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The problem is that a) MIC output is on average VERY quiet compared to EAR (-0.3V vs -5V and b) MIC output differs wildly across Speccy board revisions (let alone across models). So it's not that useful by itself, but I want to try and use MIC for reverb one day.

Edit: I tried it on my 48k (board rev 4B iirc), it was barely audible.

The Side track feature is fantastic! I didn't know that I wanted it, but now that I know what it is, I totally want it. 1tracker once again innovating the tracker space.

I don't fully understand this part. I know I can turn Side track playback on or off with Ctrl+F5, but what's the intended workflow to listen just to the Side Track? Mark the entire track and do Ctrl+T?

How would it be to have a possibility to somehow swap/copy/blend a section the current side buffer contents at an arbitrary position or even another track? I guess that would require some sort of visual representation of the Side tracks though. Perhaps have 3 display options: Side tracks off; show the all side tracks next to the Main track view; or show all side track columns next to their respective main track column. Side tracks would be shown in a different color, but otherwise act as regular tracks as far as editing is concerned.

Also since when has 1tracker had this RowOpt feature? Only noticed it now, that's great to have, too.

Still problems with peskysoundzx, on first run:

engines/peskysoundzx.1te (459, 1) : INFO : Compiling void Compile(uint, uint, uint, uint)
[1]    15724 segmentation fault  ./1tracker

Also the z80ass error persists, unfortunately.

Awesome tune Shiru, hyperactivity at it's best hehe. Too bad there weren't any more entries. You're welcome to blame me for that, too, though on the other hand you'd have steamrolled me with this one

Haha, I was watching the demo (the live yt version, hoping a proper recording will appear soon) and thinking: "Hmm, this music sounds really Shiru-like. But it can't be. I wonder who did it.". And then the credits rolled... Turned out great, really good interplay with the visuals.

I don't quite understand about the MOD end part. Wouldn't the best approach be to take the whole song and have the converter chop it up to create an optimal set of sample data? Or was there no time to build an "intelligent" converter for this?

I finally got around to listening to it, dammit. Fantastic little release! Serenity sounds like it could have been an intro for Space Beeps Love the arps galore on Mech Dance.

Yeah, saw it too, pretty funny. The audio quality is not very good imo but it packs quite a large chunk of wave data. So the compression scheme might be interesting.

lol jij typt te snel

Having trouble with the Ear Shaver EX engine.

- When entering data at the loop start position, I get the good old "Engine not provided any data" error, with the addition of

Z80Ass error: label already defined!
Z80Ass error: label already defined!
 706: .loop
 706: .loop

printed to the console, and a single copy of this printed in the GUI.
- Sample import does not work, drums do not play any sound.
- Tempo seems completely messed up, I need values of at least 40 tpr to get any meaningful row length. Also, the drums seem to affect this - rows play a different length depending on the drum. The global tempo setting on the other hand seems to have no effect whatsoever.
- The new mml-style envelope editor is unusable with a qwertz keyboard, since | and * are not recognized (reading your last post on MuzCell I think you found a solution to this already, but thought I'd mention it anyway)

Huh, I never realized that 1tracker was actually released around the 30th anniversary of the Spectrum. Anyway, congratulations on 10 years of what I still consider to be the best tracker in the world.

Regarding whether to switch to an external assembler, I'd say it ultimately doesn't solve the problem at hand. Yes, it'll get you support for a range of platforms without too much trouble, but eventually you'll discover some other obscure platform you'd want to support (Sharp PC cough cough) and find that wla-dx or whatever you chose doesn't suppport it, so you're back to point 0. Secondly, if you're going to link in wla-dx, then 1tracker can't be WTFPL anymore. And that would be sad. Anyway I think it's better to invest time into building a custom extensible multi-target assembler. I believe it's a manageable amount of work.

Regarding pattern-less vs traditional, I'd argue that the pattern-based approach represents a local maximum - it's good, but it's ultimately sub-optimal. Therefore it makes sense to continue innovating with a pattern-less approach in 1tracker. I think showing that a different approach to tracking is viable is actually one of the project's main achievements. That said, I believe it's possible to implement a pattern-less abstraction on top of a pattern-based implementation, if you ever want to go down that route. Probably not worth the effort, though.

Thanks, great to see the beeper love continue down under. Also, looks like you're living in a really nice place.

I think I can support the Vtech machines fairly easily in bintracker, btw. Not sure when I'll get around to it though.

At this rate you'll have polyphony figured out before us, hehe.

It seems you missed the attachment. The system is a bit stupid, you have to first select the file with the Browse button but then also hit the Add File button.

Aye, that looks... pretty bad. I'm actually surprised to see such a result from a resistor ladder. But good to know, thanks a lot for investigating.
One question, looks like there are nine pulses, but I would expect 8, with the first one being silent. Do you know what's going on there?

In any case, I'm afraid I won't get around to this any time soon. And first we need to emulator to emulate sound correctly, anyway.

No worries, I didn't do any work on Shiru's PET player, I just happened to work on some PET stuff at the same time.

Yes, we'll definitely need proper sound emulation. Either way I guess you've just signed yourself up for some beta testing if we get around to coding something