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In the short melody I've posted below, if you just play the 2nd frame, the notes (Bs) are separated nicely and how I want them to be. However, if you play the 1st frame then listen as it leads into the 2nd, the notes are barely separated at all and sound like one held out note. I'm using the same instrument for this whole thing, so can someone please point out what's going on here? It's getting annoying and stopping me from completing my next cover.
I'm assuming that:
The F-C6 command gives you a tempo of 198, but this tempo makes the length of each row inconsistent.
A tempo of 198 in a 60Hz, speed 3 module means 2.2727(or more accurately 25/11) frames for each row. Thus, two rows = 4.55 frames, meaning it can be either 4 or 5 frames. If the two rows happen to be 4 frames, the release part is voided. If the two rows happen to be 5 frames, the notes are separated.
(Note: Said 'frame' is not the 'frame' in the song settings in FT. 'Frame' = the NMI triggering rate, and in this case it's 1/60s)
As an alternative, sometimes you can add a 0 to the start of your volume envelope (instead of the end), so the note [i]starts[/i] with a volume cut. Of course, this effectively delays the sound of the note by one engine cycle, but depending on what else you have to fill in that gap you may or not even notice the difference.
See test file for an example -- the tempo is 140 (at 60Hz, ~6.43 engine cycles per row), so in the first pattern, 43% of the notes are cut properly while the other 57% blur together. The second pattern repeats the same notes but with a different volume curve, and every note is now distinct.
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