#instruments
- Instrument envelopes (volume, panning, pitch) techniqueIn impulse-tracker (and FT2) an instrument wraps a sample with envelopes — volume, panning and, in IT, pitch — drawn as nodes over ticks, optionally with a sustain loop that holds while the note is on and a normal loop. …
- Multisampling and drum-kit instruments techniqueOne sample cannot cover a keyboard: transposed more than a few semitones it sounds artificial — ±7 at the very most, often only ±1 (source: s-tw084-perfect-samples-the-piano ) . Multisampling records several keys and …
- New Note Actions (NNA) techniqueimpulse-tracker 's answer to channel scarcity: when a new note starts in a channel, the instrument's NNA says what happens to the note still playing — cut , continue , note off (release) or note fade — and the old note …
- Chordian — SID Musicians (JCH's verdicts on the game composers, 2018) summarychordian — a coder-composer who wrote his own editor in the 1980s — rates the famous game composers "absolutely not overrated" or "indeed very overrated", judging instruments and player as much as tunes. Opinion, but …
- DUET docs: instruments, the mixer and the bounce (summary) summaryWhere sounds live in duet (m64's tracker, not yet published), what the built-in console does, and how audio gets out — from instruments.md , mixer.md and bounce.md .
- OpenMPT manual — Instruments summaryThe instrument tab of openmpt : multisampling and the sample map, volume/pan/pitch-filter envelopes, New Note Actions, the resonant filter defaults, random variation, pitch/pan separation and plugin routing — the IT …