+ Metal Sonic's Journey

Every time I see the words "Press Factory", I still can't help but think of Press Garden. lel

I'd do it for free. Most of my older works' transcriptions are on the DefleMask forums, back when I used it. Since I started using Furnace, and it didn't have any sort of dedicated forum, I just never got around to using any sort of standard file sharing. I guess I'll look into it, now, though. : )

drive.google.com/drive/folders/1dgBa69je4mzN_VDXnDkIrzGtrvR2GJv-?usp=sharing That oughta do it, methinks. All of my Furnace tracks are here in this folder. Of course, you'll need FurnaceTracker to open them, but I always have a link to Furnace in my descriptions.

@@Mr.Gabagool ooooh thank you sm you actually don't know how much you helped me 😄

@@Mr.Gabagoolawesome! Greatly appreciated!

EXCELLENT!, even

The first channel (top left, very colorful) of every theme is the oscilloscope view for the whole track. So, at most, there will be 10 tracks shown: 8xFM Channels + 1xOKI MSM6258 + 1 for every track combined. Though, many themes don't use all of the channels, so you'll see even less later on. Also, thanks for commenting! Also also, I feel like I see you a lot in comments sections. : )

I didn't use the SNES chip because it only has eight channels, and using the Generic PCM Channels with either cubic or sinc interpolation sound identical. I suppose I could've used the actual SNES chip, but I just wanted to make a more accurate-to-Redial arrangement, and having 5 less channels would really hurt the percussion.

Understandable. I like the chaotic energy, though. I admit, I'll never be one to make something sound clean. lel : )

Agreed I’m tired of people saying it’s bad

The drums are standard for the program. With Furnace, all I did was add the .WAVs (Kick and Snare) into the song and apply them to a "Generic Sample" instrument type. (Using a "PC Engine" instrument type and checking "Use sample" functions identically.) I didn't even need to mess with sample rates, nor the samples themselves! (Btw, they're both 32KHz and 8-bit PCM) Furnace can read lots of different sample types, like 1-bit PCM, Q-Sound ADPCM, ADPCM-A & B, 16-bit PCM, etc. Funnily enough, I had both of samples in the first place because they came with DefleMask. :P They were both initially very quiet, and for some reason were (and still are) louder when played back directly in the sample editor, rather than within one of the channels. I don't know why, as I don't have much technical knowledge about sample playback. I had to amplify both of the samples by 400% to get them at an acceptable volume. Long and short of it is that it was dead simple playing back the samples. Unfortunately, I can't speak on Husic nor MML in general, as I have no familiarity with them. : ( It seems that you in the MML scene are quite the technical wizards, though. : ) I have to imagine, though, since (from what I've searched) what you're doing is putting in commands to directly control some form of audio hardware, that there shouldn't be any reason for PCM playback to be particularly difficult to use or implement. (unless you're using a chip with no PCM capabilities :P) Also, geez! I almost forgot to thank you after writing all of that! : )

@@Mr.Gabagool this comment might also be quite long, but it's very interesting hearing about the differences between how MML works vs trackers in general, so I hope I'm not going to overwhelm you with too much... I'm not so sure with the technical wizardry part lol. I'm in no way a programmer but MML is the one language(besides maybe HTML) that I understand and can read if I try hard enough. There's a lot of simplification going on behind the scenes just like there is on the graphical tracker side, so when you input a command you aren't doing it in some sort of crazy machine code (if you did have to do that then I'd be lost immediately). The things you can and can not do with a chip (even if it's possible in theory) are dictated by how that chip is implemented in whatever your compiler of choice is. So when I was talking about 7KHZ PCM, I said that because the manual for Husic made reference to it, but I didn't read up on it much further. It's sort of like how the YM2612 on the Genesis can play pretty much any rate of PCM but some MML compilers demand they to be at 8KHZ at all times with no exceptions, even though we know (for example from Sonic the hedgehog) that PCM can go way higher in rate than that. Digital audio in general, especially these weird formats, sound interesting to me. The kinds of formats that no one in their right mind would use nowadays but they used to exist for whatever reason. The closest I have to that is the DPCM on the NES which thankfully there are programs that can convert standard wave files to that format. When it comes to wavetables though, it does get a bit technical if you want to write them out in MML. I tend to think of waveforms like these, though, like tiny little audio files instead of just collections of numbers. In fact, with some help from other programs, I can take a very small part of an audio file and convert it into a PC engine or an N163 waveform. If it weren't for this set of programs, making music with chips like these wouldn't be very easy for me. This feels a lot more barable to me so far than FM synthesis, which would be my next thing to investigate. I've always wondered if there would ever be a way to make Furnace (or something similar to it) more screen reader friendly. Part of the reason why I use MML is because trackers are very graphical in nature, and a text file is a lot easier to work with in my case. Maybe if all of the editor parts with all their dialogue boxes were fully accessible without the use of the mouse or other workarounds I would try a tracker again, but as of right now there aren't too many that fit this criteria aren't the open MPT kind of just mostly mod file like trackers. I really like being bound by a particular chip and using only it's capabilities. It puts me in a position where I have to think about what I'm doing instead of making 64 channels for things I don't need like poliphony on a midi synth. Plus the sound capabilities are also a big factor in this.

​@@Evangelosz_Nagy That's really neat. Unfortunate, though, how a chip's capabilities aren't necessarily tied to its original parameters, but to how it's implemented with a certain compiler. Not quite the same, but an interesting parallel you could make with chip-specific trackers is that they can implement the same chip in different ways through differing emulation cores. One implementation may strive to be cycle-accurate to the original hardware, while another decides to place emphasis on better performance and readability of its code. I'm all for obscure and outdated file formats! FM synthesis already seems far more complex than editing waveforms in a tracker format. I wonder how it would look compared to using wavetables in an MML... That would be such a nice development to make trackers more accessible. I love trackers so much because of how convenient they feel to use. There's just some sort of click between me and them.

KZbin's recommendations sometimes sure do wonders! Only sometimes though

Fo' real fo' real

Nice. : ) It took me a while to grasp how to use wavetables, but I think it's worth some good fun.

Well, I will now. : )

Thanks : )

Based 👍

You a real one, Cake.

What's the deal with sub-tanks? I mean, you fill them up every night at closing, and I mean where does it all go?