Prophet Juno Arp-like Synths in MilkyTracker

How to reproduce fat sounding synths in MilkyTracker?
Simple! Let’s take raina’s amazing Cyberculosis.xm as example.
All you need is this:

Then type some notes into MilkyTracker, and end up with this:

If we open the XM file in MilkyTracker, we can actually see exactly what is going on:

NOTE: various effects ‘remember’ the last setting, see docs. This means that A00 actually triggers the last value (A01).

Techniques used:

• volumes (2digit volume column: values, or 00 to repeat last value)
• volume fadeouts (-6 -4 or A06 e.g.)
• portamento (300 repeats the initial portamento setting)
• 2 pingpong stereo-delay-channels (copy-paste of main-channel by adding empty rows in the top)

Bottomline: space and depth can be achieved by this 2 pingpong-delay technique, without needing a reverb.

Alternative approach (to save channels):

• resample (ctrl+shift+v) the pattern
• sample-editor: apply 100% wet reverb
• sample-editor: enable ‘Forward loop’
• play the note in the pattern on 2 hard-panned channels (effect 800 and 8FF)
• sample-editor: apply ‘Loop Fold’-effect to shrink the reverb loop to reasonable size

Listen to the whole song