Re: The Great Apple II Drum Machine Project...

["Tim Haynes" <timhaynes@alumni.NO.SPAM.PLEASE.uwaterloo.ca>]

Holy cow - that's incredibly impressive, even for 6 track layering.

Good work!
Tim

"Simon Williams" <ludditetech@mac.com> wrote in message
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> In case anyone is burning with curiosity, here's a sample of how the
> thing sounds at this point. It's streaming mp3 in flash, so you'll
> need flash installed on your browser (obviously). Streaming so there's
> no long wait... just a couple seconds, even on my crappy dial-up.
>
> http://www.luddite.ca/APPLE2/testing.html
>
> For anyone who missed out on this fascinating thread, the short story
> is that I've been trying to write some sample sequencing/drum-machine
> software based on Michael Mahon's DAC.522... the idea was to come up
> with something that would run on any 64K Apple II and would at least
> attempt to sound polyphonic (for the drum loops anyway, the instrument
> sequencing is monophonic with a one-and-a-half-octave range).
> One thing I should make clear is that the 'tune' you will hear is
> actually five or six layered tracks... each instrument or drum kit is
> a seperate instance of the sequencer. Also this sample was played on a
> GS simply because the headphone jack was a convenient line out -- the
> program sounds very much the same on a IIe with an Echo II installed,
> though running it straight through the Apple's built-in speaker yields
> slightly less than optimal results.
> Any way, don't get your hopes up too high -- remember it's a program
> written by a novice programmer with limited musical knowledge, running
> on a twenty-year-old computer... hmm, what could be better???
>
> Comments welcome at:
> REMOVE_THIS_BITemail@luddite.ca
> (be gentle)
>
> PS. There are still a few bugs to be ironed out, but I'll eventually
> make this little gem (the program that is) available one way or
> another...
>
> Simon