NP, glad you liked it and found it helpful, I have a whole series of these 😁 I made them because I had a tough time getting started myself. There were some OK tutorials, but like you said, there was a lot of stuff they didn't cover at all or glossed over too quickly. So, I figured I'd give back and cover all of that stuff and here we are!

Thanks! Good luck with it!

If you check out the series, I talk about and show you how to do all the stuff you're asking about 😁

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Thanks, glad you found it helpful!

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Also thanks for the comment! I definitely want to show that almost anyone can do this stuff even though it might seem overwhelming at first!

@@InglebardGaming thank you! Some of us really need just that. I sent you an email and you can send a link to that address. 🥳

Don't worry it's coming! I'm doing these in batches a few times a day to make it easy to keep track of everything, I'm waiting for more people to confirm right now.

Yeah I heard about it being 60hz PAL there which seemed really strange!

In the U.K. and Europe, different countries developed their OWN engineering beliefs of television technology signal standards... The U.K. developed their 50Hz PAL format iirc... however understand that France had something called SECAM which was different from PAL and these standards were exposed to Imperial Japan since the either the late 1920s or very early 1930s where Imperial Japan had decided on a U.K. like PAL standard while television tech was still not widely available or even anywhere near mass production until the late 1940s The Imperial Japanese PAL format was changed to NTSC-J after the U.S. military occupation... so imagine if the Japanese government decided to never use NTSC at all and instead used PAL at 50Hz... it would mean that the game systems launched in Japan would instead have to be prioritized to PAL regions using 50Hz and the respective resolutions. Brazil like other South American countries would get their tech information and hardware from their respective Europe counterparts... The British will argue how PAL 50Hz is actually superior to the NTSC but its not a simple topic and back then the ocean was not traveled by airplanes. It is ironic that Sega Enterprises Japan was unable to have a PAL region ready Sega MegaDrive and organized subsidiary branch in the U.K. and Europe where their most successful fanbase existed until 1990... two years after 1988... had they prioritized the U.K. and Europe (which isn't easy because different languages and PAL 50Hz) it would have given that region a huge two year advantage... same deal almost if the Sega of America subsidiary branch had not been such a mess during the 80s... the Sega MegaDrive could have launched in 1988.. people might have freaked out at the $200 dollar price and no game included and bad comparisons to NES but the power of the graphics would have been hard to ignore... including Altered Beast graphics.

All I cam say is I'm glad that these days for current TV and monitor tech that it's way more universal. It makes things so much easier to deal with.

Thanks, glad you liked it!

Thanks, glad you liked it! There's five more parts!

Thanks, glad you got something out of it, there's plenty more videos in that series! I have the mobile version but I haven't used it too much, I just got too used to the the Windows version interface.

Glad you liked it, good luck!

Thanks! Glad you you got something out of the video and appreciate the well wishes!

Np, glad they helped you out! Deflemask was my first tracker, too. Not to dunk on anyone else's tutorials but it took me a long time to get going in it because a lot of the stuff I cover in these wasn't covered in the existing tutorials I found when I was starting out. Which is why these now exist!

NP, glad it helped out!

I read every comment, I'm small enough I can still do that! Glad the tutorials helped you out and appreciate you checking them out!

Thanks, appreciate it!

NP, glad you liked them and found them useful! Also nice to hear your cat is interested by my cats, lol.

NP, glad it helped you out! There's a few more episodes already if you haven't seen them yet.

Glad you liked it, hope it helped you get started!

NP, glad it helped you out!

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Thanks, appreciate it! Glad you've stuck around!

Thanks, glad you liked it!

It's worth it if you really want to get into using it seriously. There's lots of niceties in the paid version including support for a lot more systems now than even when I started this series early this year. It's the only program I use to make Genesis music. I use something else for SNES music, but that's a whole different story!

Glad you liked it! There's 2 more done and up already with a few more on the way!

Thank you, glad you liked it! There's much more to come, but it'll be a little while since I had surgery this morning and will be recovering for a while. When I fully get back, probably in about 4 weeks, part 2 of this tutorial will be the first big video I do.

Glad it helped! There'll be a new episode soon!

@@InglebardGaming Thanks ! ^^ wait soon

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You're welcome, glad you liked it!

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#fausthype

You're welcome!

I knew it was being worked on, didn't know there was any version available to the public yet. I'm not opposed to trying other things, I've used a few trackers at this point. I'll give it a whirl sometime.

I did these a while ago now, so I probably won't go back to figure out where things are to time-stamp them. But if I end up doing new tutorials down the road, I probably will.

The cat breaks are not about treating anyone like they're dumb. It's about getting everyone's mind out of the work for a second for a mental break. It's the kind of thing I learned to do while teaching some classes, if you just do nothing but the material from start to finish and ram it through, people start to glaze over and lose interest. Just doing something fun or relaxing for a few seconds can help a lot with both focus and retention. Quite a few big channels work things in to break up long or complex videos and are more subtle about it, but I wanted it to be obvious, that's all.

Any contributions are definitely appreciated. Hoping to be back in shape to do the next episode in about 4 weeks, giving me time to recover from my surgery earlier this week.

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@@InglebardGaming email sent and thank you sir! :)

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Thanks for the well wishes! I'm sorry to say that all 25 copies have now been given away BUT there may just be some more free copies when part 2 comes along!

@@InglebardGaming Keep us posted my friend and all the best ,)

Glad you liked it! There are plenty more on the channel 😁

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Thanks! It was about 18 months ago and things are a lot better. Still not 100% but able to do everything I need to again.

To make sure I'm clear on this, would you want it for Windows?

OK, tell you what, let's call you winner #23. Send me an e-mail at inglebardproductions@gmail.com and let me know which operating system you want Deflemask for and where I should send it.

I don't really have any recommendations for theory tutorials. I never really learned any official theory myself. Everything I learned about composing I figured out myself, the hard, and probably wrong, way. I do everything on a standard computer keyboard these days. That includes any systems supported in Deflemask and anything else I do, like SNES, in OpenMPT.

@@InglebardGaming wow that’s interesting, yeah i’m just starting out too, it amazes me however how you made your songs with just a keyboard, and same in learning everything just by playing with notes and seeing what sounds good, but yeah thanks for the info, i hope to get better at this stuff

NP, it's definitely a fun journey to get started on. It was slow going at first for me... there were a few tutorials, but none of them covered as much stuff as I have in these so far (which is why I made them). Hopefully it'll be less slow going for you or anyone that finds this series!

Hey sorry about the late reply. I had seen your comment and was going to look into what might have caused it this weekend. Glad it's fixed!

Glad it helped you get started! The giveaway ended about a day after the video went live, sorry!

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Hey, just a reminder, I haven't received an e-mail from you yet confirming the address yet. To make sure you don't lose your prize, please send the e-mail as described in my other comment reply ASAP.

@@InglebardGaming sent you an email. Thanks!

Thanks!

You're welcome! There's three more episodes on the channel so far, whenever you're ready for them!

I don't think it'd be considered swing if that's what you're referring to. It's really just another method to put finer controls on speed. If you have a fast speed in general, say 1, then have odd rows at 2 and even rows at 3, most people probably won't even notice the difference, but you've effectively slowed down the song as a whole by a significant degree that's in between full speeds 1 and 2. If I kept the odds and evens both set to three but changed the main speed from 1 to 2, it would get WAY slower, so having finer adjustments that only affect odd or even rows is really helpful.

No, I primarily work in Genesis and SMS on it and only dabble in the other systems. I might delve into them further after I finish the Genesis tutorial series.

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No, those were gone within a day or two. But the free version does almost everything the paid version does.

You can turn on the piano keyboard in the menu. It's in different places in different versions.

@@InglebardGaming thanks. The piano notes over the keyboard? I looked everywhere.

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I've never ripped instruments, so I can't answer that one. I know there are tools that do it, though, I'd just google ripping FM instruments or something to that effect.

Sorry, they're all gone at this point. I might do some more giveaways in a future episode, though!

@@InglebardGaming Oh yeah, I saw it in the other video after commenting but I still wanted to see if I could get it so I didn't delete it, what a shame But I'll definitely be present in the future lol

Ha, pretty sure they know it helps. That's why they give me some copies to give away with these tutorials!

I'm sorry, I just got the last winner a few minutes ago. Two things though! You'll be the first backup if someone doesn't confirm otherwise I may be able to give away some more when part two comes out!

@@InglebardGaming thank you ! I would have watched the other part of this tutorial nevertheless :) great work

You have to make sure Deflemask is in "record" mode. You do that by either hitting the record button or the space bar. Once it's in record mode, you just click a row and column in the tracker and press a key. The bottom two rows are one octave lower than selected, the upper two rows are in the octave selected.

@@InglebardGaming yes I know that thanks, but the keyboard keys don't seem to follow the piano keys

@@coolguy-zt6tr Basically, the row starting with Z should be white keys in the octave below selected, the row starting with a would be the black keys of an octave below current, so only a few of them will work. The rows starting with Q and 1 work the same way but at the current octave. What exactly is the issue you're running into?

@@InglebardGaming oh I didn't understand that they keys in the keyboard were structured like a piano, thanks

NP, have fun with it!

It wouldn't surprise me if there's a tool for that, but I've never seen one myself and never looked for one before. I'm sure transferring the notes is technically possible but I don't see any way you'd be able to transfer instruments over from midi to to deflemask. For VGM, haven't seen that either, that one I'd think would be easier, but haven't seen it myself. Anyone else reading this have an answer for these?

@@InglebardGamingIt would be useful to save time. Of course the quality depends on the quality of the musician. Thanks for replying. Your work is amazing!

You can load the legacy instruments into the paid version if you want. You don't have to use legacy Deflemask to use them.

@@InglebardGaming How do I do that I'm pretty new to music making. I assume you show that in your videos so I'll check em out.

Yeah, it's in the first tutorial episode. Basically you'll just click a button to load instruments. I show you how to do it in both versions in that video.

Thanks, unfortunately they've all been given away. But, I should have some more when part 2 comes around, which will PROBABLY be in early March.

Sorry, all 25 copies have now been claimed. But, there may be another giveaway coming when part 2 comes out... hmm...

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Ha, well, it's not "forbidden" just complicated if you dont know what it is exactly or how it works. The ext ch3 instruments are built for that mode. You can use them in regular songs too, but they were optimized to get the most of ext ch3 mode. If you like how it sounds in regular Genesis mode, then knock yourself out!

Well, it depends on a few things, but generally you just want your total number of rows to be proportional to the numerator and denominator. So for example... Let's say your fastest note is a 32nd note. Then for 4/4 timing, you could set it to 32 rows. This way every 8 rows would be a quarter note. 16 would be a half, 32 a whole, etc. If you need 64th notes, you'd want to double that to 64 rows and a quarter note would be 16 rows and so on. Similarly, 3/4 and 32nd notes... You could do 24 rows per pattern. Quarter notes would be 8 rows, half 16, whole 24, etc. If you need 64th notes just double everything. Basically, you can just keep proceeding like that fir any timing. 40 rows for 5/4 and so on. And these are suggestions, you don't have to use these specific numbers, but they're easy to keep track of, especially if you're transcribing sheet music. You can fine tune the tempo with the overall and row speeds. Hopefully, that's what you were looking for!

@@InglebardGaming It is! Thank you! That helps a lot!

Er... I don't know. Why do you need that many rows?

@@InglebardGaming I was trying to make a classical sounding song I've had in my head since 2013. I'm used to using Nanoloop on iOS, so I thought I could just keep going, but it wouldn't let go past one minute and fifty-four seconds. I then figured out I can use the channel boxes in the top left corner to split them up; which is allowing me to continue. Now my issue is that the rows are set to sixty but it blanket covers each section, making large spaces in between the notes. I don't have the vocabulary yet to be more specific, I'm sorry about that. And thank you for the quick reply. I tried looking everywhere for the answer, I just have a habit of having unique problems.

What you can do timing wise, especially if you're familiar with general music timing / notation is this... If you have 4/4 timing, meaning 4 beats per each measure, which is the mist common timing. You can set rows to 32 with that and then add patterns in the upper left. With 32 rows, if you place 1 note every 32 rows that's a whole note. Every 16 is a half. Every 8 rows is a quarter note, every 4 an eighth note, every 2 a 16th and every row a 32nd note. With 64 rows all that is doubled and every row is 64th note. Follow all that?

@@InglebardGaming I understand a little. Whenever I see numbers I have a difficult time though. To get the tempo I wanted I had to set the bpm to 12. It originally was way too fast. Also, if I set the rows to 32 it will cut off some notes. With how daunting the options and control it gives you I'm surprised I got as far as I did with Nanoloop. I may need to either trim the fat or come back to it with more experience. I'll mess around with it a bit, and keep watching your videos. I do recognize I am jumping the gun a little bit. Thank you again for the help.

Okie doke. One more piece of advice I can give, especially when you're just starting out, is consider each row the fastest possible note you need. Let's say you have 4/4 timing. If you're only using whole notes, well then for each measure you only need one row. If you'll have half notes, then you'd need 2. Quarter notes would need 4. Eighth notes would need 8 and so on. So the key there is just recognizing the absolute fastest note you need and using enough rows in each pattern to accomodate that. For me, when I'm working in 4/4, which is most of the time, I generally don't go faster than 32nd notes, but I tend to use 64 rows so I have extra room in case I need something faster, especially to make effects a little finer.

I understand you don't care about the first 7:23, but hey, maybe other people will.

@@InglebardGaming it's for the people that just want too go to the tutorial part no hate against you but yesterday I just wanted to understand how the app worked, nothing more nothing less, I am sorry that my montone tone came across as something like "skip this bullshit" I was just trying to help fellow viewers getting to the "juicy" part faster

Sorry, they've all been claimed. But, I am planning to give away some more when episode 2 comes out!

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Just a heads up that I haven't received an e-mail from you, have you sent it yet? (I checked Spam and trash, its not there either).

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If it's not for you, that's fine. I've been using the legacy (free version) for almost 18 months now and the paid version for about a month and they do what I need them to do. Personally I have no desire to use a musical keyboard with a tracker, so I just use the standard typing keyboard. If I was doing 'normal' sound production or midi, then I'd use a music keyboard but for this old school chiptune music, I find it more useful to manually work on the grid and tweak everything just the way I want it on a per note basis. I normally use samples for percussion and just set them up how I want them so for me, there's no drum pads to mess with, I'm setting up the percussion I need on a per song basis. On the C64 side, no sid files aren't loadable. On the FM or PSG side, neither are VGM files. They're not in the tracker format. And on the money side, come on, it's free for legacy which is fully functional and $10 for the paid version that can export to formats that are importable on a number of different systems. Like I said, if you don't like it, you're entitled. But I don't see how anyone can call it a waste of money... especially the free version!

@@InglebardGaming Writing music isn’t about wrestling with the bullshit of the program because the maker was a moron. (such as goat tracker) It just kills creativity and multiplies the work. That's why there is a focus test. And that’s why you need a software designer next to a programer. I bought it because I found the legacy unusable. But only got the same with a colored ui. I think this program is just good for fart sawing. And the amount to pay is far from $10.

Sorry, this giveaway ended a couple of days after the video went live. BUT, I will have more copies to give away when the next part goes live... which will either be Monday or Tuesday afternoon! The winning comments will be different in that video so you'll have to watch it for instructions!

@@InglebardGaming Awesome to hear! Thank you for this information and thank you for all of the great Deflemask info you've shared so far