Maiden in Black
By hypnogram on January 17, 2018 7:58 am
This week, WB user strolts suggested we try using Beepola, a 1-bit tracker with several sound module options. This was a really tough week for several reasons. Just learning the GUI and the format's various idiosyncrasies was a big hurdle. The module I chose (Tritone (equal volume)) has three channels, an interrupting "drum" channel, skew (which from as far as I can tell is like pulse width sorta), and detune, with no volume controls or anything. Just note on and off pretty much.
The results are pretty disjointed and poorly organized in my opinion, but it's as far as I could ever imagine myself getting with this format, or at least with this particular module of it. I don't so much mind the limited sound palette. I think it's more that I have trouble with pc trackers in general. It's something I want to overcome, but this particular program will not be it, which is a shame because I really like the sound it can produce. If the program would've let me select regions of a pattern for copy and paste, I probably would've done better, but it's that quality of life factor that kept me away I think.
So, I ran it as fast as it would go for maximum shenanigans, which I found very few of myself, but it at least allowed for really fast notes and some pseudo kick drum effects and super fast arps. Because I was working so hard to get this new format figured out I fell back on some well worn material in my musical vocabulary and didn't get as creative as I would've liked.
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