absolutely! id love to see this.

yeah i've noticed this too.

I don't know, my gameboy color had an awful hiss/hum even after a pre-pot pro sound.

thats what i thought, i usually stick to keeping my VXXs in the phrases themselves, never have any problems, and i only fucks with DMGs.

also, i think if 2 instruments are sharing the same table its bad news on the dmg01.  i've actually done it on purpose to get the thing to slow down here and there - sort of humanizing the gb.  im pretty sure it wont slow down when you use 2 seperate tables on 2 different instruments (even if you have to clone a table).  counter intuitive stuff i guess.

I think all the commands take up less cpu in the phrase column than when you use them in a table.  thats my hunch at least...

V takes up less cpu in the phrase's effect column than in tables right?

Maybe you could still record it from a DMG if you only play one channel at a time then mix the recordings together later. As for playing live you'd need a cgb or better.

Johan can probably explain that one better than i can. But considering it's shifting pitch registers accurately across octaves.. it doesn't surprise me.

Hm...  i think i found something that was making the thing chug a bit...

In my tables i was using the A command to send the cursor to another empty pattern (this was a short kinda plucked table with the W command  only for like 4 ticks on the square)

instead of making it go to an empty table i just used the H command to make it loop shorter - it resolved the problem...

Maybe we should get Johan to make a list of the commands in order of how much CPU they drain ...so people can optimize their songs for the DMG-01 or whatever they're running.

Logain >> i noticed that about the V command - i wonder why that one is so CPU intensive - probably because its reading another waveform?

spot on!

i should design a newer updated dc:dc converter for the dmg.. then again.. who'd want to pay $30-50 on a new supply to install into a $10 gameboy? lol

Agreed Arfink. the electrolytic caps specifically should all be replaced.

Ultimately the real problem is this... you're using a game boy to make music.. putting very little investment into it and expecting the entire world out of it. lol. Cut it a little slack and just deal with the issues.. or dont use it at all

I laugh every time i see someone bitch about noise problems w/ a game boy... it's 4-8bit audio man! it's supposed to sound like shit! *laughs*

A hint to all the people complaining about noise in their sound- gameboys are old. They have capacitors and other components inside which deteriorate. They run on batteries put through DC-DC converters which can be notoriously noisy. So yeah, the amount of abuse your gameboy has taken is a far greater aspect of noise production than model. A re-cap job and possibly replacing or upgrading the PSU will, in nearly all instances, kill the noise. I have worked with old computers and such for a long time, and those two things cause probably %90 of problems in old electronics, including gameboys.

the sound on the color is a bit thin for live stuff if you are running directly to the mixer (just my opinion), but I have had really good results by putting some compression/reverb and EQ-ing to cut down on the treble. if you have a noise gate, the hiss is DESTROYED. GBCs can sound awesome!! plus, those cheap worm lights are like 2 dollars and are super bright ;D

sorry if this is kind of a derail, im guessing animalstyle knows most of this, haha

A gameboy color is fine too.

edit:
It is easly backlit-able and with a prosound mod you can remove kinda all the noises.