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NewStyle AXS is an old DOS tracker that was a commercial product from some Dutch Devs in the 90s...They made it into windows (barely) then gave it out for free starting in 2001...

I always found it had an alluring GUI that is like a large screenmate & I really like its anti-aliased synth which is capable of producing a large variety of sound & sounds 'right on' in my ears..

It also has 'smart patterns' which is cool & evidently Arguru thought so too as he implemented smart patterns into Noisetrekker which are STILL here today in Protrekkr...

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Notice the built-in HELP right on the GUI...LOL... I hafta use a screen magnifier on that one...

Anyways it do have a few issues but NONE are show stoppers...Since I am about 25% into a serious tune in it I figure I will post what I find out so far quite a bit...

I use XP SP3 on most everything...

FIRST....VERY STABLE!...No crashes at all, no hangs very efficient on directsound your machine won't even know it's running...This is very tight coded 352 KB EXE!!...It has a few other files but STILL everything below 400 KB!

SECOND...And this is a BIG ONE!...AXS will absorb any kinda 16 bit WAV but I spent hours trying to figure out why it would not save the samples in the song file, I thought there was an issue with my samples but NO!...If you do not use a sample in a song it will be discarded upon save...So when I added samples after this epiphany I made Block 000 a junk block pressing every sample note in the sampler...You ALSO have to do this with a tuned sample that you press 'FILL OCTAVE' you have to play every note of the octave in the junk block...When done you just mute all the tracks of the junk block, remove from sequencer area...

THEN you can save your song file & will all be intact next opening...I found a bit on this in the on-GUI help AFTER the fact...

THIRDLY....In the beginning testing WAV render for function - Testing WAV Render found that manual is useless as manual is updated version '2' & not applicable. But the WAV Render did not work for me but the Disc Streaming did. Open the 'setup' button & choose the 'RenderToDisc' option, Open your tune AND open your C root directory, Now press 'play' & in a few seconds you should see 'test.wav' show up on C root dir. Let tune play & shut off right after it ends, rename WAV & take into editor & trim off fat...

Those are the big ones so far, there is a bit of an issue with storing presets as the light does not flash like its supposed to but you just give the button a second click & it saves OK, having trouble renaming presets, Don't worry if you screw up as it only saves/overwrites bank if you do so down in the files area...

Also the whole DRM Drumkit open/save don't work...It saves a zero-byte file & it won't open an original DRM drumkit so saving into an AXS song is your goal...

Pretty much it so far...I haven't tried hooking up a MIDI controller yet just doing oldskool from QWERTY, You can apparently do some live recording of automation haven't tried yet...I have entered commands & interpolated all is well there with knobs-sliders animating as expected...

It does not seem to have the ability to fade-in then fade-out a tune but who cares? After WAV export I will simply do that in my audio editor...There is a command for tempo change but haven't tried yet...


You can get it from here-

https://web.archive.org/web/20030527131 ... naudio.nl/

Plus some extra stuff as well...

Here's the Sonic Spot page from 1999 when it was a commercial DOS product... ($60.00)...

https://web.archive.org/web/19991122032 ... s/axs.html



Anybody else wishes to try their hand just ask if you get baffled or waylayed right here on the thread...
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Forgot to add something-

AXS has fixed block size of 64 steps...Foe ME this was a downer as I often incorporate triplets or 3/4 'feel' into 4/4 compositions...BUTT!...You can utilize a close fake by INCREASING BPM (You see mine in image is at 250) to increase resolution enough for close fakery...Splitting the 64 steps into 3 gives 21.33333333> so going down 2 more times gives you 5 or 6 steps for a 'close' triplet...For a fast attack instrument use 6 for a slow use 5...Then for your boring 4/4 use 4/8/16/32...

The tune I am doing now has triplet garbage going all the way through it...It won't fool Hans Zimmer I am sure he would walk up & backhand me retorting "Your triplets are quite terrible!!" then be would pick me up & throw me in a ditch & call me "Bitch!!"...But for the usual Desktop Dabbling Tracker Troglodyte there should be NO quarrel or query....
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Here's the FX Command Charts from the manual...I cannot stand reading anything that's a black lettered doc on a white background so I 'recolored' the screenshot in 2 different versions-

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I uploaded a first iteration of the tune I'm working on as some might be curious what the sound is like...After the disc stream I just put a fade-in on it then converted to MP3, uploaded...No other processing was done (Hell, it's not finished yet), Drums & Bass were samples everything else internal synth at this point the tune is about 1/3 finished-

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How about making an additional section on the forum. Something like "other music apps and trackers" or "retro music apps" or something else (your suggestions?)
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Yeah, Probably your first suggestion which covers all the bases as a few, like Protrekkr are current projects...Thanks...
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Very cool tracker, thanks OP for the shoutout. I'll see if I can make something with this!
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Yahhhh...Please do...It's pretty simple enough barring the aforementioned 'gotchas' it is rather easy to get used to...The reverb might sound a bit dirty when tracking but seems to clear right up on the WAV streaming...The distortion algo is better than most out there and no install with a 352 KB EXE is tight coding, certainly the VERY BEST of the SMALLEST...

Be sure to copy original BNK file to a subfolder before saving custom presets...

This was coded by a couple of Danish University Students...Hope they did well afterwards...
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Here are 3 AXS Song Start Templates I made up this morning-

1- DR660 + Linn + Brown Air + Erotic Kits AXS Start Song-

Full Instruments & one 000 junk pattern to retain samples muted...Do not delete this junk pattern until song completed...

Octaves C0-C3 - DR660 Drums & Linn Drums

Octaves C4 - Brown Air Kit

Octaves C5 - C6 - Erotic Kit (Vocal)


2- Fusion AXS Start Song-

Full Instruments & one 000 junk pattern to retain samples muted...Do not delete this junk pattern until song completed...

Octaves C0-C1 - Funk Drums & Pot-Pan Perc

Octaves C2-C5 - Lounge Lizard BCD Rhodes Full Octaves

Octaves C6-C8 - Generic P-Bass Full Octaves

Octave C9 - Misc tuned hits all on 'C' tune with pitch knob to suit tune...


3- Indian Percussion AXS Start Song-

Full Instruments & one 000 junk pattern to retain samples muted...Do not delete this junk pattern until song completed...

Octaves C0-C5 - Indian Percussion

Octaves C5-Rest - Misc Industrial Percussion

Octaves C6-C8 - Raspy Bass Full Octaves


https://workupload.com/start/S7gExvEdKcX

OR

https://anonfiles.com/71SfM9X9yc/AXS_So ... plates_rar

OR

https://www.upload.ee/files/14931219/AX ... s.rar.html
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My first AXS tut mostly just an intro so far, next one will cover sampler. I should have volumes better dialed in as well but not a serious issue with this first one>>>

https://3dtestosterone.net/vidsys/?p=vi ... JYBro9l8fQ

Best to watch in fullscreen mode...
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Finished a few more videos...Best viewed fullscreen as uploading site degrades video quality-

AXS 3.0b4 - Render to WAV-

https://3dtestosterone.net/vidsys/?p=vi ... B-ZHpuc_1w

AXS 3.0b4 - Friendly Tips-

https://3dtestosterone.net/vidsys/?p=vi ... 5uSdRkpU6g

AXS 3.0b4 - Sampler Filter Sector-

https://3dtestosterone.net/vidsys/?p=vi ... FlKkQ_ZmVg
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Soon to be sampler videos or perhaps you are 'cracking on' on your own in AXS or other I have a list of drum packs in WAV. In AXS you can get by easy just loading in drum samples & using the internal synth for everything else...

Or use these in SunVox as well these are samples from the wayback machine DIRECT LINKS, no having to view game trailers or hentai porn or having to 'sign up' or 'lick me' on facebook or anything else...

These be some decent drum or percs from the past that were free or demo paks many are kontakt 2 (or other format) but have the WAV files loose in a separate folder all links & content tested by me for.....PURITY!

https://web.archive.org/web/20120705124 ... 2-Demo.zip

https://web.archive.org/web/20150620223 ... yrider.rar

https://web.archive.org/web/20061119214 ... frider.rar

https://web.archive.org/web/20070206055 ... om/RnB.rar

https://web.archive.org/web/20150727000 ... ge_Kit.rar

https://web.archive.org/web/20070206055 ... lFunky.rar

https://web.archive.org/web/20060716132 ... a_9000.zip

https://web.archive.org/web/20130509144 ... riaBat.zip

https://web.archive.org/web/20150726234 ... C64Bat.zip

https://web.archive.org/web/20150726120 ... it_Bat.zip

https://web.archive.org/web/20150726120 ... ul_Bat.zip

https://web.archive.org/web/20150726115 ... it_Bat.zip

https://web.archive.org/web/20150726115 ... K1_Bat.zip

https://web.archive.org/web/20150726114 ... it_Bat.zip

https://web.archive.org/web/20150726113 ... it_Bat.zip

https://web.archive.org/web/20150726113 ... it_Bat.zip

https://web.archive.org/web/20150726113 ... it_Bat.zip

https://web.archive.org/web/20141027160 ... OON808.rar

https://web.archive.org/web/20110720052 ... drums2.rar

https://web.archive.org/web/20110720052 ... Ndrums.rar

https://web.archive.org/web/20051110195 ... O(wav).zip

https://web.archive.org/web/20051110200 ... O(wav).zip

https://web.archive.org/web/20051110201 ... O(wav).zip

https://web.archive.org/web/20051110202 ... O(wav).zip

https://web.archive.org/web/20040219020 ... ruMalaia/S 8000_DEMO-samples version.rar

https://web.archive.org/web/20040405051 ... ns-samples package vers.rar

https://web.archive.org/web/20040306170 ... re-samples package.rar

https://web.archive.org/web/20060327213 ... a-Reverses(wav vers).zip

https://web.archive.org/web/20040405054 ... 0PowerHits(wav vers).rar

https://web.archive.org/web/20040405054 ... amples.rar

https://web.archive.org/web/20040405060 ... O6-samples package.rar


Here's some more that contain one-shots (what we want) but also loops (what we don't want) but there's enough good one-shots to warrant downloading you can delete the loops or keep them for something else-


http://cdn.mos.musicradar.com/audio/sam ... amples.zip

http://cdn.mos.musicradar.com/audio/sam ... amples.zip

http://cdn.mos.musicradar.com/audio/sam ... amples.zip

http://cdn.mos.musicradar.com/audio/sam ... amples.zip

http://cdn.mos.musicradar.com/audio/sam ... amples.zip
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Worked on this quite a bit today... It is all the Jaco Bass Samples from the output of Trilogy Bass Module I did this years ago but NOW converted to Mono & renamed 8 letters or less (for AXS) eliminating unneeded samples as well...

Also included is a Jaco Power Bass AXS Song Starter, or you can use the samples included in anything else (like SunVox)...

Designed for a realistic fretless bass play inside simple tracker or sequencer...


https://workupload.com/start/FhSxR7MnpWM

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https://anonfiles.com/83Paucl6z7/Jaco_B ... _Start_rar

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https://www.upload.ee/files/15119214/Ja ... t.rar.html


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About MIDI Keyboards...

-If they act strange in AXS it's NOT your controller keyboard....

I have 4 & they all act a bit different in AXS...NONE will play the sampler sector only the synth area. My Korg NanoKontrol plays synths fine with velocity sens working good, pitch bend not functional maybe it needs command setup or you could just map it to pitch envelope knob. Mod wheel modulates filter cutoff but resets it to zero not 'where it was before' however first slider is auto-mapped to same cutoff...Other synth parameters are 'auto-mapped' to other sliders automatically & these can be recorded in realtime if wished...

Arturia MiniLab is very similar to above only difference is DIFFERENT parameters are assigned to rotary knobs by default...

Korg nanoKEY works but not velocity sens & there are no sliders-knobs...Octave & sustain buttons work & modulation button but it is a crap up-down for a hit button. Might be different if I had driver for it installed but not yet on this machine...

M-Audio Oxygen 8 v2 have not tried yet as it is not 'handy'...

So for most part looks like good to play out synth parts WITH velocity & have pre-assigned or assignable controls to record in hardware fashion for realtime automation...
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