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The device itself is not expensive at all (30 € if I remember well), and you can get great sounds with it (it's also easy to use)
You're making really cool classical music, I'm sure this ym2151 shield would make a good addition. I'm sure you'll regret to sell it.
Hello,
welcome here!
You seem to have quite much experiences with old computers, that's cool! 
Are you still making some 1-bit music for your TK90X? Anyway, if you're still interested, we have an other forum dedicated to 1-bit music, you can see the amazing new 1-bit engines which are still made today, for example: http://randomflux.info/1bit/viewtopic.php?id=99
About your vgm problem, I don't really know because I've never used xgmtools, but can't you just check your music and try to remove the warning? It looks like it it's trying to reach too low or too high keys then maybe it's the reason for crashing? Alternatively have you tried to convert a simpler music to check if your game is not crashing this way too (the problem could be only with the converter?).
You can also try to convert to rom instead of vgm (deflemask can export to .gen format), then maybe it's possible to extract the music from there and put it in your game? (the .gen roms I've made this way can replay well on my megadrive, using an everdrive cart)
Thank you rbino for the ems-qart program, it works really well. At the moment I was using the Android app which is cool too (and can backup individual lsdj songs), but I appreciate to be able to handle the sav and roms from my linux computer too!
The ems-flasher with multi-rom is great too even if I'd prefer to use ems-qart, except for multi roms.
You can grab the menu.gb or menu.gbc rom from here, concatenate the roms you want onto it
is there a way to concatenate roms from a command line (without flashing to cart)? I've tried with "cat menu.gb rom1.gb rom2.gb > myrom.gb" and I've transfered myrom.gb. I've got the list of the roms / games on it, but whenever I try to launch on of them, the screen remains blank. Otherwise ems-flasher works fine if you send the roms directly on the cart, from the command line (some doesn't work though, but might work if you transfer them with a new set of roms).
hey Atari man, don't you use some maxYMiser or musicmon on the go? It should be possible with Hataridroid and a bluetooth keyboard...
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that's very interesting! Thanks for the information, now I'm tempted to get one 
I think both SID are cool, depending which kind of sound you want (even if they are very close). I prefer the 8580 though, it's more predicable.
I've worked more on the tutorial, you can get it here:
https://github.com/farvardin/picoloop-manual
There is an online version for your browser (displays on github), and pdf versions for printing, if you wish.
I've managed to setup this AVRAY thing, it's very good. There are several projects, one for emulating the AY soundchip on an Atmega8 chip, and others for driving a real AY chip from arduino and playing AY tunes from SD card. I've only assembled the Atmega8 version, and it works nice. Ask if needed, and I'll also try to post a complete tutorial for doing it... I'll also look if it's possible to use this from midi, it should be doable.
I always link to this tune which is one of my favorite on C64 (Kjell Nordboe):
http://gensho.acc.umu.se/mirror/media/O … 8580R5.mp3
Beware, it's quite depresive, especially the second part...
This one is quite good too:
http://gensho.acc.umu.se/mirror/media/O … 8580R5.mp3
Another nice and melancholic tune: http://gensho.acc.umu.se/mirror/media/O … 8580R5.mp3
Another one, very beautiful: http://saimei.acc.umu.se/mirror/media/O … 8580R5.mp3
I don't particularly enjoy his "fun" C64 tunes, but the saddest ones are so great...
Like this one: http://gensho.acc.umu.se/mirror/media/O … 8580R5.mp3
Well, it's probably one of my favorite musician after all!
My own tunes are also not very "happy":
I've just posted an old one in this mood: http://chipmusic.org/garvalf/music/deux-saisons
or : https://soundcloud.com/garvalf/reveries … valf-music
https://soundcloud.com/garvalf/what-was … the-bottle
A few other cool and sad and / or melancholic tunes I've discovered:
https://soundcloud.com/donovankirk/demo … ost-fading
https://soundcloud.com/melon-29/gemutli … sian-davos
https://soundcloud.com/dream-creating-m … ure-furies
https://soundcloud.com/pulselooper/crackolandia-on-the
https://soundcloud.com/irrlicht-project … queek-test
https://soundcloud.com/mishkahd/violet- … ill-tracks
https://soundcloud.com/lakitunes/ice-cave
(sorry, too many links...)
I've got my SD2IEC from scitechsuppliesdata (scitechsuppliesltd on ebay), and it's very good, it works like a charm, I can load d64 floppies, but the best is you can have all the data in the sd card (in fat16 format), and load any .prg (like sidwizard) and get the tunes and instruments from the sd card. It's perfect for my use, and the price is fair.
There is a similar thread if you want to look for other opinions: http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/18816 … smart-card
I think the EMS is "enough", it works well, and besides, there is a fresh new application (multi os, windows, linux, mac os x) which seems to be very handy so no need for a virtual machine:
http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/19036 … x-windows/ (I haven't tried it yet though)
I've just tested with your code, and same as you, the pitch is perfect, with my tuner (on my phone) it's around -2 and +2 cents.
Thanks again.
@jazzmaraz it's a bit off topic, but haven't you tried to use a good bluetooth gamepad with an android phone? There are great snes emulator on it, for example this one:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta … hnsneslite
There are cool tunes there too, for C64: http://csdb.dk/event/?id=2288
My favorite is "Electronic Stonehenge".
Ah and there is a youtube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRyyFef … 2cwCDTImDg
There is also this, it's quite short but has some ambient music features (Elements, by STU): https://stumusic.bandcamp.com/album/elements
If it runs mac osx (which i doubt), there are a few solutions, if it's classic it seems there is only one:
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