flashjazzcat Posted June 28, 2015 Share Posted June 28, 2015 I don't know much about SID music but I finally tried the XEXs today and they're really superb. Getting more into Pokey workings at the moment so really thrilled to see what can be achived. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivop Posted June 28, 2015 Author Share Posted June 28, 2015 Thanks Phaeron, for sharing your insight. Perhaps some variant of this might find its way into a future version! Heaven, here's the relevant posting in the sid2gumby thread: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/199103-teaser-sid-2-gumby/?p=2542066 It's very important to notice that the resulting (patched) .sid disassembly is reassembled with atasm -r as to not include the ffff-header. If you're still having problems, please post a more elaborate description of the problem(s) you are facing so I can better help you solve them. Also, I suggest you start with a .SID which is known to work. Some players reset the ADSR envelope in such a way that it is impossible to detect that outside of the player loop and those will not work without rewriting parts of the disassembled sid-file.(player here refers to the original c64 player code). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivop Posted June 28, 2015 Author Share Posted June 28, 2015 Ivop... basicly what is the way to go to get a own composed SID into A8 then? As emkay pointed out, you can create them with a C64 tracker For example, all the Metal Warrior 2 songs were created with Sadotracker (Cadaver/Covert Bitops). The player routine is pretty small and fast. During playback with Atari Sid IV you can see little notches in the volume bars. That's the point during the frame where the player and sid register emulation is finished. The faster the player, the higher up the screen those notches appear. Compare Hubbard, Tel and Cadaver and you'll see what I mean. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted June 28, 2015 Share Posted June 28, 2015 As emkay pointed out, you can create them with a C64 tracker For example, all the Metal Warrior 2 songs were created with Sadotracker (Cadaver/Covert Bitops). The player routine is pretty small and fast. During playback with Atari Sid IV you can see little notches in the volume bars. That's the point during the frame where the player and sid register emulation is finished. The faster the player, the higher up the screen those notches appear. Compare Hubbard, Tel and Cadaver and you'll see what I mean. btw: Thanks for the best "Cybernoid 2" on the A8 ... yet Really, you can listen through the tune without a ear gets broken , and all necessary variations were in it. It sounds sweet from the start to the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted June 28, 2015 Share Posted June 28, 2015 thanks Ivop... I am just coder... but we got in Desire more musicans than Triace who knows RMT... but rest know to compose e.g. SIDs, too... just wondering if I can implement these musics, too... so its not only Triace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted June 28, 2015 Share Posted June 28, 2015 thanks Ivop... I am just coder... but we got in Desire more musicans than Triace who knows RMT... but rest know to compose e.g. SIDs, too... just wondering if I can implement these musics, too... so its not only Triace There's just one oddity Imagine a demo that plays those "software SID" during loading, and then it turns into that powerless beepy and scratchy out of tune desaster, called POKEY tune, as used in most demos. If you consider to implement those "software SIDs" , you'd have to do a rework of the "overall sounding" of any "POKEY tune", to keep at least a sounding style in common. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
José Pereira Posted June 28, 2015 Share Posted June 28, 2015 (edited) This gets me into lemon to see if there's any attempt to get POKEY there and that doesn't exist, what a shame! Ok just kidding and keep your hard and good work but I don't want to start another vs thread, what was missing on the past was the games on A8, because on they were at least on the music Warhawk, Draconus, Zybex, International Karate,... were much better on A8 but thats my taste and I don't know a shit of music Edited June 28, 2015 by José Pereira Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted June 28, 2015 Share Posted June 28, 2015 This gets me into lemon to see if there's any attempt to get POKEY there and that doesn't exist, what a shame! Ok just kidding and keep your hard and good work but I don't want to start another vs thread, what was missing on the past was the games on A8, because on they were at least on the music Warhawk, Draconus, Zybex, International Karate,... were much better on A8 but thats my taste and I don't know a shit of music The IK Tune isn't even complete on the A8. And, there still is the solution, to use SID emulations with POKEY's generators. But, for that a ... do ... "dedicated Tracker" .... loop .... is needed, to edit the "synth-sounds" fitting to the needs of the tune. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
analmux Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 (edited) Interesting progress. What about expanding the tables to try a minimal SID-filter emulation? IMO a detailed one wouldn't really be needed anyway, because also different older & newer C64s sound differently. (I'm also living in the Netherlands and currently my age is 34.) Edited July 4, 2015 by analmux Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creature XL Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 (edited) I like the integrate with SIO idea... in fact it might actually work but likely in 19.2 k speed only with a poll-driven loader. So in the future we have awesome SID-Music while the game is loading and "simple" POKEY sound in the actual game/demo? Hilarious But then again, noone can say C64 has better loading music Edited July 5, 2015 by Creature XL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creature XL Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 Some more info I probably should have put in the first post Replay rate is 15.6 kHz, just like version 3 (version 2 was 7.8 kHz). The extra cycles were saved by doing a single INC IRQEN (an RMW instruction) to clear and reset the timer 1 interrupt bit. Also, I went back to a single channel, which indeed does slightly degrade the sound quality, but as Philsan said, imho that's acceptable if it leaves more CPU time for other things (like a Pokey player, PMG based scroller, or perhaps a SIO loader). To reply to emkay why it actually saves time to add the channels instead of storing them to Pokey directly: version 3: lda $1234 sta audc1 lda $5678 sta audc2 lda $9abc sta audc3 24 cycles version 4: lda $1234 clc adc $5678 adc $9abc sta audc1 18 cycles So, when only two SID voices are used it saves 4 cycles and increases the sound quality back to $0-$7 or at least $0-$06. Given teh fact the three POKEY voices arew available it could be very interesting. For a loading tune two channels might be enough. OTOH, s I learned with my neat old-school loading screen for MJO you get bad feedback if oyu do not support loading with 112baud. So the loader music idea is maybe not that good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMR Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 So in the future we have awesome SID-Music while the game is loading and "simple" POKEY sound in the actual game/demo? Hilarious But then again, noone can say C64 has better loading music Oh, will this system handle SID and samples tunes during loading like C64 demos have been doing since the late 1980s...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creature XL Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 Oh, will this system handle SID and samples tunes during loading like C64 demos have been doing since the late 1980s...? Sure it will. After all the replay is basically a sample player Honestly, don't know and don't care. When I would use such a player for the main loading part of my current game I won't get much love as it loads lots of data and hi-speed SIO is very useful. And the data loaded between the stages is so small lthat even slow SIO just needs 5-6 seconds. So not worth to make a music for this part. Isn't even on the C64 the loader music only useful for the normal speed floppys and tapes? Or is it still used with turbo chargers and what not? Back to topic. I heard some of the tunes and I love the sound (regarding they are playin gon an A8). Very good job. Hopefully someone puts this to use in a real production... HEAVEN? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 So in the future we have awesome SID-Music while the game is loading and "simple" POKEY sound in the actual game/demo? Hilarious But then again, noone can say C64 has better loading music 1. POKEY Sound isn't that simple It's just the software that doesn't allow further development. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 Isn't even on the C64 the loader music only useful for the normal speed floppys and tapes? Or is it still used with turbo chargers and what not? 2. It's just that the "music" in C64 demos just plays ... if loading or not... On the A8 this means to create soundtracks that take more usage of "digi" sounds, when something is loading, and use POKEY's generators in a close variation of sound-types... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivop Posted July 5, 2015 Author Share Posted July 5, 2015 Here's a preview (prelisten?) of Atari Sid V. I incorporated phaeron's idea mentioned earlier this thread and added some more changes. CPU usage is now down to 75-78 cycles per scan line, which I guess is pretty nice compared to 96 (v3) and 86 (v4). Compare the "notches" in the volume bars between v4 and v5 Cybernoid's player routine is pretty slow compared to, for example, that of Sadotracker, so the difference can be seen fairly good. The bad thing about v5 is that it now uses 26kB for tables during runtime, instead of 13kB @analmux: I have thought about filters a lot and it is not easy as just adding a bunch of tables. It means, for every channel, that the new sample value depends on the previous value, on the frequency setting of the filter and whether it's low-pass, high-pass or band-pass. In any case, it'll slow down the softsynth core tremendously, if at all possible atarisid5-preview-src.zip atarisid5-preview-xex.zip 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMR Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 Isn't even on the C64 the loader music only useful for the normal speed floppys and tapes? Or is it still used with turbo chargers and what not? It's more the other way around, the stock tape or disk loaders don't allow interrupts running so there's a custom loader running if it's playing music and that'll always be a fastloader of some kind since it'd be daft not to. =-) For disk-based stuff the loader usually sits at runtime with the demo executing on interrupt so to loader just takes whatever free cycles are there; that means you can play multi-channel samples, produce multiple voices from one SID channel, run a mutlispeed driver (Cycle by Booze Design is quad speed for example) or whatever and the loader still works with however many cycles it can scavenge. Tape has the loading on either IRQ or NMI because it's more timing sensitive, so the program only gets whatever time is left free at runtime but that's enough to do scrolling messages, open the upper and lower borders, play music or even run a game - Dragon's Lair 2 loads the next level as the current one is being played. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 Creature... I would if I could use straight away the source and sid converter but right now it would take too much efford to convert each time this strange asm format so that's why I am more into Atari 8bit successor - Amiga Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaeron Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 Er, what rate is the IRQ intended to run at? The debugger is showing the IRQ running erratically driven by timer 4 at 64KHz (IRQEN=$F4, AUDF4=$00, AUDCTL=$50). Did you intend for timer 4 to run at 15KHz (AUDCTL=$51)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 About SID Filters. Have you ever thought of using the delay of the 4 pokey channels, to produce a pulse width modulation ? This would work also a reverb, a overdrive,... and in a controlled way, it sounds like low pass filters. Offset programming and phase control of the analog output creates the resulting sounds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivop Posted July 5, 2015 Author Share Posted July 5, 2015 Er, what rate is the IRQ intended to run at? The debugger is showing the IRQ running erratically driven by timer 4 at 64KHz (IRQEN=$F4, AUDF4=$00, AUDCTL=$50). Did you intend for timer 4 to run at 15KHz (AUDCTL=$51)? I intended to run timer 1 at 15.6kHz Something got messed up somewhere after version 2, but not quite enough to be audible I guess. Does this fix it? (I cannot run Altirra on my nine year old computer). atarisid5-preview-cn-try2.xex.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaeron Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 I intended to run timer 1 at 15.6kHz Something got messed up somewhere after version 2, but not quite enough to be audible I guess. Does this fix it? (I cannot run Altirra on my nine year old computer). Yeah, timing looks regular now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
José Pereira Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 1. POKEY Sound isn't that simple It's just the software that doesn't allow further development. Emkay there's very nice sounds there but what the hell is that it sometimes stops (maybe between songs) and there's a pinball/flippers sounds... is this also POKEY? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 Emkay there's very nice sounds there but what the hell is that it sometimes stops (maybe between songs) and there's a pinball/flippers sounds... is this also POKEY? Could you define the time stamps in the video of the "pinball" sounds? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
José Pereira Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 (edited) Emkay I wasn't dreaming this morning! What a Big Big Shit!... I listened that right on the 1st time and now for more than 2hours listening it all, some parts, back and forward and no way. It is getting me crazy and I am not crazy, at least untill now I think that I wasn't . I think it is just one time, maybe between two songs (back then I didn't payed attention and wasn't even thinking of post something). It's the sound of when you throw your ball and maybe, I think, something similar to the 'Tilt' when the ball goes against a light sounding object on a flipper machine. Now I give up, sorry but for today is too much of listen and I can't also see those colouring cyclings. I will try again tomorrow:-)... HELP!... Anyother wants to try to find this? Thanks. Edited July 6, 2015 by José Pereira Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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