Re: Better sample of Crate.Synth music synthesizer

[email@DELETE_THIS.luddite.no-ip.com (Simon Williams)]

Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:

> I've posted a better sample of the output from my AppleCrate
> music synthesizer.

Very cool. Interesting that you've chosen a piece of music that not only
demos the capabilities of the AppleCrate synth in a fairly dramatic way,
but is also "transparent" enough to allow its flaws/limitations to be
easily heard... "full disclosure" I guess ;-)

> 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".

You are too modest... the voice improvement is quite dramatic.

> 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!)

Does this mean that programming tracks with multiple instrument voices
would be problematic? 

> There are still "ticks" where notes "release", but I know how
> to get rid of them with more tricks...  ;-)

With that taken care of you'll have a pretty serviceable sequencer... 

> I'm adding "paging" to the MIDI conversion program, so that
> it can handle large MIDI files.

I've never really looked at MIDI that closely, but presumably it
wouldn't be too hard to put together a sequence editor in Applesoft...
I'm assuming all this effort is intended to do more than play midi files
downloaded off the net ;-)

> 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...

I hope you've got time for all this ;-)



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