DAT 303 ~ Making Music

Pikachu made in Photoshop

This week I have been working on understanding how to use Milkytracker, an 8 or 16 bit music making program. After some fiddling about and making my own sound waves in the program, I was able to come up with a little tune. Ideally I want to learn to make or find some more interesting sounding samples. I did make a really nice sounding wave with the editor but it doesn't load for some reason. So I just stuck to a basic wave.

The files Milkytracker puts out are in .xi format, and I think that they can also be put out in .wav but I haven't figured out how to do that yet. [Edit: I figured it out.] I also have spent a while looking at LSDJ (Little Sound DJ) but it seemed to have a very steep learning curve and ideally I'd like to use it with the hardware it was built for (Game Boy) but the cards are no longer for sale and buying a blank card to put the purchased software on is a bit pricey.

Anyway, here is the little tune I made. It doesn't sound exactly as I intended because it get's pretty confusing figuring out which musical notes relate to the letters on the keyboard (for example, x on the computer keyboard is a D). But I'm pretty happy with it as the first thing I've made properly using this software.

It's certainly not Anamanaguchi but it's a start.