Almost all my triangle arp sequences are fixed. Here's why:GradualGames wrote:Also: "Fixed" arpeggios are hard-coded to the noise channel, "Absolute" arpeggios are hard coded to all other channels. I do not use arpeggios myself---if anyone runs into issues with using arpeggios, please use this thread to report bugs and provide a sample song which causes your issue so that I can fix it.
Does anyone know how common it is to use absolute/relative/fixed with arpeggios on different channels?
My drum kit in FamiTracker 0.4.x and 0CC-FamiTracker uses an absolute arpeggio sequence so that the same instrument can serve as kick and snare, though that could easily be redone with fixed arp using one additional instrument.
Kick (noise part)
note: 0-#
volume: 12 10 8 6 4 3 2 2 1 1 1 0
arpeggio: absolute 10 0
duty: 0
Snare (noise part)
note: A-#
volume: 12 10 8 6 4 3 2 2 1 1 1 0
arpeggio: absolute 10 0
duty: 0
Volume, arpeggio, and duty sequences are identical for the two. (This volume sequence may vary between modules based on the rest of the mix.) It relies on the modulo 16 nature of arpeggio sequences in FamiTracker to act as both kick (whose fixed arpeggio would be 10 0) and snare (whose fixed arpeggio would be 4 10).
Since this post by rainwarrior, kick and snare also have a triangle part that uses fixed arpeggio so that the drum can share the channel with the bass.
Kick (triangle part)
arpeggio: fixed 40 36 33 (E-3 C-3 A-2)
Snare (triangle part)
arpeggio: fixed 47 45 (B-3 A-3)
The remainder of my stock drums, for completeness:
Hi-hat (noise)
note: C-#
volume: 6 4 2 1 1 0
arpeggio: none
duty: | 0 1
Open hi-hat (noise)
note: C-#
volume: 7 6 5 4 3 2 2 1
arpeggio: none
duty: | 0 1
Here, duty is looped to combine hiss noise (duty 0) with buzz noise (duty 1) to simulate a cymbal.
I've attached a FamiTracker port of the drum and bass from the 3 AM music in Thwaite.
Frame 0: Contrasting noise-only drums with tri+noise drums
Frame 1-2: Combining drum and bass
Frame 3: Mute the noise to hear only the bass and the triangle portion of the drum