mvirtuale Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 Hi, I'm trying to make an initial melody and some sound effects for my game.In this page: https://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/4060/chipper-atari-lynx-sound-gen-tracker-tool-early-beta/ I've read that you use chipper, but the download link does not work. http://bjoern.spruck.net/lynx/Chipper.zipDoes any of you have this program?Alternatively, can you recommend some other program and tell me where to find it?Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbo Laser Lynx Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 (edited) Hi, I checked and they are there, but you need to download the older version: "Lynx Chip Editor (beta v1.7.6).", the new one has not been released. I would also download the "Christmas Release: HiColor Slideshow Builder" that contains chipper with some more example songs and sounds. Good luck! Chipper can look intimidating at first, but if you find some general documentation about how trackers work, it's the fastest and easiest way to create music for the lynx. Other than that I think Karris abc music might be easier if the chipper learning curve is too steep at first. There's links and documentation for abc music here as well: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/256753-atari-lynx-programming-tools-and-tutorials-wip/ Edited October 20, 2018 by Turbo Laser Lynx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbo Laser Lynx Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 The info is really spread out on these forums, but here's a couple of notes to get you started: You can look past all the windows and menus and diagrams and focus on the really simple stuff and the main tracker window.1. Eye through some tracker basics: http://wiki.openmpt.org/Manual:_Basics2. In every row of every column there's three cells where you can put in:- CELL1: the number of the simple instrument you're going to use for that note. (This is really smart 'cause you can get a lot of stuff done with only four channels).- CELL2: the note or nothing (a pause)- CELL3: the part of the song in the playlist (if I remembercorrectly)3. The simple instrument is for creating sounds but there's already some good sounds in the insts folder4. There's some really great songs in the demosongs folder to look at too.*Note you put in the notes with the keyboard (I was clicking aroung with the mouse for much longer than I care to admit) I'm in the middle of a Lynx project right now, but hopefully I will have the time to add a small "chipper basics" tutorial with images here on the AA forums as soon as possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+karri Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 I have published a few chipper instruments on my whitelynx.fi site. There is a lot more instruments I could publish but the downside is that every game starts sounding the same if we all use the same sounds. Perhaps the best solution would be to slightly tweak the sounds before using them. If you look at Chicken dance on my site the B-part with the slightly out-of-tune orchestra. It is actually just a single note melody. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbo Laser Lynx Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 I added a long overdue 'getting started' Chipper guide here:http://atariage.com/forums/topic/256753-atari-lynx-programming-tools-and-tutorials-wip/?p=4137925 (Yay!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvirtuale Posted October 21, 2018 Author Share Posted October 21, 2018 Thanks, I downloaded the program.Now, I have to learn to use it, but with the guide I should not have too many problems 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvirtuale Posted October 26, 2018 Author Share Posted October 26, 2018 I have melodies in midi files.I'd like to put one of these melodies in the game. On the internet I read I can reproduce this melody without problems and penalties.I wanted to know if you can convert the melody for the lynx with Chipper or some other program.Thanks in advance for your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romualdl Posted November 18, 2018 Share Posted November 18, 2018 Hi there, Been reading everything available for Chipper (thanx to all of you taking time to put these things together). Nevertheless I'm still unable to get something out of Chipper. I've been playing a little with trackers on Atari St, Amiga and even Oric (sonix from Twilighte) but I'm facing hard times with Chipper. Sorry for "well I guess I'm too stupid to do it" but I've tried differents ways but none works. I'm able to fill in the Cell 1/2/3 etc with what's necessary but it seems I'm facing some problems with the instruments stuff. I would like to use some "preset" instruments but how to listen to them? How to assign an instrument to on-going project? If I try to assign some pre-existing instrument to a simple instrument "instr1" through "load instrument", I have no way to check which instrument it is. Furthermore if I hit play on the "simple instrument" window it's kinda weird sound coming out and no way to have something correct when the track is played. So anyplace where I could find some help on this one? (as said before I've already been reading Turbo Laser Lynx 'getting started' and the Chipper threads...). Thanks to anyone which could help me on this one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+karri Posted November 19, 2018 Share Posted November 19, 2018 I try to maintain a page with instrument screenshots that I have been using. So if you just tick the boxed and click on Play you should hear the same sound as in my samples. Have a look at http://whitelynx.fi/sounds/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbo Laser Lynx Posted November 19, 2018 Share Posted November 19, 2018 Also possibly worth noting: the play button often bugs out (at least for me), so I have to change back and forth between two sounds in the drop down list to make it work again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nop90 Posted November 19, 2018 Share Posted November 19, 2018 Also possibly worth noting: the play button often bugs out (at least for me), so I have to change back and forth between two sounds in the drop down list to make it work again. Play button never works for me, but I use the keyboard to play the instruments at different notes. W key should be a nice D4 (or D5 can't remember now) on the +0 octave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romualdl Posted November 19, 2018 Share Posted November 19, 2018 Thanks Karri for the link. So I guess there is no easy way to "build" a set of instruments than setting them one by one with their different parameters. Turbo Laser Lynx and Nop90 ok for the play button. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romualdl Posted November 22, 2018 Share Posted November 22, 2018 Ok I managed to deal with these instruments and to set a list Thanks 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sage Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 I never imagined that someone is able to use it... 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+karri Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 I never imagined that someone is able to use it... I am currently disassembling Shadow of the Beast sounds. Once I find out how those wonderful special effects are done I might have a chat with you sage. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sage Posted December 25, 2018 Share Posted December 25, 2018 I never imagined that someone is able to use it... ... recently I even made some changes for TCM export. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyprian Posted December 25, 2018 Share Posted December 25, 2018 (edited) I faced an issue with Chipper. Also I noticed Chipper uses Windows 95 "file selector". Would be cool to have a bit newer one. Also "Simple Intrument"-->"Play" button doesn't work. I have to check/uncheck "Tremolo/Envelope" to hear any sound. Edited December 25, 2018 by Cyprian_K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sage Posted December 25, 2018 Share Posted December 25, 2018 THats is the only one supported by this ancient ide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miker Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 (edited) Hello! I try to do something in Chipper but with half-success. I tried to use ie. vibratos and slides, and alright, they work under Chipper itself but after exporting for BS/TC driver, they disapperar. Is it me, or is there any way to turn then on. Also, is there any way to make the music loop? Attached some example. Please forgive some notes off. It was very fast RMT-import. telephone3.lcp.zip Edited August 11, 2019 by miker missing content Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nop90 Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 (edited) It happened to me too, some complex combinations of parameters don't play anything on real hw. I don't have time to learn all the potentiality of chipper now, so for the moment I use only simple notes changing only frequency and length. To make an infinite loop you have to edit the export file and add DO 0 at the beginning of the loop, and LOOP at the end. I suppose it's possible to loop only N times changing the 0 value with the number of loops you want, but never tried. Edited August 11, 2019 by Nop90 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miker Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 Thanks a lot. Although I don't code but I'll tell guys who know what to do. Regards m. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miker Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 Btw. is there any other new/more working version of Chipper than 1.7.6.0? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbo Laser Lynx Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 (edited) On 8/11/2019 at 9:33 PM, miker said: Attached some example. Please forgive some notes off. It was very fast RMT-import. telephone3.lcp.zip 2.92 kB · 2 downloads It sounds great! I like the sounds a lot. Quote Btw. is there any other new/more working version of Chipper than 1.7.6.0? Not to my knowledge at least. Sage mentions v.2.0 on his page, but I don't know if it will be released: http://lynxdev.atari.org I also checked out some of your soundcloud songs, great stuff! I especially liked Hall of Rabarbadon so far Edited August 15, 2019 by Turbo Laser Lynx - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miker Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 Thanks, @Turbo Laser Lynx I gathered there some of my (original or covered) music. And yes, I've noticed that 2.0 info on that page but nothing besides that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+karri Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 Sage had a really amazing demo at eJagfest a year ago. Four Lynx units playing in sync. It was like a real band. My guess is that Chipper 2.0 exists. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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