emkay Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 A special contest about the broad variety of POKEY sound. Somehow a nice 3 channel tune, that works on the standard atari waves and single VBI. One minute of length at least. A tune has to be chosen by the forum members then, if there were more than one proposal. This tune put into a contest. Everyone who is interested, could chose it (ofcourse with namimg of the source) and take part. Use any tracker pokey setting, patch ... Then 3 months later the contest will gather all results, and then listen to the final versions, and how different they were. So every version won't be influenced by "other ideas" . The winners take the honor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted June 3, 2021 Author Share Posted June 3, 2021 How about some ripped SID file , any tune someone wants to have played on a real Atari 8 ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 Xenon tune(s) maybe? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted June 3, 2021 Author Share Posted June 3, 2021 12 minutes ago, Wrathchild said: Xenon tune(s) maybe? Why not. We have people around who could actually do nice renditions in RMT. I wonder, if someone might provide "basic" 3 channel rendition . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 I think it would be better each approach it from their own style of development, not just mod from the same starting point. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted June 3, 2021 Author Share Posted June 3, 2021 33 minutes ago, Wrathchild said: I think it would be better each approach it from their own style of development, not just mod from the same starting point. The point is that it only will be possible to do real music with POKEY, if it is developed to put the right notation and arrangements in, and to find the fitting sounds, to have the real piece of music replayed. One of those needed steps is to have the variations of sounding, based on a real notation. A three channel tune allows a lot "musicians ideas" to be added. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 You sound like you haven't read any of the files & watched the video? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted June 3, 2021 Author Share Posted June 3, 2021 1 hour ago, Wrathchild said: You sound like you haven't read any of the files & watched the video? Well, If I'd took care about too much written and video, something like this may never have appeared: or this or this or ... There is still a huge gap between the theoretical solutions and what POKEY can do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted June 3, 2021 Author Share Posted June 3, 2021 And this one... Problem? Tunes like this one: ... might not get the correct response, because people don't like the "musicstyle" at all. To assure some deficit on musical taste, a special tune that is liked by most people , should take place for the beginning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 (edited) Why change the subject? Keep it on topic or this thread just comes across like an ego boost?! If Pokey can't do Xenon because the octave range is too great then just say. If you can't do it until someone types it into RMT for you then just say. Edited June 3, 2021 by Wrathchild 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted June 4, 2021 Author Share Posted June 4, 2021 9 hours ago, Wrathchild said: Why change the subject? Keep it on topic or this thread just comes across like an ego boost?! I didn't change the subject. It's just that you don't understand my words. The videos should explain things, but you guys seem to understand things wrong by intention. 9 hours ago, Wrathchild said: If Pokey can't do Xenon because the octave range is too great then just say. If you can't do it until someone types it into RMT for you then just say. Where have you been in the last 20 years? The discussion ends always at the point of "musical taste" . That's why it is better to have some basic notation that fits to most people here. OK. The fun is over. Forget about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 You're the only one whose mentioned 'musical taste'? (well, the only other one in this thread to be fair) The tune itself of Xenon is deceptively simple but the note range and effects applied are why I have chosen it as something the stretch how Pokey can be utilised. In the OP it is stated "A tune has to be chosen by the forum members then, if there were more than one proposal." So are your video postings more proposals? Otherwise, a call out here to any readers to up-vote Xenon xenon_tune.txt 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 I'm not familiar with much SID music, but the one thing I'll say is besides Delta I've never heard a conversion that I liked on the Pokey. The sounds of the two chips are far too different and with most music, I will prefer the original to any remake. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted June 4, 2021 Author Share Posted June 4, 2021 11 minutes ago, Stephen said: I'm not familiar with much SID music, but the one thing I'll say is besides Delta I've never heard a conversion that I liked on the Pokey. The sounds of the two chips are far too different and with most music, I will prefer the original to any remake. If you check the txt file. you see a lot of direct manipulations during the tune is played. There is still no comparision in programming possibilities. Also, the most relevant part is to have it played on the Atari. SIDs are always a proposal, as there is clever chip tuning used to have the tune sounding good within the limits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted June 4, 2021 Author Share Posted June 4, 2021 Btw. I'd still prefer the Amiga Version. The SID Version is very poorly done. So a POKEY version will surely shine. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivop Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 (edited) I think it's a nice idea. We some sort of did that with Noisy Pillars already. XLent's transcription. Lots of people tried their magic on it So, first decide on a song. It would be a lot easier if there's a proper .mod or .sid file (siddump) to transcribe the song. One problem though, while transcribing the song you are bound to add instruments, too. Otherwise you cannot properly check your transcription Well, perhaps dull dist A, C and 8 instruments could be used at first. Edit: and a three channel song would be nice, so we have one extra Edited June 4, 2021 by ivop 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivop Posted June 5, 2021 Share Posted June 5, 2021 (edited) OK let's do Xenon. C64 sid version by Paul Tonge. Could be useful with siddump. Very bland version though IMHO. https://deepsid.chordian.net/?file=/MUSICIANS/T/Tonge_Paul/Xenon.sid Atari ST version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnBHWB53eEg SNDH file is here: http://sndh.atari.org/sndh/browser/index.php?dir=sndh_lf%2FWhittaker_David%2F Original Amiga version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGHfj0u9L9k Obviously not a PSG Here's the Amiga DW file: https://ocremix.org/chip/9799 David Whittaker tracker format. No idea how to transcribe that. But who is going to do the RMT transcription Edited June 5, 2021 by ivop added DW link 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted June 5, 2021 Share Posted June 5, 2021 It's described the txt file above? But do watch the good breakdown of the tune in this video 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted June 5, 2021 Author Share Posted June 5, 2021 In theory it is rather easy -for a musician- to put it to a working notation for pokey in RMT, since everything is explained in there. Replay in patched LZSS is recommended. Here a short try... mimim.obx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted June 5, 2021 Author Share Posted June 5, 2021 I could adapt it. But I have no idea how long it will take Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VinsCool Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 The tune is pretty simple. I wanna try doing it, based on the Amiga version, that guitar is neat 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted June 6, 2021 Author Share Posted June 6, 2021 Nice. Don't forget that it only should be released as a standard 3 channel edit No special instruments. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VinsCool Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 2 minutes ago, emkay said: No special instruments. This could be done after the simple 3 channels version, with all 4 channels enabled, right? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted June 6, 2021 Author Share Posted June 6, 2021 Just now, VinsCool said: This could be done after the simple 3 channels version, with all 4 channels enabled, right? The point is that every contestant gets the same source. 3 channel, simple instruments, one VBI From that source any "enhancement" could be used. No one shows the result inbetween, so no bias could happen. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 Not clear what 3 channels means here? 3 x 8 bit or 2 x 8 bit and 1x 16 bit (as per a lot of game titles)? Would look forward to a 3 or 4 x 16 bit channels on dual Pokey ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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