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  1. Kylearan
    Ha, nice! Both undo/redo and especially more playback accuracy had been on my to-do list (along with porting the improved sound emulation from the newer Stella versions), but I found it hard to motivate myself to actually do it... was/am kinda burned out on this project. So I'm really glad somebody did this even though you probably had to endure some bad code of mine!
  2. Kylearan
    In TIM1T, I used the ARPM bankswitching macros found here and found them very helpful - you might take a look at them for inspiration or comparison. Just note that the original macros have a small bug - see my post in that thread for details.
  3. Kylearan
    The problem you described appears when the current working directory is not the same as the TIATracker executable when starting the program. This can happen for example if you have linked the .ttt file extension to TIATracker in Windows and start the program by double-clicking a .ttt file (which right now TIATracker doesn't support anyway). This is a known (and admittedly quite silly) problem which I haven't found the time to fix yet, sorry! As I wouldn't know how to do that, probably not. I believe there should already be tools to capture WAV from your soundcard.
  4. Kylearan
    I tried Stellerator with some of my demos, and I'm quite impressed. I don't have the latest version of Stella installed at the moment so the comparison is unfair, but right now Stellerator looks and sounds more like a VCS connected to a real TV. This is great!
  5. Kylearan
    Thanks! Will try that out. Google gave me https://github.com/dpiponi/Stellarator(note the "a" instead of the "e" in the name), where it says "There is no audio yet.." so I was confused.
  6. Kylearan
    Excuse my ignorance, but what is Stellerator? It popped up several times in the past weeks, but all I can find is Stellarator, an emulator that according to its GitHub page has no audio...?
  7. Kylearan
    For quick sound design, you could always use a TIATracker percussion instrument. The percussion editor lets you define all three register values per frame by easily dragging around with the mouse or entering them manually, with almost no practical length limit, and you can immediately hear what it sounds like by just pressing a key. This allows you to quickly experiment with very fast turnaround times. Downside: It uses Stella's old sound emulation which is not perfect, but for initial experiments and a lot of normal cases, it should be good enough.
  8. Kylearan
    As Thomas has said, you'd have to do it multiple times per frame, the more the better. So for a pure music cartridge that would be possible, but for a game or a demo, where you need the CPU cycles for your display kernel, this would be difficult (and more importantly, very specific to the display kernel). And since TIATracker is aimed mainly for music in games or demos, I decided not to support this. Apart from that, a musician told me that changing parameters multiple times per frame makes a big difference for sound quality only if you'd have more parameters like filters anyway, which we don't have on the VCS. I have no idea about POKEY, but a quick Google search tells me there are trackers for that already.
  9. Kylearan
    Just thinking out loud here without testing it: The division into three areas can be done by manual comparisons (2 cmp instructions). If you do that first, then you could re-use the result for the division by 3, i.e. you only need a look-up table of size 12 (0, 3, ..., 33) and then add a base value depending in your previous cmp results (+0, +36, +72). This should be very fast and might be light on ROM. EDIT: Scratch that, this is nonsense - I should refrain from "thinking out loud" and think things through before posting instead. EDIT 2: Or maybe not. (I'm tired today...) After the manual comparisons for the div 36, you could subtract 36 or 72 from the sprite position if it's in area 2 or 3, and then use the smaller, 12 byte look-up table for the div 3 and add 12 or 24 again to the result.
  10. Kylearan
    Note that PAL vs. NTSC music is not only about speed but also about pitch. TIA Notes have slightly different frequencies and thus sound differently when played with 50Hz vs. 60Hz. It's a small difference, but it might mess with what the composer (or listener) considers to be an acceptable level of "out of tune" for a given song.
  11. Kylearan
    I'll PM you his contact info.
  12. Kylearan
    Or you could use deep learning. https://deepmind.com/research/publications/playing-atari-deep-reinforcement-learning/
  13. Kylearan
    Yes. Glafouk (the musician) really likes it and by now has made over 40 tracks with it.
  14. Kylearan
    Obviously it's not impossible in the literal sense. What I meant was that considering the limitations and the sound quality of the TIA, most people would consider it "imposible" to make a music collection in the sense that it woulnd't be worth listening to anyway. I should have used a different word; unlikeley perhaps? Anyway, I hope you get what I mean.
  15. Kylearan
    Hi, the demo group Flush did the "impossible" thing and released a 32k music cartridge featuring 32 tracks (about an hour of music!) for the Atari 2600: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=71561 (Joystich left/right changes the track, up/down the presentation) Who would have thought someone would actually do something like this for the TIA?!? <3
  16. Kylearan
    The pitch guide creator might fail horribly depending on the notes you used, but occasionally it has been able to bring in 2-4 more good-sounding notes than usual (and make some other notes more in-tune than before). So, good luck!
  17. Kylearan
    While composing the song, have you limited yourself to the notes that sound not too much off-tune on the Atari 2600? If not, I recommend trying out the pitch guide creator in TIATracker. For the waveforms you like to use for your melody, you can enter the notes you have used in your song and TIATracker will try to create an optimized pitch guide where as many of these notes as possible will sound more or less in tune, sacrificing notes that you haven't used. The pitch guide creator was made for exactly that purpose, i.e. if a composer knows in advcance which notes are needed, it will bring in more in-tune notes than using the standard notes.
  18. Kylearan
    You could also use the percussion editor in TIATracker to quickly play around with sound effects. It allows you to set a new distortion, frequency and volume value each frame. It displays frequency and volume over time graphically and you can drag (change) values with the mouse.
  19. Kylearan
    Glad you like it! Ping me if you need help or specific features. Having TIATracker get used in a game would be awesome.
  20. Kylearan
    Looking at that BOUNDARY macro makes you wish for an assembler/linker that takes care of code and data placement for you, observing such constraints as "align 256 offset PLAYER_HEIGHT" or "must not cross a page boundary but otherwise can be anywhere" or "this conditional branch must cross a page boundary", without having to fiddle around manually, doesn't it? (Almost there...)
  21. Kylearan
    Neat project! It reminds me a bit of macross or k65. I'm looking forward to see how it fares in a "real-world" project (small game or demo).
  22. Kylearan
    I've made the same mistake in the past as well, multiple times with different variations in fact, and I profoundly hate how most assemblers (and dasm in particular) require whitespace in certain areas. That's so anachronistic! It's also one of the reasons I started to develop a new 650x assembler of my own which is completely whitespace-agnostic. It's written in C++, and funnily enough I got stuck for almost an hour debugging my Makefile - only to find out that make expects tabs in certain places instead of spaces. Whitespace silliness strikes again... It's 2017, for crying out loud!
  23. Kylearan
    New version 1.3 released: Fix: In some circumstances the tracker used to crash when the right channel was longer than the left Fix: In the "Export..." file dialog, the cancel button was sometimes ignored Added export to MADS assembler Added WUDSN IDE meta comments to dasm and MADS player sources Turned on full compiler optimization, hopefully mitigating some problems on slower systems I've edited the first post with the new downloads. Enjoy!
  24. Kylearan
    If you only need an approximation and can get away with a small deviation from a "real" sine function (I often can), you can also use parabolas to generate sine tables in assembly. EDIT: Of course RAM to store the table is a problem here, but you only need half a sine table (or even only a quarter) and can mirror the other half, and also a shorter table (128 or even 64 bytes for the full sine table) might be sufficient.
  25. Kylearan
    I know several musicians who use TIATracker, some of them are quite productive actually. I'll PM you contact information.
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