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I'd buy the Mega Memory!

Hey!

If you really want to make music for NES Games I can give you some tips.
Some things won't be 100% correct because I don't do NES myself, but I do some music for the Game Boy that can be used in games.

So maybe you'll find even better tips (at assemblergames or) in the nesdev.com -> wiki!!!

- First, make small songs. Not bigger than 16K, because that should be the size of one single memory bank. (Correct me if I'm wrong!) But better would be for many people, all songs together not bigger than 16K/32K or 64K. Cause people often like to have much space for the rest of the code. Most people use loops in games and no full songs. But both is possible.
- Can't answer that question, depends on how big the code of the game is. Usally biggest size for NES ROM is max 512K, even if there was one cart once that had 1 Megabyte ROM (Dragon Quest 4).
- Usally for sound effects you have to make a song that just contains instruments/fx. That means no song structure at all.
- Don't know really, but I don't think speed settings (or commands) could be a problem. But make sure not make some extra channels/voices. Always consider which channels a real NES uses, of course.
- I have no idea, sorry.
- FamiTracker can export text files. That's pretty much perfect. If you don't want to use Famitracker there is a lot of other music software around. Go here -> http://nesdev.com/ or http://nesdev.com/#PCSound

PS: I saw that you even asked about Game Boy at assemblergames.
If you want to know more about that, just let me know. I've much more knowledge in this case.

I would be in if you are interested.
I do music on different devices. (GameBoy, ZX Spectrum, TI-Calculators, Atari2600 and Mega Drive)

I think that's the point.
Drums for example could/shoud make the whole song slower.
(It does for the most 1-bit engines that i know, not 100% sure about that on HT2, but irrlicht project could answer that, for sure!)

You can do the following trick, if you don't really need the stereo panning option. But you should have a cable that could do it.
It's not like 4 single channels but... maybe this helps out a little!

Pan all bass parts and drums left and all melody parts right, for example. Then give the left and the right output a single channel on your mixer.
Now you can have diffrent EQ Settings for your Bass/drums and melody!

Not optimal for recording if you don't have a real multi-tracker, but maybe this helps out a bit.

Edit: method produces some clicking caused by panning.
(I'm really thinking of how to get 4 seperate channels recorded in sync, as well atm.)

Cool! My song is coming soon.