Right. From the programmers perspective your just writing to registers. Switching voices on and off. I doubt the wave Buffer was meant to be changed so quickly. It's suprising that it works as well as it does actually.

It does sound good for distorted synths n stuff.

The clicking is the result of lsdj writing to the waveform buffer, its a hardware thing and can not be prevented unfortunately. The less timbre (like a sine wave) the more noticeable.

Cool. Yeah it sounds alright depending on how you use it I guess.

i used to try to get things to not clilp... don't worry about it.  LSDJ clips, yo - that's why it's awesome.  most of the clipping you can't hear when all the other channels are running anyway.  artifacts are cool - go with it.

Time the F commands up with the noise channel or other percussion (hh or snare or whatevs). It'll mask the clicks caused by the frame change.

That's what I did in this track at least - especially on the first wav lead and later solo. I think they are pretty smooth frame changes although I'm certain there are better examples out there.

Hey guise, I have another question. Sorry hope it's not too annoying.

Is the F command supposed to make your instrument sound like crap? I mean is there supposed to be a click sound between each frame change? I get this on both my emulator and GBC. But I just heard a song where someone used i cool synth, and am now jealous. His song uses the frame changes without a loud clicking.

Yah, that's what tripped me up in the beginning. I have to use TSP to have it not be additive.

There's not much to know, tbh. Just know that S commands are additive in the sense that

S01
S00
S01
SFE

Will result, at the end, in only a one step change from the shape designated in the instrument screen. S00 does not return the shape to its original form in the way that a 00 in the TSP column would. Anyway, you've probably already figured this stuff out.

Oh, and prelisten is indeed awesome, right? Don't really know how I tracked for so long without it. It's like writing in the dark.

Gotcha.

The point is to not use tsp with the noise channel. Use the S command for pitch changes.

Whoops, i actually do have 4.0.5. I just stopped using the outrageous shape changes. But I'll try animal style's thing. I actually don't fully understand the changes created by the S command yet. I just have to mess with it till I like how it sounds. Need to learn the logic of it.

I do have to say, I love 4.0.5. The "prelisten" option is so tight.

Gah! The gbc inferior sound architecture strikes again!

um...  upgrading to 4.0 is very advantageous because of the stable S command.

this will fix what all of you are talking about.

do this in a table

S 00
S 00
S 01
S 01
S 02
S 02
S 01
S 01
H

instead of using the TSP for arps.

also set the S command to stable.

I table like this would definitely fuck shit up for your noise channel. Keep in mind the noise channel is a delicate flower. Combining transpositions with massive shape jumps like that and slapping a hop command on it all will spell disaster. Either nab a copy of 4.0.5 (although, and maybe this is just me, but I feel like I've had drop out issues with 4.0.5 as well) or pare down your noise channel tables.

Yeah a table like that would fuck it up.  I beleive you need 4.0.5 or up for the free option. I know its not on 4.0.4.

Edit: or maybe is not there cause I have the stable version?

I find that if I play anything in the noise channel on a Game Boy Color it skips about a third of the notes randomly. That's on multiple different ones too. DMGs and SPs work fine though.

I have actually been having this problem too.... will try and switching those settings and see what is happening (v. 4.0)