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Can someone please explain the functionality of the green numbers in the patternview (top left of the interface)?
The tutorial refers to them as the "channels of the famicom"...but doesn't "explain the use of this later on".
Sorry if this is a dumb question, i am new to trackers and have been composing on my Roland workstation until now.
Those numbers displays selected patterns for the channels, where a pattern is a full amount of rows for one channel.
As you can see, there are five channels in the main window and five pairs of zeroes in the small window when a new file is created.
You can select a specific pattern with the + and - buttons.
Changing one channel independently from the others are useful if you want to repeat the same pattern more than once in a song.
I suggest that you load one of the tracks from downloads to see how it works. You will see how numbers are connected to patterns in the main window.
It isn't possible to do that as NES sound isn't related to MIDI. A NSF player is the only way to play the music now, but you can use a NSF player to save the audio to WAV/MP3.
An option to export to WAV/MP3 might be supported in the future.
Edit: Even though you're swedish, I'm explaining in english to make it clear for everyone. Hope you get it.
I am not sure if this is of any help to the swedish guest, but if you need midis of existing nsfs, then what about nsf2midi? worked fine when I tried it last
http://nesdev.parodius.com/nsf2midi005aE.zip
why develop a program that can't turn the program-files to mp3?
I tried "nsf2midi" but the song gets a whole new sound. I could realy use some help.
Sorry my bad spelling.
Well, the "official" format for NES music is NSF, and that's also the kind of files I (and many others) want to use when we listen to NES music. Files are small and it's possible to play them on a NES. =)
If you need MP3, the best way is to use a winamp NSF input plugin and the disk writer output plugin.
MIDI is not a good idea since it cannot preserve the NES sound.
also, the the winamp disk writer output plugin will ''record'' the desired file in the specified folder under .wav file, which you can then open with Audacity and export as .mp3
works great and it's all free
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
