Re: Better sample of Crate.Synth music synthesizer

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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: Bill Garber wrote:

: > 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.

Understandable, but I thought in 8-bit mode and using the
extended memory of the IIgs you could do more. I see your
point though.

: 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.

Can we design a card to accomplish this, instead of putting the
eight IIe boards together?? I'd like to do something like that,
but I simply don't have the knowledge of sound frequencies that
you have, by far.

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

That it is, and you've shown that it can be done. Great job, Btw.

: 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.

Ah, I didn't think it was that small. I figured a few K to make
a voice play a note. That is a lot of hardware though, don't you
agree???

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