33 Reply by garvalf

(9 replies, posted in General Discussion)

hello John,

I used Pro-24 back in the days, it was quite cool: http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari … 29596.html
But later I used Cubase (or Cubase lite, I don't remember well). Both are from Steinberg, I think Cubase is more advanced. Probably you need a dongle to use Cubase because I'm not sure there is a reliable crack for it (that's why I think it was Cubase Lite I had because I had no dongle).

I used Midi program changes in Cubase, so my expander (Roland D-110) could automatically switch to the correct instruments when the song started to play (it's just a midi event to insert in the track).

I can understand people use old chips to make music with them, but for MIDI, it will just sound the same, so why not using a more modern tool? Well, I must admit I had already thought to use my Atari ST for this purpose as well. But I already have one. For a decent Atari ST(e), it will cost you around 50-70 €. Try to get an STE because if you want to compose Chiptune with Maxymiser in the future, you get DMA channels and it also has CINCH / RCA outputs.

Anyway, in Logic Pro you should be able to program midi program changes as well: http://www.plugorama.com/kb.php?id=33

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34 Reply by garvalf

(55 replies, posted in Sega)

I've just submitted a track, I hope it's not to late, and the track is not too strange for the compilation.

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35 Reply by garvalf

(257 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)

for osx you'll probably have to change the makefile because OSX is using CoreAudio instead of Alsa. But since Picoloop is using rtaudio which support several backends and OS, it should be possible. But it won't work out of the box. I can't help more, I'm sorry.

yoyz2k adviced to start from Makefile.Patternplayer_raspi1

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36 Reply by garvalf

(3 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)

here is a little tune I've made with Chipnsfx: http://picosong.com/7Vnq/

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37 Reply by garvalf

(3 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)

I can't really tell. I've used chipnsfx.exe from Linux, using the "wineconsole" emulator. And I got sound straight from the beginning. Could you enter notes or load a song? If it's mute, maybe some settings in windows are preventing to get audio from the terminal?

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38 Topic by garvalf

(3 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)

"CHIPNSFX is a musical software suite focused on lightweight code and data (the player itself is under 950 bytes long, and can be as small as 550 bytes) for the Amstrad CPC, Sinclair Spectrum 128 and MSX1 platforms; other hardwares can be supported with minor modifications in the player code, such as Sega Master System. The tracker can create songs up to 256 patterns long, patterns can be up to 96 ticks long, and there can be as many as 255 different instruments. The player itself is hardware-independent, the programmer can provide the external functions required to make it work on any Z80-based platform. "

This tools seems quite easy to use. It runs in a windows console.

http://cngsoft.no-ip.org/chipnsfx.htm

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39 Reply by garvalf

(257 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)

oh, it's quite too much work. Don't bother with this if you believe it's not that useful.

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40 Reply by garvalf

(257 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)

do you know if adding a wav export for the 4 different tracks at once would be easily doable?

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41 Reply by garvalf

(23 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)

why don't you just use dedicated tools for composing music targetting those platforms? With Deflemask you can export to Genesis, for Snes look at this:  http://battleofthebits.org/lyceum/View/ … format%29/

After that, music is music so if you only want to make inspired music with a tool you already know, why not.

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42 Reply by garvalf

(18 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I've seen on ebay a cart named "Cleverdrive", it says it's "Not krikzz compliant", and a different firmware (which can't be upgraded). I don't know if it's serious or a scam. The price is around $80.

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43 Reply by garvalf

(2 replies, posted in Releases)

it sounds good. Imo you should release your music without such limits.

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44 Reply by garvalf

(257 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)

I've tried an usb hub (non powered from ext PSU), and it works, I could plug my midi master keyboard and this snes gamepad (the latency when using midi in sunvox is quite high, I'd say at least 200 ms).
I think you can also plug an external keyboard. It works fine for me with a bluetooth mini keyboard (yeah, there is also BT which is quite convenient)

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45 Reply by garvalf

(2 replies, posted in Releases)

Velkommen til Chipmusikk Olov! wink

That's some very cool concepts and albums! I enjoy how it sounds like some old and melancolic games.

For the recording from original hardware, you might request someone to do it for you, I'm sure some people here could help! (I'm tempted to buy an everdrive cardridge for my own recordings, but I haven't done so yet)

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46 Reply by garvalf

(18 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I'm tempted to get an everdrive for my NES, but I'm not sure the sound is that much different than from emulation. Well, probably a bit, but does this worth more than 100 $? A found a copy on aliexpress for less than this, but missed the opportunity to get one. I found an everdrive for megadrive for under 40$ and it works very well. And the sound is indeed different on the original hardware. I'm using this to play the vgm on the everdrive: http://www.mjsstuf.x10host.com/pages/vg … gmPlay.htm

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47 Reply by garvalf

(257 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)

I believe the jack output mustn't be much better than the one on raspberry pi. For me it sounds rather ok. I could try to record something to hear the comparison. I'll also try to plug a cable for midi with the joypad, and I'll tell you (maybe not before next weekend).

In my opinion the pocketchip is funny, but it's not that useful, especially if you own other devices for making music. Anyway it's rather cheap so why not.

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48 Reply by garvalf

(257 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)

hey, I got a good idea.

The keyboard on the pocketchip really suck, making it a bit tedious to use picoloop on it. So I've found you can connect an usb gamepad to it, and use it like on the psp.

Just get a kind of "usb snes" on ebay (I got mine for under 3 €, like there: http://www.ebay.fr/itm/Super-Controller … SwNyFWekeq)

Install qjoypad: https://github.com/panzi/qjoypad (on debian / ubuntu / mint / pocketchip just "sudo apt-get install qjoypad")

Copy my settings from there:
https://github.com/farvardin/picoloop-m … /.qjoypad3 and put the .qjoypad3 folder into your home directory ~/

(or redefine your own from the gui, if you're using an other gamepad like a ps3 one. It seems the gui doesn't work on pocketchip because there is not systray?)

You can also use it from your pc. I haven't tried it enough to choose if it's better than from the keyboard but it seems convenient. The buttons are like the PSP one, just on the pocketchip it's X instead of A and Y instead of B so you can use the same qjoypad settings everywhere.

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