Retro Lord Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 Well, I have no musical talent when it comes to the 2600, but I want to make a song that sounds like something. If I wanted to do a musical jingle that sounded like a tune, like I don't know, the baby elephant walk or stuff like that, do you just listen to the song and try to get the notes down? Or how do you work with music? Cover your ears for my master composition: music_test_eee98faa-acdc-43a7-99fe-e775e6e77445.bas.bin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iesposta Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 I do music by copy from a MIDI program with notes shown as Piano Roll with one or two channels. That breaks up each part into 16 or 32 boxes. Then I enter each note in VisualbB seeing if you need two notes, a note and silence, or two silences. It is tedious and takes a long time. My Mappy song took an entire holiday weekend. Then you need to enter enough to see if it is going to sound horrible, passable, or great due to the fact you may need to skip some notes altogether or using the buzz channel because that's closest to the needed note. Not really a how to, but the last music thing I did: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/233403-mappy-tia-music-demo-enjoy/?p=3150703 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro Lord Posted July 11, 2015 Author Share Posted July 11, 2015 Thanks for the help! Sounds very hard indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papa Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 I use a method I learned form the forum combined with some timer and variable tricks to make one channel behave like two. This makes it so one can be used for sound effects while the other remains for music. First you use three variables with dim to run the timer and the music volume. This creates silence in between notes and allows for a rest to be implemented. Here is the basic for one of my songs... MusicSet.bas The numbers are notes followed by time. 2,20 would be the note number 2 for a count of twenty. This method is very easy and works great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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