Thank you so much for this! Like many others here, I was completely overwhelmed. You cover basics other people glossed over, and you provide helpful pointers with the gotchas, something I always look for in a good tutorial. Really well thought out! The hands on sample is a great way to integrate the knowledge, and I really appreciate that too.
NP, glad you liked it and found it helpful, I have a whole series of these 😁 I made them because I had a tough time getting started myself. There were some OK tutorials, but like you said, there was a lot of stuff they didn't cover at all or glossed over too quickly. So, I figured I'd give back and cover all of that stuff and here we are!
Thanks enormously for this vid! I’m sure it’s very good!! Before I watch it, I type here the very first problems in the interface I stumbled upon as a comple te novice: No obvious place to set song bpm speed. No obvious place to chose an instrument when clicking on every track header. Clicking on the plus sign in the tab for adding samples shows wave files as un clickable. Was able to add a kick drum sample (from the instrument editor in Window menu) yet it was not the one that played for ANY channel, not matter how I changed the number in the instrument raw. No obvious access to the window with ASDR knobs for filters and amps. Etc etc.
Hi! Mobile Deflemask user here! Thank you soooo much for this tutorial on Deflemask! I kinda knew how to use Deflemask but this video taught me some tips that I didn’t know about or I missed out on. I always thought Deflemask was just a Sega genesis music app that allows you to make your own music, but this video taught me it’s more than just a music app. I hope I, as a newbie mobile Deflemask user will learn through this series to make my own Sega genesis music in the future!
Thanks, glad you got something out of it, there's plenty more videos in that series! I have the mobile version but I haven't used it too much, I just got too used to the the Windows version interface.
I LOVED the introduction where you talk about your background because it really helps with motivation for those of us who don't have a formal musical background and would still like to get into music making in one way or another. I wish you great success with that surgery too, by the way. I want to win a copy of Deflemask for MacOS please! Looking forward for the rest of the series either way. :)
Don't worry it's coming! I'm doing these in batches a few times a day to make it easy to keep track of everything, I'm waiting for more people to confirm right now.
Fun fact: The Brazilian version of the Sega Genesis runs PAL with a 60Hz clock. It also has a RF modulator for video output cause component video were way too fancy for us back in the day.
In the U.K. and Europe, different countries developed their OWN engineering beliefs of television technology signal standards... The U.K. developed their 50Hz PAL format iirc... however understand that France had something called SECAM which was different from PAL and these standards were exposed to Imperial Japan since the either the late 1920s or very early 1930s where Imperial Japan had decided on a U.K. like PAL standard while television tech was still not widely available or even anywhere near mass production until the late 1940s The Imperial Japanese PAL format was changed to NTSC-J after the U.S. military occupation... so imagine if the Japanese government decided to never use NTSC at all and instead used PAL at 50Hz... it would mean that the game systems launched in Japan would instead have to be prioritized to PAL regions using 50Hz and the respective resolutions. Brazil like other South American countries would get their tech information and hardware from their respective Europe counterparts... The British will argue how PAL 50Hz is actually superior to the NTSC but its not a simple topic and back then the ocean was not traveled by airplanes. It is ironic that Sega Enterprises Japan was unable to have a PAL region ready Sega MegaDrive and organized subsidiary branch in the U.K. and Europe where their most successful fanbase existed until 1990... two years after 1988... had they prioritized the U.K. and Europe (which isn't easy because different languages and PAL 50Hz) it would have given that region a huge two year advantage... same deal almost if the Sega of America subsidiary branch had not been such a mess during the 80s... the Sega MegaDrive could have launched in 1988.. people might have freaked out at the $200 dollar price and no game included and bad comparisons to NES but the power of the graphics would have been hard to ignore... including Altered Beast graphics.
I already bought Deflemask after watching your first video "How Sound Works on the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive", so I won't be entering the giveaway XD But thanks a lot anyway! :D Thanks a lot for this great tutorial, and don't worry about the following videos and first of all take care of yourself, your health is the most important thing! Also, we won't be bored in the meantime, we have a lot to practice before your next video is up! ^^
Well, this tutorial is a lifesaver for me to comprehend everything in DefleMask better (currently learning it with FM Synth altogether). Kudos to you Inglebard!
Sir Inglebard the 1st Is there a way to import MIDI files into Deflemask? If so, should I have a different MIDI file for each channel or have multiple channels in the same MIDI file?
Thanks for the tutorial! I've been trying to get into using Deflemask, but it looked pretty intimidating! This was really helpful! I want to win Deflemask (Windows)!
I'm not sure if you're gonna read this, but thank you so much for this tutorial! I have been trying to make an accurate FM Arrangement of some Sonic songs for a while now but never knew how to use Deflemask. Appreciate the guide!❤
I'm so glad I found your tutorials - thank you for uploading these! I'm completely new to trackers, and it's pretty overwhelming going from tinkering with Garage Band and playing by ear on MIDI keyboard to trying to figure out DefleMask on my own. My goal is to flex my creativity and create some Sega arcade-style racer kind of tracks. 😁
Np, glad they helped you out! Deflemask was my first tracker, too. Not to dunk on anyone else's tutorials but it took me a long time to get going in it because a lot of the stuff I cover in these wasn't covered in the existing tutorials I found when I was starting out. Which is why these now exist!
@@InglebardGaming it's for the people that just want too go to the tutorial part no hate against you but yesterday I just wanted to understand how the app worked, nothing more nothing less, I am sorry that my montone tone came across as something like "skip this bullshit" I was just trying to help fellow viewers getting to the "juicy" part faster
Thanks for these tutorials, currently in the planning stages of my megadrive game and am using this as a kind of break between coding sessions. Your cats are awesome, and my cat clearly likes your cats too since she keeps jumping up to play with them when she sees them on screen.
glad i found this, i been having this hankering to re work the entire mortal kombat 1 thru 3's soundtracks on the genesis. learning from Savaged regime and here, thanks for the tutorial
Thanks for the primer! I’m doing a series on developing games on mega drive or genesis as you guys call it. And I was looking for a tracker that could tweak the FM operators and I found Deflemask. So then a short google for a beginner primer and there you were. I can’t wait to write some songs in it.
Excellent tutorial. I honestly have no plans to compose tracker music, but I love this type of content. Looking forward to the instruments editing stuff.
Ran into this while following the SOTN demake on Pigsy’s channel. Incredible work on the audio as I am in the midst of playing the PS1 original. Especially given your background and the short time you have spent training yourself. I would love to win a copy of Deflemask for Windows please. Hope I’m not too late. Thank you!
You're not too late, you're just in time to be winner #22! Pease e-mail me at inglebardproductions@gmail.com and let me know where to send your download link!
I'm not a musician, and I have medical reasons for doubting you can change that. But if my comments and engagement help with the algorithm? So many need to see this. Edit: You sound like me trying to convince everyone they can be a writer or an artist. The universe has a sadistic sense of humor. Edit 2: Good luck with the surgery. You've done good - your channel is one of the best RUclips offers.
Thank you, glad you liked it! There's much more to come, but it'll be a little while since I had surgery this morning and will be recovering for a while. When I fully get back, probably in about 4 weeks, part 2 of this tutorial will be the first big video I do.
It's worth it if you really want to get into using it seriously. There's lots of niceties in the paid version including support for a lot more systems now than even when I started this series early this year. It's the only program I use to make Genesis music. I use something else for SNES music, but that's a whole different story!
No, I primarily work in Genesis and SMS on it and only dabble in the other systems. I might delve into them further after I finish the Genesis tutorial series.
i have a couple questions, 1 if you have any recommendations on tutorials for music theory, you seem really good and i think you would have the best advice, next is if you personally use a midi controller or do you make your music with the keyboard?
I don't really have any recommendations for theory tutorials. I never really learned any official theory myself. Everything I learned about composing I figured out myself, the hard, and probably wrong, way. I do everything on a standard computer keyboard these days. That includes any systems supported in Deflemask and anything else I do, like SNES, in OpenMPT.
@@InglebardGaming wow that’s interesting, yeah i’m just starting out too, it amazes me however how you made your songs with just a keyboard, and same in learning everything just by playing with notes and seeing what sounds good, but yeah thanks for the info, i hope to get better at this stuff
NP, it's definitely a fun journey to get started on. It was slow going at first for me... there were a few tutorials, but none of them covered as much stuff as I have in these so far (which is why I made them). Hopefully it'll be less slow going for you or anyone that finds this series!
You have to make sure Deflemask is in "record" mode. You do that by either hitting the record button or the space bar. Once it's in record mode, you just click a row and column in the tracker and press a key. The bottom two rows are one octave lower than selected, the upper two rows are in the octave selected.
@@coolguy-zt6tr Basically, the row starting with Z should be white keys in the octave below selected, the row starting with a would be the black keys of an octave below current, so only a few of them will work. The rows starting with Q and 1 work the same way but at the current octave. What exactly is the issue you're running into?
Personally instead of deflemask I would recommend using furnace, it's basically deflemask but fully free AND open source, basically the dev made it in response to deflemask going paid and because people wanted deflemask to be open source because the dev hadn't updated it in several years despite making a poll on the discord asking which system to add next in 2019, then in 2021 they said they were going to add neo geo but it would only be in the paid version and the free version wouldn't be getting any more updates and there were a lot of people who weren't so happy about this :P
I knew it was being worked on, didn't know there was any version available to the public yet. I'm not opposed to trying other things, I've used a few trackers at this point. I'll give it a whirl sometime.
@@InglebardGaming Oh yeah, I saw it in the other video after commenting but I still wanted to see if I could get it so I didn't delete it, what a shame But I'll definitely be present in the future lol
Question! What are the general rows we should have for the different time signatures specifically? I’m really curious about this because I think in sheet music and not rows. It’s very confusing to me.
Well, it depends on a few things, but generally you just want your total number of rows to be proportional to the numerator and denominator. So for example... Let's say your fastest note is a 32nd note. Then for 4/4 timing, you could set it to 32 rows. This way every 8 rows would be a quarter note. 16 would be a half, 32 a whole, etc. If you need 64th notes, you'd want to double that to 64 rows and a quarter note would be 16 rows and so on. Similarly, 3/4 and 32nd notes... You could do 24 rows per pattern. Quarter notes would be 8 rows, half 16, whole 24, etc. If you need 64th notes just double everything. Basically, you can just keep proceeding like that fir any timing. 40 rows for 5/4 and so on. And these are suggestions, you don't have to use these specific numbers, but they're easy to keep track of, especially if you're transcribing sheet music. You can fine tune the tempo with the overall and row speeds. Hopefully, that's what you were looking for!
I don't think it'd be considered swing if that's what you're referring to. It's really just another method to put finer controls on speed. If you have a fast speed in general, say 1, then have odd rows at 2 and even rows at 3, most people probably won't even notice the difference, but you've effectively slowed down the song as a whole by a significant degree that's in between full speeds 1 and 2. If I kept the odds and evens both set to three but changed the main speed from 1 to 2, it would get WAY slower, so having finer adjustments that only affect odd or even rows is really helpful.
Edit: Clicking File > New and clearing it out fixed the problem and now it behaves as shown in the video, but I'm still very confused about why it was acting weird in the first place. I'm trying to follow along but my software isn't behaving the same as what's in the video. QWERTYUI as an octave works, but only when I'm not recording. When I click record and press Q, it's silent and doesn't do anything. W also does nothing, E makes an E appear in 4th column of the pattern, but is silent and doesn't actually set a note. Everything I find on Google about keyboard shortcuts just completely omits which keys correspond to the piano keyboard. What am I doing wrong?
Does anyone know if you can turn on the keys notes or am I suppose to tell what notes they are by looking at them. I know my notes I just don't know piano.
I want to win a copy of Deflemask! I have windows! I have used legacy edition before, but got overwhelmed. Your videos are extremely helpful! Keep up the great work
I use the paid version of Defle mask but the default instruments Sound extremely different from the legacy should I use the legacy for the Classic sega Genesis music? Or is there a way to have that for the paid version.
Yeah, it's in the first tutorial episode. Basically you'll just click a button to load instruments. I show you how to do it in both versions in that video.
Thanks for giving me information on defelmask there other videos that don't go into depth on how to use any kind of tracker I'm not hear for the giveaway I just wanted to learn 😎
Awesome tutorial. I've been making Genesis music for years, but have always had an aversion to trackers. This might inspire me to give Deflemask a try considering it's probably way more convenient than my current method, which instead uses mid2smps. I want to win a copy of Deflemask for Windows please!
I did these a while ago now, so I probably won't go back to figure out where things are to time-stamp them. But if I end up doing new tutorials down the road, I probably will.
Any contributions are definitely appreciated. Hoping to be back in shape to do the next episode in about 4 weeks, giving me time to recover from my surgery earlier this week.
So, question: You specifically forbid us from Extended CH3 mode. Some of the pre-made instruments say -CH3- next to them. What's up with that? Are those to be avoided?
Ha, well, it's not "forbidden" just complicated if you dont know what it is exactly or how it works. The ext ch3 instruments are built for that mode. You can use them in regular songs too, but they were optimized to get the most of ext ch3 mode. If you like how it sounds in regular Genesis mode, then knock yourself out!
It wouldn't surprise me if there's a tool for that, but I've never seen one myself and never looked for one before. I'm sure transferring the notes is technically possible but I don't see any way you'd be able to transfer instruments over from midi to to deflemask. For VGM, haven't seen that either, that one I'd think would be easier, but haven't seen it myself. Anyone else reading this have an answer for these?
@@InglebardGamingIt would be useful to save time. Of course the quality depends on the quality of the musician. Thanks for replying. Your work is amazing!
@@InglebardGaming I was trying to make a classical sounding song I've had in my head since 2013. I'm used to using Nanoloop on iOS, so I thought I could just keep going, but it wouldn't let go past one minute and fifty-four seconds. I then figured out I can use the channel boxes in the top left corner to split them up; which is allowing me to continue. Now my issue is that the rows are set to sixty but it blanket covers each section, making large spaces in between the notes. I don't have the vocabulary yet to be more specific, I'm sorry about that. And thank you for the quick reply. I tried looking everywhere for the answer, I just have a habit of having unique problems.
What you can do timing wise, especially if you're familiar with general music timing / notation is this... If you have 4/4 timing, meaning 4 beats per each measure, which is the mist common timing. You can set rows to 32 with that and then add patterns in the upper left. With 32 rows, if you place 1 note every 32 rows that's a whole note. Every 16 is a half. Every 8 rows is a quarter note, every 4 an eighth note, every 2 a 16th and every row a 32nd note. With 64 rows all that is doubled and every row is 64th note. Follow all that?
@@InglebardGaming I understand a little. Whenever I see numbers I have a difficult time though. To get the tempo I wanted I had to set the bpm to 12. It originally was way too fast. Also, if I set the rows to 32 it will cut off some notes. With how daunting the options and control it gives you I'm surprised I got as far as I did with Nanoloop. I may need to either trim the fat or come back to it with more experience. I'll mess around with it a bit, and keep watching your videos. I do recognize I am jumping the gun a little bit. Thank you again for the help.
Okie doke. One more piece of advice I can give, especially when you're just starting out, is consider each row the fastest possible note you need. Let's say you have 4/4 timing. If you're only using whole notes, well then for each measure you only need one row. If you'll have half notes, then you'd need 2. Quarter notes would need 4. Eighth notes would need 8 and so on. So the key there is just recognizing the absolute fastest note you need and using enough rows in each pattern to accomodate that. For me, when I'm working in 4/4, which is most of the time, I generally don't go faster than 32nd notes, but I tend to use 64 rows so I have extra room in case I need something faster, especially to make effects a little finer.
Thanks for putting time and effort into this. That said, interrupting the tutorial with pictures of cats and stuff is a bit too LOLRANDOM for me. I'm not dumb, I don't need tutorials to treat me like I am. But I really do appreciate the time you put into this.
The cat breaks are not about treating anyone like they're dumb. It's about getting everyone's mind out of the work for a second for a mental break. It's the kind of thing I learned to do while teaching some classes, if you just do nothing but the material from start to finish and ram it through, people start to glaze over and lose interest. Just doing something fun or relaxing for a few seconds can help a lot with both focus and retention. Quite a few big channels work things in to break up long or complex videos and are more subtle about it, but I wanted it to be obvious, that's all.
Hey, just a reminder, I haven't received an e-mail from you yet confirming the address yet. To make sure you don't lose your prize, please send the e-mail as described in my other comment reply ASAP.
Loved the tutorial, i have used legacy for a while and i still didn't knew the speed changed in odd and even numbers, i thought it was just a tempo button 💀, so, I want to win Deflemask (for Windows)!
@@InglebardGamingI am looking forward to that one! I actually bought DefleMask recently as the app for 6.99 on my iPad so looking forward to writing something - I noticed you said I need a pic so er we’ll see what happens! I used to mess about on Octomed on the Amiga if you’ve ever heard of that!
Thanks very much for make this video!!! I love the sega genesis music and now i know how to make it I hope that you continue this series for learn more!!! If i will win, i would like for pc, please. Thanks very much for all tour work!!!
OK, tell you what, let's call you winner #23. Send me an e-mail at inglebardproductions@gmail.com and let me know which operating system you want Deflemask for and where I should send it.
Thank you for the tutorial and I really enjoyed the first one as well. I hope you get well and get plenty of rest. Finally I want to win Deflemask for Windows please. :)
@@InglebardGaming Awesome! Is there, like a corresponding sound driver, or do people tend to export music to a certain file format and then write their own drivers around that?
@@InglebardGaming I see. Cool! Since SGDK is in C, I guess my plan of writing my own sound driver for Megadrive programming in assembly is still relevant ^^
I'm sorry, I just got the last winner a few minutes ago. Two things though! You'll be the first backup if someone doesn't confirm otherwise I may be able to give away some more when part two comes out!
I wanted to win a Deflemask for Windows, but I think I missed the giveaway :( Thank you so much for the tutorial, I will keep an eye for future videos. Cheers my friend and all the best with the surgery.
Thanks for the well wishes! I'm sorry to say that all 25 copies have now been given away BUT there may just be some more free copies when part 2 comes along!
Thank you so much for this amazing starting tutorial !! I started creating videogames and make some music it's an other step!. I want to win a Deflemask (Linux)! I don´t know if it's possible but, I tried!
I want to win Deflemask for Linux please! Thanks for this! I've been wanting to try out Defle for a while now after being a FamiTracker-stan for the past 10+ years heh! Looking to upgrade the workflow as I move to more Genesis-inspired music ;)
Hi! I've been dabbling with Deflemask legacy version for a while, I'd love to upgrade to the newer version though, so I want to win a copy of Deflemask for Linux please! I still have a lot to learn.
@@InglebardGaming it was worth a shot I have the iOS version but it’s not really reviewed specifically apart from the other versions. Trying to reach myself with videos and i realize they were not taking the iOS differences into the mix. I may have to pay for it again just so I don’t give up. Thanks for the response though. Much uphill work ahead. 🤠
@NoMan-zw5wb ha, no problem. The mobile versions are a lot tougher to use, I've played with the Android version, but with the tiny screen and more cumbersome interface on mobile, I decided to stick to the Windows version. The free one for Windows is still good and lets you do like 95% of what you can do with the paid one.
@@InglebardGaming exactly I have the legacy download but we run a restaurant so my time to sit in front of a computer is severely limited. I’m actually considering building a pi5 lynux mobile computer so I can switch between touch and keyboard on the fly. Or I have seen the plans for a pico tracker but they seem to be discontinued development. Would be fun to make an all in wonderful device that could record samples directly and have a mostly legit midi keyboard at the top or bottom of the regular keyboard. I like to dream big. ☠️
I use Renoise, but so far I've been able to sit in front of anything and in half an hour I've been able to put together something listenable (fl, ableton, mixcraft). We can agree that this program is a half finished undesigned piece of shit. On startup, the midi keyboard has drums that can't be typed from the instrument and the instruments are only allowed from the keyboard. I load a drum and then the drums I type will be played with a beep. You can't mouse over the selected area move in the track. There is a ton of empty space but copy-paste, note up-down, octave up-down, etc is on shortcuts. Why? Sid format is not loadable. Waste of money because it's not worth a cent. For the quad sid something normal daw next to it like this shit.
If it's not for you, that's fine. I've been using the legacy (free version) for almost 18 months now and the paid version for about a month and they do what I need them to do. Personally I have no desire to use a musical keyboard with a tracker, so I just use the standard typing keyboard. If I was doing 'normal' sound production or midi, then I'd use a music keyboard but for this old school chiptune music, I find it more useful to manually work on the grid and tweak everything just the way I want it on a per note basis. I normally use samples for percussion and just set them up how I want them so for me, there's no drum pads to mess with, I'm setting up the percussion I need on a per song basis. On the C64 side, no sid files aren't loadable. On the FM or PSG side, neither are VGM files. They're not in the tracker format. And on the money side, come on, it's free for legacy which is fully functional and $10 for the paid version that can export to formats that are importable on a number of different systems. Like I said, if you don't like it, you're entitled. But I don't see how anyone can call it a waste of money... especially the free version!
@@InglebardGaming Writing music isn’t about wrestling with the bullshit of the program because the maker was a moron. (such as goat tracker) It just kills creativity and multiplies the work. That's why there is a focus test. And that’s why you need a software designer next to a programer. I bought it because I found the legacy unusable. But only got the same with a colored ui. I think this program is just good for fart sawing. And the amount to pay is far from $10.
Sorry, this giveaway ended a couple of days after the video went live. BUT, I will have more copies to give away when the next part goes live... which will either be Monday or Tuesday afternoon! The winning comments will be different in that video so you'll have to watch it for instructions!
Thank you so much for this! Like many others here, I was completely overwhelmed. You cover basics other people glossed over, and you provide helpful pointers with the gotchas, something I always look for in a good tutorial. Really well thought out! The hands on sample is a great way to integrate the knowledge, and I really appreciate that too.
NP, glad you liked it and found it helpful, I have a whole series of these 😁 I made them because I had a tough time getting started myself. There were some OK tutorials, but like you said, there was a lot of stuff they didn't cover at all or glossed over too quickly. So, I figured I'd give back and cover all of that stuff and here we are!
I'm glad you're here. I've been making SEGA Genesis music in a DAW, but I have been wanting to make stuff that can be ported into a game
Thanks! Good luck with it!
Thanks enormously for this vid! I’m sure it’s very good!! Before I watch it, I type here the very first problems in the interface I stumbled upon as a comple te novice: No obvious place to set song bpm speed. No obvious place to chose an instrument when clicking on every track header. Clicking on the plus sign in the tab for adding samples shows wave files as un clickable. Was able to add a kick drum sample (from the instrument editor in Window menu) yet it was not the one that played for ANY channel, not matter how I changed the number in the instrument raw. No obvious access to the window with ASDR knobs for filters and amps. Etc etc.
If you check out the series, I talk about and show you how to do all the stuff you're asking about 😁
This tutorial series is great so far! I feel waaay more comfortable with Deflemask now :)
Thanks, glad you found it helpful!
Hi! Mobile Deflemask user here!
Thank you soooo much for this tutorial on Deflemask! I kinda knew how to use Deflemask but this video taught me some tips that I didn’t know about or I missed out on. I always thought Deflemask was just a Sega genesis music app that allows you to make your own music, but this video taught me it’s more than just a music app. I hope I, as a newbie mobile Deflemask user will learn through this series to make my own Sega genesis music in the future!
Thanks, glad you got something out of it, there's plenty more videos in that series!
I have the mobile version but I haven't used it too much, I just got too used to the the Windows version interface.
I LOVED the introduction where you talk about your background because it really helps with motivation for those of us who don't have a formal musical background and would still like to get into music making in one way or another. I wish you great success with that surgery too, by the way. I want to win a copy of Deflemask for MacOS please!
Looking forward for the rest of the series either way. :)
Congrats, you're winner #9! E-mail me at inglebardproductions@gmail.com and let me know where to send your link!
Also thanks for the comment! I definitely want to show that almost anyone can do this stuff even though it might seem overwhelming at first!
@@InglebardGaming thank you! Some of us really need just that. I sent you an email and you can send a link to that address. 🥳
Don't worry it's coming! I'm doing these in batches a few times a day to make it easy to keep track of everything, I'm waiting for more people to confirm right now.
Fun fact: The Brazilian version of the Sega Genesis runs PAL with a 60Hz clock. It also has a RF modulator for video output cause component video were way too fancy for us back in the day.
Yeah I heard about it being 60hz PAL there which seemed really strange!
In the U.K. and Europe, different countries developed their OWN engineering beliefs of television technology signal standards...
The U.K. developed their 50Hz PAL format iirc... however understand that France had something called SECAM which was different from PAL and these standards were exposed to Imperial Japan since the either the late 1920s or very early 1930s where Imperial Japan had decided on a U.K. like PAL standard while television tech was still not widely available or even anywhere near mass production until the late 1940s
The Imperial Japanese PAL format was changed to NTSC-J after the U.S. military occupation... so imagine if the Japanese government decided to never use NTSC at all and instead used PAL at 50Hz... it would mean that the game systems launched in Japan would instead have to be prioritized to PAL regions using 50Hz and the respective resolutions.
Brazil like other South American countries would get their tech information and hardware from their respective Europe counterparts...
The British will argue how PAL 50Hz is actually superior to the NTSC but its not a simple topic and back then the ocean was not traveled by airplanes.
It is ironic that Sega Enterprises Japan was unable to have a PAL region ready Sega MegaDrive and organized subsidiary branch in the U.K. and Europe where their most successful fanbase existed until 1990... two years after 1988... had they prioritized the U.K. and Europe (which isn't easy because different languages and PAL 50Hz) it would have given that region a huge two year advantage... same deal almost if the Sega of America subsidiary branch had not been such a mess during the 80s... the Sega MegaDrive could have launched in 1988.. people might have freaked out at the $200 dollar price and no game included and bad comparisons to NES but the power of the graphics would have been hard to ignore... including Altered Beast graphics.
All I cam say is I'm glad that these days for current TV and monitor tech that it's way more universal. It makes things so much easier to deal with.
I already bought Deflemask after watching your first video "How Sound Works on the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive", so I won't be entering the giveaway XD But thanks a lot anyway! :D
Thanks a lot for this great tutorial, and don't worry about the following videos and first of all take care of yourself, your health is the most important thing!
Also, we won't be bored in the meantime, we have a lot to practice before your next video is up! ^^
Thanks! Glad you you got something out of the video and appreciate the well wishes!
Well, this tutorial is a lifesaver for me to comprehend everything in DefleMask better (currently learning it with FM Synth altogether). Kudos to you Inglebard!
Thanks, glad you liked it!
Sir Inglebard the 1st
Is there a way to import MIDI files into Deflemask?
If so, should I have a different MIDI file for each channel or have multiple channels in the same MIDI file?
Thanks for the tutorial! I've been trying to get into using Deflemask, but it looked pretty intimidating! This was really helpful! I want to win Deflemask (Windows)!
Congrats, you're winner #10! E-mail me at inglebardproductions@gmail.com and let me know where to send your link!
I'm really loving your energy
Thanks, glad you liked it! There's five more parts!
I'm not sure if you're gonna read this, but thank you so much for this tutorial! I have been trying to make an accurate FM Arrangement of some Sonic songs for a while now but never knew how to use Deflemask. Appreciate the guide!❤
I read every comment, I'm small enough I can still do that! Glad the tutorials helped you out and appreciate you checking them out!
I'm so glad I found your tutorials - thank you for uploading these! I'm completely new to trackers, and it's pretty overwhelming going from tinkering with Garage Band and playing by ear on MIDI keyboard to trying to figure out DefleMask on my own. My goal is to flex my creativity and create some Sega arcade-style racer kind of tracks. 😁
Np, glad they helped you out! Deflemask was my first tracker, too. Not to dunk on anyone else's tutorials but it took me a long time to get going in it because a lot of the stuff I cover in these wasn't covered in the existing tutorials I found when I was starting out. Which is why these now exist!
Tutorial starts at 7:24
I understand you don't care about the first 7:23, but hey, maybe other people will.
@@InglebardGaming it's for the people that just want too go to the tutorial part no hate against you but yesterday I just wanted to understand how the app worked, nothing more nothing less, I am sorry that my montone tone came across as something like "skip this bullshit" I was just trying to help fellow viewers getting to the "juicy" part faster
Thank you for the high-quality tutorial! I just bought Deflemask because I am working on making the OST for a Genesis game!
NP, glad it helped out!
Thanks for these tutorials, currently in the planning stages of my megadrive game and am using this as a kind of break between coding sessions. Your cats are awesome, and my cat clearly likes your cats too since she keeps jumping up to play with them when she sees them on screen.
NP, glad you liked them and found them useful! Also nice to hear your cat is interested by my cats, lol.
glad i found this, i been having this hankering to re work the entire mortal kombat 1 thru 3's soundtracks on the genesis. learning from Savaged regime and here, thanks for the tutorial
NP, glad it helped you out! There's a few more episodes already if you haven't seen them yet.
I already bought deflemask on sale but I just wanted to write and thank you for these awesome tutorials!
You're welcome, glad they helped!
Thanks for the primer! I’m doing a series on developing games on mega drive or genesis as you guys call it. And I was looking for a tracker that could tweak the FM operators and I found Deflemask. So then a short google for a beginner primer and there you were. I can’t wait to write some songs in it.
Glad you liked it, good luck!
Excellent tutorial. I honestly have no plans to compose tracker music, but I love this type of content. Looking forward to the instruments editing stuff.
Thanks, appreciate it!
Glad you’re making this. Very interesting stuff !
Thanks, glad you liked it!
Just got deflemask and I’m excited to try it out. Thanks for the tutorial!
Glad you liked it, hope it helped you get started!
Ran into this while following the SOTN demake on Pigsy’s channel. Incredible work on the audio as I am in the midst of playing the PS1 original. Especially given your background and the short time you have spent training yourself. I would love to win a copy of Deflemask for Windows please. Hope I’m not too late. Thank you!
You're not too late, you're just in time to be winner #22! Pease e-mail me at inglebardproductions@gmail.com and let me know where to send your download link!
I'm not a musician, and I have medical reasons for doubting you can change that. But if my comments and engagement help with the algorithm?
So many need to see this.
Edit: You sound like me trying to convince everyone they can be a writer or an artist. The universe has a sadistic sense of humor.
Edit 2: Good luck with the surgery. You've done good - your channel is one of the best RUclips offers.
Thanks, appreciate it! Glad you've stuck around!
Ok, I use Furnace Tracker tho! c:
Yay!!! A recent and great tutorial. Thanks!!
Thank you, glad you liked it! There's much more to come, but it'll be a little while since I had surgery this morning and will be recovering for a while.
When I fully get back, probably in about 4 weeks, part 2 of this tutorial will be the first big video I do.
You just convinced me to buy it. I have played around with the free version and this is definitely what I want to do. :)
It's worth it if you really want to get into using it seriously. There's lots of niceties in the paid version including support for a lot more systems now than even when I started this series early this year.
It's the only program I use to make Genesis music. I use something else for SNES music, but that's a whole different story!
Do you have a tutorial on composing for the Commodore or NES in Deflemask?
No, I primarily work in Genesis and SMS on it and only dabble in the other systems. I might delve into them further after I finish the Genesis tutorial series.
Thanks for the knowledge. Let's make this music for my new Mega Drive game!
NP, glad it helped you out!
i have a couple questions, 1 if you have any recommendations on tutorials for music theory, you seem really good and i think you would have the best advice, next is if you personally use a midi controller or do you make your music with the keyboard?
I don't really have any recommendations for theory tutorials. I never really learned any official theory myself. Everything I learned about composing I figured out myself, the hard, and probably wrong, way.
I do everything on a standard computer keyboard these days. That includes any systems supported in Deflemask and anything else I do, like SNES, in OpenMPT.
@@InglebardGaming wow that’s interesting, yeah i’m just starting out too, it amazes me however how you made your songs with just a keyboard, and same in learning everything just by playing with notes and seeing what sounds good, but yeah thanks for the info, i hope to get better at this stuff
NP, it's definitely a fun journey to get started on. It was slow going at first for me... there were a few tutorials, but none of them covered as much stuff as I have in these so far (which is why I made them). Hopefully it'll be less slow going for you or anyone that finds this series!
i dont get how to use the keybinds to input notes any help is appreciated
You have to make sure Deflemask is in "record" mode. You do that by either hitting the record button or the space bar. Once it's in record mode, you just click a row and column in the tracker and press a key. The bottom two rows are one octave lower than selected, the upper two rows are in the octave selected.
@@InglebardGaming yes I know that thanks, but the keyboard keys don't seem to follow the piano keys
@@coolguy-zt6tr Basically, the row starting with Z should be white keys in the octave below selected, the row starting with a would be the black keys of an octave below current, so only a few of them will work.
The rows starting with Q and 1 work the same way but at the current octave.
What exactly is the issue you're running into?
@@InglebardGaming oh I didn't understand that they keys in the keyboard were structured like a piano, thanks
NP, have fun with it!
Thanks for making this! A great starter. I just bought the mobile version for a longer flight.
Glad you liked it! There's 2 more done and up already with a few more on the way!
Personally instead of deflemask I would recommend using furnace, it's basically deflemask but fully free AND open source, basically the dev made it in response to deflemask going paid and because people wanted deflemask to be open source because the dev hadn't updated it in several years despite making a poll on the discord asking which system to add next in 2019, then in 2021 they said they were going to add neo geo but it would only be in the paid version and the free version wouldn't be getting any more updates and there were a lot of people who weren't so happy about this :P
I knew it was being worked on, didn't know there was any version available to the public yet. I'm not opposed to trying other things, I've used a few trackers at this point. I'll give it a whirl sometime.
Hey, I saw that one of the winners cancelled, and I wondered if I could get that copy for Windows, I hope it's not too late
Sorry, they're all gone at this point. I might do some more giveaways in a future episode, though!
@@InglebardGaming Oh yeah, I saw it in the other video after commenting but I still wanted to see if I could get it so I didn't delete it, what a shame
But I'll definitely be present in the future lol
Question! What are the general rows we should have for the different time signatures specifically? I’m really curious about this because I think in sheet music and not rows. It’s very confusing to me.
Well, it depends on a few things, but generally you just want your total number of rows to be proportional to the numerator and denominator. So for example...
Let's say your fastest note is a 32nd note. Then for 4/4 timing, you could set it to 32 rows. This way every 8 rows would be a quarter note. 16 would be a half, 32 a whole, etc. If you need 64th notes, you'd want to double that to 64 rows and a quarter note would be 16 rows and so on.
Similarly, 3/4 and 32nd notes... You could do 24 rows per pattern. Quarter notes would be 8 rows, half 16, whole 24, etc. If you need 64th notes just double everything.
Basically, you can just keep proceeding like that fir any timing. 40 rows for 5/4 and so on.
And these are suggestions, you don't have to use these specific numbers, but they're easy to keep track of, especially if you're transcribing sheet music. You can fine tune the tempo with the overall and row speeds.
Hopefully, that's what you were looking for!
@@InglebardGaming It is! Thank you! That helps a lot!
is there still a copy of Deflemask available?! i dont have enough money for the Liven Mega Synthesis!
No, those were gone within a day or two. But the free version does almost everything the paid version does.
I'm guess the odd and even number row speeds are for swung time in music, right?
I don't think it'd be considered swing if that's what you're referring to. It's really just another method to put finer controls on speed. If you have a fast speed in general, say 1, then have odd rows at 2 and even rows at 3, most people probably won't even notice the difference, but you've effectively slowed down the song as a whole by a significant degree that's in between full speeds 1 and 2. If I kept the odds and evens both set to three but changed the main speed from 1 to 2, it would get WAY slower, so having finer adjustments that only affect odd or even rows is really helpful.
Edit: Clicking File > New and clearing it out fixed the problem and now it behaves as shown in the video, but I'm still very confused about why it was acting weird in the first place.
I'm trying to follow along but my software isn't behaving the same as what's in the video. QWERTYUI as an octave works, but only when I'm not recording. When I click record and press Q, it's silent and doesn't do anything. W also does nothing, E makes an E appear in 4th column of the pattern, but is silent and doesn't actually set a note. Everything I find on Google about keyboard shortcuts just completely omits which keys correspond to the piano keyboard. What am I doing wrong?
Hey sorry about the late reply. I had seen your comment and was going to look into what might have caused it this weekend. Glad it's fixed!
Awesome 😭 thanks ! Now I know about the fundamentals of Defflemask 🙏🏻
Glad it helped! There'll be a new episode soon!
@@InglebardGaming Thanks ! ^^ wait soon
Does anyone know if you can turn on the keys notes or am I suppose to tell what notes they are by looking at them. I know my notes I just don't know piano.
You can turn on the piano keyboard in the menu. It's in different places in different versions.
@@InglebardGaming thanks. The piano notes over the keyboard? I looked everywhere.
I want to win a copy of Deflemask! I have windows! I have used legacy edition before, but got overwhelmed. Your videos are extremely helpful! Keep up the great work
Congrats, you're winner #2! E-mail me at inglebardproductions@gmail.com and let me know where to send your link!
#fausthype
I use the paid version of Defle mask but the default instruments Sound extremely different from the legacy should I use the legacy for the Classic sega Genesis music? Or is there a way to have that for the paid version.
You can load the legacy instruments into the paid version if you want. You don't have to use legacy Deflemask to use them.
@@InglebardGaming How do I do that I'm pretty new to music making. I assume you show that in your videos so I'll check em out.
Yeah, it's in the first tutorial episode. Basically you'll just click a button to load instruments. I show you how to do it in both versions in that video.
Thanks for giving me information on defelmask there other videos that don't go into depth on how to use any kind of tracker I'm not hear for the giveaway I just wanted to learn 😎
You're welcome, glad you liked it!
Awesome tutorial. I've been making Genesis music for years, but have always had an aversion to trackers. This might inspire me to give Deflemask a try considering it's probably way more convenient than my current method, which instead uses mid2smps.
I want to win a copy of Deflemask for Windows please!
Congrats, you're winner #8! E-mail me at inglebardproductions@gmail.com and let me know where to send your link!
I hope your surgery went well
Thanks! It was about 18 months ago and things are a lot better. Still not 100% but able to do everything I need to again.
Great tutorial. 🤓Think you could put some timestamps in your video so it's easier to find the lessons within for future references?
I did these a while ago now, so I probably won't go back to figure out where things are to time-stamp them. But if I end up doing new tutorials down the road, I probably will.
I'm going to donate to you, really needing you to finish your series.
Any contributions are definitely appreciated. Hoping to be back in shape to do the next episode in about 4 weeks, giving me time to recover from my surgery earlier this week.
So, question:
You specifically forbid us from Extended CH3 mode.
Some of the pre-made instruments say -CH3- next to them. What's up with that? Are those to be avoided?
Ha, well, it's not "forbidden" just complicated if you dont know what it is exactly or how it works.
The ext ch3 instruments are built for that mode. You can use them in regular songs too, but they were optimized to get the most of ext ch3 mode. If you like how it sounds in regular Genesis mode, then knock yourself out!
Is there any way to import midi or vgm?
Amazing tutorial, my friend
It wouldn't surprise me if there's a tool for that, but I've never seen one myself and never looked for one before. I'm sure transferring the notes is technically possible but I don't see any way you'd be able to transfer instruments over from midi to to deflemask. For VGM, haven't seen that either, that one I'd think would be easier, but haven't seen it myself.
Anyone else reading this have an answer for these?
@@InglebardGamingIt would be useful to save time. Of course the quality depends on the quality of the musician. Thanks for replying. Your work is amazing!
Is there a way to exceed the 256 row limit? I downloaded it yesterday and my first song is way too long apparently.
Er... I don't know. Why do you need that many rows?
@@InglebardGaming I was trying to make a classical sounding song I've had in my head since 2013. I'm used to using Nanoloop on iOS, so I thought I could just keep going, but it wouldn't let go past one minute and fifty-four seconds. I then figured out I can use the channel boxes in the top left corner to split them up; which is allowing me to continue. Now my issue is that the rows are set to sixty but it blanket covers each section, making large spaces in between the notes. I don't have the vocabulary yet to be more specific, I'm sorry about that. And thank you for the quick reply. I tried looking everywhere for the answer, I just have a habit of having unique problems.
What you can do timing wise, especially if you're familiar with general music timing / notation is this...
If you have 4/4 timing, meaning 4 beats per each measure, which is the mist common timing. You can set rows to 32 with that and then add patterns in the upper left. With 32 rows, if you place 1 note every 32 rows that's a whole note. Every 16 is a half. Every 8 rows is a quarter note, every 4 an eighth note, every 2 a 16th and every row a 32nd note.
With 64 rows all that is doubled and every row is 64th note. Follow all that?
@@InglebardGaming I understand a little. Whenever I see numbers I have a difficult time though. To get the tempo I wanted I had to set the bpm to 12. It originally was way too fast. Also, if I set the rows to 32 it will cut off some notes. With how daunting the options and control it gives you I'm surprised I got as far as I did with Nanoloop. I may need to either trim the fat or come back to it with more experience. I'll mess around with it a bit, and keep watching your videos. I do recognize I am jumping the gun a little bit. Thank you again for the help.
Okie doke. One more piece of advice I can give, especially when you're just starting out, is consider each row the fastest possible note you need. Let's say you have 4/4 timing. If you're only using whole notes, well then for each measure you only need one row. If you'll have half notes, then you'd need 2. Quarter notes would need 4. Eighth notes would need 8 and so on.
So the key there is just recognizing the absolute fastest note you need and using enough rows in each pattern to accomodate that. For me, when I'm working in 4/4, which is most of the time, I generally don't go faster than 32nd notes, but I tend to use 64 rows so I have extra room in case I need something faster, especially to make effects a little finer.
Heya thx for the tutorial dude also can I have Deflemask for windows please ?
Congrats, you're winner #20! E-mail me at inglebardproductions@gmail.com and let me know where to send your link!
I already bought Deflemask. 😆 thanks for the tutorial though!
You're welcome!
Thanks for putting time and effort into this. That said, interrupting the tutorial with pictures of cats and stuff is a bit too LOLRANDOM for me. I'm not dumb, I don't need tutorials to treat me like I am. But I really do appreciate the time you put into this.
The cat breaks are not about treating anyone like they're dumb. It's about getting everyone's mind out of the work for a second for a mental break. It's the kind of thing I learned to do while teaching some classes, if you just do nothing but the material from start to finish and ram it through, people start to glaze over and lose interest. Just doing something fun or relaxing for a few seconds can help a lot with both focus and retention. Quite a few big channels work things in to break up long or complex videos and are more subtle about it, but I wanted it to be obvious, that's all.
Wow this is awesome. I've always wanted to learn how to make music on the Mega drive. I would love a copy of Deflemask for windows please!
Congrats, you're winner #16! E-mail me at inglebardproductions@gmail.com and let me know where to send your link!
Hey, just a reminder, I haven't received an e-mail from you yet confirming the address yet. To make sure you don't lose your prize, please send the e-mail as described in my other comment reply ASAP.
@@InglebardGaming sent you an email. Thanks!
Loved the tutorial, i have used legacy for a while and i still didn't knew the speed changed in odd and even numbers, i thought it was just a tempo button 💀, so, I want to win Deflemask (for Windows)!
Congrats, you're winner #3! E-mail me at inglebardproductions@gmail.com and let me know where to send your link!
Worth it for the cats 😉
And you haven't even seen the super cute dog, yet!
@@InglebardGamingI am looking forward to that one! I actually bought DefleMask recently as the app for 6.99 on my iPad so looking forward to writing something - I noticed you said I need a pic so er we’ll see what happens! I used to mess about on Octomed on the Amiga if you’ve ever heard of that!
Thanks very much for make this video!!!
I love the sega genesis music and now i know how to make it
I hope that you continue this series for learn more!!!
If i will win, i would like for pc, please.
Thanks very much for all tour work!!!
To make sure I'm clear on this, would you want it for Windows?
OK, tell you what, let's call you winner #23. Send me an e-mail at inglebardproductions@gmail.com and let me know which operating system you want Deflemask for and where I should send it.
Thank you for the tutorial and I really enjoyed the first one as well. I hope you get well and get plenty of rest. Finally I want to win Deflemask for Windows please. :)
Congrats, you're winner #15! E-mail me at inglebardproductions@gmail.com and let me know where to send your link!
@@InglebardGaming email sent and thank you sir! :)
You should really make tutorials for it's mobile version like it took me a whole 2.5 days to figure out how to make an instrument
Brilliant lesson, thank you! :)))))))))))))))
Glad you liked it! There are plenty more on the channel 😁
This was an amazing tutorial I learned a lot and also I want deflemask for Windows pretty please!!!
Congrats, you're winner #7! E-mail me at inglebardproductions@gmail.com and let me know where to send your link!
I want to win Deflemask!! I've got a Mac! Great tutorial btw!
Congrats, you're winner #24! Pease e-mail me at inglebardproductions@gmail.com and let me know where to send your download link!
@@InglebardGaming Thank you!! Email sent!
Fantastic video!
Thanks!
Is it possible to get Deflemask music into real Megadrive hardware?
Yes, it's done all the time. It's used to make lots of music for modern games. Much of the stuff I work on ends up on real cartridges.
@@InglebardGaming Awesome!
Is there, like a corresponding sound driver, or do people tend to export music to a certain file format and then write their own drivers around that?
@KungKras people generally import vgm format music into the SGDK these days.
@@InglebardGaming I see. Cool!
Since SGDK is in C, I guess my plan of writing my own sound driver for Megadrive programming in assembly is still relevant ^^
Great tutorial ! Remind me a lot.
Maybe if still available a deflemask for android would be great
I'm sorry, I just got the last winner a few minutes ago. Two things though! You'll be the first backup if someone doesn't confirm otherwise I may be able to give away some more when part two comes out!
@@InglebardGaming thank you ! I would have watched the other part of this tutorial nevertheless :) great work
I want to win Deflemask. For windows. Get well soon!!
Congrats, you're winner #13! E-mail me at inglebardproductions@gmail.com and let me know where to send your link!
I wanted to win a Deflemask for Windows, but I think I missed the giveaway :(
Thank you so much for the tutorial, I will keep an eye for future videos.
Cheers my friend and all the best with the surgery.
Thanks for the well wishes! I'm sorry to say that all 25 copies have now been given away BUT there may just be some more free copies when part 2 comes along!
@@InglebardGaming Keep us posted my friend and all the best ,)
Thank you so much for this amazing starting tutorial !! I started creating videogames and make some music it's an other step!. I want to win a Deflemask (Linux)! I don´t know if it's possible but, I tried!
Glad it helped you get started! The giveaway ended about a day after the video went live, sorry!
Gostei muito das aulas professor também sou músico e toco violão mais aprendi muito de teoria com essa sua aula muito obrigado
You're welcome! There's three more episodes on the channel so far, whenever you're ready for them!
I want to win Deflemask for Linux please!
Thanks for this! I've been wanting to try out Defle for a while now after being a FamiTracker-stan for the past 10+ years heh! Looking to upgrade the workflow as I move to more Genesis-inspired music ;)
Congrats, you're winner #18! E-mail me at inglebardproductions@gmail.com and let me know where to send your link!
I wonder if the Deflemask guys know your videos are getting them sales... I mean, at least 1 sale [mine =]
Ha, pretty sure they know it helps. That's why they give me some copies to give away with these tutorials!
I love old school sound chip emulations!! I want to win deflemask! MacOS
Sorry, all 25 copies have now been claimed. But, there may be another giveaway coming when part 2 comes out... hmm...
Thanks for the well presented tutorial. I want to win Deflemask (Windows).
Thanks, unfortunately they've all been given away. But, I should have some more when part 2 comes around, which will PROBABLY be in early March.
I want Deflemask for Windows!
Congrats, you're winner #11! E-mail me at inglebardproductions@gmail.com and let me know where to send your link!
Just a heads up that I haven't received an e-mail from you, have you sent it yet? (I checked Spam and trash, its not there either).
@@InglebardGaming Thanks! I'm on it.
Eu queria ter ganho o deflemask que pena!
I want to win Deflemask and get back into using Trackers. Sadly, I'm 2 years (or multiple decades, depending on who you are) late.
Ha, yes, the giveaways all ended within a day or two of each video's release. Sorry!
I want to win Deflemask for Windows!! ✨ Woo.
Congrats, you're winner #17! E-mail me at inglebardproductions@gmail.com and let me know where to send your link!
@@InglebardGaming Thank you for doing this!
Hi! I've been dabbling with Deflemask legacy version for a while, I'd love to upgrade to the newer version though, so I want to win a copy of Deflemask for Linux please! I still have a lot to learn.
Congrats, you're winner #12! E-mail me at inglebardproductions@gmail.com and let me know where to send your link!
I want to win Deflemask for Windows!
Sorry, they've all been claimed. But, I am planning to give away some more when episode 2 comes out!
8:30: Stop Noticing things. Focus.
My ADHD: nasdrguijngpriugheuawR PIUEWfhp hewufP ERGAUHP
I mean I'd love to start tracking my own Mega Drive tunes so "I want to win Deflemask" plz, for Windows, because who uses MacOS ~Kappa~
Congrats, you're winner #1! E-mail me at inglebardproductions@gmail.com and let me know where to send your link!
@@InglebardGaming #1 present and accounted for, email sent!
I want to win Deflemask for Windows 10 computer please!!
Congrats, you're winner #5! E-mail me at inglebardproductions@gmail.com and let me know where to send your link!
@@InglebardGaming thanks! I sent you an email
I want to win deflemask! Windows 10
Congrats! You're the final winner! Good old #25! Pleae e-mail me at inglebardproductions@gmail.com and let me know where to send your prize!
@@InglebardGaming oh god yes!
I want to win DefleMask
Windows
They were all given away within a day or two of when this video went live.
@@InglebardGaming it was worth a shot
I have the iOS version but it’s not really reviewed specifically apart from the other versions.
Trying to reach myself with videos and i realize they were not taking the iOS differences into the mix.
I may have to pay for it again just so I don’t give up.
Thanks for the response though. Much uphill work ahead. 🤠
@NoMan-zw5wb ha, no problem. The mobile versions are a lot tougher to use, I've played with the Android version, but with the tiny screen and more cumbersome interface on mobile, I decided to stick to the Windows version.
The free one for Windows is still good and lets you do like 95% of what you can do with the paid one.
@@InglebardGaming exactly
I have the legacy download but we run a restaurant so my time to sit in front of a computer is severely limited.
I’m actually considering building a pi5 lynux mobile computer so I can switch between touch and keyboard on the fly.
Or I have seen the plans for a pico tracker but they seem to be discontinued development. Would be fun to make an all in wonderful device that could record samples directly and have a mostly legit midi keyboard at the top or bottom of the regular keyboard.
I like to dream big. ☠️
I want to win Deflemask for macOS!
Congrats, you're winner #14! E-mail me at inglebardproductions@gmail.com and let me know where to send your link!
I want to win Deflemask, Mac please! Thank you!
Congrats, you're winner #19! E-mail me at inglebardproductions@gmail.com and let me know where to send your link!
I use Renoise, but so far I've been able to sit in front of anything and in half an hour I've been able to put together something listenable (fl, ableton, mixcraft).
We can agree that this program is a half finished undesigned piece of shit.
On startup, the midi keyboard has drums that can't be typed from the instrument and the instruments are only allowed from the keyboard.
I load a drum and then the drums I type will be played with a beep.
You can't mouse over the selected area move in the track.
There is a ton of empty space but copy-paste, note up-down, octave up-down, etc is on shortcuts.
Why?
Sid format is not loadable.
Waste of money because it's not worth a cent.
For the quad sid something normal daw next to it like this shit.
If it's not for you, that's fine. I've been using the legacy (free version) for almost 18 months now and the paid version for about a month and they do what I need them to do. Personally I have no desire to use a musical keyboard with a tracker, so I just use the standard typing keyboard.
If I was doing 'normal' sound production or midi, then I'd use a music keyboard but for this old school chiptune music, I find it more useful to manually work on the grid and tweak everything just the way I want it on a per note basis. I normally use samples for percussion and just set them up how I want them so for me, there's no drum pads to mess with, I'm setting up the percussion I need on a per song basis.
On the C64 side, no sid files aren't loadable. On the FM or PSG side, neither are VGM files. They're not in the tracker format.
And on the money side, come on, it's free for legacy which is fully functional and $10 for the paid version that can export to formats that are importable on a number of different systems. Like I said, if you don't like it, you're entitled. But I don't see how anyone can call it a waste of money... especially the free version!
@@InglebardGaming Writing music isn’t about wrestling with the bullshit of the program because the maker was a moron. (such as goat tracker)
It just kills creativity and multiplies the work.
That's why there is a focus test. And that’s why you need a software designer next to a programer.
I bought it because I found the legacy unusable.
But only got the same with a colored ui.
I think this program is just good for fart sawing.
And the amount to pay is far from $10.
I want to win Deflemask for Windows!
Sorry, this giveaway ended a couple of days after the video went live. BUT, I will have more copies to give away when the next part goes live... which will either be Monday or Tuesday afternoon! The winning comments will be different in that video so you'll have to watch it for instructions!
@@InglebardGaming Awesome to hear! Thank you for this information and thank you for all of the great Deflemask info you've shared so far