1 Reply by jonah

(9 replies, posted in Atari)

thanks all!

Analog wrote:

You can actually do some live coding (fuck off supercollider) on the atari. Look up for the atari basic reference manual, over the internet are millions of examples (pokey maybe? ). Do you have a reference of what you want to do with it? (to give you some pointers on your direction.)

yeah, i picked one up and found basic is surprisingly decent for making noise, it's a ROM built into the computer so it's right there are soon as it turns on!

there are a ton of books! any specific examples to check out would be cool.

i have to pick up the sio2sd before i can load programs. or save any i write! mostly writing really short algorithmic doo doo for x 1-200, etc and sampling it. not sure it's worth it to do assembly.

the bass and noise on this thing is good. i guess the noise/random generation on pokey is kinda sophisticated. wanna learn more about it.

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2 Topic by jonah

(9 replies, posted in Atari)

are there any tools to use on the atari computers to work with POKEY?

i mean, could i use atari BASIC? i like BASIC it's fun, but i think there are some other programing environments too. anything?

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3 Reply by jonah

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

Noplanet wrote:

PWM type effects seems to be helping smile

haha, yeah you probably stumbled onto VOSIM. smile

i think most of us that mess with synthesis come across it, but that dude got to name it. smile

it also seems like how the SID chip did speech synthesis too. I think it was 4bit? so 16 levels? i dunno - i think it's just modulating a "click" very fast.

it's more fun to just play around, but reading about it can point in interesting directions.

this is a pretty nice VOSIM explanation, but the original paper is available online too.
http://www.clavia.com/nordmodular/Modul … VOSIM.html

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4 Reply by jonah

(95 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Trackers are largely for people on stimulants or the autism spectrum. Get a looper and something to jam/practice on.

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5 Reply by jonah

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

O2star wrote:

ok totally just skipped the part where you mentioned wanting a "mobile CPU" but ill just leave that info there, in case its helpful to someone else!

No, no, that's totally helpful! Thanks!

I just don't want to use a CPU that needs a loud fan to keep cool. On another forum I was told a pentium 2 or 3 with a big heat sink could work without a fan. Have you found this to be true?

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6 Reply by jonah

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

Can someone recommend some readily available motherboards with ISA that let you use mobile CPUs or let you massively underclock the CPU so you don't need a fan? I'll use an IDE to CF adapter for the HD so I don't have to worry about heat or vibration for that.

I have a compaq 1700 and it's fine as far as system noise goes, but the actual sound has so much hiss in it.

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7 Reply by jonah

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

Hey, this is great! Thanks! Overall works awesomely for me under Lion. The easiest way to get to /usr/local/lib/ is to paste it into Safari and it'll open it right up in the finder!I'm so used to FM on yamaha synths that the operator direction messed me up, I thought it would come out "1" not "4", thankfully I just adjusted everything until I figured it out. smile

The YMU759 doesn't work though and trying to use it will sometimes cause other instruments to stop working correctly, like when I switched to the c64 after I couldn't select different wave types. Another bug is that if I use alt + return to full screen and again to return to windowed mode, when I hit return again to play the pattern, it goes back to full screen.

I dunno how true you are trying to be, but I'd totally love to be able to use multiple "systems" at once. Maybe a pattern matrix matrix smile that lets you sequence all the different systems at once. Or changing the FM algorithms can sound really cool and an effect would be fun, but it'd be different from the genesis. 

The only thing I'd really dig is more keyboard use to do things like change the FM parameters and step through them or to enter one macro parameter, hit tab, enter, whatever and go to the next. Maybe Esc to toggle the instrument edit window open and closed?

Any plans to support Adlib tracker 2? It's sorta like the genesis, but with macros, the potential to use some different wave forms, additive synthesis and some other neat stuff. There are lots of great instruments for it. It's open source, so it might not be terrible to support...

Anyway, thanks again!

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