RMT tracker 1.15

[raster/c.p.u.]

Hi Atari musicians!

 

New RMT 1.15 tracker published.

http://www.infos.cz/raster/atari/rmt/rmt.htm

 

Changes in RMT 1.15

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- Quadruple instrument speed allowed also for 8 tracks STEREO modules.

- .rmt (.txt,.rmw) filename can be used as the commandline parameter

for the automatic loading of this file after start of the RMT tracker.

(It's recommended to make association for "rmt" extension to run RMT tracker.)

- Show Play time counter (from 00.0 sec to 9:59 minutes).

(default is on, turn off by menu View - Play time counter)

- Menu Track:

* Info about using of actual track.

* Renumber all tracks (2 types of ordering).

* Clear all tracks unused in song.

- Menu Instrument:

* Renumber all instruments (3 types of ordering).

* Clear all unused instruments.

- Two tracks functions moved from Song menu to Track menu (Search and rebuild wise

loops in all tracks, Expand loops in all tracks).

- Size optimization function (menu Song - All size optimizations) perform also

clearing of all unused instruments and renumbering of all tracks and instruments now.

(So there can be a bit better result of size optimization thanks to removing unused

instruments and removing empty gaps after deleting of unused tracks and instruments.)

- Preserve last "From address" value in export of stripped RMT file dialog.

 

RMT routine changes

- Several improvements of RMT Atari assembler routine - it is 22 bytes shorter now

and faster about 50-150 CPU cycles.

- New speed/size optimalization options FEAT_VOLUMEMIN and FEAT_TABLEGO supported

and optimalization for FEAT_AUDCTLMANUALSET improved.

(Coders, you have to use new rmtplayr.a65 and rmt_feat.a65)

- New mono/stereo compile modes. There is variable STEREOMODE (instead of previous

variable STEREO8T) with the following values:

STEREOMODE equ M ;M=0 => compile RMTplayer for 4 tracks mono

;M=1 => compile RMTplayer for 8 tracks stereo

;M=2 => compile RMTplayer for 4 tracks stereo L1 R2 R3 L4

;M=3 => compile RMTplayer for 4 tracks stereo L1 L2 R3 R4

* Note: If RMTplayer routine compiled with STEREOMODE 2 or 3 is used on Atari computer

without STEREO upgrade, then standard 1 POKEY mono music will be played.

It exploit POKEY memory area mirroring - there isn't used any "stereo detection" method!

 

Bug fixes

- Bug in rmtplayr.a65 initialization part if nonzero "starting song line position"

was used. (This problem occured in some cases only.)

- Buffer overflow error with export of stripped RMT file for too high address.

- Other small corrections and bugfixes.

[samurai]

Great ... i see that the project lives !!!

[raster/c.p.u.]

Great ... i see that the project lives !!!

Samurai, it's your credit. I took delight in your RMT music activities, that's why I made new improved RMT version.

[samurai]

Great ...prepare for much much more work soon

 

Let's make a deal - one tune - one upgrade of RMT ?

 

What do you think ?

[raster/c.p.u.]

Great ...prepare for much much more work soon

Let's make a deal - one tune - one upgrade of RMT ?

What do you think ?

I think I'm (maybe) a good programmer, but (for sure) bad businessman.

 

Ehmm... I suggest You can freely compose great songs... and I will freely upgrade RMTracker (if there will be need of some upgrades of course).

[samurai]

Right, 'music is the key' ...