'Silver Surfer' (Tim Follin) on the Spectrum Next

[@retrodave79]

Ufffff that is hardcore stuff!

[@McAlby]

That sounds amazing. Great work!

[@hallomeinnameistkarl216]

Would've never expected you here! I ADORE your Music!

[@DennisdeWeerd]

Now, that sounds absolutely solid 👍

[@daveboogie1]

sound that lad

[@FukiMakai]

Well it sounds great to me!

[@latumbadeloshorrores7777]

❤️👌

[@tomatoassassin]

Absolutely fantastic!!!!

[@alfredotatocreativedesign7134]

That’s wonderful!

[@sunteam]

Marvellous!

[@vjspetto]

Wow.

[@em00k]

Awesome!

[@noisebynight119]

Top stuff Richard 😛

[@RichBraithwaite108]

Just subbed to your channel to - some great work on there, nice drum sounds! I'm still working out how to get the best snare sounds, there's quite an art to it.

[@noisebynight119]

@@RichBraithwaite108 Cheers Richard, just subbed to yours as well, some nice NextDAW tracks on here, keep up the great work 😛

[@SpectrumNextStuff]

@@noisebynight119 Let's share drum patches :)

[@The-GalaxiaN]

Sounds like a Follin tune to me, great job. Maybe now you have the feel for follins style,try push the 3 ay's on your own tune just like follin would, that would be something else!

[@RetroSteveUK]

Very impressive. To be honest, I struggle to get decent drum sounds when I'm designing patches. Most of mine are "that'll do". The envelope sounds are also a struggle; I've used the feature once, in one of my tracks, to get a saxophone type sound, but I've never fully understood what all the different envelope settings do.

[@RJB_music]

Cheers mate. I'm plugging away at trying to get a decent snare sound, not quite there yet! I was reading about the envelope generator on the AY chip specs (most of it was a bit too technical for me), and I can't work out why they included it at all. It seems to override the ADSR and the amp, and its speed varies with pitch, which makes it really unpredictable. I've found two registers where it works so far - very low, and very high (within a very narrow range!), and even then it's a bit hit and miss.

[@RetroSteveUK]

@@RJB_music The one example of envelope I used was on this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6bUe2B9ZrSaf6M . It's the channel named "sax". I needed to replicate a saxophone sound, and this was the closest I could get, using envelope.

[@RJB_music]

@@RetroSteveUK That works as a sax, nice one! Next project - I wonder if we could ever get a convincing guitar out of the old AY?

[@RetroSteveUK]

@@RJB_music Probably not, lol. Chords, yes. Mucking about with arpeggios to make chords on one channel can really give a song a lift.

[@SpectrumNextStuff]

When you mention unique patches for volume, I presume you know about the per note volume settings you can do in the sequence timeline so as not to waste patches. Just thought I'd mention it as I'm not sure the documentation covers it. I might be wrong though!

[@RichBraithwaite108]

You know, I looked in the manual yesterday for this exact bit of info - still couldn't work out how to do it. There are a couple of patches which are just quieter versions of other ones, so it would open up a few slots. Any idea how to do it?

[@SpectrumNextStuff]

@@RichBraithwaite108 At the very bottom, just below the piano roll are dots, one for each note. If you select a note or notes, hold down symbol shift and drag the mouse wheel up and down. It's not beautiful, but it's functional.

[@SpectrumNextStuff]

(when I said sequence timeline in my original post, I actually meant the piano roll DOH!)

[@RichBraithwaite108]

@@SpectrumNextStuff That's what those dots are for!! I thought they were just to say 'note here'. Thanks so much, no more getting round limitations of volume by using up all the patches... Good job on your outrun rendition on your channel (just subbed) - you ever finish the auf wiedersehen monty theme? I'm absolutely loving NextDAW - Gari is an awesome developer!

[@SpectrumNextStuff]

@@RichBraithwaite108 I get bored of tunes and move onto something else, but I learn a bit with each one, so the old ones feel a bit old. Originally just tried to reproduce original Spectrum and Atari ST tunes, it was more to prove that NextDAW had the required features to recreate classics, but then found I was hitting bugs and limitations. Focused a bit more on QA then. Much easier to copy a tune for that purpose than to try and create something new. Monty for instance hit the limit of 127 bars. I told Gari and he sorted that pretty damned fast. The volume thing as well, I hit a limit attempting Glider Rider with the number of patches(many many different ARP progressions). Several being the same patch but at different volumes. A few days later he threw in the per note volume adjustments. I've not touched Monty since kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZWzmGqJj9yeqqM but it was just a direct copy, and part way through I thought I'd just tweak it a bit. See how some Env would sound. This tune you have done is stunning and I know how long these things take. Especially using the full compliment of AY's. I think a lot of my stuff was recorded at too quiet a volume, I find the Next audio output a bit quiet and when you amp it up you get noise.