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First of all, AudaciTI is a play-on-words because it sounds like Audacity... when said in French, so if you have a better name (preferably not longer than 8 chars), I might take it.

Why another music player ?
Because, from what I understood, TruSound takes "too much memory" (not too much for what it plays, but too much to fit a lot of music in a calc) and runs at 15 MHz. MuseInc needs both Axe and Celtic III on the calc so it doesn't fit either on a regular 83+, same for MobileTunes which requires DoorsCS (well it fits but takes a lot of memory), TI JukeBox only plays one channel of sound, ...
(I didn't know about this one until fb39ca4 told me about it, which was after I posted).

So this is why I thought we needed a player with those features:

• plays 4 channels of sound
• runs at 6 MHz
• has an on-calc editor
• has a on-PC editor (I won't do that but the format I'll use will be so easy anyone who knows how to code for PC could do that editor)
• standalone (no need for librairies)

Do you have some progress to show off ?
Yay ! Screenshot Time !
Seriously, I won't do a screenshot for a music player. But yeah, I have an executable if you want. Plays a stupid track with 8x4 notes in. If you don't have the adapter, you can always try that with Wabbitemu. The other executable (TESTNOTE) is to test notes independantly (no chord, one note at a time).
The "player" (if we can call that demo a player) supports 45 different notes for now, but I was too lazy to make a music that supports all those notes without an editor. But you can still hear most of the range in the demo, it plays the 6th note in the list and the 42th note.

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Now it's my turn to ask questions ! :P

Do you think the sound you heard in that demo is crappy ?
Do you think we need such a player-editor or do we already have enough of those ?

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Some documentation in spoiler, if you want to make an editor.

Not bad. You should consider adding a noise channel. I did it in Bad Apple by reading from the r register, but having a properly random sequence of bits should sound better.

Quote from: fb39ca4 on January 02, 2014, 02:41:08 pm

Not bad. You should consider adding a noise channel. I did it in Bad Apple by reading from the r register, but having a properly random sequence of bits should sound better.

A noise channel ? That would be a channel with random noise on it ??

Yes. It's commonly used in 1 bit music as a substitute for drums. Here's how I used it in Bad Apple: https://mediacru.sh/0YlhBMdyRnVn.

Quote from: Hayleia on January 02, 2014, 02:41:29 pm

Quote from: fb39ca4 on January 02, 2014, 02:41:08 pm

Not bad. You should consider adding a noise channel. I did it in Bad Apple by reading from the r register, but having a properly random sequence of bits should sound better.

A noise channel ? That would be a channel with random noise on it ??

Yes. It's commonly used in 1 bit music as a substitute for drums. Here's how I used it in Bad Apple: https://mediacru.sh/0YlhBMdyRnVn.

Oh wow, that would be a nice addition indeed !
Thanks for the tip, I'll consider that.

It's basically an arduino which runs a SID soundchip emulator.

SID is not any clearer

Ah ok.
And what do you need help with exactly (because as you can see, I don't know a lot about soundchips ) ?

I tried it in wabbit. There seems to be some sort of weird modulation going on instead of clean separated channels.

The pitch can be off, but all channels should still be in tune when only the base frequency is changed.

I like how it sounds so far, especially considering you have multiple channels. It would be nice to hear a longer sound sample, though, such as a SMB1 sample.