Creating chiptune style samples in protracker

[h0ffman]

Originally Posted by Photon

so I say just load up some ST-xx samples in Protracker and cut them up and loop them and listen

good call, thats how I started out.

[saimon69]

[necro]
By the way, i personally used to call those extremely short samples "microsamples" or "micro-instruments"

[/necro]

[pink^abyss]

Back then i wrote some simple programms in BlitzBasic to create the waveforms i was looking for. The big plus for code generated chip waveforms is that they can be packed very efficently (for typical square modulated waves at least). So my Protracker "chiptunes" often needed 50-100kb but were packed only a few kb.