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What happened to this FM Composer's website? I occasionally looked at this tracker because i want to go deeper into FM synthesis-tracker, and this tracker looks very good, i downloaded latest update probably a year ago, but there is no manual and i wanted to know info about multitimbrality (how many simultaneous instruments can be used in that 24-voice polyphony) so yesterday i tried to visit fmcomposer.org for more info and website is empty

If i want to be more exactly, i am pretty impressed by Jesper Kyd's Batman&Robin Sega chiptunes so i also want to experiment with fm synthesis in more that way than with classic fm sounds, so i am slowly preparing to give maybe one month to this tracker instead of defMON. If is this tracker abandoned, nevermind, i will try to discover its limits by myself

If you know basics of trackers, you will understand LSDJ very quickly, because it is very well designed. It also have help section right in the app which you can read and understand in no time, maybe only commands section needs to be visited more if you dont use them very often.

Aside of this, there is hundreds of chiptune trackers to choice from, so it is hard to tell what you can use, but in Germany was also pretty big Commodore scene, so why not to download free Vice C64 emulator and some trackers like defMON, later when you make some cash you can also buy real Nintendo Gameboy/Commodore 64, i can guarantee you will enjoy it a lot more than emulators.

I don't expect to have export to .sid here, because it have 4th channel and some non-standard things like combining of any waveforms. I very like that you can play tune and on 4th channel if you dont use it for pattern, then you can live jam on it, but latency is here hearable. Perhaps that 4th channel could be probably used to copy with some latency main lead channel (echo/delay), this could be really cool, also in Hively Tracker tunes often uses 4th channel for echo, but patterns must be manually copied to next (with some lines inserted before start of melody).

There is also some non-standard things like patterns are for example from 00 to 0K (which is some more than 0F in hexa), at the beginning you see instruments/effects from A to L and there is no arrows to add next, but if you click at Instr. (up) it shows you entire table from A-Z, @, 0-9, ... so there is a lot of space.

But as i said earlier, it is very good tracker for Android smartphone, i like it!

I varied a lot of things based on main theme and a lot of patterns was added due to transposition, because there is no live transpose of pattern like in other editors, but i never finish another that complex tune in defMON because it is really better on live programming and unusual things. It is my first defMON tune and i started it like standard chiptune. I smiled almost to death yesterday when i added 7F, 80, 81.... patterns during playback and whoaaa... what is going on??? In manual i didn't noticed max number of patterns so i expected to have it FE, because FF is always sign of end of tune, then i visited Chordians comparision of C64 music editors http://chordian.net/c64editors.htm and i see that defMON have 128 patterns which is in hexadecimal that #80 (respectively #7F because first is #00).

Tune is standard default speed 125 bpm because i have to synchronize it with another half of song in Sidtracker 64 on iPad, which was made earlier.

I also realized that i very like on Gameboy in LSDJ concept with song/chain with transpose/block, because i don't need to remember all those patterns when arranging main song. It could be hell if i change major things and move patterns. But of course pattern per channel is more memory-savvy, which is crucial mainly on 8-bit computers.

I am occasionaly playing great SNES game Secret of Mana (i also have it on iPad but i dont like blured non-sharp pixels due to resampling/resize) and its soundtrack is one of the best soundtracks i have ever heard, so yesterday i searched all available SNES trackers, but none of them support *.spc import, but i have found spc2it converter, so i converted some of Secret of Mana OST tunes and it sounds to my ears almost same as original, it is basically 8-channel PCM sample playback, but SNES have some sort of surround and in modplug tracker is channels doubled to 16 and speed is very quick. But i am glad that i can see how was tracks written.

This tracker looks good, i looked yesterday mainly to instrument section which i quickly understood, i also knew that SNES can play Game boy games with Super Game Boy, but as i see now this is complete DMG-01 on this adapter, so DMG-01's sound capabilities cannot be added.

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Amiga’s 8-bit (or 14-bit when channels are paired) soundchip Paula have Pulse Code Modulation principle so it is sample-based (none native waveforms), trackers with synthetic sounds use main CPU to calculate them, but of course you can use sampled waveforms and realtime commands including arpeggio so literally thousands of chiptunes was produced also on Amiga.