HoustonTracker 2 (TI-82/83/83+/84+) (Page 3 of 6)

Good news everyone, HoustonTracker 2.1 has been released! Several new effects, improved keyhandling, and of course various bugfixes were implemented. For full details, check the original post in this thread.

download HT2.1
new demo tune

Great news, thank you Utz!

I made a little track (a cover of one of my famitracker song) there:
http://battleofthebits.org/arena/Entry/garvalf's+The+lonely+Cowgirl+%28now+with+Houston%29/21581/

Really nice pic too. Will make great bandcamp album art for Spring Tracks V , I really hope it wins

Thanks. I wanted to submit more tracks (and not only my own tracks) to Decadent Decade but didn't find the time to do this. But they extended it like 20 times so it wouldn't be reasonable to ask for more

About HT2 I like to create new songs from scratch with it, but since there are 16 rows my songs often end with something rather chaotic because the parts are short. So I find it quite pleasant to use it for making covers of another song (so far I've done two tunes like that).

For an HT2 album, maybe a compilation?
For my part, I haven't enough material to create a whole album...

While we're at it, I had a little bug with HT2 but I don't know if it worth mentioning it because I couldn't reproduce it. I'm also thinking it had happened because I was low in battery...
So I had a fresh backup cell (CR1620) but my AAA batteries were probably not fully charged. HT2 was working fine, until I tried to save in a slot (in replacement of an older state). Then I could no longer replay the tune. I could still navigate into the song and the patterns (if I remember well), but couldn't load, save, play or exit HT2. Then I removed the batteries to start again the calc (TI82). The calc couldn't start, so I thought the battery were dead. What was strange is after I saved and it began to have the problem, there was still enough battery to show the display and manipulate some options. So I used fresh batteries. I hadn't any "memory cleared" at startup (again, if I remember well), but when I type the "program" button, all was empty (hopefully I didn't loose much, I had made a backup some time before).

I made a little video of my latest little track. It's on facebook, hope you like it
https://www.facebook.com/overcesium/vid … 185541175/

A new track made with Houston Tracker 2 : https://soundcloud.com/garvalf/joie-et-tristesse

Guess what, it's time for a new version! HT2.20 comes with new effects, improved speed control, and a savestate manager utility for importing tracks from older versions. Full list of changes can be found in the OP.

Tutorial vid demonstrating some of the new fx: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBXjOJTFe5k
New demo track: https://soundcloud.com/irrlicht-project/hrd-4-da-money

download HT2.20

If anyone is feeling adventurous, there's a new beta on github.
New stuff in this version:

- Note table is now tuned to 440 Hz. (This means note A is no longer suited for ch1 noise mode, but there are a couple of other viable options instead.)
- Duty Sweep (5xx, xx > 0x80) is now configurable, ie. xx acts as a speed parameter (581 to get the old behaviour)
- Auto Chord (7xx) now has a "sync" mode (set xx > 0x80), enhances octave harmonics
- a minor drawback, 5xx and 7xx now share a common parameter, meaning they will impact each other in some circumstances

Beware that since this is a beta build, stuff may change without notice, and there's no ht2util support.

- 9xx is back (sounds slightly different and no longer disables 3xx)
- 6xx has a new additional parameter: enable ch3 grind effect when xx > 0x80
- Axx is now ch3 phase offset (can be used as primitive volume control in conjunction with a second channel playing the same note)
- old A0x is removed (A01 was redundant anyway since it can be set via 4xx, A02 might come back later)
- note tables are tuned correctly again
- channel volumes are rebalanced

EDIT: Seems I've broken the 5xx duty sweep and 7xx effects somehow. Stay tuned for updates.

Cheers garvalf, take your time. I'll probably be working some more on ht2 in the coming days, so there'll be more crap betas
The 5xx/7xx bug turned out to be a phantom bug, caused by faulty z80 emulation. Everything works as intended on hardware, and also the new pitch slides work indeed much better (slower) than tilem2 suggests.

Here is the infamous Games of Throne cover:
https://soundcloud.com/garvalf/games-of … 1bit-cover