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Re: Apple II 8bit sound

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Date	2012-09-06 10:13 -0700
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Subject	Re: Apple II 8bit sound
From	BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>

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On Thursday, September 6, 2012 10:53:15 AM UTC-5, (unknown) wrote:
> On Thursday, September 6, 2012 4:26:55 AM UTC-7, Daniel Kruszyna wrote:
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> > If you don't mind cross developing, then there already is such an editor
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> > called 1tracker. The tracker itself can be found at 
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> > http://shiru.untergrund.net/software.shtml 
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> > and the Electric Duet plugin can be found at 
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> > http://krue.net/1tracker/
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> Cool!  I spent a few hours yesterday and enetered the entire SMB theme song into Electric Duet.
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> I got the sheet music from:
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> http://www.mariopiano.com/mario-sheet-music-overworld-main-theme.html
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> It sounds really good...  I may have misjudged my choice of octaves.  
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> My grade school training in reading music has slipped from memory..  Can anyone tell me how to best handle this:
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> 3rd line down in the above music, 2/2 timing.  There are 3 notes in the first bar with a different note length indicated, as well as a "dotted note". I'm thinking maybe this is an effect of pedals on the piano that can't be reproduced in Electric Duet?  Probably not, I just did some more googling on reading sheet music.  Sorry if I got any terminology incorrect.

A dotted note means it counts for one and a half of the indicated value.  So suppose a regular quarter note took four rows, a dotted quarter note would take up six and so on.  Same with rests.  This is one of the reasons why sheet music uses powers of two for duration since you can use dotted notes to represent the missing numbers, and when all else fails using the two notes that make up the duration with ties (the curved bars).

-B

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Apple II 8bit sound aiiadict@gmail.com - 2012-08-20 14:12 -0700
  Re: Apple II 8bit sound D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2012-08-20 22:13 +0000
    Re: Apple II 8bit sound aiiadict@gmail.com - 2012-08-20 15:24 -0700
  Re: Apple II 8bit sound Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2012-08-20 22:06 -0500
    Re: Apple II 8bit sound aiiadict@gmail.com - 2012-09-05 13:02 -0700
      Re: Apple II 8bit sound Antoine Vignau <antoine.vignau@laposte.net> - 2012-09-05 13:22 -0700
        Re: Apple II 8bit sound aiiadict@gmail.com - 2012-09-10 16:51 -0700
      Re: Apple II 8bit sound Daniel Kruszyna <dan@krue.net> - 2012-09-06 11:26 +0000
        Re: Apple II 8bit sound aiiadict@gmail.com - 2012-09-06 08:53 -0700
          Re: Apple II 8bit sound D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2012-09-06 17:10 +0000
          Re: Apple II 8bit sound BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com> - 2012-09-06 10:13 -0700
          Re: Apple II 8bit sound Daniel Kruszyna <dan@krue.net> - 2012-09-06 18:01 +0000
            Re: Apple II 8bit sound D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2012-09-06 18:32 +0000
            Re: Apple II 8bit sound aiiadict@gmail.com - 2012-09-06 11:44 -0700
              Re: Apple II 8bit sound BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com> - 2012-09-06 20:44 -0700
              Re: Apple II 8bit sound Daniel Kruszyna <dan@krue.net> - 2012-09-08 18:15 +0000
                Re: Apple II 8bit sound aiiadict@gmail.com - 2012-09-08 11:47 -0700
  Re: Apple II 8bit sound Antoine Vignau <antoine.vignau@laposte.net> - 2012-08-21 01:09 -0700
    Re: Apple II 8bit sound Dagen Brock <DagenBrock@gmail.com> - 2012-08-21 14:02 -0700
      Re: Apple II 8bit sound BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com> - 2012-08-21 14:41 -0700
      Re: Apple II 8bit sound Daniel Kruszyna <dan@krue.net> - 2012-08-21 23:11 +0000
        Re: Apple II 8bit sound aiiadict@gmail.com - 2012-09-04 14:06 -0700
      Re: Apple II 8bit sound Antoine Vignau <antoine.vignau@laposte.net> - 2012-08-21 14:26 -0700
        Re: Apple II 8bit sound aiiadict@gmail.com - 2012-08-22 10:01 -0700
          Re: Apple II 8bit sound aiiadict@gmail.com - 2012-08-23 08:35 -0700
            Re: Apple II 8bit sound aiiadict@gmail.com - 2012-09-04 12:05 -0700
              Re: Apple II 8bit sound Daniel Kruszyna <dan@krue.net> - 2012-09-04 19:49 +0000
                Re: Apple II 8bit sound aiiadict@gmail.com - 2012-09-06 10:38 -0700
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