recording levels on your pc. recording levels on your gameboy. lead from gameboy isn't going into microphone socket. (you want line-in though tbh most laptops these days share that with microphone)
Set the DMG to about 2/3rds volume and your PC recording level to 50%. Record in Audacity, the signal won't be hugely loud but it won't peak or distort. Then use the Normalize feature to boost it to a greater level. (don't do normalize over and over again and don't use amplify or whatever the equiv. is)
But tbh if your original signal is bad even the best clean-up software isn't going to fix it.
right on, thanks for the protip. the original article was just a random brain itch that i wanted to scratch, there wasn't really any reason other than that.
is there a difference in doing the two-channel method, sonically? or is this is the only way to achieve that kind of PWM effect in trackers other than PT 2.x? ( i take it also that the two-channel method requires the channel to be in the same place in the stereo spectrum in order for the PWM effect to happen.)
anyway; added to cart
The two-channel method has smoother sweeps and you have more control over the speed of the PWM without having to type in a line of instrument numbers. (for example putting X11 on one note then X14 on another gives very different sweep speeds) It works great for saw waves but you mostly only get phasing with other waveforms. I haven't tried it with pure hardware channels but with software mixing you can put both channels anywhere in the stereo position. (I can't vouch for surround or above, you might get some weirdness there)
super solid release! when the single-channel staccato volumeslided chords came in during "Broken Song" i woke up in 1992 and decided to live there for three years.
oh hey i wanted to ask, i think i remember you writing an article/blog a few years back about emulating PWM pulse waves in protracker, but i can't for the life of me locate it. is my memory faulty or did you in fact write it and then delete it later on or something?
Thanks, yes I deleted that blog a while back.
Following on from iLKke's post, another way of doing it (which I used on Sable) involves two channels. Firstly make two identical saw wave instruments and reverse the sample in one of them. Then set the finetune on that reversed instrument to a small value (-8 or +8 in an XM tracker, or use the E1x command in PT) Now if you play the same notes on both channels you'll get a PWM pulse wave sound. If you're using Milky/FastTracker the X command (ultra fine-pitch) is preferable, can get some nice variations out of that.
1. Twenty Two 03:05 (xm) 2. The Porcupine Paradox 02:01 (xm) 3. A Broken Song 03:06 (mod) 4. Guru 02:53 (xm) 5. River Patrol 01:19 (xm) 6. Sable 03:10 (xm)
if you're just using it for chip/tracker music (and maybe an input from a mixer) something like the Behringer U-Control series would probably do. (I got a UCA202 to use with the netbook at Blip2011, thanks Akira for the recommendation) USB, RCA jacks in/out, headphone socket, works fine with ASIO4ALL too if you need small latency in a DAW.
if you're just using it for chip/tracker music (and maybe an input from a mixer) something like the Behringer U-Control series would probably do. (I got a UCA202 to use with the netbook at Blip2011, thanks Akira for the recommendation) USB, RCA jacks in/out, headphone socket, works fine with ASIO4ALL too if you need small latency in a DAW.
