Think I've taken my phaser 3 composing skills as far as I can now. Time to try a new engine
]]>A few pointers:
- The first pair of channels can be combined into a Phaser channel. For this, set mix mode (M) to 2, and use for example the same note on both channels, applying a few cents of detune (d) on one of them. If M is set to 1, then these channels work like in Squat&friends.
- The last 3 channels are pin pulse with volume control, with accumulative pin pulse synthesis like in OctodeXL. Use the volume command (Vo) liberally on these. Generally you want to keep volumes in the low single digits, to prevent overloading.
- On channels 1+2, the duty setting (Du) is actually semi-independent of phasing, so if you set the duty to a low single digit you can fake some volume control on the phaser, for example.
I've had a look but no clue how to start writing with it yet
]]>I hope the new data format won't be too much trouble. In the worst case you could just write every row, I guess, though it certainly would be nice to have a proper dictionary of unique rows.
]]>]]>All 3 are brilliant mate !!
Amazing sound on the demos and song files are tiny. Sound good on +3 too
2 squeeker channels + 2 pulse-interleaving channels, all with full duty control. Squeeker channels can be combined into a single Phaser-like channel. PuInt channels are asynchronous, channel 4 is about half as loud as channel 3. Channel 1 has a noise mode, and channel 4 has a duty sweep mode. Phase can be controlled precisely for advanced volume/timbre tricks. Also includes synthesized interrupting click drums. Standard 224t loop, engine size 418 bytes.
2 squeeker channels with duty control + 3 PFM channels with volume control. Squeeker channels can be combined into a single Phaser-like channel. Also includes interrupting PWM drums with volume control. 7-bit tempo control at half-tick resolution, 292t loop, engine size 330 bytes.
Yay, finally beat my own record after 7 years. A complete beeper engine in 54 bytes, this time with proper pulse interleaving sound. 8-bit dividers (acceptable tuning in the range of C-2 - B-5, lower notes can be reached but may be out of tune), and a compact split-channel data layout. No click drum, but kicks are easy to simulate in a reasonable amout of data thanks to per-row tempo control. Some additional making-of-ish ramblings here.
No tracker support for now. Source code is available in The Holy Github repo, as usual.
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