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SuperNES test2 (Alpha build of tool)

By cTrix on April 6, 2014 5:41 pm

You are listening to a SNES.  But using a bunch of fresh samples rather than the industry "standard" GM sounding samples.  This is a compiled ROM of a tune running natively from our new tracker. (massive greets to ferris^YUP)
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This is a very alpha build of a tracker we are continuing to work on for the SNES.  Not even close beta...a few small bugs but otherwise is a very solid piece of software when actually in use for making tunes.
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We don't even have looping samples yet!  Or copy or paste or undo or transpose or anything.  Literally has note, pitch, pitch bend, tempo and portamento.  But hey... it can make tunes!! yay!  This tune uses the entire 64k available to the SPC700 chip with a few bytes of ram to spare.  Pattern compression / slicing is yet to come so I had to delete a few sections of the song and trim the samples to make it fit in RAM.
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Run from a SuperEverdrive but it's only a minimal 256k ROM image with literally only 26% of the cart full.  So with a 512k cart we could fit around 8 tracks that sound like this.

Now i sleep!


This groove is so bouncy and fun!

wow, this is very interesting. solid track as usual and awesome work on the snes tracker. curious to the reason you are working on this though. if the snes is sample based are you making this to take advantage of the adsr, lfo, and echo that are native to the snes?

fucking. next. level.

2PLAYER wrote:

if the snes is sample based are you making this to take advantage of the adsr, lfo, and echo that are native to the snes?

Correct.  Eventually.  :-)  ADSR is already implemented (although without looping samples you may as well just build the env into the sample)  Echo is going the be a challenge - it's annoying there is no mix volume and it's only on or off per channel.

I'm drooling rn

GAW!!!

Y E S

My god. Amazing!

I'm speechless...was intrigued just by reading about your project, but was in no way expecting this full-on funky assault on the ears! Amazing! smile

i need this in my life.

Has anyone told you you're a freak?  Hehe...  Man, the sounds and grooves you get from these devices...  Kickin' the grooves as per usual  smile

can't believe I missed this! amazing work again lol

oh yeah !*!*!

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