Re: Better sample of Crate.Synth music synthesizer

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Bill Garber wrote:
> "Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
> JpudnSrlVeeQB97fRVn-qQ@comcast.com">news:JpudnSrlVeeQB97fRVn-qQ@comcast.com...
> : I've posted a better sample of the output from my AppleCrate
> : music synthesizer.
> :
> : I've eliminated the cassette transfer, so the speed and pitch
> : are now exactly as it performs the piece.  I've also slightly
> : improved the voice, so that it is more "pianolike".  A couple
> : of minor (but nagging) bugs in the timing have also been fixed,
> : so all notes in a chord that are supposed to sound together
> : actually do.  (This is a little trickier than it sounds, since
> : the notes are scheduled on the machines with little regard for
> : what that oscillator played previously.  The result is that the
> : same chord is often played by different machines at different
> : times--and you shouldn't be able to tell the difference!)
> :
> : There are still "ticks" where notes "release", but I know how
> : to get rid of them with more tricks...  ;-)
> :
> : I'm adding "paging" to the MIDI conversion program, so that
> : it can handle large MIDI files.
> :
> : I've also decided that a voice editor with real-time sampling
> : of the edited voice would be very useful in building a voice
> : bank, so there's another project...
>
> One suggestion. Integrated the Nadanet with a IIgs instead of
> the IIe. Incorporate the extra ram in the IIgs and then get the
> Nadanet to play the entire piece in the IIgs ram. I know how
> much you like the IIe, but others might like to know that they
> can have 1, 4, or 8 MB of space to play music from.  :o)

Bill, it's no fun making a synthesizer for the IIgs--it already
has a hardware synthesizer!  And lots of supporting software.

The point is to do it entirely with software and on machine(s)
that "can't do that".  And, of course, to use parallel processing
to provide the multiple voices.

Making music with a IIgs is trivial--making music with //e's
and no add-on hardware is quite tricky.  ;-)

BTW, it doesn't take much RAM.  The longest note track for
that nearly 3 minute piece is about 700 bytes.  Of course,
it takes 100% of a //e to produce one voice to 5-bit precision.

-michael

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