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[Tony Knerr]

Since TI music seems to be the topic of recent interest,I thought I'd post about my early experiences with the TI & music.

Fresh out of West Chester State College with a BS in Music Ed, Tony gets a TI from Mom for Christmas. What to do with it?
Make it play music, of course. So here's what I did with my TI before I started programming in GPL with the Pgram and later the
HSGPL, and even later learning assembly and modifying DSR's and MDOS.

There's two disk images in the zip, they're best run on a real TI or in MESS. I don't know if the other emulators are up to
handling the intricasies of the TI sound chip. I'm sure you'll let me know, though. These two disk images are around 22 to
25 years old. I'm not much of a graphics guy, but I'd like to think I was able to get our beloved computer to play some decent music.

Tony

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[sometimes99er]

Very nice indeed. BS in Music Ed. Nice. Any compositions of your own ?

I see you use a lot of SOUND statements. Must have taken forever to do all those songs. What steps did your go through to convert a piece of music ?

[acadiel]

I've seen quite a bit of Tony's music in the TigerCub collection. Excellent work for the time - I used to take his music and chain it with a lot of the other music - Sam Moore Jr, and many more.

Thanks, Tony!

[Gazoo]

sometimes99er, on Sun Aug 21, 2011 12:50 AM, said:

Very nice indeed. BS in Music Ed. Nice. Any compositions of your own ?

I see you use a lot of SOUND statements. Must have taken forever to do all those songs. What steps did your go through to convert a piece of music ?

There are a few different ways to code xbasic music.

I experimented with several different styles based on what I saw other programmers doing.

One way is to use call sound statements, and just list them one after another. It works, and sometimes it's the best way.
Easy to keep track of what's going on.

The next best way is to use a standard gosub call sound with variables, like CALL SOUND(a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i).
Then just change the variables as you go and do the gosub.

Another style is to use vibrato along with the gosub call, as in the late Bill Knect's 'Why Me'. Look at the program to see what he's doing. Genius. Thanks, Bill, sorry you had to have that shit eating at your brain.

And sometimes you combine several of the styles to get the best result. I'm most proud of 'Spain', it's the best result I've gotten from
my music programming efforts. It uses several techniques, and is the most realistic piece of music I've coded as far as staying true to the original piece of music.

Just look at the techniques that I and those that have gone before me have used. It's a guide to what you can do and expand upon, the sky's the limit. Go for it!

T.K.

[acadiel]

sometimes99er, on Sun Aug 21, 2011 12:50 AM, said:

Very nice indeed. BS in Music Ed. Nice. Any compositions of your own ?

I see you use a lot of SOUND statements. Must have taken forever to do all those songs. What steps did your go through to convert a piece of music ?

Hey Sometimes.. how do you capture these?

[sometimes99er]

acadiel, on Sun Sep 25, 2011 8:05 PM, said:

Hey Sometimes.. how do you capture these?

In the "Video" menu of Classic99, there's a "Screenshot (Basic)". Basic here means no filters.

I take several screenshots and save them using numbers from "01" to whatever - like "15".

I then use a GIF-animation program, Animation Shop 2, and bulk load all images (multiple select). They're automatically ordered by name, hence the naming ("01" etc.).

I then have a timeline and can easily modify the time of each frame etc. I can also edit one frame, the image is transferred forth and back to my main graphic editor, Paint Shop Pro 6.

Sometimes I instead grap a video of Classic99 using Camtasia Studio 5 and save it as GIF (reducing colors to 256). Then I finetune in Animation Shop 2, and save as GIF with 16 colors (using the TI palette).

[sometimes99er]

Thanks for the insight. Must have taken a very long time to do.

 spain.xb.txt   14.76K   7 downloads

[Gazoo]

sometimes99er, on Tue Sep 27, 2011 4:14 AM, said:

Thanks for the insight. Must have taken a very long time to do.

spain.xb.txt

Maybe not the best live example, this one would be the standard to judge all others by:



Chick Corea, Hubert Laws, Stanley Clarke, Bill Watrous, Lenny White, George Benson...

Perhaps not a better cast of talent ever assembled?

Gazoo (woohoo!)

Hey, I'm a poet. ^