Hi cTrix,

Any news on this promising project ?

Wow awesome!

hey chris, any news on this?

one of my xmas-gifts-to-myself is gonna be a harmony cart

yes.  That's what I use to test all the time :-]

super psyched about this!
i assume it would work with the harmony cart?

Optimiser module automatically adds comment marks to tune and suggests where repitition is so you can save memory and build bigger songs.  Still trying to automate rebuilding the sequence list - just need to write a better search and replace routine.  At the mo you have to follow the directions to what to find and replace.   It's getting there!  For now I'm off to Blip Tokyo and have got it working good enough to hopefully finish a new tune (which isn't that good, but it optimises well!)

I will get around to releasing this.  I'm forever faceplanting everytime I use it as I discover limitations and things I didn't think about.  I guess I just want to make a good tutorial so that when I do go "HERE!" it actually doesn't have too high expectations attached.  Oh, and the optimiser IS on it's way to working!  It just makes cart images which crash at the mo and I can't figure out why.  Gettin' there.

The Synthcart?  Well it has some preset beats and some notes you can play in realtime from a controller.  Fine for sampling notes or a fun little jam off - but it's not a sequencer.  I've got one and it's cool to show off the Atari with some awesome preset stuff.  That's about it.  And it has an arp and a few things - it's quite fun as a live toy actually.  Although no way of syncing it to anything else.

The tool I've made actually calls heavily on Paul's play routines (who also made the Synthcart) and I was talking to him yesterday making sure it was ok for me to release this tool with associated files attached.  So I'll have it done soon.  Just need to find a few days to finish it off, run it by Paul, and link it up here  :-)

ps. This is only PC software btw.  Mac support via vBox or Paralleles or similar.

http://atariage.com/store/index.php?l=p … &p=101

and this?

Well it works enough for me to make tunes (hence the gAtari) - but not without manual optimisation of the tunes so that they fit on the cart.  In fact I don't even use the included sequencer because it's just not efficient.  I'm working with another dude on something similar for the lynx and learning quite a bit more about writing programs that optimise code.

I guess I could release it as is - but I wanted it to be a tool that made quality optimised output rather than save the same code multiple times into precious memory - which is what it does at the moment instead of using look up tables to optimise the 2.8k of memory you get for the tune.  I might look at it in the next couple of weeks.  There is just quite a few things going on at the moment and it's tricky to find the time!!

I was wondering if there was any advancements on this? I can't wait to play around with this.

Yes, I do plan on doing a public release of this in the next month or so with a tutorial.  Just lettin' it in the wild with a few testers first.  Anyone else who wants it before this time will just have to find someone with a cTrix usb stick ;-)

I'll be uploading a version of this when I'm back.  Did a workshop at blip for it so a few people have it already.  Still a few minor silly bugs that need fixing.  I think the optimiser is going to be the most important part.

ps. low-gain - that's nuts buddy!!!  Wish I could have come hung out but it was too much travelling around in the end!

sounds like u got a new bad ass song there..
i fucking love the atari 2600... sounds so gritty and beautiful.
Nicely done cTrix!

here are some of my atari acid beats.

watching this project like a hawk!