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present singular third person retrigs · participle present retrigging · participle past retrigged · past retrigged
- transitivetracker musiccomputingTo retrigger (a note, or a sample within it).
However, if you need to use different notes, just use 2 channels and delay the 2nd note instead of retrigging it.
1996, Andrew Carlson, “MOD composition question”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet)2 more examples
This command will retrig the same note before playing the next. Where to retrig depends on the speed of the song. If you retrig with 1 in speed 6 that note will be trigged 6 times in one note slot.
1992, Ian Tweedie, “OK here it is!! Mod-File-Format!”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard (Usenet)The clicking during the piano part is specially horrid... It sounds a bit like this: Click! Click-click-click! Whrrrrrr... Click! Click-click-click! Whrrrrrr... etc. (The Whrrrrrr bit sounds a bit like a sample being retrigged at a very high rate (a dozen times per second)).
1993, Justin William Brown, “Nausicaa MID... the clicking :(”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard (Usenet)
plural retrigs
- tracker musiccomputingThe retriggering of a note or sample.
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