retrig

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verb

To retrigger (a note, or a sample within it).

Scrabble 7

Meanings

verbretrig (third-person singular simple present retrigs, present participle retrigging, simple past and past participle retrigged)

present singular third person retrigs · participle present retrigging · participle past retrigged · past retrigged

  1. 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)
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    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)
nounretrig (plural retrigs)

plural retrigs

  1. tracker musiccomputingThe retriggering of a note or sample.

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