Music, any tricks I should know?

[Retro Lord]

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

 

[+iesposta]

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

[Retro Lord]

Thanks for the help! Sounds very hard indeed.

[Papa]

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!