Re: New MODZap!

[irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt)]

In article <2C783DC7.23681@news.service.uci.edu> andrep@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Andre Prellwitz) writes:

>Please don't take this as a flame, but my ZipGS 7 ROM 1 clearly plays a lot
>of popping noise w/0.9.  Perhaps there is something in your ROM 03 which is
>different and therefore masks this popping.  I dunno if it's my computer,
>either, so I'm asking other ROM 1 users if they've noticed this.  Perhaps it's
>a bug caused by over-optimizing the code ;)

What MOD(s) are this?  Try one without any looping instruments, or looping
instruments which are well-formed.  Defects in the loop settings are
manifested as an occasional click; non-looping instruments do not click or pop
at all for me.

>A very nice job indeed.  Quadrascope is nice to watch, but it crashes my
>machine after a while probably due to lack of speed.

There's some kind of creeping bug in QS which causes it to write outside video
RAM for some reason on occasion; you'll notice little white blips outside the
'scope area.  I'm workin' on it :)

>
>Could you please post Ensoniq Peeker?  I am on the verge of posting What's Up
>DOC (as I was working on it today by coincidence) and would like to see what
>the competition has done.  What's Up, DOC? displays info on each of the 32
>oscillators: raw frequency, volume, DOC address, channel, osc. mode, interrupt
>status, and a volume meter.  It also has stereo VU meters which become more
>accurate the faster your machine runs (thanks to my hard work today) and
>does this all at 60 updates/second.

EP shows a more professional interface than WUD, but it has pairs of
oscillators going left to right, which isn't the best way to watch something
like MZ or ShellPlay which use an odd # of oscillators per track.  EP is by
Steve Gunn, and he supposedly will release it soon; I can't since it's not
mine.


>Very nicely done overall.  Check this one out...

Thanks.



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