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FamiStudio

FamiStudio - NES Music Editor for chiptune artists & homebrewers · By BleuBleu

Possible issue but it could just be my noobness

A topic by 010nexus created Mar 05, 2020 Views: 565 Replies: 2
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Hi there!

I am very interested in this software, but there has been a big thing that has been confusing me from the very beginning in the process of trying to learn how to use it. You can see in the screenshot that I have placed a note that goes beyond even the pattern, seemingly infinitely. I have the pattern length set to the very minimum here (16) and this happens for all channels. This was just one click on any space in the pattern editor. No matter how much I zoom in or out, the note seems to go on forever. I really don't know if there's something I'm not understanding. Sure, I could separate this big long note into sections by clicking elsewhere, or I could measure out how long I want my first note to be and then use the stop note function to close it off, but then clicking to add another note makes it go forever too, and it would take me an insane amount of time (at least in my perspective) to make a song this way. I really was expecting to just simply place a regular-sized note and to be able to move my mouse over the side of a note and stretch or shrink it like I could when I was trying out FL Studio... 

I would really recommend making a tutorial for absolute beginners and maybe show how to make a basic song. I'm sorry to say but your video tutorial just seemed to show off features while editing an already finished song. Maybe I'm missing doing something in the instrument settings? If so, it's really not clear to me and I can't find anything out there about this yet...

Thank you so much for your time.

-Nex

Developer

Hi!

I totally understand you are confused.

So, notes in FamiStudio don't really work like in FL Studio. This is partly a reflection of how the NES hardware work. When you make the NES make a sound, it literally never stops until you tell it to, or until you change the tone. That's kind of why you see that note going on forever. I totally realize that it should not be require to understand this to make a song, but that's what we have right now.

So yes, making a song will using be a lot of click, click, click and a few CTRL+click to stop the sound.  I hope one day to move to a more "FL Studio-like" approach, but that will likely be a big change. Also, as far as dragging a note goes, you also cant right now, that is also something I would like to add eventually, but I have a lot on my plate right now.

Usually when I make music, I will usually click to create notes (and right click to delete them when I make a mistake) until I find the melody I like. Then i'll go and add stop notes where needed (6 clicks in this case).



As for you comment on the tutorial, I totally agree. I will likely do another round of tutorial in a couple months and I'd like it to be more hands-on... My 2 previous ones were a bit too theoretical, as you pointed out.

Please let me know if there is I have not fully answered your question.

-Mat

Thank you so much for your response. I'll look forward to your next tutorial!