MilkyTracker has a significantly more powerful sample editor, in comparison to its predecesor, FastTracker II. The features available to you in MT include:
- Creating a new sample with a specified sample size
- Waveform generators for:
- sine waves,
- square waves,
- triangle waves,
- sawtooth waves,
- noise
- silence (which clears the sample)
- Volume boosting, fading and normalizing
- Reversing
- Smoothing
- Equalization
- ProTracker boosting
- Resampling
and some less important features.
Here, we'll be looking at how you can use these features to create and manipulate samples.
When you open the sample editor (using Ctrl+S or Smp. Ed. from the
general editor buttons window),
you are greeted with this window:
These UI elements, and their basic functionality, are covered here.
This document, however, serves to showcase the sample manipulation.
With that in mind, let's proceed.
To begin manipulating a loaded sample, or create a new sample, right-click on the sample waveform viewer (the black box which shows the sample).
This will show a drop-down menu of various functionalities you can use.
Those with an arrow expand to more functionalities.
The diagram below serves to highlight all the sample manipulation functionalities:
I'll name each functionality by its name in the drop-down menu.
Keep in mind that you can make selections by left-click dragging across the sample!
Creates a new sample, with the specified sample size. I usually use 30 for simple waves and 500-1000 for percussion.
Undoes or redoes a change done to the sample.
Self-explanatory.
Cut, Copy and Crop require a range selection to be made. You can make one by right-mouse dragging along a sample when not in draw mode.
Range selects the entire sample.
Allows more advanced manipulation of an existing sample.
Boosts the volume by a given percent.
If a selection is made, makes the change only on the selection.
Fades the volume from the starting value to the given value.
If a selection is made, makes the change only on the selection.
Boosts the volume of the sample as far as possible before any clipping occurs.
If a selection is made, makes the change only on the selection.
Reverses the sample.
If a selection is made, makes the change only on the selection.
Rectangular and triangular smoothing.
Smooths out the sample, making the transients smaller and high ends lower.
If a selection is made, makes the change only on the selection.
Opens a popup winow which prompts the user with a 3-band equalizer.
The frequency the bands are on are visible above the sliders.
If a selection is made, makes the change only on the selection.
Opens a popup winow which prompts the user with a 10-band equalizer.
The frequency the bands are on are visible above the sliders.
If a selection is made, makes the change only on the selection.
Allows resampling the sample to a specific number of samples.
Resampling implies changing the sample count, using fine-tune and relative note settings.
Does the ProTracker sample boost.
Effectively, this boosts the volume and high-end.
Generates a selected signal sample and places it into the selected sample slot. Undable using Undo.
3.2. WORKING WITH SAMPLES
3.3. WORKING WITH THE PATTERN EDITOR