. founded march 12, 1995 _| : _____ t r a x w e e k l y # 101 ______________ |___| _ _______/ /\___________________________ / ____________/ /\__\ _ _______/____/_____________________________ / / _________ \/__/ ______\ \_____________________________ / / / `_ . .~ \____\/ _ __ ___ / / / _____ . _ \ __ ___ _/__/\ / / / / /\ _ The Music Scene Newsletter __ __\__\/ _/__/ / ____/ /__\_________________________________ _____ ___ _ / /\/ /___ __________ _ ______ _ ___ \/ /\ / / /____/ \ \ / /\ / __/\ / /\ \ \ / \ /____/ / / \ / \/ /_ \___/___/ \ \_/___/ / \_/ / / \ ___\ / /_/ /______/\/ \ /______/\/ \ /_____/ // \ \ / / / \ / / \ \ \ \_\ \ \ \_\ \ //____/\____\/ / / / / / \______\/ \______\/ \_____\/ \ \ \ \ / / / / \____\/\____\ / / / / _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ / / / /__/ w /\___/ /\___/ e /\___/ /\__ / l /\___/ /\____/ / / __/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/________/ / __\ \____\ e \____\ \____\ k \ ___\ \____\ y \__________/ \____\/ \____\/ \____\/ \____\/ \____\/ \____\/WW ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | TraxWeekly Issue #101 | Release date: 12 Jun 1997 | Subscribers: 940 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- /-[Introduction]------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------/ Hmmm...I just realized today that I spelled "hundredth" wrong in the "hundreth" issue. Oooops. I still can't believe I did that. Oh well. =) Charging into our second hundred issues, we have a lot of feedback on Pubert's IT->XM converter article from the last issue, along with a new TraxCulture I know you'll all enjoy. Farmer sent us a letter you should all read, bringing up some fine points about web browsing and the accessibility of the Hornet Archive. That and a few advertisments wrap up this issue. See you next week! Gene Wie (Psibelius) TraxWeekly Publishing gwie@csusm.edu Note: A few of you have been wondering why TraxWeekly has been on and off some weeks. I have not been exactly diligent about keeping this publication coming out week by week, so expect that every few weeks there may not be an issue. My apologies. =) /-[Contents]---------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------/ ________ _________________________________________________________________ / ____/_/ __/ \ __/ / _____/ \ __/ __/ ___/_ < \____\ \ \\ \ \\____ __/ __/_\ \ \\____ \_____ \__ \ \ \ \\ \ \ww\ \\ \\ \ \ \ \ \_ _\________\________\\___\____\ \_____\\_______\\___\____\ \_____\_______\ Letters and Feedback 1. Letter from Urmil 2. Letter from Coplan 3. Letter from Farmer General Articles 4. The Final Barrier.............................Johan Althof 5. IT/XM Misconceptions..........................Blackfox 6. The Great Woozle Debate.......................Anonymous 7. TraxCulture...................................Random Lamers Advertisements Emissions #9 MusicDisk HarCor MusicwerX Compo II Closing Distribution Subscription/Contribution Information TraxWeekly Staff Sheet /-[Letters and Feedback]---------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------/ --[1. Letter from Urmil]---------------------------------------------------- From uhp@uakron.eduSun Jun 1 17:15:30 1997 Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 01:17:57 -0400 From: Urmil To: gwie@mailhost1.csusm.edu Subject: Congradulations! Congradulations to trax weekly!! Happy 100th! I just want to say thanks to Gene Wie and all the people who have made trax weekly a great music scene newsletter. I give you guys a lot of credit for taking the time to make a great newsletter. I'm proud to be a subscriber and although I don't do any tracking (I may someday), I enjoy listening to other peoples works especially the top dog trackers. Keep up the great work guys! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --[2. Letter from Coplan]--------------------------------------------------- From coplan@thunder.ocis.temple.eduSun Jun 1 17:15:35 1997 Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 02:26:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Coplan To: Gene Wie Subject: Pulse's Message in TW#100 First of all, it just hit me when I started reading the glorious Trax Weekly issue 100 that it's the big 100 issue. Sorry it's a little late, but Congratulations. As I scrolled through the 100th issue of Traxweekly, I am reminded by many of the good things that makes the scene unique. It's the little things like Snowman's little story or that little Trax Culture section that draws me to the scene in some way yet unknown to me. I have been around the scene since Trax Weekly issue #79 (at least that's the first one on my HD). Not a long time. And since I have been around, I have been faced with the constant debate over which is better, Impulse Tracker, or Fast Tracker 2. It has always amazed me from the start (when I used Scream Tracker 3.xx) that this software is free. FREE! As I sit here and enjoy music that probably only myself and a few friends would listen to (music I wrote myself), someone out there has been responsible for the program that I use. My brother, who is quite computer illiterate, could care less. His philosophy: if it's free software, it can't be that good. But here you have three very well coded pieces of software, and the writers ask nothing of me. This is truly a generous gesture. And like typical human beings, we tend to take this for granted. Last weekend, I refused to check my e-mail. And when I did, my mailbox was loaded with messages either about petitioning Triton to add Interwave support, or responses to them. I have one question of the source of this request: How can you be so cruel? Here you have a programmer who has put a great deal of time into learning a programming language. Not only that, but they have put a great deal of time into the little software package called Fast Tracker 2 (or in similar instances, Impulse Tracker). Let them be a patron to society, someone who can't help but to please other people, be them a person looking for a challenge. Whatever the reason, no one programs free software unless it's going to be fun for them. But when the users of your software are constantly banging on your door demanding more of the program, the task loses it's edge. It's no longer fun. On a closeing note, and this is directed at whoever started that petition, consider the time it took to get Fast Tracker to the point that it is. Have some consideration for that person's hobby. If you aren't going to help code the interwave support, you better go buy another damn sound card. It's just not right to destroy a person's pride and joy. A note to all of you upset about Pulse's decision to discontinue updates to Impulse Tracker, accept the facts and learn from the mistakes made. I seriously doubt that Fast Tracker and Impulse Tracker will be the last trackers to grace the scene (in fact, Mod-Plug Tracker should be comeing out soon). If there is a good free program for tracking out there, it's author should recieve nothing but praise. Coplan / Immortal Coil.Tracking ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --[3. Letter from Farmer]--------------------------------------------------- From GORENFELD@vrone.netSun Jun 1 16:51:39 1997 Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 10:47:26 -0700 From: Louis Gorenfeld To: gwie@mailhost1.csusm.edu Subject: Letter to the editor... (traxweekly of course) :) The Hornet archive has gone steeply downhill since I've discovered it (and that wasn't that long ago); The main thing I'm complaining about is the childish additude of the maintainers of this archive. The page reads : "when I find out that IE incorrectly displays a standard HTML tag, I usually go out of my way to exploit it, making our pages work as poorly as possible with that browser." (then he goes into a whole paragraph of complaining about how people should use unix and how windows is horrible). He failes to mention that most people do use Windows for most Internet access and that there are many people that are interested in tracked music that are not in the scene. Recently, he made the default search form incompatible with MSIE (funny, it used to work). This is especially bad because I feel that MSIE is way ahead of Netscape (supporting many tags that netscape is just starting to put in), and in Netscape, you have to wait for most of the graphics to load before the page is displayed (not so with MSIE). Is it really that hard to code HTML right? I don't think so. --Farmer - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hmmm...we're a music newsletter, but I guess we can argue about Netscape and MSIE as well. First off, my opinion about web browsers: I don't like MSIE very much either. I spent a good chunk of my time downloading it, a ridiculous eight megabytes (compared to netscape's four). Not all of us sit on nice fast T3 connections to the Internet 24/7. Second, MSIE is not "way ahead of Netscape" in supporting tags. Microsoft has just taken the opportunity to implement them in a different way with different names in order to draw the HTML standard into their own set of thinking. Not that that's bad or anything, but when a lot of those different implementations don't correspond with the HTML 3.2 draft and final (http://www.w3.org/), isn't there something wrong? And in defense of the archive maintainers: they may be losing part of their audience this way, but as they are the ones having to deal with making their search engine work and updating it, they can do whatever the hell they want with it, which includes breaking browsers like MSIE. Also, Snowman is asserting his opinion that UNIX is a much better operating system. He is not "telling" the entire Internet community to dump windows and go to unix. For example, a Mercedez-Benz is a much better vehicle than say, a Toyota Corolla. Is that going to make every person on this planet dump their Toyota and move on? I doubt it. We tend to stick with what we're familiar with, and what works most of the time. Comments, readers? -psib ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- /-[General Articles]-------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------/ --[4. The Final Barrier]-----------------------------------[Johan Althoff]-- Being a new reader of trax (started last issue, actually) I couldn't help reacting to Pubert's article concerning an IT-XM converter. Even though he asked not to be criticised for his arguing but for his cause, that's exactly what I want to do. First argument out: > 1. That type of question assumes IT users are not stubborn to move over > and force themselves to use FT2.. and it implies as well that the person > saying it is most likely a FT2 user who is stubborn to move over and > force himself to use IT :) I'm sorry, Pubert, but there can be only one solution: Either accept each other's differences in taste, or learn how to use both. I'm an old screamtrackertracker (=)) myself, so getting back to IT was not a very big problem. The main reason I don't release IT's vary, but mostly it falls on the sample editor. Enough about that. The next point Pubert raises is quite interesting. > 2. If you have used IT to anywhere near its capacity, you will agree that > to even attempt at converting an Impulse Tracker module to an S3M module > ( to later be loaded in FT2 and saved as an XM ) is just plain out of the > question! Parn' me schire, but isn't that exactly the same problem an IT>XM procedure would encounter? I mean, how would the converter handle IT's instrument system? creating a new FT-instrument, with a new batch of sample data tagging along, for each IT-instrument that uses the same sample? And how to treat the NNA's? Pitch envelopes? Tempo slide commands? Extra-extra-extra-ridiculously-fine tune commands? I don't wanna be arrogant, but a fully used IT converted to XM would lose almost as much as if converted to S3M. This could only have practical use while sketching up a tune, in which case an S3M would do almost as much. > 4) The coding of an IT>XM converter would finally bridge ( what seems to > be ) the final and last remaining gap between FT2 and IT users.. and > that's a good thing! :) > If this sounds familiar to you, then you know the feeling of frustration > and disappointment :)- > But with an IT > XM converter utilities, then these co-ops would be a > piece of cake, thus many great artists ( I was not including myself.. you > decide: http://www.Geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Alley/3657/ ) who could > create some unbelievable songs could finally work together, not letting > tracker program preferences and biases get in the way! Your vision is good, I can't argue with that. It all loops back to technical problems. The co-op in question would, as stated earlier, be a very general piece of tune, with no FT- or IT-specific commands, and that would mean a rather dull tune, at least from a technical point of view. Better then to force one of the trackers to work in the other's program, learning a new way of tracking as he went along. I'm not going to overdo these critics, and as I said, a converter would be convenient in certain situations. But I would not like to be the coder to do the works, he would get so much shitty complaints from the likes of the incompete nerds who have been bugging Pulse about this or that feature (myself included =) that he'd probably convert into hinduism and go chase butterflies at some hilltop in remote India. Visions are good, but I'd say: Put some effort into learning FT2/IT (depending on which one you already use) instead of depending on others. Tracking is very emotional, and the thought of having a program fiddling with your material doesn't appeal to me. Johan Althoff Tito / Candela althoff@geocities.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --[5. IT/XM Misconceptions]-------------------------------------[Blackfox]-- I was reading TW100 recently and I came across the following paragraph in Pubert's IT -> XM converter article. These contained some very misled and effectively misleading information about certain trackers and formats. Following is a quote of one section of the article: > *Note: Now some have said that the S3M format supports 16 bit samples and > channels above 16, which IS true, but FT2 does not, and that is just the > point I was getting after! I don't even know of any player that will > support a 16bit/larger than 16 channel IT... it is rumored that Cubic > Player does ( I prefer "Pubic Player".. join me in the cause! :D), but if > even so, that is not what I am concerned about., the issue is to smoothly > go back and forth between FT2 and IT. I would like to clear up a number of things stated incorrectly in this article, and hope that this may be included in the next TraxWeekly so as to resolve any confusion amongst readers of the article. First of all, FastTracker 2 and it's XM format most definitely DOES support large, 16-bit samples, and plays in correct 16-bit sound. I don't know where Pubert got this information from, and I'm not sure whether or not S3M supports large or 16-bit samples, but i can assure everyone that the XM format most certainly supports 16-bit samples. FastTracker 2 also gives you the option of whether or you want to use the linear pitch table or the old Amiga standard (that's Amiga as in the computer - the one on which tracking as we know it today actually started many years ago). The difference, by the way is that most amiga mod trackers used a method of sample pitching based on how many bytes to skip in the sample, or something similar. The thing is, to lower a sample by one octave this rate must be HALVED, rather than being, for instance, LOWERED by 12 semitones, so when you try to slide from one 'period' to another, the pitch does not change in a linear way. FT2 does provide a choice in the config menus of which method you wish to use, so as to retain compatibility with the standard protracker/soundtracker MOD format. > New Note Actions (which seem to strike a chord in some people and hit > anerve in others) I may as well quickly go into this now... I'm not looking for a flamewar, just trying to clear up some of the confusion on the subject. FT2 does not support NNA's. This feature has widely been seen as IT's most revolutionary feature, along with virtual channels (they are very closely related). The good thing about NNA's is that it lets you avoid annoying sample-cuts when triggering a sample while another is already playing, by using virtual channels to keep it playing. In FT2 this would meaning having to use another channel for the second sample to be played in. The debate starts here: Some people see this FT2 method as being inefficient tracking, since more channels are used in the pattern. However, you must keep in mind that IT is technically doing more or less the same thing, creating new 'virtual' channels when necessary to accomodate both samples at once. Both trackers only mix those channels with samples currently playing in them, so neither one is really less efficient when it comes to playing these two examples. The only real difference as far as tracking is concerned is that your patterns tend to be neater and easier to read because there's no need to start relocating half your notes to adjacent channels. The bad thing about NNA's and virtual channels is that they are very difficult to implement code-wise, especially when you are trying to implement these features into an existing player which uses the older method. This is the very reason why CP's support for IT playing is so unsatisfactory - CP used a generic format designed for formats like MOD, S3M and XM. When IT came along, it meant that for full support of these features his entire player would need do be re-written! This is an aspect that should be kept in mind when considering music for demos - IT is better for the musician, but much worse for the coder. The main cause for debate between FT2 and IT users, however, seems to be the interface. Most trackers who started on PC would recognise that the IT interface is based directly upon the ST3 interface, which makes them seem right at home when they switch from ST3 over to IT, since they are already very familiar with the ST3 interface. For this reason, they are very uncomfortable in FT2 because it is a mainly mouse-based, graphical interface. This is because (listen up) the FT2 interface was based directly on the Amiga Protracker interface, which all amiga trackers became very familiar with when they started tracking. For this very same reason, FT2 trackers veel very uncomfortable when they try to use IT, since they are used to a completely different interface and find it very difficult to adjust to the keyboard-based interface of IT (which is also the main reason why so many Amiga trackers didn't move straight over from Protracker to ST3, even though it is tecnically a far superior tracker). Leave it be said that whichever tracker you like and feel most comfortable with is the right tracker for you, and whether you decide to stick with that tracker or make an effort to change over to another system is ENTIRELY UP TO YOU. Technical superiority is not everything, and difference in interface does not make one or the other the better tracker. It's all a matter of personal taste, and anyone who tries to put users of their rival trackers down on IRC should be forced to use MODEDIT (PC) for a month. ;) Phew! Sorry this is so long - it's an issue I find myself frequently involved in and one I believe should be resolved sensibly. Thanks Black Fox/AV blackfox@axis.jeack.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --[6. The Great Woozle Debate]---------------------------------[Anonymous]-- by an author who wished to remain anonymous (edited and submitted by zinc) For months now, there has been one word that has been taboo in a #trax'ers language. A simple enough word, harmless, and good. Yet, still, it has caused so much harm and uproar. "Which word?" you must be asking yourself. That, my friend, is exactly what we are out to discover. Undisclosed sources say that there is one way to anger and annoy many of the denizens of #trax. One word: Woozle. According to legend, it originated some time last year, in the sultry summer heat. Late one night, someone got a little too bored, and thus, the woozle was born. According to CarterUSM, the woozle started as a term of endearment by ami and ior. When asked what it was, specifically, he replied "A cross between a snuggle and a nuzzle, with a little bit of wurfle possibly." Beek classified it as "nothing really. like. a hug?" Then there are those who are woozle-ignorant, shown clearly by Vegas's comment of "What the Hell is a woozle?" Now, looking at this evidence, do you see anything that could cause such mass destruction as was evident in the weeks following the birth of the woozle? No, neither do I. Let's delve further. In a dated log, ami described the woozle as being "Undefined in meaning. It can be anything you'd like it to be, from a hug, to a kiss, to a kick in the pants. Once you create your meaning, however, you must not share your meaning with anyone else, as their knowing your meaning may conflict with their own." A controversial issue like this must be taken from both sides; Daedalus was quoted as saying "This is a non-woozling environment!". Apparently, he was opposed to the woozling, as were others in the #trax community. In the coming weeks, ami would be banned from #trax because of her woozleflurous behaivor, and a campaign for her unban would begin. Her vows never to woozle again were in vain, however, because the woozle began to spread like wildfire. It was popping up everywhere, spreading as quickly as the infamous pravda incident. One such occurance happened when one innocent young man began to greet his fellow #trax'ers with jubilant woozles upon their arrival. The infection began. In the following weeks the woozling continued to gain force, much to the disdain of such people as basehead, Khyron, Daedalus and gd. They decided to lay down the law, and unleashed the mighty kick-on-word script. Such kicking has never been seen as that which followed the setup of the script. Every woozle was promptly followed by a neat boot out the door, "No W**zling!!" said the kick message. It didn't take long for the woozle fad to die out. There are only so many times a person can be kicked and not begin getting annoyed. Their automatic woozling that had seemed so natural to them began to cease, and all began to settle back to normal in the fair channel #trax. Looking back in retrospect, nearly a year since the last woozle- sighting, we have to think to ourselves - did we use the woozle, or did the woozle use us? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --[7. TraxCulture]-----------------------------------------[Random Lamers]-- T R A X _____ __ __ __ _______ __ __ ______ _____ _____________/ __/\/ /\/ // //__ __// /\/ /\/ ____/\ / __/____________ /____________/ /__\/ /_/ // /_\ / /\_/ /_/ / / _ \_\// __/____________/\ \___________/_____//_____//____//_/ //_____/ /__\___/\/____/\____________\/ \_____\\_____\\____\\_\/ \_____\/\___\__\/\____\/ww Well, managed to IRC a bit over the past week, and pulled together some pretty entertaining stuff. Again, if you really don't go for the crude humor, insults, and swearing, and generally adolescent behavior, please skip this article. =) ----- On Music Contest Five... * DD- has started his MC5 !! w00p SampLe-SLiceR: You entering MC5 as well? no... are you entering MC5 ?? Tired and stupid....Yes i'm entering MC5 DD: you're the one with the Alesis Quadraverb S4 Area51 Five-Niner DD: make me some orchestral samples!@#$ :) human: you writing an orchestral? DD: Yeah.. human: kewl... for mc5? I'm gonna enter with a country western song. psibelius: ahehaeha kewl *5* psibski: fear, i may enter this time base: dude, write a country western song with cheezy lyrics. =) gd: is it illegal to say what style you're entering into mc5 publically? :) psib: ehh.. =) human - i dont recommend you do it, but its less of an offense than distributing your song pre-compo gd: Dude, we all know that country western, bluegrass, and cajun mods will win MC5. gd, who cares if it's not anonymous? basehead - it is anonymous it's not anonymous? OH hehehe psib - well of course mc5 is anonymous ----- On revolutionary tracking programs... I think we need a tracking program that hooks up the internet and downloads pr0n for us automatically and places it as wallpaper whil we track. psib: hmm. maelcum's dream tracker. basehead: No that'd search out all the .au porn sites base: maelcum's pr0n would have to be australian and basehead's mom psibelius: I'll be sure to put that in my tracker ----- On Basehead's mom... my mom is weird =) some1 said she was hot Mrs Beaver 8) and maelcum got all jumpy ----- On sucking in Music Contest Five... Should I enter MC5? I'd lose :) haheha werd to Necros' Mc5 Foreward. aheha andre: you can't really "lose" in mc5. =) "MC5: Where everyone's a winner!" everyone wins! DD: can you tell he doesnt care about the scene anymore? =) psibelius: tell that to charles odom$!@ i'm surprised sno published that who is charles odom? c_ray_c: the guy who came in last place in mc3 rookie charles odom rocked mc3 argh, ouch. oh dear.. how can you remember his name? that's so cruel.. i just think 'sodomy' and i remember charles odom chuck sodomy, yeah base: you're just fucked up. =) * c_ray_c is trying hard not to get water up his nose since he's laughing so hard back when songs were numbers "hey! 43698 rules!" "yeah but 23987 sucked." if i come in last place mc5 veteran, someone shoot me =) e-133+.s3m sheesh, you could have at least used SMALL numbers... 1 through 56 or something blame floss Take your pets, squeeze soft parts of their anatomy a ehahahahah yeah, allllllways blaming floss We know it wasn't really your fault gd ;) please hey the key thing was funny, it gave snowman a chance to feel like he coded some secret espionage-like software or something like the CIA would have dont make me cry .. i ran out of tissues :) you know he got into making those ascii gfx =) ANYWAY okay, okay... hehe ----- On downloading crap from the Hornet Archive... I kinda miss Hornet's * rating system. * c_ray_c kicks psibelius sorry, reflex Now its more difficult for me and zinc to go download shitty half star songs to make fun of. =) "If you gave a million of monkeys a million years to track a techno tune, one of them would. Well maybe not, but you'd get a lot of songs that sound like this." --zinc psibelius: aehhaha "According to the composer, this is supposed to be dance music. However, there is no way I'd want to, or be able to, dance to this crap." "If I could describe throwing up to music, this would be it." psib: lovely.. =) psib: i had some pretty nasty comments in my mc4 ones i think I dunno, I just got a crack out of that. =) hehe -- psi said "crap" psib: one of them was 'oh my..' and another was 'check please..?' btw, this year judges comments will be labeled, as to who wrote them gd: DOH! gd: ahahha. "Man, you're worthless. Why don't you just give up tracking and go code visual basic?" psib: hahaha ----- Bagging on people's exit messages... *** behemoth has quit IRC (When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. -- 1 Corinthians 13:11) "i am a child" - behemoth :D human - (applause) EAHaheaheahe "He who dies with the most toys, wins." I am a man, and I am a child. wins what? Hell if I know. =) "He who dies with the most toys, is dead" ----- On tracking the world's phattest tune... Hell, I'm doing a 64 channel bluegrass/acid mix, so you'd better watch out. fuck that, i'm doing an orchestral folk tune that's one big banjo *whistle* How about rap mods? hrm... maybe I should enter a gangsta rap track. "we're going down to M-C-five.. gonna kick their but and make them dive" boomtzzz....boomtzzz... werd negro.. eyez gonna create some phat booty-shake ride the train... freaknasty wannabe type phatness. maybe i'll imitate siren imitating necros this year "I'm goin' vet, so you better watch-it, pet" human - wow 3rd generation music don't be getting all silly and think you're going to blow someone away with a horribly righteous song :) ----- Bagging on Charles Odom (again)... Geeze, can't you guys leave Charles Odom alone? Dang...=) psibelius: you're just jealous human: oh yeah, I really want to be where he is on the charts. psibelius: maybe it was opposite day human, were you born a total wanker or did you have to sort of work up to it little by little? base, if you're gonna try to insult people why bother with a smiley? base: hey, if you want music to kick your ass, you should kick ass yourself. human: ehm, HARRO. its called im just fooling around base: uh, any softer and i would have been tickled psibelius: i try.. its tuff ----- On MTM's no longer being allowed =(... mtm's not allowed :) WHAT? MTM NOT ALLOWED? WHY THE HELL NOT, DAMNIT? psibelius: you're still using mmedit? xm s3m it mod .. take your pick wow.. you might be the only person on the planet still using that program ----- On the mega /<-r4d 3r33+ leader of Hornet... gd: eventually he's going to be some pot-smoking rich guy who owns cdrom.com and come to demo parties to sell cigars from a little stand Oh yes, just what we need, Hornet Cigars. base - ahaha .. well i dont know about the pot bit .. he does drink a lot of beer .. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- /-[Advertisements]---------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------/ --[Ethos9's Emissions #2]--------------------------------------------------- ethos9's emissions#2 has now released: "emissions" - the sequel - yet another journey through the prodigious world of oldschool chiptunes we all adore (don't we !?).. just like the first edition of "emissions", this second comprehensive documentary of chiptune-music features a selection of -exclusive- music from some of the finest protagonists of the global electronic amiga/pc-underground: amibentmove/tokyo dawn records/amable, assign/ethos9/tokyo dawn recs/radical rhythms, beacon/sublevel3, dynamix/destiny/void, eha/stoned brain records, elusive/smoke/peek, heretic/destiny, juice/phase distortion, lonewolf/beam/nocturnal, mefis/tokyo dawn records/funk/tpolm, radix/limited edition/smoke/groove, screamager/kfmf/rr, skaven/futurecrew, spoon/rr/razor1911, subi/mono, the unconsciousness/ethos9/rr, vegard/melondesign/beam, velvet/tokyo dawn recs/amable, vivid/rr/delusion and vim/mono.. yes, all ~80 tunes groovilicious, previously unreleased (exception: those few 64ktro-tunes) and fingerlickin' good! so be sure to grab your copy of the musicdisk off either ftp://sdc.wtm.tudelft.nl/pub/music/groups/ETHOS9/e9-emsn2.zip or http://andrew.cmu.edu/users/merrelli/rr.. :) chiphiphurray, assign -- ethos nine - tokyo dawn records - radical rhythms http://kaoz.org/ethos9 - marc.wallowy@metronet.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --[HARCoR - The MusicwerX Compo II]----------------------------------------- Information: With the success of our first compo, we have decided to hold a 2nd! We saw a lot of mistakes that were made in the first one, and want to correct them in this new improved compo. Most notable is our stricter rules, our new judging system, and our strict schedule. We hope these additions enhances the compo for everyone! We have a theme this time around! The whole reason behind this is because when we were getting together the cd from the first compo, we realized with all the various styles, it made it kind of difficult to decide exactly what to put on it. We eventually decided to select a decent mixture, and named the cd "Digital Balance." Hardcore techno is the theme of MusicwerX Compo II! I know this excludes a lot of people, but trust me, we will get around through the various styles eventually! Now, you can send in ANY style, but if it's not what we're looking for, it more than likely won't make it past Phase 1. The Binary-Phase Judging System was implemented for a several reasons. First of all, I found it hard to get all 6 judges to come in at the same time, and listen to and score all 50 pieces. With this system, we easily eliminate anything that won't be considered on the cd! Also, we decided that the tracker community might want to have something to do with the selection process for the cd. This leads to Phase II, which is where non- MusicwerX members vote! After we average the scores, and post them, we'll offer the deal to be on the cd to the top 10. If someone turns it down, we'll just go to the next one down! Now, you're probably thinking "WAIT, cd, what?" Yes, officially, Digital Balance will be released on July 4th. If the sales do decent (nothing big, just enough to pay for itself), then we'll make one for HARDCoR! Wanna know more 'bout Digital Balance, visit our website! Our website: http://www.musicwerx.com/ Send all entries to: hardcor@musicwerx.com Rules: -Allowed formats are XM and IT only -Compression must be in ZIP format -Maximum size of compressed file is 4 megs -Unpublished Work Only -No limit on entries -No copyrighted samples (besides artists own) may be used Judging: Phase 1: Entries will be listened to by our judges. 25 of what we consider to be the best ones will be selected. If a tracker submitted more than 1, then the one we decided was the superior will be considered. Phase 2: The entries that made it to this phase will be offered for download off our website. Anyone with a valid email address (and we will check to make sure no one votes twice) will be allowed to vote on entries. It is not required that you vote to be in the compo. You may not vote on your own piece if you decide to vote. To make things even, your vote will count as an average of all the votes you made. This is to keep people from voting intentionally low on everyone else in an attempt to 'fix' their entry. Dates: The competition officially begins on June 2nd. All entries must be received by June 16th. Phase 2 will begin on June 23rd. Phase 2 will end on June 30th Final Results will be ready on July 4th. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- /-[Closing]----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------/ TraxWeekly is available via FTP from: ftp.hornet.org /incoming/info/ (new issues) ftp.hornet.org /info/traxweek/1995/ (back issues) /info/traxweek/1996/ /info/traxweek/1997/ TraxWeekly is available via WWW from: www.hornet.org, under section "Information" and subsection "TraxWeekly." 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