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pm me yr email, i can send you a zip full of instruments (mostly kicks n snrs) and songs that you can use as templates/steal

i still find drums to be the most annoying thing on C64

the speed table is for setting grooves and the speeds of vibratos and slides and pitch bends - just set some bends or vibratos on your track effects, bung some random notes in, to go to the speedtable and bung random numbers in and observe the effects. unlike the other tables you can only have one line in in your speed tables.

also if you have jumps/loops on your instrument tables, pitchbends wont work

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explain that quite well

Just like most PSG chips the key to getting any interesting sounds is with the use of tables. Goattracker is a pretty basic wrapper for the playback routine and therefore the way that tables work might be a bit awkward for a musician to get used to.

There are four types of table in goattracker, most function sort of like an assembly routine - the speed table is a little different - but each is designed for a different purpose, to keep the interface a little cleaner. Each of the four tables will just be a long string of operators and arguments - commands and values for those commands to use - and your instruments will contain parameters to jump to these routines that you create. If you think of these tables as little programs that you write to alter values of the SID register you wouldn't be wrong.

To make it easy on yourself, you might want to keep track of the various things you've put into your tables and their beginning address. For example, if you create a wavetable for a bass drum you can make a note somewhere that it starts at 0E, and that there's a that wavetable at 1F is a pulse instrument, etc. Of course, you'll do the same for each table. Perhaps you have a fast pwm at pulsetable 03 and a slow one at 2A, etc.

If you'd like it might even help to write down the entire contents of your tables. Of course you can always save your sounds and import them into new songs but then you're likely to forget how you created a particular sound and you may fall into the trap of using them like presets. Moreover, typing them in each time will help refresh your memory about how a sound is actually made and invite you more to tweak values to suit your need.