double channel fun written by sublyme (mkrnic@jagor.srce.hr) many of you don't know that you can achieve quite kewl effects in your tracker when using double channels - and NO, i'm NOT talking about kewl efx that happen with awe/gus/ews modplayers! ;) [ some people say that doubled channels are wrong because the above soundcards can't play them properly and lots of wishy-wooshy-flangy effects appear with them - but that's not quite the case. for example, lada kopecky's AMP (awe module player) doesn't have that kind of problems. besides, today the mods are growing both in size and channels, so most people use software mixing anyway. ] in this example i used a breakbeat loop, which is just about the perfect sample for this kind of effects ;) . the module's speed was set to 3/170, 128 rows per pattern and the loop was triggered each 32 rows. you can get the example mod from the Our Place dblchan.zip of this issue (05/00) if you want to hear how it sounds. NOTE1: the module may play differently in different modplayers - i don't know, i haven't tried anything but ft2 NOTE2: there's no webpage there, just this small archive ;) NOTE3: the poor quality of the sample is due to the fact that it was recorded on a cassette from a radio show, then played in my walkman and finally sampled from it ;))))) now that you know how to make bad samples, let's move to some phUnkY Efx To MaKe youR sOng EvEn wOrsE! :) put a normal "C-5 .. ..." note in the first channel, and one of these in the other: - "lowpass filter"-like C-5 .. 481 (H81 in IT) - vibrato - air 1 C-5 .. 901 (O01 in IT) - sample offset - flange 1 C-5 .. E21 (EF1 in IT) - fine porta down - wooshy type flange (like an aircraft) C-5 .. X21 (EE1 in IT) - extra fine porta down - air 2 C-5 .. 48F (H8F in IT) - vibrato - "under water"-like C-5 .. 481 (H81 in IT) - vibrato ... .. 400 ... .. 400 etc, etc, continue until the new note - weird cutting sound C-5 .. T11 (I11 in IT) - tremor ... .. T00 ... .. T00 etc, etc, continue until the new note - yet another flange C-5 .. E55 (not available in IT?) - set finetune these efx can be really useful in some drum'n'bass mods, and the flange can also be used on strings and pads, if you can spare the channels. now go experiment and find some more efx! :) plur, ___ ___ / / / / ___ ___ _ / /_ / /__ __ _______ ______ /' __) / / )/ / / / . . ) __ ) :subliminaltransmissionflying (__ / / / ' / / / / / / / /___/ :throughwhiteholesandsubspace (___.(__.__(__(__.(__(__ .(__(__(__(______/ :causingfloatingfluffdisorder mkrnic@jagor.srce.hr (__./ [604love/ABK/MS]