not quite finished yet but close. =) R-Type Title Music! Check it out. Don't forget to refresh your browsers or you may not see the updates.

Another update! nothing major though. I changed some of the instruments in The Mono version of battle squadron. i think it sounds better. It's also what is playing on my web page. remember you have to have the plugin for your browser to hear the music on my page. I have it for download on my site under "players" Later All!

IMHO this version sounds better :-) Thanks for the complement pseudo. Glad you liked it. In other news, I setup my website for a SAP file to play while you're visiting. you have to get the plugin for your browser. i have it for download on my site under "Players". Back Later y'all

alright everyone. I have updated my website with a new version of AXK8. This one uses gen2 with 1.79mhz as the main instrument. let me know what you think. =)

Alright, Sorry everyone. I messed up my profile and where i thought i was adding friends i was actually adding to my block list. DUH! i Feel stupid. sorry if you have sent me a message and i didn't answer. try sending again everyone and i should get them now. You too Emkay. =)

Alright i've updated the website. i fixed several problems in my filter instruments. the filter synth instruments should sound much smoother now. I also completed Cybernoid II =) Enjoy Folks.

You're doing awesome work here BRK. I look forward to toying with the HS system a bit more with some proper tables integrated. =) Keep it up, dude.

That is the style i prefer to use an that is MY Decision, NOT YOURS! If you don't like the way I do the songs I do, then learn a little more about music and go do them yourself. I've had plenty of compliments from many others that like the job that i do. It's MY Opinion that i do the songs i do in the best possible style. that's all there is to it. I'm not here to please you Emkay so deal with it. And since you want to know my opinion about the way you do music. Quote: One Answer in a PM with some sentences like "I don't like this sounding........... So here it is. I Don't like your style in which you do your songs. I don't like the hard synth method (for reasons I have stated before) and I Don't care whether or not you like my music. I do it the way i do it. thats all. The world of atari music doesn't revolve around you emkay. It is simply your OPINION that i do things "Wrong". Not Fact. Also If you like the SID so much why don't you go buy yourself a C64 and Use it instead. If you can't quit harping on this then stay out of this thread and go complain somewhere else, Emkay.

Tell us :-) Why should Raster make new notation tables, or allow custom ones? That's not needed anymore. I did some hacking in the RMT files (version 1.16), computed 2 new notation tables, for use in combination with 15khz mode...in fact it was quite easy to hack. Both in RMT editor and the exported files my custom notation tables work fine :) now you can use 2 new instruments, both at 1.79 mhz mode 1) RMT-gen. 2 is now distortion 2 with exact notation table for combining with 15khz tables (always set 1.79mhz on) 2) RMT-gen. 4 is now distortion 10 with 1.79mhz mode filtering (sawtooth). now, only simple (note-) transposes are needed, the pitchcorrections (table of pitches: $FE) is now not needed anymore!! You cannot use the standard bass tables (1 & 2) anymore, I did an overwrite of them. ...it is still experimental: now other tables can't be used....but it is a first step in another direction Hey BRK, would it be possible for you to make this change to version 1.25? =) BTW, Cool Job. here i did this just to fool around with it. It's kinda hard to navigate around in version 1.16 =) Also whenever i try to make a change in the instruments it changes other things with it. like volume, envelopes etc. Just a bug i noticed. thought it might help. =) EDIT: well i just found out it doesn't export into SAP and stay in tune. oh well. =) Keep up the good work BRK. I know you'll get it there. PM me your email BRK and I'll send you a tune of mine that is suffering some bugs in your Rewrite of RMT. maybe it will help you troubleshoot.

Quote Emkay: Someone says " Hey look, I have put in all the screws" Answering " Next time using a Screwdriver is better than using a Hammer"... Is this criticizing? And, I never critiziced your music. I only ask you to do the music in the correct (best possible) sounding style that is needed for it. Yes it is criticizing. you are claiming that i didn't do the job in the best possible way. but this isn't about what is best. it's about style. my style is different than yours. even if I do a song in hard synth mode it still will not sound the same as one that you would do. if I do a song in a certain way, be it using hardsynth or not, be it using arpeggios or not, or even if i use vibratos or not, it is still my Style. There is no right or wrong. Sometimes I ask myself, whether this is an A8 phenomenon.... , because many people had the same reaction like you. If you've had this reaction before then maybe that should be a hint and you should consider that way your are approaching people about this.

Alright folks, Made a major change to cybernoid and uploaded the final version of the Toobin' Title Screen music. It's on the site now. Check them out. =)

QUOTE EMKAY: There is still one thing, I cannot understand. Let's think about a piano. A child that never has hit a piano before , just puts one key and the played note is correct. The child doesn't know that the note is played correctly. It plays the note correctly, because someone tuned all notes in. Having a look at your Toobin tune at 64kHz, you already take usage of some arpeggio, to have the correct note. No Emkay, I did not use arpeggio for note correction. I used it for style. it's in tune with or without it. When I'm making such tunes, I lose focus on the notes. So it is not possible for me, to find the correct pitch values on POKEY. I think, Raster himself would do "Hardsynth" Enhancements, if some musician makes a very good example of what is possible. Only "musicians" that don't lose focus on the notes, can build the needed octaves by multiple instruments. Having a listen to the appended tune, it sound a bit like NES now... perhaps some notes are not correct OK. several features are still missing, but the main voice(s) takes a benefit by using 2 channels here. Well, Bottom line here is that i shouldn't have to make 3 or 4 different instruments to keep the damn thing in key. Raster doesn't need peoples help with it. if he wanted to he would work on correcting the problem with the tables. in fact for all we know he could be working on it now. Hardsynth is not a viable option right now using RMT. and you know what emkay, YOU are the only one criticizing me and my music. so why don't you lay off dude. I'm proud of my work. I've been a musician for over 20 years. So I don't think I'm doing that bad of a job. I haven't criticized you. so why don't you find someone else to nitpick at.

that would be cool...but don't expect Raster to make any big changes in RMT engine but, fortunately Raster is not the only living person that can code a tracker (no offense: thumbsup to Raster, as RMT is already a very useful tool, and if there would ever be written a 'hardsynth' tracker, it should be an extension on RMT) Yeah that would be cool. I remember when Chaos Music tracker (was it chaos?) came out. I thought it was cool. but it was hard to use since it was all in German. i couldn't read any of the menu options. and in the US it jumps too much because of the PAL/NTSC difference.

Emkay, in the 'cars' tune it worked out right this way, but....in this tune, the gen.2 voice (on 1.79mhz) you are using is still out of tune sometimes. in fact it should really have a pitchcorrection of $FD instead of $FE. In $FD it is a perfect notation, but then it is not compatible with the other voices (on 15khz) anymore; in technical terms: then it is transposed a fractional note (something smaller than 1/2 note) w.r.t. the rest of the voices. That's why you must use $FE to 'tune' 1.79mhz with other voices. What really is needed is a new pitchtable for 1.79mhz mode gen.2, but as long as RMT doesn't support user defined pitchtables, this type of music still isn't suitable ...so, same old story... we shouldn't bother anymore trying this style with RMT as long as there is no 'hardsynth'-tracker, this is useless. I have to agree with you BRK. The Hardsynth system in RMT is just not accurate enough. it almost always sounds sour. I have changed the toobin title song and lowered the bass tones. i made it sound a bit smoother i think. I'll be willing to try hardsynth again sometime when RMT supports it better. goto my site for the new toobin title song with a better bassline

Tweaked the main melody in Cybernoid. I think it sounds better now. Also a new song! Toobin's title screen music. Let me know what you all think. BTW: don't forget to hit refresh on your browsers. otherwise you might not see the updates! http://webpages.charter.net/windwar/ Quote samurai: Now it's my turn. I like that Trans Atlantic tune a lot. Good job. Thanks For The Complement Samurai Glad You liked it. =)