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So I having a wee bit of trouble finding out how to integrate half, quart, eight and sixteenth notes into FamiTracker.
So my question to you, is how do I factor in the proper note delays?
Or even better, if there is some sort of guide or tutorial to sheet music translation? (I am also having a wee bit of trouble finding out to make single notes, and not continuous note streams?)
RE: Quarts, Eights and so on?Posted: 2010-07-05 17:05 (Last Edited: 2010-07-05 17:07)
For eighths and sixteenths, just put it at speed 6 and whatever your tempo is. Every fourth line is a quarter note. If you need 32nds, set it to speed 3 and your tempo, and every eighth line is a quarter note.
To make a note stop playing, you put in a note cut. I don't know what the default key for this is, but I set it to ';' in the preferences window.
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xolroc; you don't need to keep changing the speed of the song to achieve the notes you need. It all depends on how you space each note.
For example, take a song with a speed of 6 & a tempo of 150.
Every 4 lines would denote a quarter note. This means your quarter note lasts 4 lines, your half notes last 8 lines, your dotted half notes last 12 lines & whole notes 16 lines. This would mean an eighth note lasts 2 lines & a sixteenth note lasts only 1 line.
Therefore, you don't need to constantly change the song's speed to achieve the notes you want. However, it still has a lot to do with speed & tempo; the key is to keep a good amount of space between the note you want as your quarter notes.
To make single notes play as staccatos, you actually can do a number of things:
1. Use a note cut (you can define which keyboard key to use for note cuts when you go to File > Configuration).
2. You can use the volume column in the main tracker's window (this column is the column of single dashes immediately after that which your notes occupy). Example:
C-3 00 - ---
The dash after the C-3 00 note is the volume column; you can type a value from 0 (or no volume) to F (for maximum volume). So, for a staccato, you can do this:
[quote=TechEmporium]xolroc; you don't need to keep changing the speed of the song to achieve the notes you need. It all depends on how you space each note.[/quote]
I dunno if he edited his post since you posted or something, but what I see doesn't suggest that in the first place. ^^;
He basically said to change your entire track's speed of you want to achieve different note lengths...
"For eighths and sixteenths, just put it at speed 6 and whatever your tempo is. Every fourth line is a quarter note. If you need 32nds, set it to speed 3 and your tempo, and every eighth line is a quarter note."
By this logic, I assumed that xolroc was giving advice that would have a more global effect on the soundtrack than on individual notes (i.e.: you really don't need to set the entire track's speed to 3 if you want to achieve 32nd notes).
Which reminds me; another method would be to use arpeggios.
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Okay, so I have been trying to play this piece of sheet music for 3 days now, and whatever I do, the timing is always WAY off.
So would anyone be as kind as to translate the first few measures for me in famitracker, so I might get the slightest idea of what the hell I am doing?
[quote=TechEmporium]He basically said to change your entire track's speed of you want to achieve different note lengths...[/quote]
No, that's not what it's saying. It's saying that the definition of a "quarter note" changes depending on the speed setting, which it does. At speed 6, a quarter note is four rows; at speed 3, a quarter note is eight rows.
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