This is excellent - thank you for sharing! Is there any (easy) way to make it play through each variation automatically? Maybe a "demo mode" you could trigger? Ideally, I'd like to sample each sound and create a instrument in Ableton that allows me to select tone and frequency (and then pitch shift). Not sure how I'll do it yet, but getting high quality samples would seem to be the first step! (Obviously I can just do it manually, but I thought it was worth asking!)
Show HN: 8-bit Sounds – Studio2600 for the VCS (Atari 2600)
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Re: Show HN: 8-bit Sounds – Studio2600 for the VCS (Atari 2600)
#12Go to row E, pick a spot in the left fifth of the row, lean on the spacebar while using the left and right arrow to slide the dot left and right a few spots.
Groovy.
Re: Show HN: 8-bit Sounds – Studio2600 for the VCS (Atari 2600)
#13This is excellent - thank you for sharing! Is there any (easy) way to make it play through each variation automatically? Maybe a "demo mode" you could trigger? Ideally, I'd like to sample each sound and create a instrument in Ableton that allows me to select tone and frequency (and then pitch shift). Not sure how I'll do it yet, but getting high quality samples would seem to be the first step! (Obviously I can just d…
This is really just a tiny test application made to find sounds for a game, and about similar to what you describe, but to be run directly on the Atari 2600 . However, if you want to sample the sounds, best get a native emulator like "Stella" [1] and run the ROM-file in this one (see the downloads section).
The best way to get a full walk trough of the tones and pitches would be to write a tiny Atari ROM file for this. (It's really just about setting three registers.)
[1] Stella documentation and downloads (Win, Max, Linux, and sources) https://stella-emu.github.io/
Re: Show HN: 8-bit Sounds – Studio2600 for the VCS (Atari 2600)
#14This is excellent - thank you for sharing! Is there any (easy) way to make it play through each variation automatically? Maybe a "demo mode" you could trigger? Ideally, I'd like to sample each sound and create a instrument in Ableton that allows me to select tone and frequency (and then pitch shift). Not sure how I'll do it yet, but getting high quality samples would seem to be the first step! (Obviously I can just d…
This is really just a tiny test application made to find sounds for a game, and about similar to what you describe, but to be run directly on the Atari 2600 . However, if you want to sample the sounds, best get a native emulator like "Stella" [1] and run the ROM-file in this one (see the downloads section). The best way to get a full walk trough of the tones and pitches would be to write a tiny Atari ROM file for thi…
That sounds like a good plan, thank you. I'll run it in Stella and grab the audio output from that. Not quite sure I'm up to the coding of the ROM TBH, so I'll do it manually :)
Re: Show HN: 8-bit Sounds – Studio2600 for the VCS (Atari 2600)
#15this doesn't work in Chromium 66.0.3359.117.
I imagine it must be something wrong with the underlying emulator, but there's no audio output. visuals work, but not much else, which is sad for this bit of interesting code!