2013-12-31

The New Year is dawning and with it a new BuzzTunes contest!

Hello and Happy New Year to all fellow buzzers out there! A lot of great tunes have appeared on the resource during the year 2013 and a good bunch of talented musicians joined our little crowd here So let the next year bring us more music, positive emotions and creativity. 
Speaking of creativity, a new contest is up and everyone is welcome to join.

Submitted by Shytan

Comments

  • Yep, thx and best wishes for 2014 to you "Shytan" and all the "crazy buzzers" out there which means all members of the buzzscene ... good idea with the "Kammerton A" contest ... (imo )
  • Happy New Year 2014 To all Buzzers around the World with Special Thoughts to Oskari, Shytan and buzzmachines.com Buzz Forever!!!!!!!
  • @ TheScene: HNY, ... after a while I had a look at buzztunes again and found this strange competition ... others do a competition with samples ... too easy for buzzers?!

  • Anybody else who has the problem of a clicking sound when playing the sample with Matilde tracker 2? Tried messing around with Declicker, eq and compression, but it's still there.

  • Pesticide: Set the volume ramp attribute to 1 or 2 and then use a note playing at volume "01" instead of a note-off. That works for me.

  • Setting the volume ramp doesn't get rid of the clicking, I also don't always use the "off" command. I think the clicking even happens at the beginning of the sample, not the end.


  • Pesticide, if you're talking about the click when transitioning directly from one note to another with no note-off in between, that's simply the result of the waveform not being at zero at the end of the first note, then jumping to zero when you trigger the second note. It can be avoided in a couple of ways. 

    First, you can use tone portamento (effect 03 XX) to continue playing the waveform of the first note but sliding the pitch to the new note. Using, for example, 03 FF will give you a very fast, almost unnoticeable slide. If you use very low values like, say, 03 01, you will get a much slower slide, but in order to reach the note that you're aiming for, you may need to continue the effect in subsequent lines of the pattern (just 03 with nothing in the effect argument column will work fine) until the target note is reached.

    Second, if you're using Matilde 3, you have the ability to use virtual channels, to fade out the old note whenever a new note is triggered on the same track. You need to set the virtual channels attribute to 1 for a particular instance of an MTrk machine (in the machine view) and also define a volume envelope for that machine (in the wavetable view) with a sustain point followed by a decay for this to work. Using an attack and a decay of the same length will eliminate any popping sounds, but if either the attack or decay is too fast, there may be some scratchy artifacts at the note transitions (as Buzz apparently handles those volume envelopes very coarsely).

    If you are talking about the click that happens at the loop point (small click that repeats every second or so), that can be eliminated by setting the loop end point to 44100 in the wavetable view.
  • I set the 03 effect on every note, but after a few seconds the volume fades out and the track is just muted. So I leave away the effect on one note (which magically doesn't mute the track then), but then I have the annoying clicking on that one. I tried other combinations of values and 03s inbetween notes, but they either mute the track too or let the notes click. It's all too confusing for me.

  • I can't tell what would cause the track to fade out. Perhaps looping is turned off in the wavetable parameters, or you have an envelope set without a sustain point?

    As for the track staying silent, that may have to do with the 03 effect itself. If a note is not already playing in a track when you use the tone portamento effect, it will have nothing to slide from, so the track will remain silent. You should be able to get notes in those tracks to play again if you trigger them without the 03. And you can do this safely without clicking, because if a track is already silent when a new note is triggered, then it won't click anyway.
  • Ehm, well, where can I get bigyo shaper, I need it to load one of the bmx-files of the sine contest? ... Thx in advance ...
  • Ohhh, I'm sorry I found it on buzzmachines.com ... (it wasn't on my harddisk) ...