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Interesting approach, but: > The sample audio I chose is one of the best case signals for this kind of compression, a single gradually decaying piano note. An

• gcr 12y ago
  Tracker music works by having a small table of "samples" that are pitch-shifted and played on top of each other to make music. Each "sample" is a small unit of sound: a piano note, a symbol crash, a snare hit, a single guitar pluck, etc. In most tracker music files, most of the space is due to the compression of the raw sample waves; only a little space is used by the actual arrangement of the music notes themselves.
  • Argorak 12y ago
    For a good example of how the result sounds like, I recommend the UT soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MSFW8pZ-_4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MSFW8pZ-_4 It has a pretty distinct feel to it, IMHO.
    • Shish2k 12y ago
      My favourite sample-based soundtrack; turns out it's actually the same composer working with the same software as yours :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yDVM77lGlM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yDVM77lGlM Also noteworthy is that you can open these games' soundtracks in a tracker like http://openmpt.org/ http://openmpt.org/ to see the arrangements and play samples individually. I tried making music that way a while back and was sad that all my tunes sounded as shitty as the samples I was working with, then opened up the Deus Ex OST and found that his samples were worse, and he was working with fewer channels and filters; it's just pure skill in arrangement that makes the music so great :)
      • voltagex_ 12y ago
        I'm a huge tracker music fan, I didn't know about the Deus Ex OST. My introduction to tracker music came from Epic games like One Must Fall 2097, Epic Pinball and Jazz Jackrabbit. It's really interesting to open a lot of these tracker music files up and play with the samples, have a look at the comments left and marvel in the way the music works. Some other good sites to look at: http://modarchive.org/ http://modarchive.org/ - huge tracker music archive site https://www.scene.org/ https://www.scene.org/ - demoscene information and archive https://pouet.net/ https://pouet.net/ - demoscene information and archive
        • chengsun 12y ago
          Don't forget https://www.scenemusic.net/demovibes/ https://www.scenemusic.net/demovibes/ - demoscene streaming music radio
• vanderZwan 12y ago
  Demoscene?
• tormeh 12y ago
  Chorus, beat etc.
• creeble 12y ago
  Fodder for a "Silicon Valley" episode? Whoops, sorry, you said "real-world"...