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I'll bear it in mind, thanks for the offer.

The problem cannot be isolated though to just the interface though.

Putting in another Pattern column would require 10 more text columns (5 tracks x 2 digits per column) which absolutely will not fit on the NES screen. I had to redesign my original layout to move all the text in away from the edges of the screen as you cannot guarantee (on NTSC) that you'll be able to read the outermost rows and columns

If anything I also need to be updating *less* information as the screen refresh is already slower than I'd like. Adding more data will mean less can be update per frame which will slow down the screen refresh even more.

I have no room at all where the Song Arranger is - one column at most. I'd need 4 to add an effect per Song Track.

Then there's the memory issue. If I start adding more columns to the patterns they will take 50% more space in the 8Kb of RAM I have (which is totally used up). If I add an effect column per Song Track, that will take up another 50% more space for the Song data.

In future releases I plan to compress the Pattern and Song data and decompress them on-the-fly but a) that's the future and b) it might not be possible.

I can't add any extra columns anywhere really, I can only afford one effect column in the song arrangement.
Check the videos.

That all makes sense. I'm having a serious look at how to implement it

I've "run out of bits" because I only have one command/effects byte per pattern step. Currently;

NOTE ENCODING
------------------------

00 - 57 = note A1 to B8
58 = KEY OFF
60 - 7F = *unused*
80 - D7 = tie note A1 to B8
E0 - EF =  *unused*
F0 = stop pattern early
F1 = set pattern speed
FF = NOP

NOTE COMMAND (effect) ENCODING
------------------------------------------------

00-1F = instrument
20-3F = slide
40-5F = vibrato
60-9F = pitch table index
A0-AF = change velocity for Pattern
B0-BF = change velocity for single note
C0-DF = set duty table index
E0-F3 = set speed table index
F4-FE = *unused*
FF    = NOP

As you can see in the command/effect list, I only have from $F4 to $FE to play with. I could make it so $F4 to $FD = delay (0 to 9). Would 9 ticks be enough as a maximum delay?

But then I'm left with no room at all for any other commands. Certainly no room for Pattern Volume Fade. Detune, I think, would have to go in the Pitch Table.

The Pitch Slide is a "slide to" function, always. To avoid restarting the note I have "tie notes" so you set these in the note column. Same effect as your slide-to-same-note trick.

Yes, sorry, I worded that badly.

I wish I hadn't asked

Right. Delay command. If I have this correct, you can set a delay "x" and when a new note is triggered it triggers on the next step + "x" ticks?

If so I'll have a look at how I might be able to do it. It's definitely a tricky one because I only call the pattern update routines every step. Have to think of a different approach to achieve the same results. Leave it with me

I've just got NTRQ making sound again after I deemed it necessary to rewrite the player code.

I'm my own worst enemy at times