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u Making Music with DMC 5 by Richard Bayliss Special thanks to Rio / Rattenrudel for updating DOWNLOAD DMC Music Editors (Pack contains DMC V2.1 (GRAFFITY), DMC V4.0 (GRAFFITY) + Docs (By Richard), DMC V5.0, DMC V5.0+ (CREAMD/C64.SK), DMC V5 PACKER, DMC V5.0 SCANNER & DMC V7.0 (GRAFFITY+UNREAL) www.redesign.sk/tnd64/ DMC%20Music%20Editors%5BTND%5D.zip Getting Started with DMC 5 3.1 Introduction This tutorial covers the use of DMC 5. Compared to DMC 4, DMC 5 is a completely different music editor & is a whole lot more difficult to learn. Compared to DMC 4, the composer looks does really basic, but to tell you the truth, it's looks are deceptive though because It has a whole lot more put into the application As with DMC 4, there are no instruments ready made, so we are going to have to program these ourselves, however before we do, we'll take a look at the DMC 5 editor itself. Take a look at the screen below & you'll see what I'mean. If you understanding the whole manual of DMC 4, you will get on very easily with DMC 5. Remember, both editors have their own advantages & disadvantages. --------------------------------------- :Track 01:Track 02:Track 03: :Sector00: --------------------------------------- :00*...00:00*...00:00*...00: : : :01 ...00:01 ...00:01 ...00: : : :02 ...00:02 ...00:02 ...00: : : :04 ...00:03 ...00:03 ...00: : : :05 ...00:04 ...00:04 ...00: : : :06 ...00:05 ...00:05 ...00: : : :08 ...00:06 ...00:06 ...00: : : :09 ...00:07 ...00:07 ...00: : : :0A ...00:08 ...00:08 ...00: : : :0B ...00:09 ...00:09 ...00: : : --------------------------------------- :Rtime : :14:15 1:00-01 OCTAVE:02 SPEED :01 : :Timer 2:00-01 MUSIC :00 VOLUME:0F : :00:05 3:00-01 POSIT.:-- : --------------------------------------- As you can see, this is the main environment of the DMC composer. And it does look pretty dull doesn't it? Well don't worry, it's a very good composer ;o) You are able to download an updated version of DMC 5, from the Friends Downloads page, the software is distributed as Public Domain & is allowed to be spread, or copied freely. Some basic instructions are included on how to get yourself started with this editor (mainly the controls). 3.2 The Sound Editor Before you try & get composing music, we'll need to do first use the Sound Editor to create our instruments. This isnt an easy process; you would be required to have some sort of programming knowledge to work these sounds 100%. Below you'll see a screen shot & the names for the parts of the sound editor. The size of this image is pretty meaty, but parts of the editor have been marked with white numbers, so I could indicate to you what these functions are & what purpose they serve. --------------------------------------- - :AD SR WV PU FL V1 V2 V3:Soundnames:#00: :.0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00K--------------- :-----------------------: : :00 0000 00 0000 00 0000: : :01 0000 01 0000 01 0000: : :02 0000 02 0000 02 0000: : :03 0000 03 0000 03 0000: : :04 0000 04 0000 04 0000: : :05 0000 05 0000 05 0000: : :06 0000 06 0000 06 0000: : :07 0000 07 0000 07 0000: : :08 0000 08 0000 08 0000: : --------------------------------------- - :Rtime : :14:15 1:00-01 OCTAVE:02 SPEED :01 : :Timer 2:00-01 MUSIC :00 VOLUME:0F : :00:05 3:00-01 POSIT.:-- : --------------------------------------- - 1. Attack/Decay: (AD) This controls the default volume & duration of your instrument. 2. Sustain/Release (SR) A second control, which is to set a volume & longer, continuous duration of your sound. 3. Waveform (WV) This function reads from the wave form table, to form instruments. 4. Pulse (PU) A special function, which creates pulse sounds according to table, for when you use $4x or $5x as a sound inside the Wave form editor. 5. Filter (FL) A special function which allows you to add a synthesized filter into your sounds. Please note that these will not work unless you set FLT.XX with/without FRQ.XX in the sector editor. 6. Vibrato #1 (V1) Controls the vibrato delay. 7. Vibrato #2 (V2) Same again, but this time with another vibrato. 8. Vibrato #3 (V3) A special vibrato to create various modes. 9. Sound Number (#000) This indicates the instrument you are currently creating. 10. Waveform Table A table where you program your own sounds. 11. Pulse Table A table where you program your own pulse. 12. Filter Table Where you program your filters. 13. Sound names (Not numbered) If or however, you wanted to store your own instruments data then you can load & save all your sounds from the disk. Now that's all the functions explained, so we are now going to create a few instruments. Before we do actually create any instruments, I would advise you to read the section about Waveforms in Wavetable in DMC 4 manual. Same types will be used in the DMC 5 wavetable editor also. Right, now we have these set up, we shall make some of our own instruments, although there are some sampled sounds supplied with DMC V5.0+, it would be very lame to use another person's instruments it is far better to create your own. We will make our first sound which is the main lead instrument. So copy the following from the diagram below. You may think 'Aaaah you're doing the same thing', but that is where you are wrong, because the waveform is pointing at the correct position of the wave table. The pulse is not required, as the C64 recognizes it as a saw tooth. And we still use $01 as the filter. What's happening here is that we're calling the right wave forms. Please remember that there's more that meets the eye, when producing sounds and music using the DMC V5.0 player. Later on we will be showing you how to do filtered voices, but first, we'll work on the main sounds. We'll try & create a minor chord, using saw tooth. Where we were last left from, go to the next free sound (Where it's all blank) & then enter the following example below: AD SR WV PU FL V1 V2 V3 0C 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 Now move your cursor underneath WV (Which represents the wave table) & then enter the wave table, by pressing the SHIFT button & RETURN. Now edit the wave table as below: 04 2100 05 2100 06 2103 07 2103 08 2107 09 2107 0A 9004 You probably wonder why I used 00,03,07 beside the wave form number, 21. This is because 21 represents the saw tooth & $00,$03,$07 represent the octave to make a minor chord. Using 9004 will make the sound jump back at $04 so we have a continuous minor chord. Which you should be familiar with in the future. Our next step will be to create a major chord. So go to the next blank sound table make everything the same, except the WV, & put 0B (not zero eight) on to the wave table. We are now going to make a major chord. Follow this example below: 0B 2100 0C 2100 0D 2104 0E 2104 0F 2107 10 2107 11 900B There we are, simple enough. We have created a major chord, using $00,$04,$07 as the octaves. Try experimenting more with the octaves beside the wave forms, you'll end up with some cool effects. I promise :) 3.3 Creating Your Own Drum Kit After getting used to various sounds, we are going to start to go a little further into the music making scene. Before we actually compose any sort of music, using DMC 5 player, you cannot be without certain sounds. The next sounds which we are going to create is our own drum kit. As usual, in the sound editor, let's find the next blank sound, indicate attack decay (AD) as $08 & sustain release (RS) as $00, indicate the wave form table to jump to $12 & pulse table (PU) to jump to $05 & then follow the example below. The Wave Table: 12 89FF 13 490B 14 4909 15 0900 16 9015 This was for our first drum. As you notice, we mix our sounds, to make it C64 drum like. At first you will find this task difficult, but it will get even more simpler once you have got used to this. Now lets create our own pulse table. 05 0800 06 0000 07 0000 08 9006 Here we are, our first drum. We have another drum to create, which should be simple enough. Find the next blank sound & then set the wave form to jump to $17 on the wave table, copy the pulse table as above, set the attack/decay as $09. Now follow this example for our wave table. 17 89FF 18 490F 19 81FD 1A 490D 1B 490B 1C 89FF 1D 901C That's our second drum complete. We are nearly ready to get started using the track & sequence editors for composing music, but before you get started, try & experiment more creating sounds, etc. If you want to create your own filter tables, then use the same method with the pulse tables, & set up your own filters for your sounds. These filters wont work unless you set the filter in DMC 5's sequence editor, but we will be taking a look at this later on. 3.4 Making our first piece of music If you remember taking a look at the DMC 4 tutorial, you would have familiarized yourself with the track editor. DMC 5's track editor is -exactly- the same. No instructions really needed to on how to use the track editor, except for use SHIFT+RETURN to enter the sector editor. You probably have the instructions with DMC 5 on how to access these editors. Now let's do a small piece of music, to get you started. Go to sector $00 & enter the following: SECTOR 00: 00 DUR.03 02 SND.01 04 D-3 05 D-4 06 D-4 07 D-3 08 D-4 09 D-4 0A D-3 0B D-4 0C END Now let's edit sector $01: this is where we have the drums & bass. xx will represent drum 1 & yy will represent drum SECTOR 01: 00 DUR.03 02 SND.xx 04 D-2 05 SND.00 07 D-2 08 D-3 09 D-2 0A SND.yy 0C D-2 0D SND.00 0F D-2 10 D-3 11 D-2 12 END Now we have two sample, we'll leave the third track blank, so you can experiment with the sequence editor. This tutorial is only for DMC V5.0 beginners & will be updated later on, probably in a couple of month's time. Now let's play with the track editor and make the two sequences sound like music. TRACK1 TRACK 2 TRACK 3 00 TR+00 00 TR+00 00 -STOP- 02 --- 01 02 --- 00 03 --- 01 03 --- 00 04 --- 01 04 --- 00 05 --- 01 05 --- 00 06 TR+03 06 TR+03 08 --- 01 07 --- 00 09 --- 01 09 --- 00 0A --- 01 0A --- 00 0B --- 01 0B --- 00 0C TR-02 0C TR+02 0E --- 01 0E --- 00 0F --- 01 0F --- 00 10 --- 01 10 --- 00 11 --- 01 11 --- 00 12 TR+05 12 TR+05 14 --- 01 14 --- 00 15 --- 01 15 --- 00 16 --- 01 16 --- 00 17 --- 01 17 --- 00 18 END! 18 END! 19 --- 00 19 --- 00 There you go, a 2 channel piece of music. I was going to add more, but there really is no point, because this is a tutorial to get you all started using DMC. Anyway, here's some more interesting things before I leave you experimenting using DMC 5. 3.5 Other Bitz! You have understood the basic bits using DMC 5. Now we shall go into the harder parts on using the DMC music editor 5. I'll show you how to use a music packer later on, but first of all let's familiarize ourselves with the sector editor a little more. You may notice that we only used simple commands, but you can also use other commands, such as VOL.xx, which is volume (Shift+V), SWITCH (Shift+X) ADSR.xx (Shift+Y), FILT.xy (Shift+F), FREQ.xx (Shift+Q) & -GATE- (), GLD.xx (SHIFT+G), SLD.xx (SHIFT+S). When you add a filter to your sounds, you must use track 3 for the particular sound to work a lot more properly. What you do is add the sound no, read from the sound table, then you at FLT.xy. You may wonder why I added xy. This is because 'x' represents the filter type (use 1,3,4 or 5) & 'y' represents the volume of the filtered sound. After using filter command, you can add a note. Also when using filtered sounds, you can add a frequency filter (FREQ.xx). You can use any value for the frequency sounds. ADSR can also do cool effects in your sounds. To stop a note from playing, we use the -GATE- command. You can use -SWITCH- to add some effect to your sequence. You can also use the glide and slide commands (GLD+SLD) to make your note slide. When you are composing music, you have to be extremely careful, because if the duration of your sounds do not calculate up to the same value, your song will go out of tune. 3.6 Packing your Music There are two different sorts of packers for DMC 5. There is the original packer by Graffity, or the DMC 5 packer by Iceball/Motiv8. These two packers will raw DMC music files and then will pack these to a smaller size (just like an ordinary cruncher and packer). Don't attempt to use a cruncher or different packer for these tunes, else you'll just get a load of garbage in your machine code memory. If you use Action Replay, then I recommend that you use the GRAFFITY version of the packer, else if not. Then you can use Iceball's DMC 5 packer instead. To use GRAFFITY packer, using Fastload or BASIC, load the packer like you normally load a normal C64 disk program. Next load your own music file like you do in BASIC, then enter M/C monitor & type G $2E00. Once done, wait a few secs then enter the address where you want to load your packed music. I recommend you use $1000 as start address so you can use the tune on various PD utilities, such as Old school Demo Makers, Note Writers, etc. Once done, your tune will relocate & pack to the address. Now save the tune, & play it (init $1000, play $1003) in your own programs or PD utilities ;). To use Iceball's DMC 5 packer, load from BASIC, enter load name & then enter the address to pack to ($1000), wait & then save. Easy. That ends our DMC 5 music composing tutorial ;o). Maybe there will be more in the future.