... What? 6 beats per minute?! That's 1 beat for every 2.5 seconds!
Have you even tried doing a tune at 6 BPM? Try making a tune that you can listen to with a speed of 18 & a tempo of 20; you'll see what I mean.
As far as I can tell, it's not possible to make a pleasing song that flows smoothly with 6 BPM; it's too slow. Now, if we're allowed to exceed your speed limit, then I'd probably join in.
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Famitracker has a Macro for the instruments, the limit of "6bpm" doesn't exist actually. With an arpeggio or volume envelope you can do anything you want. This contest doesn't make sense.
And though sense made, with 6bpm it's not possible to do anything, so this contest is not applicable anyhow.
That's exactly what I mean; 6 BPM isn't realistic to achieve a single good tune at all.
Wit all the limits imposed, it's impossible to do anything proper when it comes to making a tune. Now, FamiCompo Mini doesn't have any ridiculous restrictions like 6 BPM ideal tempo, or replacing arpeggios with note delays (which makes the matter of 6 BPM ideal tempo much worse).
And as Delek said, FamiTracker limits you to a minimum tempo that's much grater than 6 BPM (in the tempo settings, you can only use 20 BPM minimum at speed=6). In order to get a BPM of 6, you have to increase the speed to 18 while decreasing the tempo to 20. That, xolroc, is only a tiny bit faster than a snail. So, I'd completely ignore the idea of saying something like "6 BPM ideal speed."
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Man, your little nice song is not made in 9.375BPM, because you are hacking the speed using volume envelopes and pitch ups. I repeat, Famitracker has a Macro, the tempo and speed are anecdotal.
But if the contest its like "make a song in a complicated manner" the contest is good, but i will not participate.
"slow songs contest" isn't a bad idea, but there doesn't need to be any more stipulations than that. "slow" should be the perceptual measurement, not a technical one (ie. compose at speed 1 if you like, so long as you end up writing something that sounds slow.) and of course "slow" is subjective to a degree so you might wanna say something like "aim for somewhere around or below 80bpm."
as it stands it sounds more like proof of concept than a recipe for good songs. furthermore the "no arpeggio" rule is arbitrary and "pleasing to hear" is unquantifiable. just some thoughts. it's probably not the best time to be running a contest anyway, what with famicompo going on.
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