{"author_name":"GreaseMonkey","cat":"LD #19 - Discovery - 2010","comments":[{"author_name":"hdon","time":"December 14, 2010 9:22 pm","epoch":1292379720,"text":"I’ve been messing around for a few days in MilkyTracker just so I have ideas for the compo. I will check your tool out if for no other reason than curiosity \":)\"","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"xhunterko","time":"December 14, 2010 10:21 pm","epoch":1292383260,"text":"Too bad I can’t use python. Sigh.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"RunnerPack","time":"December 14, 2010 11:26 pm","epoch":1292387160,"text":"It doesn’t seem to be making usable songs for me. Are these not standard Impulse Tracker files? I’m using Python 2.6 in WinXP, and testing songs in Winamp, OpenMPT, and ChibiTracker. I either get a repeating “beep” or just silence.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"RunnerPack","time":"December 15, 2010 12:27 am","epoch":1292390820,"text":"Okay, I put in some samples, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s looping after a couple of notes in the first pattern; sometimes it loops on the second or third tick before any notes play at all. Could you point out where it chooses the effect so I can just prevent it from putting in loops and pattern breaks entirely?","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Billy Wenge-Murphy","time":"December 15, 2010 12:05 am","epoch":1292389500,"text":"I opened in Milkytracker and I don’t see any pattern data at all in the resulting file. Do I have to pass parameters of some sort?","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"GreaseMonkey","time":"December 15, 2010 12:11 am","epoch":1292389860,"text":"Also you might want to try using a different tracker.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Billy Wenge-Murphy","time":"December 15, 2010 1:57 am","epoch":1292396220,"text":"I like the edit. Much easier for the lazy when it puts the samples in for you \ud83d\ude09 The tracks sound great.
\n I’ll have to do a few dozen to see how much variation there is, but I’m really impressed! Definitely gonna use this for my entry as I have NO musical aptitude, lol","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"elbowroom","time":"December 29, 2010 11:50 am","epoch":1293641400,"text":"It keeps making cool music!
\n How can I customize the output?","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"GreaseMonkey","time":"December 30, 2010 4:06 pm","epoch":1293743160,"text":"Alternatively, try changing the base speed in the .py file.
\n Look for this line:
\n fp.write(struct.pack(“<BBBBBB",128,48,4,125,128,0))","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"January 6, 2011 6:42 pm","epoch":1294357320,"text":"How would you convert the .it files to .mid? I want to use this with Game Maker, but… it doesn’t support .it music files… D:","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Peter Cooper","time":"December 13, 2011 11:45 pm","epoch":1323837900,"text":"For anyone who’s wondering, VLC (open source video and audio player) will play these files. And convert them to MP3, etc \":-)\" (To convert to MP3, use the Streaming\/Export wizard, transcode audio to MP3, encapsulate as RAW, then rename file to .mp3 when done.)","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"intripoon","time":"April 23, 2012 6:30 am","epoch":1335180600,"text":"Could somebody please explain how to use this? I tried running it from a cmd prompt but I only get an error message:","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Helco","time":"August 1, 2012 6:19 am","epoch":1343819940,"text":"The source says the application stands under GPL, but which license do the music files generated with this application have?","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1292376780,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"68856","p_author":"GreaseMonkey","p_authorkey":"2396","p_urlkey":"104659","p_title":"For those of you who can\u2019t make music","p_cat":"LD #19 - Discovery - 2010","p_event":"LD19","p_time":"1292376780","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"14","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"2396","us_name":"GreaseMonkey","us_username":"greasemonkey","event_start":"1292544000","event_key":"5","event_name":"LD19"},"text":"

but can run Python, here’s a little something for you<\/a>. It might be a bit too cheesy for your game, unfortunately… if you want to you can try modifying it to use a minor scale. Also, you’ll need some samples<\/a>, and a tracker<\/a> to put the samples in.<\/p>\n

Suddenly, your game has a somewhat full sounding soundtrack with a bunch of randochords shoved in.<\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n

EDIT: Here’s a version<\/a> which does minor scales every now and then and generates its own (not very good) samples.<\/p>\n

EDIT 2 (Dec 2011!): The links are a bit dead, so try this: http:\/\/gm.64pixels.org\/stuff\/atrk-c-edit.py.txt<\/a> – this edit was because ExciteMike linked to here. I should probably consider a new version of this thing, most likely from scratch again. Also have some samples<\/a>.<\/p>","time":"December 14th, 2010 8:33 pm","title":"For those of you who can\u2019t make music"}