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=== Instruments and Tone === First off, download **[Vortex Tracker II[/disk/icons/outbound.png] http://bulba.untergrund.net/vortex_e.htm]** or, to be more specific, its enhanced version called **[Vortex Tracker II Improved[/disk/icons/outbound.png] http://https//dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/95941449/Spek/VT_1.2RCD.rar]** which is gonna make your life easier here just a bit. Either way, the tutorial covers both, with slight side-trips to the Improved version. VTII affords three types of sounds to ya, all of which can be combined with each other: tone, envelope and noise. The former can have different notes on all three channels, but the two latter can't. Now, VTII's interface might be a bit tangled for you, but it might be somewhat cleaner once you squeeze off your first note. You will need to refer to the "Samples" tab in that case - that is instrument editor for you. Change the first instrument from this: ``` //00 [ tne +000_ +00(00)_ 0_// ... to this: ``` //00 [ Tne +000_ +00(00)_ F_ ***************// Don't forget to use spacebar to make the "T" in here capital or vice versa! So we've defined that we're gonna use tone and bring it on maximum volume. As you're done with this, return to the pattern editor, and place try to place a couple or two of notes this way: ``` 00 | C-3 1..F .... 01 | --- .... .... 02 | C#3 1... .... 03 | --- .... .... 04 | D-3 1..D .... 05 | --- .... .... 06 | R-- .... .... ``` There you go! The "F" and "D" placed in this pattern will change the channel's volume, while "1" stands for the instrument that will be played on it. "R--" is, obviously enough, the rest note. By default pressing the A key will put a rest. Now, you've really gotta get back to our instrument editor - just to make a small modification of your new sample. By playing around with Length and Loop values as well as, again, the spacebar, try to make the following instrument: ``` 00 | TNe +000_ +00(00) F_ *************** 01 | TNe +000_ +00(00) E_ ************** 02 [ Tne +000_ +00(00) E- ************** **< place loop here** ``` Notice that after the volumes F or E there's either an underscore or a hyphen; they're different! Replay the pattern and see how the sounding has changed! For the curious, we've got a blend of tone and noise in the sample's first two frames - which means they will play simultaneously. In the last frame (the one that loops), the volume will automatically decrease. The opposite of this thing is, obviously, "+". Now, you might wonder what all those zeros in the above example mean. Generally speaking, the first three are for the tone pitch setting (pretty useful for vibrato), the rest are for noise duty. Still didn't get it? We-e-e-ell... Create the instrument number two! ``` 00 [ Tne +002_ +00(00)_ F_ *************** **< place loop here** 01 [ Tne -002_ +00(00)_ F_ ************** 02 [ Tne +002_ +00(00)_ F_ ************** 03 [ Tne -002_ +00(00)_ F_ ************** ``` Now that's quite a wavey vibrato you've got there! The blank space to the right of +002 and -002 means that we're shiftin' pitch from the note we've typed. If you "capitalize" it, it will turn into a **^** symbol, and the pitch shifts will then "pile up", i. e. based on the note which resulted **after** the said shift. In other words, take a look at this slide sample: ``` 00 [ Tne -001^ +00(00)_ F_ *************** So it will do a portamento all the way down to the beginning of the note range (and loop from its' very end - so you might want to cut this note before that occurs). Same works for noise, but that's for a later time.
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