sample<\/strong> is sampled at 16000 Hz, you will have to play it twice faster (C-7) to play it to its natural note.<\/p>\n\n\n\nOn the opposite, if your sample player frequency is high, like 16 kHz, you will have to use lower notes to play 8000 Hz samples right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(by the way, most digidrums on Atari ST were played at 4 kHz! Such low frequency is enough for raw drums, but not enough for more expressive instruments, such as piano and such.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe bottom line is this<\/strong>: when wanting to play samples, ask the coder what is the sample player frequency. It will probably be 8 kHz on an 8-bit. By knowing that, you will know what note to use when composing the song. Don’t worry: if you or your coder make a mistake, it is still possible to correct the sounds by transposing them in the patterns, or upload new samples.<\/p>\n\n\n\nHowever, <\/strong>one more subtlety it that the player itself may run at 16 kHz, yet ask you to use 8 kHz on AT3: this is because its frequency table is shifted accordingly. This is the case for the digidrums and AKY SPL player of AT3 for 8 bits.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nAlso, it is strongly recommended to use more than 8 kHz<\/strong> for tuned and high-pitched instruments (piano, or any other melodic instrument). 16 kHz may be overkill, so I often settle for 11025 Hz<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nDiginote<\/h3>\n\n\n\n The diginote, in the sample editor, has a default note of C-6.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThis indicates the note used when a sample is played in the event track<\/strong>. However, it has a hidden consequence: when exporting the samples, the sample is resampled<\/strong> according to this note, so that it sounds right on the hardware. Warning<\/strong>, the sample is resampled even if used in a pattern, so it is advised not to change the diginote with samples used in patterns (anyway, the diginote has no consequence to them, so you’d have no interest in changing it).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Overview Arkos Tracker can handle samples natively in two ways: The events are used to play single notes, non-looping samples, which make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2575","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.julien-nevo.com\/arkostracker\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.julien-nevo.com\/arkostracker\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.julien-nevo.com\/arkostracker\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.julien-nevo.com\/arkostracker\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.julien-nevo.com\/arkostracker\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2575"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.julien-nevo.com\/arkostracker\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2880,"href":"https:\/\/www.julien-nevo.com\/arkostracker\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2575\/revisions\/2880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.julien-nevo.com\/arkostracker\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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