TipsAndTricks

Gijs Gieskes tips and tricks

Example instruments and mp3 demos: http://www.gieskes.nl/lsdj/

starPause tips and tricks

Step by step guide of getting started with LSDJ: http://mp3death.us/tute/

Nullsleep tips and tricks

LSDj workshop, good explaination of pulse width: http://www.8bitpeoples.com/nullsleep/treasure/lsdj_tutorial/
(...written for v2... screen map is a little outdated)

pitch change without retrig

It's possible to change the pitch of a note without re-trigging it, by omitting the instrument number:

A-3 I01

I--
E-4 I--

Johan

wrapping pitch bends

You can create a repetative techno like effect by sliding without a note. (When it reaches C-3 it starts over from B-8)

A-5 I01

I-- LFC

I--
nitro2k01

timestretch

A timestretch effect can be achived by running a table containing the offset command on KIT instruments. For example:

F01
H00

change the F value and how far down the hop is for variations.

j.h0rD.n
starpawz612 [attah] yahoo.com

looping kits

Try creating a kit instrument with a short length, looping on, and change the offset. On top of that, do some vibrato and or sliding.

nitro2k01

snappy pulse bass

To give a pulse bass instrument some extra punch, set the envelope in instrument setting to something loud (like E8), and combine it with some more moderate table envelope... something like this:

81
64
53
31
00

This will give the instrument an initial volume spike, lasting less than one tick.

Johan

initial pitch change

To make a pulse/wave instrument sound more alive, use the table transpose column to make it start out with a pitch slightly above or under the note played, but quickly go back to the base tone.

Johan

Pitch bend aftermath

Try creating a wave instrument with a length setting less than unlimited. Then play it with a slide (I prefer down)

Phrase screen

A-5 I01

I-- LFC

I--
Chain screen

01 00 (Trig phrase)
FE 00 (Empty padding phrase)
FE

/Edit: The theory
After some thinking I managed to come up with a theory for this. Gameboy sound freqs are 11-bit values. However LSDj stores and modifies freqs internally as 16-bit values. For this reason when you're sliding down, and the freq value is at $0000 and is decreased one step, it ends up to be $ffff. Only the lower eleven bits are being used, making the effective frequency $03ff. But the interesting part is that higher bits accidently retrigs the sound. And not only once, but at an extreme rate.
This gives the unbounded sliding a very special touch, both for pulse and wave channels.

nitro2k01

for more stereo spread use a table like this

0 L
0 R
O LR
-
-
-
H 04

for a percussive sounding pulse/snare(!)/hihat(!):

instr env: F3

table

– 00
– 00
E 43
– 00
– 00
H 04

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try to play around with the env values and shift the env command in the
table up and down

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try to use the resync2 function. (wave)