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2002-05-26 16:29
Optic
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Best music composer/editor

I've decided after all these years to start making some sidmusic, so the question is:

What do you consider to be the best composing/editing program for making sum choons at the moment?
 
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2004-08-19 22:09
Hein

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I tried wah wah for a sort of Bruce Lee kinda tune, since I had not heard that before aswell. It's not too difficult. Noise vibrato sounds interesting.
2004-08-19 23:54
SIDWAVE
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Choose a player that is made or updated within the last 4 years, and learn to use it.

I'm a fan of SDI myself, because it's easy to use and can do multispeed and has tracker.

I used JCH too, but i was blindfolded when doing sounds, and the packers i tried made bugs in my tunes.

If you can get what you want from one tool, use it! the more you use an editor, the better you get to tweak the features of it.

I think, the best players, must be JCH, Jeff, SDI, DMC.

Tinnitus has made some astonishing tunes, and the Asterion Tracker is a great piece of work.

But I think JCH/SDI is easier and can do the same.

Nomatter what, you will try something else when you hit a 'wall' in the editor you use.

Try all, and find your own preference.

Or just try and use soundmonitor, like I used to.. :-)

You can easily make something, but sound-capabilities are low.

2004-10-02 21:49
korshun
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yep, and soundmon routines used to need minimal rastertime
2004-10-02 23:59
Graham
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and sound monitor songs always sound jerky because there's a lot of jitter in the sid register writes (due to the huge rastertime the tunes take).
2004-10-03 09:07
Soren

Registered: Dec 2001
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Stoff: Actually you don't need too many fancy things... just use the regular things in special ways. :-)

A simple example of a quite fast player, nothing special, but has a bit of more "intelligent" filter+resonance control.

http://www.6581.dk/camelot/x-large5.d64

made 2 versions as I wanted to try to cut down the rastertime a bit more.
2004-10-04 07:02
cadaver

Registered: Feb 2002
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Any idea when that link is going up? :)

Argh, the S/M torture of being told of a fast musicroutine but being unable to check the code :(

EDIT: Aha, checking now..
2006-01-05 15:47
THE TEA DRINKER

Registered: Jul 2005
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hi Optic.

There is many tracker/editors for C64, more you try is proberly best to find what you preffered. There is proberly advanges and disadvanges in all of them in someway.
Someone will say it's weak because of there is limited with commands/features use another one and others because they use alot of rastertime used another, in general I think more you try is better, but if you want some advice.

I would go after some of these: JCH, Future Composer, Soundmonitor or simular like Rockmonitor/Drummaker/Noisetracker, Soundtracker 64/Cybertracker it's just a few names Odintracker maybe try different versions of these, good luck have fun hope your find your tool to create music, and maybe you should also think of why create music on C64 or SID and what should it be used for.
But I hope to hear some tunes from you ;)
2006-01-06 16:23
SIDWAVE
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Quote: I've decided after all these years to start making some sidmusic, so the question is:

What do you consider to be the best composing/editing program for making sum choons at the moment?


Optic, so have you found an editor you like, and started to make music ?
2006-01-06 18:24
Jazzcat

Registered: Feb 2002
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Some music tools here:

http://www.atlantis-prophecy.org/onslaught/php/c64misc.php
2006-01-16 09:01
Optic
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Tried out CyberTracker first, but came to conclusion that albeit it has a great set of options combined with a smashing interface, it's a bit cumbersome at the state it's in right now.. (updates coming in someday?) and still lacking a decent packer...
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