I thought I’d have a go at transcribing a track from Hero Quest to NTRQ. 
Thought it might serve to illustrate how you might layout a whole track complete with arpeggios, duty mod, pitch slide, vibrato, auto-echo, tempo changes, different time signatures.
I don’t think I’ve done a proper song on NTRQ since it was released so it was good to see what the workflow is like and it’s given me a few ideas for improvement.
It was all done by ear/hand – no automatic conversion tool exists (or ever will!)
Annoyingly, during the editing, I had that bug resurface with modifying marked sections of a pattern where you end up with blank spaces (—) being changed into notes! So i fired up the 6502 assembler, turned on the debug stuff and then of course I couldn’t get it to happen again. Odd.
Anyway, here’s an MP3 of the resulting NTRQ version of Hero Quest and also the NTRQ .sav file.
NTRQ Quest
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This is the masterpiece. Well, as usual.
I wonder how long it took to create in NTRQ? It would be fun to have some button-press counter, to see how much you’ve mashed the buttons to create a song.
Not long at all really. I did it over a couple of days but only little bits at a time.
I think I spent more time messing about with the lead, putting pitch slides and stuff in.
Oh, and trying to find empty Patterns. I’m definitely going to have to look at the “clone” function from LSDJ. Quite a handy feature.
Wow. Thanks for sharing this! Epic indeed.