music update
by Jeremy on October 23rd, 2011
It was brought to my attention that the music page was more than 3 years old. So, I moved it.
I made a new music page that links to some of the sounds I have been making lately. I’ve got a bunch of bad ideas that need to be shared…
Booby Trap has a show on the Friday, October 28 at the Princeton Pub in Vancouver. We’re going to play a bunch of songs from Rocky Horror. It’s gonna be silly.
xi2bmk2
by Jeremy on October 18th, 2011
Wow, I sure was wrong in my last post.
It’s cold outside now, and no snow yet… So, I have no excuses. Here’s a little tool that I cooked up to share with old-school fast tracker 2 heads that play with beatmaker 2.
xi2bmk2 will rip through your dusty old .xi instrument collection, and convert it to a shiny new .bmk2 and .wav collection.
Some notes:
- xi2bmk2 will operate recursively on an input directory that you specify. The first folders that it encounters will become the category names in the .bmk2 file.
- You can use the .wavs for whatever you like, but the tuning information, key maps, and loop points are all stored in the .bmk2 xml.
- Since fast tracker‘s envelopes were so radical, they are not converted to the standard ADSR that beatmaker 2 uses.
- Stereo pair instruments (identified by two files, *L.xi and *R.xi, in the same folder, with matching keymaps and samples) will be magically welded back together into a single stereo instrument.
You can download it here.
Enjoy!