retrig

retrig

English

Etymology

From retrigger.

Verb

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

1. (transitive, computing, tracker music) To retrigger (a note, or a sample within it).
   • 1992, "Ian Tweedie", OK here it is!! Mod-File-Format! (on newsgroup comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard)

     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.

   • 1993, "Justin William Brown", Nausicaa MID... the clicking :( (on newsgroup comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard)

     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)).

   • 1996, "Andrew Carlson", MOD composition question (on newsgroup comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos)

     However, if you need to use different notes, just use 2 channels and delay the 2nd note instead of retrigging it.