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@utz you should be able to just download a more recent arduino IDE from the official page. Since it's a java program, it should work anyway. I have several arduino versions in my /opt folder. It's a pity the arduino platform is so inconsistent across the different versions, you often get arduino code on internet you just can't compile any longer because of the slight variations they added to the IDE.

(edit) here is a compiled version anyway, in hex format, you should be able to send it to arduino, I hope (it's not Shiru's original song, it's mine, it was the last compiled project)

@shiru: I love you, honestly I was looking for long for such 1-bit rendering on Arduino, and what you've done is simply perfect. I don't understand everything (I'll read your post several times eventually), but I really enjoy what I'm hearing! (I've just attached an old pc speaker to the pin 7 of my arduino, and the other one to ground)

It worked out of the box on arduino IDE 1.6.7

And I could also upload my own (octode) songs. Very cool

Now I'll try to record something and compare it with the zx spectrum version.

Battle of the Bits Winter Chip XII has a ZX beeper contest: http://battleofthebits.org/arena/Battle … +Chip+XII/

The black metal band is rather cool. My favourite Polish black metal album is "Wicher" by Sacrilegium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrmnbldZiUQ . Other albums from Poland I enjoy in this vein: "Grom" and "Sventevith" by Behemoth, "Prawo stali" by Graveland, Arkona

wow, I like this one very much too!

it's connected both to the audio out and to the modulator, so I don't know to what extend it's possible to drive a signal to the audio output this way. I know almost nothing about all this so I can't really tell, it's just a guess.

I'm working on a super secret project with a great chiptune composer, it will be a collaborative album but it takes some time as we are both quite busy with other things.
It will be mostly 8-bit tunes, but there are also some 1-bit music as well.

Maybe we could release a little teaser in a few months...

congrat! So now there are already 3 engines... well done.

I think it's my recording which is not very clean (direct line in into a computer). Probably the drums saturate too much.

thanks for the explanations. And the new features sounds really cool! Now it'll be super easy to make ambient music on the spectrum!

A little feedback.

First,
I think the parser could be less strict, for example you can't write:

A=a3, C=d2,

the last comma prevents to compile the song.
As long as there is no data except space, tab or line break, it could consider the comma doesn't exist.

I'd like to see a comment mark (for example to comment a part so it won't play during the rendering)

I like the idea of columns for entering notes. I has an interesting effect, you don't have to enter the value of some notes, like that:

A=g3, B=d2
    A=d3
    A=a3
    A=f3
    A=e3
    A=g3
    
    A=f3, B=c1
    A=d3
    A=e3

here we have for B the d2 note which will last 6 steps, then c1 will last 3 steps. Yeah, basically it's the same as in trackers
I guess also it's easier to parse the notes.

It has some drawbacks however: It's less easy to copy and paste a track (for example channel 2). Some text editors support vertical selection though. When a channel is on a line, you can duplicate it more easily.
I think in addition to the current behaviour, it might worth adding, if possible, independent patterns, it means a pattern could contain only one voice, then you would mix the patterns together for different variations. The current behaviour is like on milkytracker, beepola or vortex tracker, I was thinking to something like on sidwizard or goattracker.

It means something like that would be legit:

     ptn1a, ptn1b, ptn1c

:ptn1a
A=f3, MIXA=and, MIXB=and, PHA=0, PSCA1=none, PSCC=none, SLIDESPD=0, DMOD=off, SPD=8
    A=d3,
    A=a3,
    A=d3
    A=f3, 
    A=e3, 
    
    A=f3,

:ptn1b
     B=d2,
    .
        .
        .
        .
    
     B=f2,


:ptn1c
     C=d2
     C=a2
    C=d2
    C=a2 
     C=d2
     C=a2
    
    C=c2

instead of:

    ptn1


:ptn1
    A=f3, B=d2, C=d2, MIXA=and, MIXB=and, PHA=0, PSCA1=none, PSCC=none, SLIDESPD=0, DMOD=off, SPD=8
    A=d3, C=a2
    A=a3, C=d2
    A=d3, C=a2 
    A=f3, C=d2
    A=e3, C=a2
    
    A=f3, B=f2, C=c2

It might look more verbose, but it could help to design very repetive parts. But maybe it'd be too complicated to parse.

(edit) thanks for the brackets addition, I'll have a look at it. Also for the value, what is correct, PHA=$800 or PHA=800, or is it the same?

I don't understand all the pattern commands effects, but I'll have a try.
In the betaphase.txt it's written
MIXB            Set mixing mode channel 1

I guess it's:
MIXB            Set mixing mode channel 2