369 Topic by irrlichtproject

(5 replies, posted in General Discussion)

So I'm doing this blog thingy since a couple of weeks. I originally envisioned it simply as a place to dump info on my current projects, but by now it has turned into a more general thing about lo-fi/lo-res culture.

I'm gonna copy the current tag cloud, to give you an idea what it's all about.

8-bit Z80 low-res music chiptune art design Sinclair b/w programming ZX Spectrum compo demo graphics DMG games 1-bit 2a03 Commodore SID beeper tracker 16-bit C64 Nintendo PETSCII PSG SN76489 Texas Instruments graphic calcs party 68000 AY Amiga FZX HoustonTracker Sega TI-82 asm concert fonts gameboy magazines rant *core 65xx Classic Computing Covox Fraktur GEMA HTML5 Institut für Medienwissenschaften LCD MIDI MSX Master System Mega Drive NES PC Speaker PWM Parcus Paula Pokey XM ZX81 ink lundi miniature new releases papercutting performance rights raspberry pi tape teletext top 10 tutorial vector graphics vectrex video

I post some cool music every day, too.

Anyway, check it out: http://irrlichtproject.blogspot.com
And please subscribe/comment if you like it wink (or complain if you don't tongue)

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370 Reply by irrlichtproject

(10 replies, posted in Releases)

YEAH! also, The Toilet rmx ftw!!!

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371 Reply by irrlichtproject

(17 replies, posted in Releases)

what the... siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick!

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372 Reply by irrlichtproject

(48 replies, posted in General Discussion)

4mat wrote:

The fact you're all so happy to use the term fakebit is pretty depressing.  You don't find it insulting?   I mean, "fakebit"?  Really?

SketchMan3 wrote:

1bit the only truebit

sounds legit

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373 Reply by irrlichtproject

(12 replies, posted in General Discussion)

whats this 4/8 bit u r talkin bout? never heard of it tongue

yes, it's really easy to pick up Beepola or 1tracker. It just takes a bit of patience to make something good.

UncleBibby, that's pretty neat for a start! Join the 1-bit forum and make some more smile

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374 Reply by irrlichtproject

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

herr_prof wrote:

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=17652

Nah, certainly not. It's pretty crap for sure, but it lacks a bit in the "unintuitive" department wink

I'd vote for JCH or SDI - they're extremely powerful but the interface is simply atrocious.

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375 Reply by irrlichtproject

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STereochan wrote:

And so, Jan realized that he really needed more stage practice and his social anxieties towards singing would not just fade away if put on the spot.

Oh? Well that can be elegantly solved with a couple of double vodka shots 5 minutes before the gig. The only problem with that is that using a mixer can become rather difficult afterwards. smile

Anyway lets see some more vids and pix, yo.

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376 Reply by irrlichtproject

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Nice to see such a massive event in Tilburg. Cheers and greets to Gameboys a GoGo.
Btw if you do this again you should invite Logosamphia wink

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377 Reply by irrlichtproject

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Two more days, hip hip horray!

Yerz: Yes, certainly. Also on TI-82. However, no Atari ST from me this time.

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378 Reply by irrlichtproject

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

TylerBarnes wrote:

I also had a quarry about note retriggering. Is there anything you can implement that would fix it? it makes some of the highest tempos unusable cause the retrigs are in the audio spectrum. I'm of course using long drawn out notes. Fast notes changes are obviously fine with the retrigs cause the note is changing.


Unfortunately I can't do much about it, at least not with the way the engines currently work. Song data is read in on every line, and during this period the sound routine can't be updated reliably. That said, I'll try my best to tweak things a bit. Try this build and tell me if it's any better.

TylerBarnes wrote:

Also I think a master tune would be more useful than you think. If it is able to maintain the ratios between notes and stay in tune with itself it will open the possibility for a more accurate table to be made. Since the higher octaves have fewer steps between the traditional notes, it will be possible to find a better sweet spot to maximize the usable in-tune notes. Of course this method could already be implemented but it wouldn't mesh well with extra music gear. I can already attest that using midines as my lead synth over a TI-82 backing track is extremely fun.

Ok, I'll try to implement this soon. It'll be for pitching down only, though.
Thought about some more live features as well, for example pitch and speed could be made usable during playback without too much difficulty. In any case it'll be a good excuse for me to finally improve the keyhandler, which should in turn slightly improve the situation with retrigger.

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379 Reply by irrlichtproject

(47 replies, posted in Releases)

YES.

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380 Reply by irrlichtproject

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

Thanks mate - manual updated. If you could make a table for engine 2 as well, that'd be greatly appreciated. (yep, different engine, different pitch).

I have no idea if the pitch is actually shifting... anything goes with these calcs, really wink In any case, I think if the ratios are correct then all is well, since you can't MIDI sync HT at the moment, so no need to have accurate pitch. And if necessary, I could add some global fine pitch feature or something later.

Also, who will make the first non-chromatic table? Mind you, all the bits from the second sound demo aren't tuned whatsoever - I just used "lazy" values... $40, $60, $80, $a0 ... it always works LOL

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381 Reply by irrlichtproject

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Thanks TylerBarnes, these are great! Mind if I include them in the manual?

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382 Reply by irrlichtproject

(100 replies, posted in General Discussion)

The whole idea of CC licenses is that you don't have to ask the artist when sharing the music. Except BY-NC-ND which can be used to rule out Youtube, but not widget embedding via soundcloud or bandcamp. Just sayin'

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383 Reply by irrlichtproject

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

Phew, that takes a bit of a load off my mind. Still, the screen shouldn't go blank after 20 minutes. So please keep me updated about this anyway, and let me know when the current battery set has run out.
There might be other causes for this: either you have a faulty calc (there are know cases of some ti calcs draining the batteries in a few hours), or the batteries you got weren't "fresh". When inserting a fresh set of batteries, the screen will normally be so dark that the first thing you'd do is turn down the contrast.

TylerBarnes wrote:

Finished my first attempt at a 1-bit tune. It's not very long but my god it takes so long to program on this thing. (At least for me)

Yup, the interface certainly isn't ideal but it's the best I could come up with considering the memory constraints. I'll try to think of more features that make editing easier. If you have any suggestions, please let me know. For now, I can only recommend to use copy/paste a lot wink
Also I should really get the note tables for engine 2 and 3 done, I guess.

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384 Reply by irrlichtproject

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TylerBarnes wrote:

Finished my first attempt at a 1-bit tune. It's not very long but my god it takes so long to program on this thing. (At least for me)

TI-82 Classical Tune

Nice, congrats on being the first to release a TI tune!

TylerBarnes wrote:

One thing I've noticed is that my batteries do not last very long. The screen quickly becomes very dim. I can get like 10-20 minutes out of it before it starts getting hard to read. Haven't had the batteries die on me yet cause I end up changing them just out of the need to see what I'm doing.

Has anyone had similar experiences with their TI-82?

Now that doesn't sound good at all. I can't confirm the problem, I've been using the same batteries for 3-4 month now on my testing calc (not using it that often, but it should have ramped up a few hours of playback time now). And in theory, that shouldn't happen, since normally the link port is always powered on, so playing back music should technically increase battery life. But well, that doesn't mean much...

Two questions for you, then. First, what type of batteries are you using? Ideally you should use Lithium ones. Alkaline work, too, but will last shorter. Zinc-Carbon batteries on the other hand shouldn't be used for TI.
And second, could you tell me what TI model you are using, ie. what's your ROM version, and is "TI-82" printed in yellow or in white on your calc?


boomlinde wrote:

The port in the bottom is meant to be used for serial communication. I guess it could even be used to load data from tape

Indeed. I'm actually thinking about implementing a feature that would allow you to dump song data as wav, so that one could use any mobile devices with a line-in as a quick'n'dirty solution for backups.

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