[PD] MOD Trackers (was Pd to CV for a Moog) (OT)

Ben Saylor bensaylor at fastmail.fm
Tue Sep 12 20:54:06 CEST 2006


I started with Impulse Tracker.  I learned about it when I read they 
were using it for the music for Unreal.  So I guess it all pretty much 
goes back to video games. :)

Ben

Kyle Klipowicz wrote:
> Just curious, how many of you started computer music due to mod
> trackers, and which ones were your favorites?
> 
> I started with ScreamTracker, but finished out using Impulse Tracker
> (I was a newbie).
> 
> ~Kyle
> 
> On 9/12/06, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca> wrote:
>> On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Christian Klippel wrote:
>>
>> > hi steffen, i'd like to refer you to the right keywords:
>> > covox speech thing & disney sound source
>> > in wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covox_Speech_Thing
>>
>> Btw, the first MOD player I've ever used, had plans for a Covox straight
>> in its manual. I didn't build one, though I really SHOULD have. It would
>> have bridged the gap between 1-bit PC Speakers and the 320$ 8-bit
>> SoundBlaster that my parents had.
>>
>> Note that the 1-bit PC Speaker didn't really sound like 1-bit in that
>> program, due to some serious oversampling: The program introduced
>> ultrasounds which were then hardware-lowpassed into intermediate speaker
>> positions. Still, a covox would have sounded much better... or at 
>> least, a
>> cable going out to a real speaker...
>>
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