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Of course this is assuming you are using the US Standard keyboard layout. Other layouts tend to modify some of the key mappings, especially around the 3rd octave E-F-F#-G area, and you may need to assign those manually to overcome this slight issue.
And I use the ModPlug layout which differs even more.
Quite honestly if that layout wasn't in FamiTracker I couldn't work efficiently as I do since I've been working with that layout for the longest time I can remember.
Wait, can you customize the keyboard<->note mappings?
I thought the ModPlug/FT2/Impulse edit settings were just about how the cursor advances when you're typing. Don't they all have the same keyboard layout?
Edit: Ah, it IS different for Modplug. (It's been forever since I used that tracker, and when I did I probably had set it to IT style.)
[quote=kinkinkijkin]Delek, the FT top octave F is kinda messed off that chart...[/quote]
Thanks dude. What the fuck is an octavio, and note? Do you have to have piano experience to work this? I have never played music before, but I always loved chiptunes.
[quote=abc][quote=kinkinkijkin]Delek, the FT top octave F is kinda messed off that chart...[/quote]
Thanks dude. What the fuck is an octavio, and note? Do you have to have piano experience to work this? I have never played music before, but I always loved chiptunes.[/quote]
You don't necessarily have to know how to play piano, or at least play it well, but some cursory understanding of the notes on the piano and basic music theory are pretty much essential if you're going to make music that other people might wanna listen to.
Spend a little time at http://www.musictheory.net - it will help you a whole lot. There's a lot to learn, but don't let that discourage you. Start with a few simple chords or scales, and learn what the notes are on the keyboard. The rest will come in time if you keep at it and don't give up.
[quote=mootbooxle][quote=abc][quote=kinkinkijkin]Delek, the FT top octave F is kinda messed off that chart...[/quote]
Thanks dude. What the fuck is an octavio, and note? Do you have to have piano experience to work this? I have never played music before, but I always loved chiptunes.[/quote]
You don't necessarily have to know how to play piano, or at least play it well, but some cursory understanding of the notes on the piano and basic music theory are pretty much essential if you're going to make music that other people might wanna listen to.
Spend a little time at http://www.musictheory.net - it will help you a whole lot. There's a lot to learn, but don't let that discourage you. Start with a few simple chords or scales, and learn what the notes are on the keyboard. The rest will come in time if you keep at it and don't give up.
Good luck with everything! Have fun tracking!
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Thanks, dude! You guys are much more polite than the members on Hack Forums. I might get -3ed if I was to ask such a nooby question there.
[quote=mootbooxle][quote=abc][quote=kinkinkijkin]Delek, the FT top octave F is kinda messed off that chart...[/quote]
Thanks dude. What the fuck is an octavio, and note? Do you have to have piano experience to work this? I have never played music before, but I always loved chiptunes.[/quote]
You don't necessarily have to know how to play piano, or at least play it well, but some cursory understanding of the notes on the piano and basic music theory are pretty much essential if you're going to make music that other people might wanna listen to.
Spend a little time at http://www.musictheory.net - it will help you a whole lot. There's a lot to learn, but don't let that discourage you. Start with a few simple chords or scales, and learn what the notes are on the keyboard. The rest will come in time if you keep at it and don't give up.
Good luck with everything! Have fun tracking!
<MOOT>[/quote]
Thanks, dude! You guys are much more polite than the members on Hack Forums. I might get -3ed if I was to ask such a nooby question there.
No problem man. It pisses me off when people are rude to n00bs because we were ALL there at some point. You have to start somewhere!
I'm still a relative n00b when it comes to trackers but I've been playing music for 25 years. I didn't sit down and start playing a note-for-note cover of the SMB theme! I had to learn all the boring basics of music first. People tend to forget that when they troll n00bs.
Now, having said all that, I'm not gonna lie to you and say it will be easy. like, AT ALL. Learning music requires a lot of time and dedication. You will get frustrated a lot. The point is just to never give up!
@kinkinkijkin Strictly speaking, your answer is only half-complete. In fact, a note is a far more generic concept than just that, although explaning everything would take wayyyyyy too much time. I'd definitely advise abc to look at that music theory website a look. For now though, here's a very very quick crash course:
Basically, a "note" is defined as any pitched noise whose pitch is given a specific name. In the modern occidental scale, there are 12 'notes', separated in intervals of what is called a 'semitone' (two semitones = 1 tone), all of which bear at least two different names. In the context of a tracker, though, each only has one name, and they are: A-A#-B-C-C#-D-D#-E-F-F#-G-G#. After G#, it starts back at A.
The 'octave' comprises those 12 notes, or semitones; but traditionally, octave numbers change every time a new C note is reached (not A!). The G major scale, for instance, if you started it on octave 1, would go as follows: G1-A1-B1-[b]C2[/b]-D2-E2-F#2-G2. Note how the switch happens on C. So basically, an octave is the interval between one note and the next (higher) identical note on the scale, which is 12 semitones higher exactly.
Other intervals exist as well: unison (no interval at all), second (interval of 2 notes), third (3 notes), fourth (4 notes), fifth (5), sixth (6) and seventh (7), all of which - bar unison, fifth and octave - can be either major or minor. But that's getting technical.
So yeah, definitely give music theory a go, it's a must is you're going to compose music starting from nothing at all. Wish you good luck with that!
Also, unrelated, you may want to watch for a sudden flood of new members that already know me... forewarning, it'll probably happen, with what I just did.
