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acidrain833
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### Problem with famitracker

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Post by acidrain833 » Sun Feb 21, 2016 6:34 pm

hello
i want to make 8 bit music with famitracker and i have a problem...
i want to make a long song but i only can make one 64 rows. and when i use more rows it duplicates everytime the instruments.and i dont want that..because in the first 64 rows should be only bass,, and then in the next rows should be melody...
can anyone help me plz...sorry for bad english
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Stratelier
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### Re: Problem with famitracker

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Post by Stratelier » Mon Feb 22, 2016 4:37 am

New to Famitracker? Then it's time to learn about frames and pattern IDs.
First, locate the frame editor. The default position is near the instrument list (but it can be repositioned to the left of the main pattern editor, menu command "View > Frame editor position"). The frame editor is a map of your song as a whole. The yellow numbers in the left column are the frame numbers and the other columns are the pattern IDs (blocks of actual song data) that will be played for that frame. When a song is more than one frame long (and, well, most are), each channel needs a unique pattern ID from one frame to the next, otherwise that channel will be repeating a previous segment (which is useful in and of itself, i.e. when you actually do want a given segment to be repeated, but that's aside the point for now).
A few things you can do on the frame editor:
- Right-click on an entry to bring up a context menu with commands. "Insert frame" is the first and foremost command here, it it adds a new frame and assigns new (unused) pattern IDs to that frame, so that it's not accidentally repeating a pre-existing segment of the song. This is different from simply increasing the frame count shown in your Song Settings panel (yes you can do that, but then you need to assign pattern IDs to the new frames because FT hasn't done that for you already).
- You can click and drag to select frames as a whole. This is mostly useful for copy/paste operations within the Frame Editor, or you can click and drag a second time to manually move one frame up or down in the song.
- When you're looking at a specific frame of the song, pay attention to any pattern IDs in other frames that may be highlighted -- this indicates that a given pattern (per its ID number) is repeated between multiple frames. Sometimes you want a given segment to repeat elsewhere, other times you do not. So get used to spotting this.
- Click on a specific channel and then press the +/- buttons on the frame editor. This will change which pattern ID is assigned to that channel in that frame. (You can also double-click on a channel and type a specific pattern ID in directly.)
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