Here's an
example recorded via hardware to show off some phasing or "gating" via triangle. I'm trying to devise instruments like the ones Sunsoft used and I'm pretty close to figuring it out.
Edit: After messing around on trying to replicate the croaks, I'm pretty sure I've determined that it's not possible with the FamiTracker engine.
Two methods *should* work but don't. Looping triangle's envelope as "| 1 0" or "| 0 1" makes the stuttered triangle on a per tick basis that we want. But if we try to track it looped or even not looped at "speed 1" (which is tracking per tick) it either melds the tone per note tick on the frame; making a looped, whole tone or looped whole silence.
So the other methods would be to track at any speed with the looped on/off or off/on triangle and either use arpeggio or pitch envelopes. In either case I find the resolution too large per sample to modulate the pitch or notes fast enough to create that croak noise.
I've also tried using hardware sliding up and down to no prevail and software sliding commands -- but fall prey to not having enough control over the frequency changing and the allowed spaces for changing the frequencies. The results are irratic and unlike the Sunsoft croak.
I'm probably wrong, but can anybody else replicate it using FamiTracker or NerdTracker? I have not yet tried NerdTracker.
Anyone else? Show up my failure, plz. ;D