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Do it on the pulse channel with a long portamento fall off.  Galway & Hubbard were both good at this where it comes to the musical side of the toms.

Put a bit of noise at the start for a couple of frames to give it the percussion kick, also you can try cycling the duty waveform quite rapidly if you want it to sound more like the old Miami Vice '80s toms.  (the name entry track Galway did for Rambo does this very well.

If you were doing it on the c64 you could use the tri wave with noise which would give you more of an acoustic feel.  The long fall off on the portamento is key though to keep it musical.

If you're exporting from some known editor the defaults are usually:

load = $1000
init = $1000
play = $1003

It's a bit different if you use multispeed tracks but for singlespeed that should work.   Most modern editors adopt the same standard so if the load address is somewhere else the init will be the same as the load address and the play address will be 3 bytes ahead.

The first two bytes of your prg will tell you the load address if you load it into a hex editor such as XVI32.  It's stored backwards:

prg: $00,$10 = $1000

There's a few forum posts on csdb.dk , I'm hard-pressed to find a single one with lots of info in thouigh, so.

lft's description at the top

and

rambling post with some info in it on different settings

Some editors (like GT for example) have their own hard restart fix by default, which you can choose the settings on.

Chipmusic is fine outside of the 'chip scene', there's lots of new music, tools and r&d going on.  Probably because those guys just get on with things that interest them and aren't worried about being in any kind of scene at all.   (for a start there's certainly no 'cc' elsewhere, people just upload stuff and that's it, done. Who gives a toss what Johnny X from Y thinks about your bass drum sounds?) 

I can see why people are getting bored if they focus on the same kit though, branch out a bit.   If you can, write more tools and drivers and focus less on the actual music when you don't feel inspired.  That'll keep it fresh.  This is still supposed to be an 'underground' music scene one way or another, so experiment.  It's not like there's a record label breathing down your neck.

As an example, go download the latest HVSC pack and have a listen to Alan Bond's new sid suite "100% basic project".  64 algorithmic pieces written in BASIC that sound like nothing else going on right now.  Inspiring stuff, you can even load them into your c64 and see how he did it.

Probably won't be many at european parties as Gameboy isn't a big demoscene holdout.   Have you looked on Battle of the Bits?

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