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bought one of the bleep bloop carts. broken after two days.

maybe its the dramatic storyline of chip-betrayal that gets people interested in gameboys or whatever.

This video has a hilarious vibe

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oEzBsa-PY_M

Hi Bacon, sorry for my long rant above...its only because i loved the milkytracker for a long time in the past. But yeah, i would switch to sunvox now if i was you...its basically the same stuff as milkytracker , just WAY more advanced...because in sunvox you are tracking with a modular synth whereas in milkytracker you only have samples to work with...

As for changing pulsewidth of a square wave,  it shouldnt really be possible in milkytracker. The way I mentioned above is just a workaround...but it should not change the pitch of the sample, only the timbre. in the sample editor hit menu - new - length in samples = 128 or 256...then generate waveform...highlight all..loop highlighted s3ction...root note = C4..you can then go and draw directly into the waveform to make different timbres. use the envelope section to create ADSR, or looping LFO style envelope as mentioned above.

its a good idea to read the pattern effect commands many times so you remember or just print them out and keep by your PDA / laptop while your tracking.

http://milkytracker.org/docs/MilkyTracker.html#effects

here are some single cycle waveforms (they are tuned to D octave two, plus two cents. You will have to retune them to C yourself).

http://www.adventurekid.se/akrt/wavefor … waveforms/

or you could just set the root note to D2 in each instrument, then use use finetune to tune down by 2 cents ( 1 cent is 1% of one semitone).

maybe this will be useful too:

http://milkytracker.org/docs/Vhiiula-Te … ipping.txt

greetings from london. Happy tracking!

They are very high quality effects when sold as one box per effect...but multieffects pedals are pretty sweet too...Im quite fond of my zoom G2.1, only difference is you would use your foot instead of twisting knobs...and the effects would be slightly, almost imperceptably, less high quality.

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!!!!

I really hope Marc Nostromo continues development of LGPT after he is finished with his midi monotron project (which would be an awesome cheap, lofi type of hardware to be controlled by piggy).

I would pay £20 for an updated android or iphone version. With all those new bluetooth control pads coming out, all that processing power, as well as midi connectivity solutions, high sound quality and rendering options it would be amazing...and getting money on the appstore and playstore for the software would provide a good incentive to continue development....could then sell the midi monotron on the side as part of the piggy "ecosystem".

can you imagine?

a mixer screen, a graphical sample editor, custom waveforms, native oscillators / synthesis, "save as", render to .wav, more effects colums, more instruments and tables, midi IO, some kind of envelopes and LFOs for automation (in addition to the tables), multisampled instruments with effects envelopes per sample, layering multiple samples per keyboard key, master channel effects...and all with the beautifully comfortable portable stable two handed gamepad style control system...as a portable synth sequencer with excellent sample mangling options it would become one of the most interesting apps out there. Surely would make a nice profit. kickstarter!!!

The way I see it, LGPT has one of the best, most refreshing and convenient software designs out there The form factor of PSP (or gamepad style controls in general) makes the software truly portable...by which I mean you dont get uncomfortable when using it for long periods of time without a table, that is, you could be in the nature reserve or park, sit on a bench in the summer, dont need a table or a picnic bench...dont have to hold up the phone or tablet with one hand whilst editing with the other...its just generally more comfortable than touchscreen only.

For all of the reasons stated above I really think if Marc Nostromo put together a presentation about LGPT and approached say, Roland, Zoom, Boss, Korg, Sony (vita) etc. piggy could get funded and even have hardware designed around it.

I mean look at the stupid "new" groovebox designs that are coming out recently...the casio "millenium falcon" design, the zoom "donut" groovebox...that shit is stupid. LGPT is lightyears ahead in terms of design and portability...just need to move out of the "ghetto" a little. For example not having to label each song with lgpt_ at the start, moving the GUI options and button mapping out of config.xml and into the software itself (options menu) . Seems like those big synth manufacturers still dont understand how to make a good portable battery powered music composition system....The only things that had a worthwhile structure (in terms of portability) were the yamaha handheld workstations (qy100 etc.), but those sounded like general midi ...not much sound design options...An updated version of LGPT for ios / android or an LGPT based dedicated portable handheld hardware system would be far better than any of those devices.

Also if Oliver Wittchow upgraded nanoloop android and ios to be more like the gameboy versions...more patterns per channel (256), new mixer screen etc...to be honest the reason i was drawn to chipmusic style software in the beginning (before sunvox came out) was because LSDJ, nanoloop, milkytracker (on PDA with D-pad and stylus) and LGPT were simply the best portable synth / SCWF(sampler) sequencers availiable (also because I started out on impulse tracker back in the day)..

I suppose neither could be called truechip or whatever but, personally, as long as it sounds interesting I dont care, the convenience would outweigh the chippiness for me.

LittleGameParkTracker!!!