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Calculator Community => Other Calc-Related Projects and Ideas => TI Z80 => Topic started by: SirCmpwn on June 22, 2010, 07:13:20 pm

Title: Axe Clef
Post by: SirCmpwn on June 22, 2010, 07:13:20 pm
Hello,
I am currently working on a library for Axe that will allow you to use music alongside your games.  I call it Axe Clef, and it will come with a full fledged music editor to make it easier to make your music run inside your games.  It should allow you to continue to have a game while the music is running, and will only work at 15MHz.
Discuss.
Title: Re: Axe Clef
Post by: Builderboy on June 22, 2010, 07:19:00 pm
What kind of music are you supporting?  Just regular ol' beeps?  Or actual MIDI :O haha either way i am very excited about this :D
Title: Re: Axe Clef
Post by: SirCmpwn on June 22, 2010, 07:20:37 pm
Probably beeps.  I'm thinking about chords as well.  We'll see ;)
But they will be musical beeps.
Title: Re: Axe Clef
Post by: Builderboy on June 22, 2010, 07:29:09 pm
Yay musical beeps!  My favorite kind ^^
Title: Re: Axe Clef
Post by: ztrumpet on June 22, 2010, 07:31:30 pm
Awesome!  This sounds really nice!  What notes will this have support for?  How many part chords?  4 part chords would be great. :D

This sounds really neat. ;D
Title: Re: Axe Clef
Post by: SirCmpwn on June 22, 2010, 07:32:42 pm
Oh gosh, 4 part chords X_X
I'm going to play around with it to see what works best.
Title: Re: Axe Clef
Post by: FinaleTI on June 22, 2010, 07:53:40 pm
Yay! I hope this is out in time to implement into Nostalgia! (Maybe)
Or perhaps I've said too much...

Anyways, I hope this gets finished, and I'm sure it will.
Title: Re: Axe Clef
Post by: SirCmpwn on June 22, 2010, 07:54:45 pm
Cool.
Does anyone else agree when I say that 4 notes played in the space of four microseconds over and over would sound like one chord?
Title: Re: Axe Clef
Post by: calc84maniac on June 22, 2010, 07:57:00 pm
Cool.
Does anyone else agree when I say that 4 notes played in the space of four microseconds over and over would sound like one chord?
Not to my knowledge, but you can always try it out and see.
Title: Re: Axe Clef
Post by: TIfanx1999 on June 22, 2010, 08:00:37 pm
I have no idea how you plan on implementing this, but it sounds uber cool! :D
Title: Re: Axe Clef
Post by: ztrumpet on June 22, 2010, 08:03:02 pm
I have no idea how you plan on implementing this, but it sounds uber cool! :D
That's exactly what I'm thinking.  Will this be done with Axe or straight Asm?  Will it use interrupts?

Edit:
Are you making this like a keyboard or like Finale/Sibelius for inputting notes into it? :)
Title: Re: Axe Clef
Post by: TIfanx1999 on June 22, 2010, 08:21:07 pm
<offtopic> ztrumpet, you use Sibelius?</offtopic>
Title: Re: Axe Clef
Post by: ztrumpet on June 22, 2010, 08:26:37 pm
<offtopic>No, I use Finale Notepad 2008. :)</offtopic>
Title: Re: Axe Clef
Post by: SirCmpwn on June 22, 2010, 10:26:41 pm
After some study into the art of sound with Axe, I also have no idea how to implement this XD
I will not support multiple layers of sound (chords), but I can try to make one layer sound.
Title: Re: Axe Clef
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on June 23, 2010, 02:21:43 am
yeah I tried chords before and it sounds so crunchy :(

You can make chords in the style of Commodore 64, though, but they aren't really chords. I would go for 1 note at a time for now, I think
Title: Re: Axe Clef
Post by: ztrumpet on June 23, 2010, 10:18:13 am
After some study into the art of sound with Axe, I also have no idea how to implement this XD
I will not support multiple layers of sound (chords), but I can try to make one layer sound.
Aww...
Now I'm sad.  Can you do this using the Asm( command? ;D
Title: Re: Axe Clef
Post by: SirCmpwn on June 23, 2010, 10:20:41 am
Probably.  I'm waiting for someone to post some music making assembly, seeing as I don't know how to.
Title: Re: Axe Clef
Post by: ztrumpet on June 23, 2010, 10:22:10 am
Here's what I like messing around with in class:
http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/102/10288.html
Title: Re: Axe Clef
Post by: SirCmpwn on June 23, 2010, 10:23:16 am
Nice!
I'll have to take a look.  My TI Stuff folder is getting full O_O

In fact, it has 3,633 files, 475 folders, all totaling 444MB.
Title: Re: Axe Clef
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on June 23, 2010, 11:16:13 am
Wow that's a lot. I sure hope you don't lose it or something x.x

And yeah Ztrumpet I remember this program. There is another nice program called CalcMOD. It plays two channels at once, one in each ear. I wonder if Quigibo could eventually add such support in Axe
Title: Re: Axe Clef
Post by: ztrumpet on June 23, 2010, 11:22:38 am
It plays two channels at once, one in each ear.
Th one I linked to does that also. :)

I wonder if Quigibo could eventually add such support in Axe
That would be awesome! :D
Title: Re: Axe Clef
Post by: FinaleTI on June 23, 2010, 11:23:19 am
Only 444MB?

Try 1.01 GB.

Still, though, that's fairly big.
Title: Re: Axe Clef
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on June 23, 2010, 11:24:33 am
It plays two channels at once, one in each ear.
Th one I linked to does that also. :)

I wonder if Quigibo could eventually add such support in Axe
That would be awesome! :D
really? I must have forgotten. I don't recall Piano83p doing 2 channels. Maybe I forgot or my calc hardware/OS (old) did not support it. Otherwise maybe I had an older version)