-Ok, first of, anything that an MIDI sequencer can do with
-soundfonts, trackers can do
-simply because trackers USE sound fonts
-and BTW, MIDI SUCKS!
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well actually let me make this a little more clear for you bro
with soundfonts, you can do layering. You don't have that option with trackers. MIDI is compatible with nearly everything. Keyboards, synths, tons of programs including trackers. when you work with trackers you're sort of stuck there. Not much room to move around
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-Second, I dont want to be limited to just instruments
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well bro I don't know what you mean by this cause you aren't limited to any instrument, you can have any sound you please just like tracking.
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-and furthermore if an instrument in a certain soundfont doesnt --sound the way I want it to sound, theres nothing I can do
-except -change to a new soundfont and then all my OTHER
-instruments sound different.
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This is a funny one, Have you ever heard of veinna soundfont studio? well it's this little app that you can get for free from creative. it's where you make and edit soundfonts the funny thing is, soundfonts are just wav samples, just like mods. you can edit the pitch, all sorts of effects, vabrato, lfo etc... No one said you had to stick to a soundfont bank, you can use induvidual soundfonts (samples) haha
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-anyway, what Im looking for is something like the trackers
-(modplugtracker and so on) which has many effects and filters
-(echo, res, cut, phaser) and isnt limited in anyway.
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well, yet again. This is what I do. When I finish the basic layout of a song, then I record each track to wav, then I edit each wav. with echo, reverb, phaser, flanger, and a thousand other effects and what have yous out there. I work in Cakewalk PA8 so I can just download a ton of dx plugins which is actually much better than vst. Modplug tracker is probably the worst tracker out there... yes I've worked with trackers, thats what I started out with, but I've moved on to better things. I do agree with you with the fruity loops part, it's limited, but not as limited as trackers are hahaha.
so in closing. If you want to rant and rave about something you should get all the facts. cause what you said in your reply was just a bunch of crap that didn't make any sense. the battle between MIDI and Mods will continue. But MIDI has already won the battle. I just bought me a Roland XV 3080 which is more powerful than any soundfont or mod and it runs off of MIDI just like any other synth :D . most of the stuff on my site is done with soundfonts, and most of it is old so you might want to check out http://www.majesticmix.com it's a CD tribute to the Final Fantasy composer Nobou Uematsu. I'm one of the musicians on staff there.
I'd also like to state, I have a lot of tracker friends. And I do believe it's possible to make good quality sounds with trackers people like virt (
http://virt.zophar.net ) and Chris J Hampton are a few. And the Hellven guys (
http://www.hellven.org )
so I'm not totally against trackers or tracking. I just believe that the quality and the limits of a tracker are poor to todays standards of vg music
Project Majestic MixJAXX's music siteEdited by - JAXX on October 28, 2001 6:29:54 PM
Edited by - JAXX on October 28, 2001 6:42:22 PM