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| TraxWeekly Issue #108 | Release date: 09 Aug 1997 | Subscribers: 960 |
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Welcome to TraxWeekly Issue #108!
This week features a large bulk of reader email that addresses the question
of what should be featured in future issues of TraxWeekly. We have included
some of the better suggestions here. Thanks to everyone who gave us some
sort of feedback!
Articles include a continuing discussion on sound cards, proper uploading
of music disks to ftp.hornet.org, and something you all will really enjoy:
A collection of hilarious and/or outrageous judging comments from the first
round voting of Music Contest 5! Congratulations to everyone who made the
cut for round two! And what would an issue be without a TraxCulture? =)
Enjoy the issue!
Gene Wie (Psibelius)
TraxWeekly Publishing
gwie@csusm.edu
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Letters and Feedback
1. Letter from the editor to Xenoc
2. Letter from Beacon
3. Letter from Stone-o
4. Letter from Lachlan Barclay
5. Letter from Mark Bradley
6. Letter from Lala
General Articles
7. Carded Sound..................................Centurion
8. Archiving Hornet..............................Snowman
9. MC5 Round One.................................MC5 Entrants
10. TraxCulture...................................Random Lamers
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Distribution
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TraxWeekly Staff Sheet
]--[Letters and Feedback]----------------------------------------------------[
--[1. Letter from the editor to Xenoc]----------------------------------------
From gwie@owl.csusm.eduWed Aug 6 00:21:19 1997
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 00:20:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gene Wie <gwie@owl.csusm.edu>
To: Xenoc <Xenoc@groove.org>
Subject: Re: letter
> You really ought to consider your journalistic ethics. Trax or not,
> traxweekly is not a tabloid, but you have treated it that way. What
> really did you or anyone else gain from reading my private mail to
> somebody who I am unhappy with? Nothing, I'd imagine. And please,
> don't use my poor judgement as an excuse, for not only have I been
> ridiculed for it plenty, it was not directed toward you or any other
> scener, either.
A few things:
1. If TraxWeekly was a forum to discuss ethics, we might as well just
close it down and be done with it because all that is really entertaining
and/or amusing depends on the clashing of opinions and ideas within the
scene. While we do try and focus on music and its issues, sometimes we
need to pull in material for reader entertainment.
2. Welcome to the internet, where email in any way or form is not very
"private" in any sense at all. Also, I am not in the business of
sneaking away with other people's mail. They send them to me for a
reason: they want to see them publicized. Their reasoning? They want
to see someone suffer some form of embarassment/ridicule for opening
their mouth. If someone sends me a message for that reason, I will
probably run it. I am not in the business of censoring any one side,
and I certainly will not cover up issues.
3. Group politics irritate me, and I do my best to expose it
irrationality with every change I get. It does not matter to me who is
in what group, what group releases what crap. What bothers me the most
is when people start firing bombshells and don't do any research. Ryan
Hunt currently cannot update the web page if he wants to. Having
suffered a hardare mishap, he is without a modem in which to conduct
phluid's affairs. He has no money with which to purchase another,
because more important things like utilities, gasoline, and food are
first in the budget.
However, I do wish to apologize for any animosity that has been directed
towards you because of the running of your message to radman. It is not
my intention to "piss off" anyone. I just hope that next time you find
it fit to tell off someone, please leave the people who have done nothing
to provoke out of it?
And perhaps, if there ever is a next time, please inform your group
coordinator that its very bad form to claim that "so-and-so never wrote that
letter" when in fact it was actually written and sent. It makes me less
inclined to trust their opinions in the future, because I hate people
that lie to me.
But again, my apologies for any inconvenience you might have suffered (no
matter how virtual) because of my actions.
Regards,
G.
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--[2. Letter from Beacon]-----------------------------------------------------
First of all, let me give the Traxweekly staff my compliments for
bringing the tracker music scene together on a weekly (well, almost ;)
basis.
I see the scene as a place where the young musical talents of tomorrow
are being nurtured and matured. Musicians have the opportunity to publish
their music to a wide audience, and to get much-needed feedback on how
they're doing. People make contacts from all over the globe, contests are
held for the mere fun of it AND for promoting new talents. In a few
years, we will no doubt see that many of the trackers today up in the
skies of music production in the commercial market.
On this behalf I have the following suggestions to Traxweekly:
* Invite people to write articles and ads on how and where to publish
music, tips on how to package your demos, how to expand your music
hardware, where to send your custom music-videos etc. etc. In short,
I'd like to see more articles helping the trackers to get up and
ahead. Of course there is no receipt on success, but some advice would
surely be of great help. And NO, I don't mean articles such as "How to
get started with Impulse Tracker" ;D
* Bring back more interviews, as many of the people interviewed in
Traxweekly will, no doubt, make it big-time in the time ahead.
Remember that renowned artists such as The Black Dog were active in
the now increasingly old days of "BBS-music". I'd love to see artists
refer to Traxweekly and the tracker scene in music magazines such as
The Wire (for instance).
* Also I'd like to see some short notices on the movement in the
commercial area of music making. Especially I'd like to exchange
information on new and up-and-coming (commercial) labels around the
world (and not only ads from TRSI Records ;). Just think of being one
of the lucky people being signed to a prodigious label in the very
start, such as Wall of Sound or Delancey Street once were.
Of course, these suggestions rely on the READERS to contribute, but these
things will certainly not happen if no-one tells what we want.
In the meantime, as always, keep up the good work. I've got a dr Pepper
to catch. Support the scene!
Cheers, beacon/sublevel3
Christian Stigen Larsen, chrisl@fm.unit.no
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--[3. Letter from Stone-o]----------------------------------------------------
Hi Psibelius!
I'm a tracker from Germany, Hamburg.
I want to answer your question what I want to have in TW:)
I'm very interested in the tunes of other people, but I often don't know
where to get them.
Maybe you could make an article with the best Trax-websides, would help me
to save a lot of money:)
I'm also interested in synthezisers, because I don't have one myself and
don't know too much about them.
And maybe a test of Softsynth would be cool ,too.
Are there any you can really use?
This article about soundcards in the last TW was very interesting.
An Article what a tracker should buy for equipment would be cool, too.
Maybe like this:
1. Buy a PC
2. Buy an AWE32
3. Get Impulse Tracker
4. Hmmmm can you help me?
And what I also want to know: Are there any other Traxpapers beside TW?
Of course I would never stop reading it, but I want more Trax stuff.
Are there any Traxbooks?
On which IRC server do i meat the coolest guys?
meet ho ho
Hey jo TW is cool! (although I don't understand everything in it:) )
Keep on the good work
Bye,
Stone-o
STONE-O@ProjektA.nshift.de
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--[4. Letter from Lachlan Barclay]--------------------------------------------
To Psibelius,
> Readers! What do you want to see in TraxWeekly? Interviews? TraxCulture?
> Private and potentially embarassing email conversations? ;) Please let us
> know!
What I readlly would like to see is a listing of mod of the week. Not .MOD
exactly but music file of the week (MOD S3M IT XM whatever). There are so
many good mods and so many crap ones out there I don't know what to get.
Having one pick of the week (or month) or a list of classic mods would be
great!
Mod of the week! Also a "charts" list where trax readers can vote would be
good. Not a crappy style MTV charts, but proper, user votable ones!
There you go!
Thanks man,
Lachlan Barclay
s943011@mhs.schnet.edu.au
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--[5. Letter from Mark Bradley]-----------------------------------------------
You asked what we would like to see in Trax Weekly.....
Well, personally I have really enjoyed and benefitted from reading the
tracking guides. It is really cool that there are people out there with
more talent and/or experience than myself who are willing to share their
technical knowledge with others. The scene has come a long way in the
year or two I have been out of it.
Perhaps in future you could have an article or three particularly aimed
at those like myself who never progressed much past "newbie" status. I
for one am sick of using other people's samples, and want to know how to
find, record and edit my own samples. Simple stuff like how to make
effective loops (you should hear my attempts at a looped string or synth
note...*shudder*). And maybe just moreof the little tips to improve your
tracks....
Keep up the good work.
Respect,
Mark Bradley
m.bradley@student.canberra.edu.au
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--[6. Letter from Lala]-------------------------------------------------------
Hi all!
Vincent Voois had an interesting, and fairly objective article about
soundcards in TW #133, but let me just point out a few things:
>Advantages of AWE in comparance to GUS:
>
>-AWE has digital processing circuit implemented, offers a neat effect
> on your playing environment in chorussing and reverbing, when you
> have good quality samples these things can make your song sound very
> professional.
Yes, I know Vincent was comparing the AWE to the GUS MAX, but just to defend
Gravis, the PnP series (with the AMD InterWave processor) have built-in
effects. Okay, so it's only echo and reverb, and only mono, but hey, it's more
than nothing! :)
>-Memory up to 28 MB
The GUS PnP can have 8 MB at most (which is a lot more than the 1MB limit of
the MAX).
As for Vincent's comments on what a decent soundcard should have:
>-OPL and/or MOS 6581 implementation :)
This made me smile. The Commodore-64's SID chip lives on!!! A few (old :)
people reading TraxWeekly might be interested in that there is a fantastic
SID chip emulator available for MANY platforms. It's called SIDPlay, created
by Michael Schwendt:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/5147/
It is the most accurate 6581 emulator available out there, it even emulates
the filter! (Yes, it has some trouble with mixed waveforms, but nothing can be
perfect in this world. :)
Of course, an emulator in itself is not very interesting without the musics
themselves. Do the names of Rob Hubbard, Martin Galway, Ben Daglish et al.
ring a bell to you? Wait no more, the High Voltage SID Collection (HVSC for
short) is the best organized C64 music collection:
http://www.dhp.com/~shark/c64music/hv_sids/
It contains over 4000 (!) C64 musics in a well-organized, continuously
updated collection. Even if you were not a proud C64 owner, you should listen
to some of these tunes, as I think, *THESE* were the basis of today's MOD
musics, way before the Amiga came into existense. They are damn good, too, and
never more than 64 KB in size! :)
PS: This could've been a paid advertisement by HVSC, but since I am also one
of the maintainers of HVSC, I did it just for fun and to stir up nostalgy. ;)
LaLa (Imre Olajos Jr.)
lala@interaccess.com
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--[7. Carded Sound]----------------------------------------------[Centurion]--
I'm responding to an article by Vincent Voois in TW107 which compared
AWE32/GUS/EWS. The article mostly criticized the AWE but contained many
inaccuracies and misstatements which I have pointed out. The author
seems to be stating his love for the Gravis sound cards more than he is
comparing them accurately with the other two mentioned cards.
>Gravis is capable of offering clear quality and sounding in wavetable
>what Soundblaster x.x/pro/16 does with software mixing, but then
>without NOISE (no offense against the music group:)).
With the 32 bit interpolation included in Impulse Tracker the noise from
software mixing is virtually eliminated, and other software mixing such
as that included in Cubic or MikIT are even better than hardware mixing,
although very CPU intensive.
>Disadvantages of the AWE in comparison to GUS tested in Impulse
>Tracker which is one of the less editors supporting AWE:
This statement gives away VV's bias against the AWE but still is
accurate. Few, if any, other trackers support the EMU8000, although
they still support the AWE if you use the software mixing for SB16.
Still, Impulse Tracker was used as the constant in the testing, and this
is not the most appropriate place in the article to criticize the AWE.
>-30 hardware tracks, Creative says 32 but they lie, it is 30,
> EMU8000 only supports 30 tracks.
Only partially correct. The EMU8000 does support 32 channels if using
ROM samples but because of the way it accesses its RAM it sacrifices 2
of its channels. As an IT playback device, the AWE does have 30
channels. Apparently this was a mistake on Creative's part.
>-44.1 Khz hardware frequency limit: most GUS samples sampled above
> 44Khz or will be played with a Khz rate above 44.1 will not be
> sounded at all!
This statement is entirely incorrect. The hardware limit is 180 Khz,
not 44.1, which would be very limiting. The 180 Khz limit is suitable
for most songs, although sometimes a little irritating. Also you are
ignoring the fact that the GF1 chip used in the GUS decreases its
playback frequency if more than 16 channels are used simultaneously.
>-Canned sound: The AWE may sound warmer than it's SB x.x/pro/16
> variants, it is still sounding canned and it has depreciated it's
> warm base environment which sounds colder than in SB x.x/pro/16 mode!
This is a very unclear statement, but apparently is based on opinion.
For an accurate and fair comparison, statements should be based on fact,
not opinion.
>What a decent sound card should have to my opinion:
>-68Khz hardware frequency range,
Again, you are basing this on your assumption that the AWE's limit is
44.1khz. Ideally the limit should be higher than 180 Khz.
>For firm in averages, GUS wins in all, for professionally: EWS wins
>above AWE.
Now I had to laugh when I read this. Bugs aside, the EWS is undoubtedly
the best sound card a mod freak (and arguably a midi freak) can buy, and
saying the GUS is the best would be a great distortion. The Digital I/O
alone makes it a better card, not to mention 64 hardware channels and
reverbs/choruses. If properly supported by tracker programs this sound
card is by far the best on the market.
>Let's not discuss the SB 64-bit sound card since it requires a pentium
>90 as a minimum system requirement because it has totally NO onboard
>RAM.
Again you are making incorrect statements, the AWE64 is not 64-bit, but
64 voices in MIDI. The AWE64 comes with 512k RAM, the AWE64 Gold has 4
MB RAM. The reason it requires a Pentium-90 is because it also includes
WaveSynth/WG which is a 32 channel software midi synthesizer for Windows
3.1 or WIN95 (16 bit and 32 bit versions are available.) It has its own
GM bank which cannot be altered and includes a large number of reverbs
and choruses. Although the synth is stereo, the effects are only
available in mono (unlike the EMU8000) but otherwise are comparable in
quality. As stated before, Wavesynth is entirely software mixed, which,
especially when using DSPs, is very CPU-intensive. It still includes
the EMU8000 to supply the other 32 voices (or 30 using RAM samples.)
Although I appreciate your comparisons, I don't think they were very
objective or scientific in testing methods.
-David Friberg AKA Centurion
gf53514@navix.net
davidfriberg@juno.com
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--[8. Archiving Hornet]--------------------------------------------[Snowman]--
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 01:38:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christopher G Mann <r3cgm@cdrom.com>
To: tcarey@op.net
Subject: Grrrrr.......
I have removed groove2[a-d].zip
Reason? See UPLOAD.NFO...
Subdirectory specifics:
/incoming/music/disks -
Music disks/packs must contain either 4+ songs or an .exe player.
--> One .zip file per music disk!
Do not include embedded .zip files in your upload (i.e. unzip
myupload.zip and happy1.zip, happy2.zip, happy3.zip... appear).
Disk filesize must not exceed 8192k (8388608 bytes), compressed.
I don't just make these rules up to be a mean. There are very important
reasons why these are in place. This rule for example, is in place to:
1. Keep the average size of music disks from growing (in bytes) too
quickly. A music disk that is split over 4 parts (like yours) is
deceptive. It's still around 7 megs in size. Big music disks hurt
the archive by eating up more room. Although we have no problem with
keeping big music disks online if they are good, the public rating
system is not yet in place to remove 4/5ths of the music disks that
are 8 megs and crappy.
2. I am tired of handling email from people who can't understand the
concept of multiple .zip files for one production. It's even harder
doing stuff like technical support for people who bought a CDROM
and have to manually extract each part from the CD in order to make
things work correctly. See Hornet Underground Volume 1/2, Hornet
MODS Volume 1.
3. Author/Group pages list the numbers of productions for each given
person and group. Having 4 .zip files for 1 music disk by Analogue
Music means that Analogue has essentially uploaded 4 unique
productions (to the Hornet Archive's way of thinking). This provides
misleading information to users ("Oh wow! They have 37 Analogue
Music productions online!", "Sorry, just 10... each music disk has
many parts"). Additionally, this takes away the possibility for us
to do any kind of uploading limits based on NUMBER of files uploaded.
We might need to do this in the future, we might not. But it's good
to keep your doors open.
It is safe for you to assume that there are at least 2 other good reasons,
as well as rational reasons for all of the other /incoming/music rules.
r3cgm
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--[9. MC5 Round One]------------------------------------------[MC5 Entrants]--
This past Monday (August 4, 1997), the results for the first round of
Music Contest 5 were released to the scene public. Over three hundred
entries competed and were judged by over one hundred judges. Today,
TraxWeekly is proud to bring you some of the more enlightening comments
given to songs by MC5 judges (who will remain unnamed =).
For those of you who have any funny our outrageous judging comments to
share, please email them to <gwie@csusm.edu>. At this time we are *not*
interested in the name or contact for any particular judges.
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"...it just flows around (in the middle of nowhere?)."
"I give it points for originality and creativity, but its
repetition is what is holding it back. Sounds like the entire
song is 1 pattern copied over and over and over and..."
"Sounds a little martian version of line dancing. :P"
"Feels light n' fluffy, ... However, the "fluffiness" gets lost a
little when the highs get busy."
"Ugh. Piercing noise sample almost made my head explode."
"Main lead in the middle part sounds like it came from a softcore porno
flick on Showtime (not that I would know...*whistle*)."
"Slightly above mediocrity. This sounds like one of two things: an
up-and-coming tracker who entered above his/her division with their best
song, or an accomplished (not has-been ;) ) tracker who entered a
half-ass effort. Either way, it can and will get better. Hopefully.
But, it don't suck, Willis!"
"*Yawn* I think I fell asleep during this song. Maybe I'm mistaken, but
I believe I heard the same lead at least 8 times. This is decently
/tracked/, but poorly composed. If this song had, at any time, changed,
I may have enjoyed it more. This tracker needs to learn that variety is
good, and the same old crap is just that - crap. I think I'll go back
to bed now..."
"This tune would benefit from some chords"
"here's a quarter; go buy some tracking talent."
"I'm being really nice giving this song a med. score."
"After listening this song through, the listener must be unbelievably
annoyed and bored. Veteran division? Get a life."
"Here's one of those songs that makes you think "why did this person even
bother to take the time to upload it?" .. No redeeming qualities whatsoever.
Grating on the ears, poor sample choice, no talent whatsoever displayed,
even for a beginner. Next, please."
"The title seems to imply some relationship, or desired relationship, to
the Siren that's created numerous module-format gems, and I can say that
this is mildly successful in the area of dramatics, but not even remotely
in terms of production or presentation. Siren's an excellent choice for
pagan idolatry, but you--the composer--have size 18 shoes to fill."
"I really don't think it was necessary to enter this song into competition."
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Note: TraxCulture is not intended to be taken seriously as a general
view or perspective of the members of #trax on the world itself.
It is a collection of comments of people wasting their time on
IRC saying many stupid things they otherwise wouldn't. If you
are easily offended, please avoid reading this article.
<psibelius> ozstrid: help, I'm confused. Who is this??? =)
<OzStrid> psibelius: It's ozone and Astrid dorqie
<OzStrid> psibelius: Yeah, you dumb Asian
<delta_x> ozone: you ARE asian, you dumb asian :)))))
<jmX> trissy: im here like 20 minutes once a week now...at most....
its sad...but this channel is full of a lot of bullshit...it
might as well be #dumbassTeens4152
<psibelius> I don't mean to be rude, but are some of us somewhat oh....
PISSY this evening?
<Daredevil> psi: yeah it seems that way
<jackal_> psi, Yes...
<OzStrid> No, you're just a dumb Asian
<psibelius> oz: dude, go munch on a wonton or something.
<Daredevil> i mean, irc is for fun... fuck it... if you don't like it,
don't log on
<cd> irc is for fun? what?
<psibelius> dude, IRC is for reaffirming your manhood by having a @ by
your name in the channel list. Duh.
<cd> i'm a man? damn
<psibelius> cd: you're "the man."
<Daredevil> psi: aaahhhhh..... now i understand
<OzStrid> psibelius: Right on! I want a BIG @ tho
<cd> dont oppose the man
<delta_x> cd: in 20 years you,ll be ;--)
<jackal_> when I grow up, I want an @ in front of my name...
<psibelius> then again, we need to watch out for the asian invasion.
<OzStrid> psib, mosaic and me will take over the usa!
<OzStrid> (kennyc will be busy mudding)
<Blackwolf> what about the skinny white boy invasion?
<jackal_> psi, too late, they own Orange County, California, USA
<zinc> ozone was speaking anothing language.. i think it was... ASIAN!
<psibelius> zinc: asian isn't a language, you twit.
<delta_x> zink: "asian" is a new language now?
<delta_x> zink: then i speak "white" that means!
<psibelius> asian english = wontonics
<ozone> I am multilingual, I can speak Australian (G'day!),
ebonics (Yo Bitch!), Canadian (Ya Hey) and Asian (HARRO)
<ShadowH> I also hear you speak credit card
<Blackwolf> werd i just got my round 1 MC5 comments
<iv> blackwolf: what were they? :)
<Blackwolf> iv: "you suck"
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