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New Apple II single-voice real-time music synthesizer
- Subject: New Apple II single-voice real-time music synthesizer
- From: "Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>
- Date: 13 Sep 2005 12:33:48 -0700
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After getting the 8-voice CrateSynth working, it became
clear that running only on an AppleCrate severely limited
its potential users. ;-)
So I've developed RT.SYNTH, a real-time single-voice music
synthesizer for stand-alone Apple II machines. (Actually,
it is for Apple //e's and later, since it requires the
"Any Key Down" keyboard sensing capability to sense the
amount of time a note is played.)
It allows the user to select from up to 8 instrument voices,
which can be played directly from the Apple keyboard. It is
also possible to record and play back performances, and
recorded performances can be saved to disk and reloaded.
I've included ten voices on the disk, and a program for
configuring the set of voices available in RT.SYNTH.
If you're curious about music synthesis on 8-bit Apples,
download it and check it out!
-michael
http://members.aol.com/mjmahon