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The SNES-style music remix community SNESology recently had a regime change and the new community manager asked if I was interested in leading a Genesis-style music offshoot, tentatively called "GENESology" (or MDology for non-Americans?). For now, I've accepted, and would very much like more experi...

Would be very interesting to know how many cycles are needed for each type of register changes. I guess there'd be no other option than polling the state of the BUSY flag while counting cycles, right ? If I have to start counting cycles, then if byuu's higan and Nemesis's Exodus are any indication ...

Bump!

I'm still in need of optimizations, any advice?

db-electronics wrote:

Charles MacDonald wrote:also, some people were interested in a YM2612/music subforum, can that happen too?

I second this motion - I compose a lot of music!

I third this motion - YM2612.js needs some love!

Re VGM programs - maybe get in contact with ValleyBell about it? I know he made an entire suite of command-line programs to manipulate VGMs, including an optimizer, and while I haven't touched it in a long time I myself previously started work on an updated version of VGMTool that would also be cros...

KanedaFr wrote:ho, and I though ValleyBell was the VGM guy, not SMPS !

He does both, conveniently enough, and has even written a SMPS+MIDI-to-VGM converter as part of his work

While I personally am partial to JavaScript (my love of the Sphere engine demonstrates such), Lua seems to be the current favorite language of new apps with embedded scripting.

ValleyBell is the guy to ask about SMPS, either on SonicRetro/SegaRetro, SMS Power, or vgmrips. He's also written many tools for processing it.

Charles MacDonald wrote:I wonder if it would be better to have a sub-forum dedicated to music/YM2612 related issues?

Seconded!

powerofrecall or r57shell - If either of you can provide or otherwise point me to either the spec or reliable example preset files of this "Artec FM" and/or GEMS PAT format, I can add YM2612-to-GEMS preset dumping to VGM2Pre :D A VGM made using a given preset file would also be appreciated so I can ...

I found the link back : http://www.extentofthejam.com/pseudo/ Funnily enough I was just reading that. I emailed Chris White whose blog you posted above and he sent me the link. Turns out I was on the right track and that's exactly what I need. Thanks! That's the Louis Gorenfeld pseudo-3D article I ...

codeincomplete has a 4-part series on using Lou Gorenfeld's pseudo-3D procedures to create an Outrun-style racer in JavaScript; I'm pretty sure it's rather easy to port to another language.

With MIDI almost no one does micro-tuning, so multiplying by 2^(1/12) to get the default frequencies for the 128 MIDI notes for these purposes is safe. I just don't understand what you said just right now. What I meant was almost no-one uses micro-tuning other than "equal temperament," so my functi...

function MIDI_noteToHz(n){ return 440*Math.pow(2,(n-69)/12); }; Wrong assumption that all 12 notes in octave are uniformly distributed. With MIDI almost no one does micro-tuning, so multiplying by 2^(1/12) to get the default frequencies for the 128 MIDI notes for these purposes is safe. @Count Symp...

I wrote up a couple of quick functions in JavaScript a while back for converting Hz to FNUM for both the PSG and YM, if you wanted to have that cheat sheet as a web page or something. function MIDI_noteToHz(n){ return 440*Math.pow(2,(n-69)/12); }; function MIDI_HzToNote(hz){ var div = hz/440.0; retu...