Sorry to post here so much in the past few days. Ive been reading through the manual and I have three questions:
In the manual it says that automation playback is calculated at tick rate. Does this mean that any automation entered in smaller divisions than 1 tick will not be included? (in the automation lane I can divide 1 line into 256 parts but there are only 12 ticks per line).
For the vibrato command does the “speed” part of the command relate to ticks, and the depth part of the command relate to semitones?
(would 0V4x be pitch variation cycling every 4 ticks?)
Lastly, I cant understand this part of the manual, is it a typo?:
Ix - Volume fade in in the current note column, with step x * 10 (91 = 0I10 in effect column, 92 = 0I20 in effect column etc.)
Ox - Volume fade out in the current note column, with step x * 10 (A1 = 0O10, A2 = 0O20 etc.)
The vibrato speed means x/12 of a pitch down/up cycle, for example, it takes four lines of 0V3Y to completely slide down and up and back to normal, while 0VBY does a full vibrato in that line, that’s all I know by previous observation.
As for 91 and A1, that’s what they used to be before 2.8. They probably missed that part when updating manual.
I tried out 0V3y AND 0VBy but the timing seems to drift (from 1 cycle every line and 1 cycle every 4 lines) by the end of the pattern. I think the speed value may not be based on ticks but on units of 256/15 (because the highest value that can be entered in one digit is F).
Its not too noticeable for vibrato but it seems like its impossible for it to cycle in time by using pattern commands.
Does anyone know if the second value in the vibrato command relates to semitones? If not, it might be impossible for the pitch cycle to be defined accurately in semitones.
To be more exact about pitch and timing for a vibrato I can create a “custom vibrato” in the automation lane but Im confused by the part in the manual that says “automation playback is calculated at tick rate” because one line in the automation lane is divided into 256ths but 256/12=21.333333333, so it might not be possible to do timings based on exactly one tick there either.
For a tremelo/vibrato/autopan which stays perfectly in time, using the sampler waveform modulation volume/pitch/panning envelopes might be the best way.
To create a vibrato that rises one semitone then falls to starting pitch (with one cycle per line) I could use a looped envelope with three points, the first on 0:0, the second on 0:32 and the third on 0:64, with the second point at 0.333.
Is 0.333 almost exactly one semitone?
Is it possible to enable/bypass the sampler waveform modulation envelope by pattern commands? (otherwise, I would have to trigger a second instrument every time my sampler waveform modulation pitch envelope vibrato comes on). If not, maybe I can use “0Exx - Set active sample modulation envelopes’ position to offset xx.” as a workaround.
Sorry for the long post, any help here much appreciated