Multiple songs and soundfx
Hi everyone,
I’m using Arkos Tracker 3 for a 128K ZX Spectrum game and would like to include four separate music tracks, plus a sound-effects “song”.
What is the recommended project structure? Should I put the four music tracks into one project as subsongs and keep the sound effects in a separate project, or is there a better approach?
I’d also like sound effects to play while the music is running. How should I organise and export everything to support this?
Thanks for your help.
Hi!
The sfx song must be separate, so don't put it in a Subsong with the
others.
As for the other songs, it's really up to you. If you think the four
songs have the same instruments, you can use 4 subsongs to share them,
and export each subsong in its own file, and possibly load one of them
at a time to save memory, or don't bother and load everything in one
go, if memory allows it.
You can also have 4 songs (5 with sfx) if it seems simpler to you. As I
always create new instruments for every song, it's what I do.
Instruments don't cost much anyway most of the time.
Hope it helps!