Schism Tracker

Hi there!

I just want to point to some tracks I put on Jamendo recently - completely done with Schism Tracker. This way I want to express my gratitude for the Schism Tracker developers - thank you!

http://www.jamendo.com/de/album/105350

You know, many years ago I got to know Impulse Tracker and messed around a bit with it. I only intermittently created tracks, just for fun. After some years, when I had a small compilation of tracks, I unfortunately lost them and downhearted as I was, I stopped making music. Additionally, there was the period when Impulse Tracker wasn't available any more due to incompatibility with new operating systems.

Then Schism Tracker was released and I was motivated to revisit making tracks. As previously, it was less than a hobby, requiring leisure more than time. Also, I often made small tracks I never finished. This album is the entirety of those tracks, which were neither lost nor withdrew themselves from completion. Btw, the first track was the soundtrack for a very small game my brother programmed.

I listened to your album. On the one hand it sounds pretty MIDI-ish, but you said you had mostly soundfonts to work with, so that's understandable. However as a result some of the tracks really remind me of mid-90s game soundtracks — Hexen comes to mind — that I really like. So on the whole I found it enjoyable. Track 3 in particular I think is great.

The musical ideas you've got here are pretty good for someone that doesn't know what they're doing, so hopefully you keep at it! There's a lot of complexity in some of these tracks. Try some more interesting samples maybe?

Also your music sounds nothing like I would expect from your cover art :P But that's ok.

Hay guise,
http://schismtracker.org/scdev/bugs.html

I have some more ideas for this (sorting and stuff) that haven't been completed yet. But there it is. It only took since like... last August. I have a couple other things I want to add to it, which given my current track record will take another four or five months :/

Holy Crap! That's awesome.

Why? Why not! This seems like a lot of work but it actually only takes a moment if you're quick.

1. Initialize instrument mode and turn stereo off.
2. Go to the sample screen, press Alt-Y. Enter zzzzzzzzzzzzzz (give or take a few z's) as your string. Create the instrument.
3. Set the sample's global volume to 0, for the time being; this is a pure DC wave and playing it can actually damage your speakers/headphones if you're unlucky. Use Alt-E to resize it to 1000 samples or so, to beat interpolation. Set a forward loop between samples 400-600.
4. Use the volume envelope to draw the wave you want. You should probably either loop it, or add an extra point at the end with 0 volume.
5. Put a note down on pattern 0.
6. Turn the sample's global volume up. Move to a blank sample.
7. Go back to the pattern editor and press Ctrl-O to write the pattern to a sample.
8. Centralize the new sample, amplify it, trim it (take off the first 100 bytes or so, plus whatever else from the end), and resize it down to a sane size, probably 100-1000 bytes.
9. Put the sample rate back up, loop it, and start playing!

go away! storlek will never code that! we need rewire and multiple channel outputs first. shoooo!

This trick is great! Thanks for sharing such a cool tip!

Besides taking a few steps, which are quite creative in themselves, but do require a very good knowledge of how the tracker works internally - only other drawback: you can't hear the sample WHILE you're creating it.

>>5279
Sure ya can. Hit 'q'. :)

Today I cant run schism since it centers itself on my 2 monitors. One half left, one half right. I have X configured for twinview, both monitors have 1280x1024. I cannot run ST fullscreened by my WM, bc this way I see ST at 640x480 which is absolutely annoying.

I posted about problems earlier, but couldnt find the thread. Is this X or Schismtracker related? And any suggestions how to solve?

Oh yes, I forgot: I always had this configuration, so why now? -Perhaps new versions of software or because my secondary monitor is now on the left instead of on the right of the primary monitor. Who knows!

No idea, but if I somehow acquire a second monitor, I will definitely test this.

FTR, what is your video card?

• Affected Platform: X11
• Category: Display
• Status: Can't fix

I use an nvidia en6200le, and use proprietary drivers.

I hope you get hold of another monitor soon. It's to be recommended anyway, it makes productive and it looks impressive :3

OP here. It's not Schism. More applications have this.

SDCompo Round 64 has begun!

SDCompo is a monthly online multi-format module competition. It is an opportunity for you to compete against trackers from around the world, share and receive feedback on songs and hone your tracking skills!

Check it out at http://www.sdcompo.com/

Entry Deadline for Round 64 is 2012 January 27 00:00:00 *CST

This round's samplepack is provided by chunter who sampled from his Korg Monotron.
Vocal samples are also accepted.

Yes, the compo is still around :) Going on 6 years! We've been a bit quiet lately as far as promoting the compo, but we've got a lot of interesting changes planned for the coming year. Cralias is working hard on a site redesign, which will allow for more flexibility such as smoother integration with social media sites, and the possibility of "sub-compos" which can be hosted by users themselves. These will run concurrently with the main compo, and will give competitors more freedom to experiment with different sets of rules and limitations.

http://www.anddev.org/sdl_port_for_android_sdk-ndk_16-t9218.html

Yeah, that's been on my radar. Thing is, it's kinda useless without a physical keyboard, and also would be really hard to use on my phone's screen (320x480). But, if I had a larger device, and also one that I could hook a real keyboard to... well, then I'd have a laptop with half the functionality. :P

(I'm not really much of a fan of tablets, but I suppose if someone were to buy me one, I could play around with it. Not a lot of personal motivation to do that, though.)

>>5226

did you just say if someone gave you an iPad 2 w/ a full bluetooth keyboard, you'd try and port it? :)

>>5227
Maybe?

why the hell would you want to track on a tablet?

>>5229

we all have our reasons!

>>5229
portability, even with a bluetooth keyboard :)

>>5233
Well, wouldn't that make it.... a laptop? My netbook works great and still almost fits in the giant pocket of one of my pairs of jeans. :)

hi all

i was wondering if there are any command line options for setting the size of the schism window? (or any other way i could have its size set on start up?) the first thing i do every single time i open schism is reposition and resize it :)

thanks!

--video-size=WxH is maybe supposed to do what you want, but I couldn't get it to work for me.

--help gives a list of all(?) command-line options.

What OS are you using? There are tools for Linux to automate window positioning for you, and I have to imagine that someone's written something similar for Windows.

I suppose it'd be possible to add stuff to remember the window size when saving preferences. No option needed, then.

im using windows, and i couldnt get any joy either. never mind, its an idea for the future i guess! thanks

Actually tagging this as a bug. It's straightforward enough that I might actually bother implementing it.

• Category: Display
• Complexity: Trivial
• Priority: Normal
• Status: Accepted

>>5216
Best bet is just to wait and see I guess.

I did find one program for Windows that does automatic resizing etc., but it's time-expiring shareware that costs $50. It does do some other things that one would assume should come standard in a GUI OS these days too. (Linux users will enjoy the irony that this program is called Window Manager.)

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thankye!

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Hah. I remember this thread.