This Document gives instructions about how to track professional
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This is NO manual for bloody beginners. It is dedicated to semiprofessional musicians
who want to know how they can make the best of their songs.
The text is not related to AST only. The following Tips count for every electronic song.

First you must ask yourself, what samples you choose. The classic set in a tekkno song
consists of

a) Basedrum and a subbase
b) Midbase (like 303) 
c) Snares, Percussions, Lead Synth
d) Hihats, Crash Cymbal, Higher Strings

So you may ask, why i write that intruments in the order, everyone knows that these things
exist, how trivial !
No, i you look closer, you may ask: The Midbase is a Base and the Subbase is a Base, so
why do they not stand under "b)"...
The reason is that the instrumets are ordered by their frequencies.
In a song you should also seperate the fequencies of your instrumets, who play in a track
at one time. This means: If i already have a track with a midbase i do not put another 
to another channel when they are played at the same time. The two midbases will erase their 
phases and the result is that the one, who hears to your song will not be able to differ 
the two baselines.
Putting a Basedrum and a Subbase is the biggest sin you can do. (But you will notice this
for yourself, if you see your Speakers fly trugh your room)
The higher the frquency of two freuency overlaping instrumets the less important this
effect gets. So you can put a Snare next to a Leader without any scruples.
But be aware of overlaping Base!!!
You can limit your frequency width either by taking only samples who do not overlap,
or by the use of filters.

Now to the effects.
There are many types of effects. I will only refer to Chorus/Phaser/Planger and Reverb.

A Phaser is a mono switched chorus with low frequency.
A Phlanger is a Phaser with Feedback.
You see that these effects are nearly equal and they are uses in the same way. So i will
only refer to the Chorus and the Reverb.
The Chorus should be used to ONE TRACK ONLY. This means set chorus to your leadsynth, but
then nowhere else. The reason is the the Chorus changes the frequency spectrum of a track.
If you put another one with Chorus they have a similar spectrum and the will sound similar.
This counts NOT for the reverb.
Here is a listing, how i use the effects:

Basedrum and Subbase stay dry, without any effects!!!
Midbase is dry. Maybe some early reflectinoes. (Simulate this by copying and pasting your
	row to another channel and delay it by pasting it to a Y-position that is bigger 
	than the original. Decrease the volume of this pasted stuff. And add some resonance)
Leading Voices with Chorus and maybe Reverb.
Hihats and Cymbals, Percussiones are used with Reverb only!

General stuff:
Of course your equalizer and Bass-Treble setting must be LINEAR.
So if you compose or record a song, wind your amp dry and set your soundcard to linear 
Base and Treble. Your song should sound good everywhere, not only on your hifiset. 

Mastering:
I use Wavelab for mastering my songs. I give my songs a last touch with:
A phychacustic Base enhancer like maxbass
Compress the song
Create additional harmonic frequencies to the treble and midds with an Exciter (specrtalizer)

The last rest:
Record the song to a CD, Dat or Minidisc.  ;-)

Some general formula:
Frequency in Hz = BpmRate / 60
time in milliseconds = 1000 / Frequency in Hz
time in milliseconds (from Basedrum to Basedrum, 4 Notes distance) = 60000 / BPM 

Another one:
Wavelength in samples=44100/frequency 

How 2 tune instruments:
The frequency scale of the AWE cards is logarithmic. This means if you add 4096 to 
the sample pitch it gets higher for exactly one octave.
One octave is 12 halvtones. This means: 
One halftone=4096/12=341

If you know the tune of your sample and want to calculate the awe-pitch, use
this formula:
AWEpitch = Log (Sampletunefreq) / Log (2) * 4096 + 61570
is equal to:
AWEpitch = Log (Sampletunefreq)*13607 + 61570

Backwards:
Sampletunefreq= 1 / exp( AWEpitch/5909.445 - 10.4189 )

61570 is a base pitch constant. 61570 stands for standart "A" pitch (440Hz).
I would suggest that, because the midi synths are also all tuned to 440Hz.
If you want to have a "A#" standart pitch, for example add 341 to 61570.

The most important tunes:

Sample sampeled in:                AWEpitch:
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C=523Hz (the most common)            24570
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A=440Hz                              25600
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Sample ripped from Module            22964
(344 Hz), wavelength=2^n
