The fact that you're making an almost entirely sample based song on it is way past the intended purpose.
]]>Other than embracing the noise, try EQing the sample in various ways before loading it in. I find cutting some of the lows and highs to help a bit. Then when you master the track, play around with EQing. I use a 32 band EQ and find I can cut down on the noise a bit that way as well. The longer a sample is, though, the more apparent the noise is, and sometimes there is just no getting around it.
]]>The lower sample quality gives it a lot more character in my opinion. The piano stuff in auxcide's track sounds mad cool!
Like in that track, I used k commands and e commands for a good delay feel. It helps to get rid of the more audible low quality static at an end of a sample.
]]>Which Game Boy are you using and which CPU number is it?
that would be the number visible on the PCB when you remove the battery cover, correct? i'm running a DMG, rev. 6, if that's the case.
]]>Yeah; sounds like fairly standard fare for sample noise. If you figure out an additional way to reduce noise let us know; I'd love to make a Mellotron Piano kit; but the noise has just been too strong so far.
I was surprised people liked my song Ellipse even though it used sample piano chords. I guess it turned out okay.
I recently did a song with heavy sampled stuff. I used guitar samples and some synths. I think it sounds much better on an sp. It doesn't have nearly as much static as your example.
Edit: yeah use k commands to clean it up. Especially drum stuff.
]]>Maybe try fixing it a little bit in post production? You could record the wav channel seperatley, try to EQ out some of the noise, then record the rest of the channels with the wav channel muted and line up the recordings.
]]>i honestly think it's not an issue with sample preparation - when you disable the sample altogether using O--, it still makes the noise. i suppose it'd have to be something hardware-related.
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