in milkytracker, dont forget you have the generate waveform option in the sample editor...you can then use draw to roughen or smooth the waveforms a bit...or use draw to create "noiseish spikes" in your generated SCWF (single cycle waveform), then use the smooth option in the sample editors dropdown menu to round them off.
Also, in terms of ARP commands the following may be of use to you:
0, 3, 7 - minor
0, 3, 7, 10 - minor 7
0, 3, 6 - diminished
0, 4, 7 - Major
0, 4, 7, 9 - 6th
0, 4, 7, 10 - 7th
0, 4, 7, 11 - Major 7
0, 5, 7 - sus4
Also,
0, 4, 8 - augmented
0, 4, 8, 10 - 7#5
0, 4, 6, 10 - 7b5
0, 4, 7, 9, 14 - 6add9
In milkytracker you only have 3 notes per arp command while some of the chord structures above have 4 or even five notes, so say you wanted to use a 6add9 chord you might start with 047, then on the following lines do 049, then 0,4,14 and so on...in hexadecimal (the way i wrote the chords above is just, number of half steps / semitones up from the base note)
As for milktrackers envelope section, its basically a crude custom LFO for amplitude and panning...just remember that milkytracker is set to 6 ticks per line by default so dont make the mistake of spacing your envelope points in multiples of 4 ticks only (use multiples of 3, 6, 12 or 24 instead for straight beats, multiples of 4, 8, 16, 32 gives you triplets). You can build up interesting rythms by using the envelope section as an Lfo..you might have the same waveform over many instruments in which the envelopes are different looping lengths...all together they make one awesome instrument...(use them all in one track / channel) ....much rythmic possibilities...zoom in fully in the envelope editor to see tick by tick.
Also, resampling is possible in milky by rendering some double / quadruple speed sequence or single pattern with (muchos high speed arps and stuff) to wav...then looping what you have in the sample editor to make a more complicated instrument / interesting sounding when transposed 2 octaves down / up....
Milkytracker is actually frickin awesome, but I switched to Sunvox now because it does everything that milkytracker can and much more.
Also, just straight up use draw to draw your own waveforms for interesting textures when layered ontop of the standard generated waveforms...make sure the drawn waveforms are the right length in samples (usually 128).
Use high BPM, If I remember correctly, when I was using milky I used to always write in double BPM (so if the song should be 140BPM I would use 280, or 560) for faster, more impressive sounding, LGPT table - like arps and glitchish sequences.
Use the vibrato, slide to note, slide up and slide down pattern effect commands.
For longer samples, use the sample offset command to jump to different regions of the sample. Maybe you have a long tone with a filter sweep down...using offset you can use all the cutoff levels from the different regions of that filter sweep....kind of a crude grain time stretch for vocal samples as well.
Damn, you made me want to break out my old HpiPAQ again now...but there is no point because sunvox does all that ish anyways. But I'm still convinced that milkytracker has its own unique character to the (very digital, aliasing and stuff) sound...also you can choose what bit depth you render out into....changes the character of the sound....
Line out from milkytracker into korg mini kaosspad2 = good times
One of the best portable, battery operated sampler sequencers out there IMHO (not forgetting LGPT and SUNVOX of course). Sunvox has synthesis as well as sampling while LGPT is like a L33T version of milkytracker with all its fancy schmancy table structures, plus it also has filter cutoff and resonance commands among other things, it can also scan a small looping section across a longer sample for morphing waveform sound (like the monowave compo).
Milkytracker has no filters, no reverbs, no echo / delay....but you could always sample a tone at 4 different filter cutoff levels then make 4 versions of the instrument and switch instruments to change the level of filter cutoff....or use old skool tracker tricks to create pseudo delay / echo....use external effects box ( kaoss pad mini is pretty sweet, portable, battery powered)....the sky is the limit...its better equipment than herbie hancock had anyway....better than fairlight sampler sequencer.
You could achieve the 12.5%, 25% and 50% pulse widths on your generated sqaure waves by choosing number of cycles to generate = 8, then using draw to flatten (all the way to the top or bottom) from the peak of the first cycle, the second cycle, the third cycle etc..gives you 12.5% divisions...then you flatten the rest out from where you want...infront and behing the "pulse". Its weird to explain, just try it...youll see....
As you use milkytracker you have an advantage over LSDJ, Pulsar, NTRQ, nanoloop (gameboy cartridge versions) users because it works in true BPM instead of framerate based speed...whatever you render out from milkytracker will line up easily in any DAW without using rubberband warping or something similar. LGPT and SUNVOX also have this advantage...Of those three, milkytracker, LGPT and SUNVOX...sunvox is the most advanced, most mature software (Its a modular synth and tracker style sequencer, with a very unique and versatile song timeline arranger), however LGPT's tables are really, really cool.
One more thing, use the delay command (delay the note event by number of ticks) to emulate strumming and flams...works nice on chords, one note event with a delay command per track...to build up the strummed chords ish..
Milkytracker!!!!
Last edited by JaffaCakeMexica (Apr 5, 2016 6:23 pm)
The IMac I'm using at work you can't hear the bass on at all....