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King Durin
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Registered: Oct 2007
Posts: 85 |
How to code triplet in trackers
I'm working from sheet music that has what my wife calls "triplets", which is essentially three quarter notes that play in 2 beats. Since 2 beats is four entries in the tracker, how do I play this? I'm currently using CyberTracker, but I'm willing to switch to another tracker if it makes life easier.
King Durin aka plbyrd
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JackAsser
Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 2038 |
Ohh, making house music are we? :) |
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King Durin
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Registered: Oct 2007
Posts: 85 |
Not original music. It's a cover of a popular TV Theme.
King Durin aka plbyrd
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Digger
Registered: Mar 2005
Posts: 447 |
Experiment with using note delay command for the 2nd note of the triplet (or for the 1st and 3rd) and offset it by half :) |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11510 |
common ways are:
- increase pattern speed so you actually get 3 ticks between quarter notes
- abuse the arpeggio tables
- "groove tempo" hacks
- individual note delay
i think they all suck, pissed me off like hell last time i tried to do a tune =) |
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Digger
Registered: Mar 2005
Posts: 447 |
DRAX uses them a lot, check the latest release of CheeseCutter 0.5.1 there's plenty of his uncompressed tunes you can load and reverse engineer :)
http://koti.kapsi.fi/~ttaipalus/ccutter/Worktunes_v3.zip |
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Conrad
Registered: Nov 2006
Posts: 856 |
I would do it via appreggio/wave table, with the note executed over two beats (rows)... only downside is that it would use more table memory if you're thinking of doing lots of triplets in one song. In goat-tracker format, just use command 8**, where ** is the wavetable position offset. This works well with single-speed tunes at least.
Or use a fast duration (bearing that duration is independent to one track) and insert a bunch of tie-notes after the first executed note. A bit tricky, but that would work.
I guess it all depends on what tempo you are basing it on as well. Fast-pased tunes may be more difficult, though that's what multi-speed is for. :) |
