Hi Andrew,
I never seen any manual, except Czech translation of original in some
old Czech disk magazine, I spent lot of time by finding out the things
by myself. The effects are as this:
0 and 7 do nothing
8 and 9 no idea
1 is frequency modulation
2 is hardware envelope
3 is speed
4 is volume
5 is noise modulation
6 is mute
Greets,
ellvis
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:07:13 -
Andrew Gillen a...@joua.net wrote:
Hi Ellvis,
Thanks for that explanation. Interesting thing is that speed command
wasn't being used at all. But it did have a bunch of 2Fs, and as
ridiculous as it undoubtedly is I changed them all to 30 and this
largely fixed it (although we think the tempo is still off in
places), so I went ahead and changed all those effects to 30, and it
improved the tempo still further. God knows what the other effect
numbers are supposed to do then. Are there any pdf'd etracker manuals
around?
Cheers
Andrew
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From: ellvis ell...@zeroteam.sk
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 8:38 PM
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Subject: Re: Introduction and E-Tracker Query
Hi Andrew,
I ment incorrect use of speed command in pattern. Let's say we have
this line in pattern editor:
000 C-5 5035
000 mean position in pattern, C-5 is tone and octave, 5035 is
sample, ornament, effect and value. Effect number 3 is speed.
Sometimes if you change speed of part of the song by a command and
then change it back, the compiler mess it up in final compiled
song. So, if you have a song source, just go through it and check
for use of command 3.
Of course, this is my shot, the problem can be completely different!
Hope this help!
ellvis
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 20:14:53 -
Andrew Gillen a...@joua.net wrote:
Hi Ellvis,
You may be on to something with the speed command, but I'm not sure
what you're precisely referring to! Changing the ornament values (I
think) seems to speed up the song in the editor, but in the
compiled result doesn't seem to do much. I think we're suffering
from a misunderstanding of how to use the software, but without a
manual it might be hard to overcome. (I say we, I'm not
programming the music, a friend of mine is, I'm musically inept!)
Cheers anyway!
Andrew.
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From: ellvis ell...@zeroteam.sk
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 9:07 PM
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Subject: Re: Introduction and E-Tracker Query
Hi Andrew,
a very fast thinking from me: check the song source in the
tracker for speed command. Sometimes it go compiled wrong or
differently then it should and song play strange after
compilation. This is happening not only on E-Tracker but also on
SQ-Tracker on the Spectrum.
Hope this is of any help.
ellvis
On Fri, 4 Mar 2011 19:04:47 -
Andrew Gillen a...@joua.net wrote:
Hi all,
I just subbed today but have been periodically delving into the
archives of this mailing list for the past six months or so when
looking for tips and ticks for programming my SAM. I've had the
machine for about ten years or so having snapped a mint unit off
ebay, but it's taken this long to have a real play with it
beyond firing up Manic Miner! right now I'm in the process of
programming a platform game for the SAM which has been coming
along quite nicely since September of last year when on the
flight home from my honeymoon in the States I decided to have a
crack at it - some of you may have seen a couple of posts from
me to the WOS forum which got me off to a good start but I
thought this might be a better place to come for advice?
Anyway, I have one question right now regarding the E-Tracker
compiler - took me some time to track down a copy from the web -
but it seems to seriously reduce the speed at which a module is
playing. Is this by design, or could there be some piece of
magic I am missing? I snagged it off the Velesoft web page
(http://velesoft.speccy.cz/saa1099-cz.htm). I assumed it was my
code that might be at fault, but the module when played in the
windows SAA application sounds just as slow as it does when
played from interrupt in my program. The pre-compiled module
plays at the correct speed inside the main e-tracker.
I intend to take a look at pro-tracker because I believe this
offers efficiency advantages, but in the meantime I was hoping
to use e-tracker so any advice would be gratefully appreciated.
Cheers!
Andrew
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ellvis/ZeroTeam
ell...@zeroteam.sk
http://zeroteam.sk
ZX Spectrum support since 1996
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ellvis/ZeroTeam
ell...@zeroteam.sk
http://zeroteam.sk
ZX Spectrum support since 1996
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ellvis/ZeroTeam
ell...@zeroteam.sk
http://zeroteam.sk
ZX Spectrum support since 1996
