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Re: SID Tables / advanced technique

2001-07-25 by step laub

hehe! this sounds very interresting. can you upload a soundfile of 
that technique in action? thanx! step

> Now, here's an advanced technique, I discovered playing with 
Hippel's tunes
> in Future Composer: make two sets of your table, in both a minor and 
a major
> version.  This is important because it will allow you to tranpose 
more
> harmonically across the whole keyboard. e.g. one version has the 
minor
> (0,3,7) arp, and another major (0,4,7).  Then, apply music 
theory...e.g.  if
> your song is in G Major, use the major version of your wavetable 
patch when
> trigger with notes G,C and D. Use the minor for A,B, and E.  
Finally, make a
> third version, so you can use F# for the diminished sound.  I 
recommend
> this, because it can really provide harmonic space/color/variety/etc 
when
> bouncing back and forth between major and minor chords.  a 
diminished
> version of your wavetable will look like: 0,3,6.  If more people are
> interested in this, I can make a complete mulit-octave chart of 
which values
> are properly available in each version of your wavetables...
> 
> 
> > So I have had my sid a while and have messed a little bit with the 
tables. I 
> > have a basic isead of how they work, but I have yet to create what 
I am 
> > looking for. I have listened to older video game stuff by ron 
hubbard and am 
> > astounded.  My question is how in the heck does one pull this off. 
Is there 
> > a way to see those tables and learn from his techniques?
> 
> try to solo channels using sidplay, write them to disk and analyze
> with e.g. Cool Edit
> 
> -N

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