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Ultimate Soundtracker never had "modulation" effects 3-B #4

Open bryc opened 3 years ago

bryc commented 3 years ago

From: https://github.com/cmatsuoka/tracker-history/blob/master/soundtracker.txt

soundtracker_10
    Name: The Ultimate Soundtracker
    Author: Karsten Obarski
    Date: 1987-08-01
    Comment: 15 instruments\nCommands:\n    1 - Arpeggio\n  2 - Portamento Up/Down\n    3 to B - Modulation
    # Influenced by soundmonitor_10

The original versions only had two effects, 1 - "Arpeggiato" and 2 - "Pitch bend". No where in any of the original documentation and sources show any modulation effects anywhere.

3-B was introduced in TJC's "Soundtracker II":

From: https://github.com/cmatsuoka/tracker-history/blob/master/reference/amiga/soundtracker/Soundtracker_v1-v9/Soundtracker_v2.doc

Modifications : Modulation.
-------------   Enhanced portamento.
            Volume changing during play.
        Volume sliding up/down during play.

This seems to be your source for associating the 3-B modulation effects to Ultimate Soundtracker:

https://github.com/cmatsuoka/tracker-history/blob/master/reference/amiga/soundtracker/Soundtracker_v1-v9/Soundtracker_v1.doc

In fact it is simply a copy-paste job of the instructions in Soundtracker_v2.doc, and references the effects of that tracker:

      0 - Normal play or arpeggio.
      1 - Portamento up.
      2 - Portamento down.

The Ultimate Soundtracker used 1 for arpeggio and 2 for portamento, so this document is wrong.